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39th year  -  N° 79                 Tuesday, 19 March 2024         Antwerpen		
I'm Beginning to See the Light




37 events for 27 November:

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    323 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 27th of November 1701

    Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius is born in Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden.


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    274 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of November 1750

    Traitor Thomas Reynolds is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    203 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1821

    Robber Andrew Ferris is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    181 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of November 1843

    Victim of Jack the Ripper Elizabeth Stride aka Long Liz is born as Elizabeth Gustafsdotter in Torslanda, Västra Götalands Län, Sweden.


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    147 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1877

    Murderer James Satchell is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.


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    147 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1877

    Murderer John Swift is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.


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    147 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1877

    Murderer John Upton is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.


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    142 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of November 1882

    Murderer Edward Wheatfill is executed by hanging by William Marwood at the age of 33 in York Castle, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.


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    130 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1894

    Murderer James Wilshaw Whitehead is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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    127 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 27th of November 1897

    Mobster and crime boss Vito Genovese aka Don Vito is born in Napoli, Campania, Italy.


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    123 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of November 1901

    Wagon and carriage manufacturer Clement Studebaker dies of natural causes at the age of 70 in South Bend, Indiana, United States.


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    118 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1906

    Murderer Edward Hartigan is executed by hanging at the age of 58 in Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

    Hartigan battered his 45-year-old wife Catherine to death in August 1906.


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    95 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of November 1929

    An unidentified man is strangled and left in a burning car by 26-year-old Murderer Kurt Erich Tetzner aka Der Mann der Zweimal Starb in Etterzhausen, Bayern, Germany.


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    92 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 27th of November 1932

    Leader of the opposition Benigno Simeon Aquino aka Ninoy is born in Concepcion, Tarlac, Philippines.


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    90 Years Ago Today They Sliced Through the Baby's Liver

    Tuesday 27th of November 1934

    Gangster Baby Face John Nelson dies of gun wounds after being shot by FBI agents at the age of 26 in Walnut Street, Wilmette, Illinois, United States.

    Nelson had been shot a total of nine times, including a fatal machine gun slug in his abdomen slicing through his liver and pancreas. Federal Agents Herman 'Ed' Hollis and Samuel P. Cowley were shot dead by Nelson in the gun battle.


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    87 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 27th of November 1937

    35-year-old Raymond Lesobre is shot dead by kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France, France.


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    84 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of November 1940

    Martial artist and actor Bruce Lee is born as Lǐ Zhènfān in Chinese Hospital, 845 Jackson Street, San Francisco, Chinatown, California, United States.


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    82 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of November 1942

    Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi James Marshall Hendrix is born as Johnny Allen Hendrix in Seattle, Washington, United States.


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    72 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 27th of November 1952

    Singer, composer and record producer Bappi Alokesh Lahiri is born in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India.


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    69 Years Ago Today Pacific 231 Blew its Last Whistle

    Sunday 27th of November 1955

    Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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    67 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 27th of November 1957

    Spree killer Derrick Bird known for the Cumbria shootings is born in Whitehaven, Cumberland, United Kingdom.


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    62 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 27th of November 1962

    97 die in Varig Boeing 707-441 Flight 810 crash into a mountain in La Cruz Peak, Lima, Lima Metropolitana, Peru.


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    57 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of November 1967

    Start of the trial against 21-year-old Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder in Landgericht Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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    54 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of November 1970

    73-year-old 262nd Pope Paulus VI aka The Pilgrim Pope is attacked with a knife by surrealist painter Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, dressed as a priest in Manila International Airport, Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.

    Paulus VI was only lightly stabbed.


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    49 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 27th of November 1975

    Vitali Hakim is burned to death by serial killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood in Pattaya, Chonburi, Thailand.


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    48 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 27th of November 1976

    16-year-old Donna DeMasi and 18-year-old Joanne Lomino are shot by 23-year-old Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam in Bellerose, New York, Queens, New York, United States.

    DeMasi was shot in the neck but the wound was not life-threatening. Lomino was hit in the back and was ultimately rendered paraplegic.


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    46 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of November 1978

    49-year-old George Richard Moscone is shot dead by San Francisco supervisor and assassin Dan White in City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, United States.

    White claimed to be ‘high on junk food’.


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    46 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of November 1978

    48-year-old Harvey Bernard Milk is shot dead by San Francisco supervisor and assassin Dan White in City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, United States.


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    44 Years Ago Today She Ran Through a Whole Bunch of People and Killed Everybody

    Thursday 27th of November 1980

    51-year-old Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford goes on a five-block-Thanksgiving-Day-rampage in her 1974 Lincoln, killing six people and injuring 23 in North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, United States.

    Arrested at the scene, Ford later tells a jailer she "did what she had to do" and that the people she hit were "just pigs, animals let out in a wild place. She also told a doctor that the voice of Joan Kennedy, then the wife of Senator Edward Kennedy, ordered her to kill. "Just run through a whole bunch of people and kill everybody" the voice said.


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    44 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 27th of November 1980

    22-year-old Darci Renee Fix is shot dead by serial killer Randall Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer in Portland, Oregon, United States.

    Fix was killed execution style along with her 24-year old boyfriend Douglas Keith Altic.


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    43 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of November 1981

    Singer, diseuse and actress Lotte Lenya dies of cancer at the age of 83 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.


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    41 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 27th of November 1983

    181 die in Avianca Airlines Boeing 747-283B Flight 011 crash in Mejorada Del Campo, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

    There were 11 survivors. Among the victims were Peruvian writer Manuel Scorza, Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama, Argentinian writer Marta Traba and Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia.


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    37 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of November 1987

    83-year-old Geneviève Germond is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 22 Rue Cail, Paris, Xe, Île-de-France, France.


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    37 Years Ago Today

    Friday 27th of November 1987

    44-year-old Susan M Williams Tucker is raped and strangled by serial killer Timothy Spencer in Arlington, Virginia, United States.


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    35 Years Ago Today

    Monday 27th of November 1989

    110 die in Avianca Airlines Boeing 727-21 Flight 203 bomb explosion in Soacha, Región Andina, Colombia.

    After 5 minutes into the flight a bomb placed near the fuel tank exploded at 13,000 feet. Pablo Escobar of the Medellín drug cartel planned the bombing, hoping it would kill presidential candidate for the 1990 elections César Gaviria Trujillo. However Gaviria was not on the plane and would go on to become President of Colombia.


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    13 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 27th of November 2011

    Film director Ken Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.



  • 6 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Tuesday 27th of November 2018

    The ceiling of my Mekano workshop where I spent 13 years sitting under layers of bird shit in Mekano, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.



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