BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 358                 Monday, 23 December 2024         Antwerpen		
When the Engine Starts


Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Related events:

  1. Wednesday 14th of February 1912 (x) Arizona is admitted as 48th state of the U.S.

  2. Friday 16th of October 1931 (-) Victim of Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess Hedvig Samuelson is stabbed and shot dead by Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess
    Judd also killed Agnes Anne LeRoi in the same event. Judd cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them.

  3. Tuesday 29th of April 1958 (+) Double murderer Robert Vickers is born

  4. Thursday 9th of April 1959 (-) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies shortly after undergoing surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction

  5. Thursday 3rd of August 1961 (x) Hijacker Leonard Bearden and his 16-year-old son Cody are the first men ever to sky-jack a commercial Continental Airlines Flight 54 Boeing 707 to Cuba
    Bearden's adventure ended in El Paso when a dozen federal agents opened fire with submachine guns, shredding the jet’s landing gear and destroying one of its engines during takeoff after a refuel.

  6. Saturday 26th of August 1978 (-) Actor Charles Boyer commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal
    Boyer committed suicide two days after his wife, British actress Pat Paterson, died from cancer.

  7. Friday 23rd of October 1998 (-) Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd dies of natural causes