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39th year  -  N° 88                 Thursday, 28 March 2024         Antwerpen		
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31 events for 22 November:

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    197 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of November 1827

    Coiner Edward Lowe is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    197 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of November 1827

    Highwayman Charles Smith is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    197 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of November 1827

    Highwayman John Keaton is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    197 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of November 1827

    Thief John Powell is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    171 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 22nd of November 1853

    German Diplomat Clemens August von Ketteler is born in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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    155 Years Ago Today He Was a Boy

    Monday 22nd of November 1869

    Writer André Paul Guillaume Gide is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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    144 Years Ago Today

    Monday 22nd of November 1880

    Murderer Joseph William Distin is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Gloucester Prison, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.


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    141 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of November 1883

    5-year-old Catharina Aben is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.


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    134 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1890

    18th President of the French Republic Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle is born in 9 Rue Princesse, Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.


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    126 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 22nd of November 1898

    Aviation pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post is born in Grand Saline, Texas, United States.


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    122 Years Ago Today Fra Felice's Nerves Were Shot

    Saturday 22nd of November 1902

    Arms manufacturer Friedrich Alfred Krupp dies of a stroke at the age of 48 in Villa Hügel, Essen, Bredeney, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

    The official cause of death was a stroke but more probably Krupp committed suicide after the Italian Propaganda and German Vorwärts and Augsburger Postzeitung newspapers published articles revealing his homosexual escapades with young Italian boys in his 'Congrega di Fra Felice' holiday house in Capri, Italy.


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    122 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1902

    Maréchal de France Philippe Leclerc is born as Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque in Belloy-Saint-Léonard, Hauts de France, France.


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    111 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1913

    Composer Benjamin Edward Britten is born in Cliff Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.


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    108 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 22nd of November 1916

    Writer, journalist and social activist Jack London dies of uremia and morphine-poisoning at the age of 40 in Glen Ellen, California, United States.


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    99 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 22nd of November 1925

    Aviation pioneer Jerrie Geraldine Fredritz Mock known for becoming the first woman to fly solo around the world is born in Newark, Ohio, United States.


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    92 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 22nd of November 1932

    Actor Robert Francis Vaughn known for his role as Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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    83 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1941

    Gangster and ex-wrestler Juanita Evelita Spinelli aka The Duchess is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

    Spinelli was the first woman to be executed by the state of California.


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    77 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1947

    Possible victim of the Zodiac Killer Alexandra Joan Gery is born in San Francisco, California, United States.


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    66 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1958

    Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.


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    66 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1958

    Murderer Richard Lewis Jordan is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.


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    61 Years Ago Today

    Friday 22nd of November 1963

    46-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy aka JFK is shot dead by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, United States.


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    61 Years Ago Today

    Friday 22nd of November 1963

    Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley known for his dystopian novel Brave New World dies of an overdose of LSD at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

    On his deathbed, suffering from laryngeal cancer and unable to speak, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular". According to her account of his death in 'This Timeless Moment', she obliged with an injection at 11:45 am and a second dose a few hours later. Huxley died at 5:20 pm.


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    56 Years Ago Today

    Friday 22nd of November 1968

    22-year-old Singer-songwriter Marianne Evelyn Faithfull suffers a miscarriage of the daughter (whom she had named Corrina) she was expecting with Mick Jagger in Ardmore, Munster, Ireland.


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    50 Years Ago Today

    Friday 22nd of November 1974

    39-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker and his son Mike raid several houses and rape a woman in Lindenwold, New Jersey, United States.


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    44 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 22nd of November 1980

    Actress, singer and sex symbol Mae Mary Jane West dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 87 in Ravenswood Apartments #611, 570 North Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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    31 Years Ago Today His Clockwork Stopped

    Monday 22nd of November 1993

    Writer Anthony Burgess known for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, 60 Grove End Rd, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    30 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 22nd of November 1994

    Murderer Warren Eugene Bridge is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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    29 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 22nd of November 1995

    42-year-old Serial killer Rosemary 'Rose' West is convicted to life imprisonment in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

    Rosemary professed ignorance of her husband Fred West's murderous activities but the circumstantial evidence that mounted against them was considered sufficient to prosecute her for ten murders, those of the young women whose bodies were found at 25 Cromwell Street.



  • 19 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Tuesday 22nd of November 2005

    A plate of 'Duck Tongues', a dish I couldn't resist in a duck specialty restaurant in Beijing, Hebei, China.


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    17 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 22nd of November 2007

    Dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart dies of heart failure at the age of 80 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.



  • 16 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Saturday 22nd of November 2008

    The room of the courthouse where the famous Nazi trials were held after World War II in Saal 600, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.



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