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39th year  -  N° 120                 Monday, 29 April 2024         Antwerpen		
Die Kleinen und die Bösen




21 events for 27 December:

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    453 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of December 1571

    Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, philosopher and writer on music Johannes Kepler known his laws of planetary motion is born in Keplergasse 2, Weil der Stadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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    307 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of December 1717

    250th Pope Pius VI is born as Giovanni Angelo Braschi in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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    202 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of December 1822

    Chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur is born in 43 Rue Pasteur, Dôle, Jura - Franche-Comte, France.


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    179 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 27th of December 1845

    Murderer and cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King is born as Adolph Ludwig Lütgert in Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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    178 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 27th of December 1846

    Iowa is admitted as 29th of the United States of America in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.


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    123 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of December 1901

    Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich is born as Maria Magdalena Von Losch in Leberstrasse 65, Berlin, Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany.


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    108 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of December 1916

    43-year-old Anne Collomb is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

    To Collomb, Landru was known as Mr Dupont.


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    101 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 27th of December 1923

    Engineer and architect Gustave Alexandre Bonickhausen dit Eiffel dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Rue Rabelais, Paris, VIIIe, Île-de-France, France.


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    98 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of December 1926

    23-year-old Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.


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    76 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of December 1948

    Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, Indre, France.


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    74 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of December 1950

    Painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in corner of 69th Street and Central Park West, New York City, New York, United States.


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    64 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of December 1960

    Multiple murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.


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    61 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of December 1963

    Mass murderer Dennis Wayne Bagwell is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.


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    59 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of December 1965

    Serial killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin is born in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Guyane, France.


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    49 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 27th of December 1975

    372 die in Indian Iron and Steel Company coal mine explosion and flooding in Chasnala, Jharkhand, India.

    When a roof of coal caved in, 7 million imperial gallons (32.000 m³) of water per minute flooded into the mine.


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    41 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of December 1983

    63-year-old Ioannes Paulus II visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in Rebibbia Prison, Via Raffaele Majetti 70, Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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    41 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of December 1983

    14-year-old Sergey Markov is stabbed and sexually mutilated by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Persianovsky, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

    Markov's body was found on 1 January 1984 in the area of ​​the Persianovka Railway Station on the Moscow-Rostov-on-Don line.


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    38 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 27th of December 1986

    28-year-old Steven Fefferman is stabbed and sexually mutilated by multiple murderer Ricky Green in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.


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    18 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of December 2006

    Noise music band Club Moral play their 124th concert as Bum Collar in Bavo&Sofie, Graaf Van Hoornestraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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    17 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 27th of December 2007

    Film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.


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    17 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 27th of December 2007

    Benazir Bhutto is shot dead and a suicide bomb is detonated immediately following the shooting at the age of 54 in Liaqat National Bagh, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.

     Twenty three other people were killed by the bombing. Al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed responsibility for the assassination.



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