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39th year  -  N° 347                 Thursday, 12 December 2024         Antwerpen		
Is it My Body? Someone I Might Be?
There are 4 250 Years Celebrations in 2024:


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    250 Years Ago Today

    Friday 21st of January 1774

    Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of a carriage accident at the age of 45 in Wien, Wien, Austria.


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    250 Years Ago Today

    Monday 5th of September 1774

    Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich is born in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.


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    250 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of September 1774

    249th Pope Clemens XIV dies of scorbutic and hemorrhoidal dispositions at the age of 69 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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    250 Years Ago Today He Danced a Jig

    Wednesday 30th of November 1774

    Highwayman John Rann aka Sixteen String Jack is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom.

    Shortly before Rann was to be hanged, appearing in a specially made pea-green suit adorned by a large nosegay, he enjoyed cheerful banter with both the hangman and the crowd, then danced a jig, before being publicly executed.