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William A. Miller and Harold Stites were killed by Marvin Hubbard, Bernard Coy and Joseph Cretzer. All three were shot dead as squads of armed officers periodically rushed into the cellhouse firing repeatedly into the narrow corridor where they were hiding. Miran Thompson and Sam Shockley were executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin on 3 December 1948 for their roles in the Battle of Alcatraz.
(4 May 1946)
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22 events for 26 November:
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(-) 141 Years Ago Today Monday 26th of November 1883 Murderer Thomas Riley is executed by hanging in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. |
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(+) 125 Years Ago Today Sunday 26th of November 1899 Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is born in Kamenz, Sachsen, Germany. |
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(+) 115 Years Ago Today Friday 26th of November 1909 Playwright Eugène Ionesco is born as Eugen Ionescu in Slatina, Wallachia, Romania. |
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(-) 107 Years Ago Today Monday 26th of November 1917 18-year-old Louise-Joséphine Jaume 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. |
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(+) 104 Years Ago Today Friday 26th of November 1920 Daughter of Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast Astarte Lulu Panthea Crowley is born in Abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicilia, Italy. Astarte was born to Crowley and Augustine Louise Hélène Fraux. |
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(x) 102 Years Ago Today He Saw Wonderful ThingsSunday 26th of November 1922 48-year-old Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun becomes the first man to enter into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebe, Egypt. Lord Carnarvon asked "Can you see anything?" Carter replied with the famous words "Yes, wonderful things!" |
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(+) 100 Years Ago Today Wednesday 26th of November 1924 Pop artist George Segal is born in New York City, New York, United States. |
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(-) 99 Years Ago Today Thursday 26th of November 1925 King of Siam Rama VI aka Vajiravudh dies of blood poisoning at the age of 45 in Grand Palace, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand. |
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(-) 98 Years Ago Today Friday 26th of November 1926 Firearms designer John Moses Browning dies of heart failure at the age of 71 in Herstal, Liège, Belgium. Browning died while working at the bench on a self-loading pistol design. |
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(+) 94 Years Ago Today Wednesday 26th of November 1930 Mass murderer Carl Robert Brown is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. |
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(+) 92 Years Ago Today Saturday 26th of November 1932 Serial killer John Wayne Glover aka The Granny Killer aka The Monster of Mosman is born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. |
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(-) 91 Years Ago Today Sunny Jim Praised the ActionSunday 26th of November 1933 Kidnapper and murderer Thomas Harold Thurmond is lynched with his accomplice John Maurice Holmes by a raging mob of 5.000 to 15.000 men, women and children at the age of 27 in St. James Park, San Jose, California, United States. Thurmond and Holmes had kidnapped and killed Brooke Hart on 9 November but continued to send ransom notes to his family, owners of Harts Department Store. Governor James 'Sunny Jim' Rolph praised the action, stating that California had sent a message to future kidnappers and promised to pardon anyone involved in the lynching. |
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(+) 85 Years Ago Today Sunday 26th of November 1939 Musician Tina Turner is born as Anna Mae Bullock in Poindexter Farm, Highway 180, Nutbush, Tennessee, United States. |
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(x) 80 Years Ago Today Sunday 26th of November 1944 44-year-old Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Heinrich Luitpold Himmler orders the destruction of all crematoria in the concentration camps in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. |
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(-) 74 Years Ago Today Sunday 26th of November 1950 Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Mutterhof, Schwaighofstraße 47, Tegernsee, Bayern, Germany. |
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(x) 59 Years Ago Today Erklärte Er die BilderFriday 26th of November 1965 44-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs 'Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt' in Galerie Schmela, Hunsrückenstraße 16–18, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. |
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(-) 56 Years Ago Today He Made a PaperweightTuesday 26th of November 1968 23-year-old Jan Susan Whitney is abducted and strangled by foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer in 3123 Center Street, Salem, Oregon, United States. Whitney's body was kept hanging from the pulley in Brudos' garage for several days, during which he dressed, photographed and had sex with it. Brudos cut off one of her breasts and made a resin mold of it that he used as a paperweight. |
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(-) 41 Years Ago Today Saturday 26th of November 1983 22-year-old Simone Newin is raped and strangled by serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder in Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany. Three days later Wolpert was caught assaulting a 19-year-old girl. |
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(x) 40 Years Ago Today Monday 26th of November 1984 Seventh bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC on the telecommunication systems in Base Aérienne de Bierset, Bierset, Liège, Belgium. It was the sixth action in their 'Campagne Anti-Impérialiste d'Octobre'. |
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17 Years Ago Today The Eyes had itMonday 26th of November 2007 A program featuring exclusive audio clips, music, and spoken word from and about Bruno Hauptmann's innocence, Sallie Ellen Ionesco's 'ice pick' transorbital lobotomy, Howard Carter, Jean-Louis Pisuisse's protest songs, John Holmes and Linda Lovelace, 'Nutbush' cover versions, Heinrich Himmler, The Rolling Stones and many more.... in Radio Centraal, Ernest Van Dijckkaai, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. |
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(-) 6 Years Ago Today Monday 26th of November 2018 Film director Bernardo Bertolucci dies of cancer at the age of 78 in Rome, Trastevere, Lazio, Italy. |
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5 Years Ago Today The Eyes had itTuesday 26th of November 2019 Our kitchen at night in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium. |