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Nov 27 1934

Bank robber Lester Gillis, known as Baby Face Nelson, killed in a tommygun shootout by FBI agents in Fox River Grove, IL. While Nelson was able to kill the two lawmen involved, his naked body was found the next day containing 17 bullets.

Nov 27 1969

Court appointed attorney Ronald Hughes, handling the Charles Manson case, disappears on a camping trip to Sespe Hot Springs in Southern California, accompanied by two Manson followers. His decomposed body is identified by dental x-rays five months later.

Nov 27 1975

Members of the Provisional IRA kill Ross McWhirter, founder of the Guinness Book of World Records, London.

Nov 27 1978

Former policeman Dan White kills San Francisco mayor George Moscone & homosexual supervisor Harvey Milk. White later uses the "twinkie defense" to get a short sentence, but suicides after release.

11/27/2007 3:44:21 AM

Nov 28 1942

A fire at the sleazy Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Boston, kills 491 people. Flammable artificial palm trees aided the spread of the fire. The numerous dead were crushed, burnt, and asphyxiated, all within minutes.

Nov 28 1953

Frank Olson, government scientist, jumps to his death from the Statler Hotel in New York City. In 1975 it is revealed that Olson had been administered LSD by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb in a CIA experiment.

Nov 28 1981

A drunk Natalie Wood topples off her yacht near Catalina Island and drowns. Her husband Robert Wagner, and melodramatic friend Christopher Walken, were onboard and unaware of her predicament, apparently having some sort of argument in the cabin.

Nov 28 1994

Homosexual cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer beaten to death with a broomstick by inmate Christopher Scarver while cleaning the prison bathroom. Dahmer's brain was to be preserved in formaldehyde at the request of Mom, but a court ordered its destruction in late 1995.

11/28/2007 2:14:48 PM

Quote :

"Nov 18 1953 U.S. Army scientist Frank Olson jumps from the 10th floor of a New York City hotel room, plunging to his death. Five days previously, a CIA experiment wherein Olson was slipped LSD went awry, giving the fragile scientist a very bad trip. That trip proved detrimental to Olson's mental health. Twenty years later, Olson's wife sues."

wait, what? ^

11/28/2007 2:29:07 PM

It was one of the more high profile incidents that made people realize the MKULTRA was a bad thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson

11/28/2007 4:12:27 PM

No, I know that, but you posted it on two dates, that is what I'm pointing out.

11/28/2007 11:50:29 PM

ARE YOU A COP? YOU'RE TALKING LIKE A COP. I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I DO TO COPS!

11/29/2007 3:14:34 AM

Nah man, that last hit just made me feel light as a feather.

11/29/2007 8:35:16 AM

Nov 29 1864

The Sand Creek Massacre, in which the US Army sent soldiers into an indian encampment, slaughtering 300 indians. The Cheyenne and Arapaho had been given an American flag to prevent such an event from occurring, but an army colonel chose to disregard it.

Nov 29 1944

Malcolm X, then known as small-time criminal Malcolm Little, was arrested for larceny. He received a three months suspended sentence and one year probation.

Nov 29 1961

The US sends the chimpanzee Enos into space, on the Mercury Atlas 5 capsule from Cape Canaveral.

Nov 29 1986

Death of 82 year old Archibald Leach, better known as Cary Grant. While rumors of Grant's sexuality have been around for years, consider in perspective the words of US congressman Bob Dornan, spoken on the House floor: "I do not think Cary Grant was a homosexual or bisexual. He just got carried away at those orgies."

Nov 29 1987

The KAL flight from Abu Dhabi to Bankgok explodes due to a bomb planted by North Korean agents, off Burma. All 115 aboard were killed. The two agents responsible take suicide pills in Bahrain while they were being questioned.

Nov 29 2001

The "quiet" Beatle George Harrison silenced by cancer.

11/29/2007 2:47:59 PM

Nov 30 1731

100,000 dead when a massive quake strikes Peking, China.

Nov 30 1900

Celebrated Irish author/sodomite Oscar Wilde, dies in Paris of meningitis. Wilde had been charged three times with indecency, specifically "the seduction and corruption of young men." Evidence admitted against him included testimony about fecal stains on his sheets.

Nov 30 1929

Dick Clark, the American Bandstander, born. We heard a rumor about extensive facial plasticizing treatments in the early 1970's. While this rumor remains unverified we must note that the man no longer ages and may not even be human.

Nov 30 1954

At 1 pm, an 8.5 pound stone meteorite falls from the sky and strikes Elizabeth Hulitt Hodge from Sylacauga, Alabama. The housewife was seriously bruised but survived, although the meteorite destroyed her radio.

Nov 30 1985

Frankenchrist released by the Dead Kennedys. More controversial than the album itself was the packaging: The Shriners filed suit regarding the cover (pictured were some of the ridiculous little cars they drive); and a poster by H.R. Giger included in the album sparked an obscenity trial in Los Angeles.

Nov 30 1991

In Costa Mesa, California, battered wife Omeima Nelson kills her abusive husband and then proceeds to cook him. "I did his ribs just like in a restaurant. It's so sweet, it's so tender and delicious. I like mine tender."

11/30/2007 3:49:56 AM

Dec 1 1934

Politburo member Sergei Kirov killed by Leonid Nikolayev on orders of Josef Stalin. The assassination is used as an excuse to commence the Great Terror in the years 1935 to 1939, in which 800,000 were executed and over 8.5 million arrested. But these figures pale in comparison to the 47 million who died from Stalinist collectivization and other purges.

Dec 1 1947

Aleister Crowley, the wickedest man in the world, dead in Hastings England, aged 74. He wrote that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best", and taught the Law of Thelema, "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Crowley also appears on the cover of Beatles' Sgt. Pepper.

Dec 1 1958

An intentionally-set trash fire at the Our Lady of Angels school kills three nuns and more than 90 students in Chicago. Many of the students leaped to their deaths.

Dec 1 1976

The Sex Pistols appear on a British TV show to fill in the place of orchestral band Queen. The boozed-up punks are goaded by the host, Bill Grundy, to "say something outrageous." Several fucks later, the band is suddenly a notorious example for the press.

Dec 1 1997

A high school student in Paducah, Kentucky opens fire on fellow students during a prayer service. The 14-year-old freshman student was armed with a .22-caliber Lugar handgun and earplugs. Two Bible thumpers are killed, the rest are only injured.

Dec 1 1997

Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson files suit against Anabolic Video Productions, the makers of Gang Bang #20, a hardcore pornographic film in which biker bitches are filmed having sex on the company's brand of motorcycle, and atop other promotional merchandise bearing the brand name. Harley claims that the film may confuse viewers into believing that the company authorized or endorsed the activities.

Dec 1 1997

Member of the Georgia Senate Ralph Abernathy attempts to smuggle marijuana into the US from Jamaica in his underwear. He is caught by a drug-sniffing canine and fined $500. Abernathy is the son of the famous civil rights leader of the same name who was Martin Luther King's lieutenant. In January he is censured by the Georgia State Senate.

12/2/2007 2:13:48 AM

Dec 2 1814

Death of the Marquis de Sade, in a lunatic asylum at Charenton. The good Marquis wrote, "There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship."

Dec 2 1938

Albert Kessel and Robert Lee Cannon put down in California's new gas chamber. The executions are a smashing success.

Dec 2 1956

The Mad Bomber strikes! At Brooklyn's Paramount Theater, injuring 7. The bomber terrorized New York City between 1940 and 1956.

Dec 2 1964

Beatle Ringo Starr has his tonsils removed at University College Hospital in London, causing him to miss part of the Scandinavian and Far East tour.

Dec 2 1980

Four American churchwomen -- three nuns and a lay worker -- are raped, murdered, and buried outside El Salvador's capital, San Salvador. Five national guardsmen are convicted in the killings, and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Dec 2 1994

Heidi Fleiss, the "Hollywood Madam," is convicted of three counts of felony pandering. She provided prostitutes to Hollywood celebrities; among them are rumored to be Jack Nicholson, David Hasselhoff, and John Ritter.

Dec 2 1997

David Afuta, the hairdresser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is found dead with two bullets in his chest at in his apartment after a murder/suicide. The other victim, Anat Elimelech, had one bullet in her. It is not clear which person pulled the trigger. The incident sends the Israeli media into a tizzy.

Dec 2 1997

The bodies of three children who were victims of a human sacrifice performed by their parents are dug up in Caratal village, Trinidad. The three children, the offspring of Kenrick and Chandrowtie London variously aged 17 months to 3 years, had been sacrificed in a religious ceremony that was intended to bring prosperity.

12/2/2007 5:17:34 AM

Dec 3 1890

Isaac Jordan, the U.S. Congressional Representative from the great state of Ohio, dies after an interesting elevator accident in Cincinnati.

Dec 3 1948

Ozzy Osbourne's birthday. "I never set out to be a businessman. I just wanted to have fun, fuck chicks and do drugs."

Dec 3 1968

Elvis makes a comeback! Only slightly chunkier than in the old days, everyone thought he was a has-been. Elvis sure showed them.

Dec 3 1974

Civil aviation authorities in England issue a warning to pilots to avoid a 40 foot long inflated pig. The aeropork had escaped its tether during a Pink Floyd photo shoot. Radar contact was lost at 18,000 feet. [At this time, the sex of the pig was indeterminate. Later, oversized male genitalia are attached.]

Dec 3 1979

At Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, eleven concertgoers variously aged 15 to 27 years are trampled and suffocated trying to get in to see The Who. Insufficient exits were available, and a request by police to open more was ignored.

Dec 3 1984

Methyl isocyanate leaks from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located at a slum in Bhopal, India. The gas kills 4,000 people and injures 200,000 others, many of whom were permanently blinded or disabled. The event set a standard for industrial accidents that has yet to be equalled.

Dec 3 1997

Former Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie is arrested in Los Angeles for obstructing justice and lying about a securities fraud scam. The fifty-six-year-old former child star had tried to make stock transactions at a public company without paying.

12/3/2007 5:01:09 AM

Dec 4 1930

Rhythm method accepted by the Vatican as an approved method of birth control. Does the pope wear a condom?

Dec 4 1978

Dianne Feinstein named mayor of San Francisco after the assassination of Mayor Moscone, jumpstarting her otherwise pathetic political career. The pro-censorship bitch is now a US Senator, and carries a handgun for protection while campaigning to prohibit others from doing so.

Dec 4 1988

Actor Gary Busey seriously injured in a near-fatal motorcycle crash, which he states also caused an out-of-body experience. Busey was not wearing his helmet, but after the accident told the press he would continue pursuing his out-of-helmet experiences. [Update 1997: Busey had a nose tumor, found God, and now wears a helmet.]

Dec 4 1993

Frank Zappa dead of prostate cancer in Los Angeles at age 52.

12/4/2007 12:40:30 PM

NOOOO, FRANK!!!!

12/4/2007 12:43:17 PM

Sorry for the wait. Rotten.com is now a prohibited site at work.

Dec 5 1484

Innocent VIII orders an Inquisition to uncover and execute witches in Europe. Witchcraft becomes a heresy, and over the next three centuries 200,000 accused witches die under most unpleasant circumstances.

Dec 5 1928

In order to protect United Fruit Company employees from striking banana workers, the government declares martial law in Santa Marta, Colombia. Over the next three weeks, Colombian troops kill between 500 and 600 strikers.

Dec 5 1933

Fourteen years of prohibition end when Utah ratifies the 21st amendment. Let the good times roll.

Dec 5 1982

Thomas Hart of Detroit, MI dies from the impact of a 14 pound burgundy bowling ball that entered his car through the windshield the previous day. He suffered serious traumatic head injuries. The source of the bowling instrument is unknown.

Dec 5 1991

Richard Speck, murderer who killed 8 nurses, dies of natural causes while incarcerated. Somehow he managed to grow breasts while in prison, which was recorded on a videotape aired five years after his death. Behind bars Speck apparently was a black man's bitch, and he didn't mind sucking a little cock now and then. "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they would turn me loose."

Dec 5 1997

South African serial killer Moses Sithole sentenced to 2,410 years for the serial killing of 38 people in 1994 and 1995, as well as 40 rapes and various lesser offenses.

Dec 5 1997

Fairfield, CA resident Alan Hall is rushed to the NorthBay Medical Center in a vain attempt to reattach his amputated penis. Hall informs police that the assailant, a mysterious woman named Brenda, had sliced it off at the base with an X-Acto knife following sex. Authorities ultimately determine the wound to be self-inflicted.

12/5/2007 5:35:10 PM

Dec 6 1793

Guillotining of Mme. du Barry, mistress of Louis XV. "She screamed, she begged mercy of the horrible crowd that stood around the scaffold, she aroused them to such a point that the executioner grew anxious and hastened to complete his task."

Dec 6 1917

At 9:05 AM, the munitions ship Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax harbor after being struck by another ship. It is the largest explosion before the atomic age. The ship was carrying 200 tons of TNT, 61 tons of gun cotton, 35 tons of Benzyl, and 2,300 tons of picric acid; the explosion destroys 325 acres of the city, leaving 1,900 people dead and injuring over 9,000.

Dec 6 1969

A concert by the Rolling Stones at Altamont ends in the death of a fan at the hands of the Hells Angels, who were hired for security.

Dec 6 1980

Televangelist Jim Bakker of the PTL ministry has a 15 minute quickie in a motel room with Jessica Hahn. The minister uses the line "When you help the shepherd, you're helping the sheep". Baaaa. PTL later pays Hahn hush money, but seven years later the incident becomes public and Bakker resigns in disgrace.

Dec 6 1987

Three teenagers in Missouri beat a friend to death and blame the incident on heavy metal inspired satanism. The jury didn't buy their story, instead finding a pattern of drug use among the youths and evidence of animal torture during childhood by their ringleader.

Dec 6 1989

Marc Lepine kills 14 women at Ecole Polytechnic, University of Montreal, and injures 15 others. It is the worst mass murder in Canadian history. On him is a suicide letter explaining his actions as being specific revenge against 19 "feminists who have ruined my life... I have decided to put an end to those viragos."

12/6/2007 5:19:52 PM

Dec 7 1941

A Day That Will Live In Infamy.

Dec 7 1982

Texas murderer Charlie Brooks in becomes the first person executed in the United States by that newfangled lethal injection.

Dec 7 1982

Armenian earthquake kills 100,000.

Dec 7 1987

David Burke, a recently fired airline employee, stalks his ex-boss onboard a Pacific Southwest Airline jet. He shoots the man in mid-flight and causes the plane to crash, killing all 43 people onboard.

Dec 7 1993

Colin Ferguson opens fire on the Long Island Railroad, killing 6 and injuring 17 others. His attorney William Kunstler tried to use a "black rage" defense, but Ferguson fired him and represented himself. What resulted was a bizarre proceeding of Ferguson claiming innocence and that he was a "patsy" of the government. The trial ended with six consecutive life sentences.

Dec 7 1995

Disgruntled postal employee John Pitney arrives at his Denver workplace in a dress and is placed on administrative leave. Pitney returns later that day in the same dress but sporting a strap-on dildo and gorilla mask. He is arrested. God bless America and God bless the US Postal Service.

12/7/2007 3:25:56 AM

Dec 8 1854

Pius IX promulgates the doctrine of Immaculate Conception, that the Virgin Mary is free from original sin. Later, she achieves permanent fame when despite of her marriage, she gets knocked up by God.

Dec 8 1941

The day after Pearl Harbor, the 4th Interceptor Command reports two formations of enemy planes approaching Los Angeles, spotted in the San Francisco area. Fortunately, the seagulls do not bomb the city.

Dec 8 1963

Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was set free four days later. It was discovered that Sinatra, Jr. cooperated with his abductors in their plot. Dad was not proud, nor pleased. Frank Jr. went on to conduct the big band for Frank Sr. and all was well.

Dec 8 1980

Beatle John Lennon shot by a lunatic, Mark David Chapman, outside Lennon's apartment in New York City mere hours after receiving the Beatle's autograph. The National Enquirer is roundly criticized for publishing a fuzzy photograph of Lennon in his coffin, much as they did for Elvis Presley.

Dec 8 1982

Norman D Mayer barricades himself inside the Washington Monument with hostages and declares that he will blow it up unless all nuclear weapons are dismantled. He is shot by police after 10 hours.

Dec 8 1983

The top elected official in Maricopa County, AZ, declines to resign after a remark that "homosexuals ought to be used instead of animals" for medical experimentation.

Dec 8 1987

Intifada begins in Palestine.

Dec 8 1988

The cities of Leninakan and Spitak are totally destroyed in a massive Armenian earthquake that kills over 50,000.

Dec 8 1997

Actor Robert Downey Jr. sentenced to six months in prison for probation violations related to drug charges.

12/8/2007 4:09:12 AM

I LOVE this thread

12/8/2007 4:27:36 AM

I LOVE this thread

12/8/2007 7:18:29 AM

Dec 9 1783

Executions begin at Newgate Prison, London, replacing the previous gallows at Tyburn.

Dec 9 1942

Birthday of Dick Butkus!

Dec 9 1967

Jim Morrison, vocalist for the Doors, arrested for immoral exhibition at one of his concerts. The arrest was due to him upsetting police -- he was maced, then made the error of badmouthing police onstage -- not for exposing his weenie.

Dec 9 1971

Indian air force bombs an orphanage in Pakistan, killing 300 children. Way to go!

Dec 9 1994

Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders dismissed after suggesting discussion of masturbation in school classes on sexuality. This gives rise to the euphemistic term "firing the surgeon general."

Dec 9 1997

Actor Christian Slater sentenced to 90 days in jail for battery and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was arrested August 11 after a cocaine and heroin binge ending with him assaulting an officer. Slater's credits include made-for-TV movie "Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story".

Dec 9 1999

President Bill Clinton signs legislation outlawing "crush videos," which generally involve women stomping frogs, mice, or other small animals with high heels. This fetish is definitely a niche market.

12/9/2007 4:09:05 PM

the one about clinton is cool in light of that chinese bitch that stomped on a kitten and was found in china and sentenced

12/9/2007 4:11:54 PM

Dec 10 1520

The heretic Martin Luther burnt the papal bull issued by Leo X, titled "Exsurge Domine", demanding an end to his heresies. Luther had published 95 points against the practice of granting indulgences, and the Catholic Church only had 94 points in favor of them. Although technically he was the winner, Luther was subsequently excommunicated.

Dec 10 1792

"That if any do commit the detestable and abominable vice of Buggery, with man or beast, he or she so offending, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall suffer death, in the case of felony, without the benefit of Clergy." (Act of General Assembly of Virginia)

Dec 10 1958

Ralph Muller and Peter Kamenoff, two ex-members of the Fountain of the World religious cult, accost guru Krishna Venta at the cult's hillside compound in Box Canyon, Ventura County, California. The men accuse Venta of having fucked their wives. For whatever reason Venta, the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and formerly known as Francis Pencovic, is unable to placate the men. So they detonate 20 sticks of dynamite they brought, 19 of which are strictly overkill. The three men are instantly blown to pieces along with 7 other cultees. Venta's remains are only ever identified through dental records.

Dec 10 1967

Soul singer Otis Redding plus four members of the Bar-Kays are killed in an airplane crash near Madison, Wisconsin.

Dec 10 1993

Adolf Hitler is baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in a ceremony performed inside their London temple. Mormons use this strange retroactive baptismal ritual to ensure ancestors or other relatives may join them in heaven.

Dec 10 1994

The Unabomber strikes, killing Thomas J Mosser, an advertising executive in North Caldwell, New Jersey. Mosser, Executive VP of Young & Rubicam, had assisted Exxon with public relations after the Exxon Valdez spill.

12/10/2007 8:23:26 AM

Quote :

" Dec 10 1993 Adolf Hitler is baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in a ceremony performed inside their London temple. Mormons use this strange retroactive baptismal ritual to ensure ancestors or other relatives may join them in heaven."

lololololol

12/10/2007 9:03:09 AM

lol indeed

12/10/2007 9:28:11 AM

Dec 11 1783

William Beadle of Weathersfield, Connecticut slaughters his entire family, then slits his own throat. For some time before the killings, Beadle developed a habit of taking an axe or a knife to bed with him. Mrs. Beadle failed to notice that something might be wrong with Mr. Beadle.

Dec 11 1957

Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis marries his jailbait 13 year old cousin, Myra Gail Brown. Myra's parents are not told of their coupling until the story was broken by the press the following year. Lewis neglects to divorce his wife Jane Mitcham until April 1958.

Dec 11 1960

In Palm Beach, Florida, retired postmaster Richard Pavlick chooses at the last moment not to ram John F. Kennedy's car and detonate his seven sticks of dynamite. Pavlick later explains that it was out of concern for Jackie: "I did not wish to harm her or the children... I decided to get him at the church or someplace later."

Dec 11 1985

Computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento business when he investigates a package left by the Unabomber. It's his first confirmed kill.

Dec 11 1988

62 people were killed when tons of illegal fireworks exploded in a Mexico City marketplace.

Dec 11 1991

William Kennedy Smith is acquitted of rape charges, stemming from an incident at the Kennedy Compound.

12/11/2007 1:46:16 PM

Quote :

"Dec 11 1985 Computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento business when he investigates a package left by the Unabomber. It's his first confirmed kill."

This had to be 1995.

12/11/2007 2:20:29 PM

Nope. He mailed his first bomb in 1978.

12/11/2007 5:30:33 PM

Dec 12 1915

Francis Albert Sinatra's birthday. We've been asked not to bring up his mafia connections, so today we will not be resorting to that cheap gimmick to slander the Chairman of the Board.

Dec 12 1917

The worst train wreck in history, leaving 543 Frenchmen dead.

Dec 12 1937

US gunboat Panay is sunk by the Japanese military on the Yangtze River by a combined action of bombing, dive bombing, and strafing. Japan apologized, disciplining those involved and paying $2.2M reparations.

Dec 12 1980

"Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song about masturbation. Whip it good.

Dec 12 1989

Leona Helmsley fined $7 million and sentenced to jail for 21 months for tax evasion. They made the bitch serve 900 hours of community service.

Dec 12 1991

Richard Gere (claims he is not gay) marries supermodel Cindy Crawford (ditto). Widespread rumors that Gere was intimate with a gerbil have yet to be verified.

12/12/2007 4:35:51 PM

Dec 13 303

The feast of St. Lucy. Because her extreme beauty attracted too many admirers, Lucy gouged her own eyes out. Miraculously they grew back. After refusing to marry, the Romans forced her to become a whore. Early depictions show Lucy offering her eyes on a platter; she is now the patron saint of Sicily and of opticians.

Dec 13 1937

The Japanese Army occupies Nanking, China. For the next three weeks, with the unspoken permission of the army, soldiers literally rape the city, committing untold individual acts of atrocity and killing 350,000 civilians. The Rape of Nanking remains an event unacknowledged and unapologized by the Japanese government.

Dec 13 1942

A fire at a Knights of Columbus men's dance in St. Johns, Newfoundland cooks approximately 100 people. The exits were locked.

Dec 13 1973

The Reverend Jim Jones is arrested in a cruisy movie theater bathroom in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Jones had the bad luck to hit on an undercover LAPD vice officer while masturbating in the Westlake Theatre men's room.

Dec 13 1990

Twelve people die in a religious sacrifice in Tijuana. Industrial alcohol is introduced into fruit punch of ceremony recipients. It is unknown whether the incident constituted suicide or murder.

12/13/2007 3:52:54 AM

patron saint of opticians?

men's dance?

wtf?

12/13/2007 3:57:03 AM

Dec 14 1503

Nostradamus born. If you write vague enough prophecies, they will fool almost anyone.

Dec 14 1944

Lupe Velez, Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" of the 1940's, commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Contrary to her plans of being found laid out on the bed in a silk nightgown, she is instead discovered in the bathroom with her head in the toilet. Her ex-husband, Tarzan star Johnny Weismuller, frequently used to beat her.

Dec 14 1991

A ferry near Safaga, Egypt on the Red Sea strikes a coral reef, drowning more than 460 passengers.

12/14/2007 3:38:16 AM

Dec 15 1944

En route to Paris, "swing" big band leader Glenn Miller vanishes over the English Channel. Miller, listed as Missing In Action, was serving as a Major in the Army Air Force Band when his plane went down.

Dec 15 1952

Fashion photographer George Jorgenson has a Danish surgeon remove his various naughty bits, in the world's first sex-change operation. George emerges in New York as cabaret actress Christine Jorgenson.

Dec 15 1961

Nazi Adolf Eichmann, former Reichssicherheitshauptamt (that's a real word) bureaucrat, is sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court. Eichmann had been arrested in Argentina and smuggled to Israel the previous year.

Dec 15 1966

Walt Disney dead!

Dec 15 1988

Lori Davis, of Bay Shore NY, files suit against Mike Tyson over an incident in which Tyson played a little grabass with her at a nightclub.

Dec 15 1989

The man that masterminded a campaign of horror against the Colombian people, cartel leader Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, "El Mexicano", is killed by police in a shootout. Gacha had bombed an Avianca plane midflight, killing all 101 passengers, and truckbombed the National Police Headquarters in Bogota. The police were not happy with him.

Dec 15 1997

Thailand begins the mass cremation of some 21,347 dead, all unclaimed from the Poh Tek Tung cemetary in Bangkok. It is a new record.

12/15/2007 1:36:52 PM

Dec 16 1920

In Kansu, China, an 8.6 earthquake kills 180,000 people, mostly from building collapses. But 20,000 froze later because they were unwilling to reoccupy housing during the winter.

Dec 16 1943

At Auschwitz, Dr. Horst Schumann was radiating genitals of Jewish men and women. After a time their genitals were removed and sent to Berlin. Records from his experiments do not survive intact, but the daysheet for today indicates 90 castrations. What were they doing with all those balls?

Dec 16 1950

To fight "world conquest by communist imperialism" in Korea, President Truman declares a state of National Emergency. The order is still in effect, one of four current states of national emergency granting extraordinary powers. We must be fools.

Dec 16 1954

In San Carlos, Venezuela, a hairy dwarf creature attacks residents, then flees into a hovering disk shaped UFO. The creatures escape.

Dec 16 1977

The pinnacle of the Disco era attained with the release of the polyester-clad film Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta.

Dec 16 1985

John Gotti has Gambino boss Paul Castellano whacked at Spark's Steak House in Manhattan.

12/16/2007 3:45:42 AM

Dec 17 1793

Children are executed by the new Guillotine invention for the first time, at Nantes France.

Dec 17 1941

"There is only one danger in the world -- that is the yellow danger. China and Japan are really bound together against the white race. There could only have been one efficient weapon against this alliance... Germany." -- Charles Lindbergh

Dec 17 1944

Malmedy massacre, where 81 Americans of Battery B, 285th Field Artillery are killed by Waffen SS in Belgium.

Dec 17 1961

Adilson Marcelino Aviles sets a circus tent on fire at the Gran Circo Norte Americano, Niteroi Brazil, killing 323 people, mostly children. 500 other youngsters were badly burned in this worst circus fire in history. Aviles stated that he wanted revenge on circus owners.

Dec 17 1969

The US Air Force terminates Project Blue Book, which investigated reports of UFO's.

Dec 17 1989

Bartholomew J. Simpson's listed birthday.

Dec 17 1989

Over two thousand protesters area massacred by the government in Timisoara, Romania. It is the spark that brings down the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed on Christmas Day.

Dec 17 1996

Lima, Peru - Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) guerrillas seize 460 hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence December 17 1996 All but 72 hostages are released through negotiations. Peruvian special forces storm the residence, kill the 14 members of the MRTA and release hostages April 22 1997.

Dec 17 1997

An episode of the animated TV show Pokemon induces seizures in at least 750 Japanese children. The convulsive sequence contains the depiction of a "vaccine bomb," followed by the flashing red eyes of a rat monster. Of those afflicted, 200 remain hospitalized the next day.

12/17/2007 3:19:30 AM

Dec 18 1843

According to our usually sketchy sources, Keith Richards, guitarist for the Rolling Stones and arguably the oldest man on earth, is 160 years old today.

Dec 18 1916

Bloodiest and longest battle of World War I ends, with the French defeating Germans at the Battle of Verdun. There were over 1 million casualties, and the Verdun ossuary contains bones of 100,000 unidentified soldiers.

Dec 18 1940

Hitler formulates plans, issued today as Directive 21, for the invasion of Russia. The intent of Operation Barbarossa was to destroy the Red Army. Fighting on two fronts eventually caused Germany's defeat.

Dec 18 1963

It's Brad Pitt's birthday. Here he's wearing his special birthday suit.

Dec 18 1997

The incredibly fat Chris Farley is found dead, wearing only pajama bottoms, and surrounded by empty food containers and pornography. Farley's act often consisted of imitating other very fat celebrities, including Newt Gingrich, Mama Cass, and Tom Arnold. He joins John Candy at the big fat farm in the sky.

12/18/2007 6:30:56 PM

Dec 19 1941

Twelve days after Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt under authority of Congress, created the Office of Censorship. The bureau had discretion over communications with foreign countries. Participation by domestic publishers was "voluntary".

Dec 19 1971

A Clockwork Orange opens, originally given an X rating. Censors objected more to the sex scenes than the orgies of ultraviolence, which is rather odd. Director Stanley Kubrik later earns an R by removing some of the smuttier footage.

Dec 19 1991

Yankee's pitcher Steve Howe arrested for criminal posession of cocaine. It's merely one of NINE TIMES this has happened (and seven suspensions, plus one drunk driving arrest.)

Dec 19 1997

Disgruntled postal worker Anthony Deculit enters a Milwaukee post office at 12:45 A.M., shoots his supervisor in the right eye, and kills a fellow coworker. The supervisor had written Deculit up for sleeping on the job. After the shootings he rendered himself dead with the 9mm solution, a shot through the mouth.

Dec 19 1997

The pilot of a SilkAir plane deliberately flies into a mangrove swamp in Indonesia, committing suicide and killing all 104 people aboard. The pilot, Captain Tsu Way Ming, was in debt and had personal problems, had taken a $3M insurance policy prior to the crash. To cover his tracks, he disconnected the flight recorder prior to downing the aircraft.

12/19/2007 9:18:13 PM

Dec 20 1957

Elvis receives orders from the draft board to serve in the United States Army, which to his credit he does without complaint.

Dec 20 1971

Talk show host Larry King, host of CNN's Larry King Live, arrested in Miami on charges of grand larceny. He must have been in-between wives.

Dec 20 1973

Basque separatists assassinate the Spanish Prime Minister, Luis Carrero Blanco, by placing a mine under his automobile. The Basques are a non-Spanish ethnic group in Spain; nobody knows where they really came from.

Dec 20 1989

US invades Panama! Smack that dictator!

Dec 20 1996

Carl Sagan, the effervescently lugubrious astronomer, dead of bone marrow disease at age 62.

Dec 20 1997

Sotheby's auctions off the loincloth worn by Kirk Douglas in the 1960 film Spartacus for $2,990.

12/21/2007 2:50:32 AM

Dec 21 1937

Jane Fonda's birthday. Jane, an anti-war activist, also holds the title "Miss Army Recruiting" of 1965.

Dec 21 1945

World War II General George Patton dies in a car accident at Heidelberg, Germany.

Dec 21 1970

President Nixon meets with prescription drug addict Elvis Presley at the White House to discuss The King's becoming a special drug enforcement agent. He presents Nixon with a pistol, and receives a special DEA badge in return.

Dec 21 1971

Former Nazi Kurt Waldheim chosen to serve as United Nations Secretary General, the fourth to serve in that position (but the first Nazi). He paves the way for a New World Order.

Dec 21 1975

Terrorist Carlos the Jackal takes hostage the 11 oil ministers at an OPEC meeting in Vienna. The ministers are released after a ransom is paid, and Carlos escapes. The Jackal is not captured until he enters a Sudanese hospital in 1994 for a testicle operation.

Dec 21 1978

John Wayne Gacy arrested in Des Plaines, IL after remains of some of the 33 men and boys he had killed are discovered on his land.

Dec 21 1988

Pan Am flight 103 detonates over Lockerbie Scotland, by means of a remote control radio bomb. All 259 aboard are killed as well as 11 on the ground struck by falling detritus. The PFLP faction of the PLO was responsible, assisted by Libyan sponsorship.

Dec 21 1991

Charles Barkley arrested on charges of battery and disorderly conduct, Milwaukee. He had punched a heckler, but was acquitted.

Dec 21 2012

The Mayan "long count" calendar is based on great cycles of 5125 years, the current cycle ending on this day in 2012. Endings of cycles are punctuated by cataclysmic singularities on a deluge scale, so be prepared. This is the end of time!

12/21/2007 12:36:59 PM

Dec 22 1879

Stalin's birthday!

Dec 22 1955

The corpse of Evita Peron is stolen by anti-Peronistas.

Dec 22 1972

An earthquake destroys the city of Managua, Nicaragua, leaving 6,000 dead.

Dec 22 1984

Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenage boys on the NYC subway after one of them asks him for money.

Dec 22 1996

An alien cadaver of height 5 centimeters is found at the Kibbutz Achihod, Ahyud Israel. Scientists at Israel's Technion Institute in Hafnia determine that not enough material is present to conduct "proper tests" but the alien's composition is chiefly cow manure.

Dec 22 2001

Richard Reid attempts to blow up an American Airlines transatlantic flight by igniting a plastic explosive concealed in his shoe. Other passengers beat the living daylights out of him.

12/22/2007 8:09:04 PM

how have i not seen this thread

12/22/2007 8:13:20 PM

Dec 23 1888

After an argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh takes a razor and removes a portion of his left ear. Their quarrel regarded the prostitutes in Arles who seemed to prefer Gauguin over Van Gogh; the painter delivered his ear to one Rachel, who preferred Van Gogh. She fainted.

Dec 23 1948

Japanese Premier Tojo and 6 others hanged by the War Crimes Commission at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, for the crime of starting an aggressive war.

Dec 23 1968

The first US incident of motion sickness in orbit. Was it Borman, Lovell, or Anders?

Dec 23 1972

Magnitude 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die.

Dec 23 1975

Leftist members of November 17 faction murder Athens CIA station chief Richard Welch.

Dec 23 1985

In a school playground, James Vance presses a shotgun to his chin and pulls the trigger. He and cohort Raymond Belknap had forged a suicide pact while listening to Stained Class by Judas Priest. But where Belknap succeeded, Vance fails. The dumbshit survives, destroying his face. He later uses his disfigurement to his advantage, terrorizing small children on his bicycle. Both kids' parents file suit against the band, but a judge ultimately rejects their subliminal message theory. Vance dies from painkillers on Thanksgiving three years later.

Dec 23 1994

Actor/dumbass Christian Slater arrested while trying to board a plane with a semiautomatic firearm. Community service, boy.

Dec 23 1995

Bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple cult who had commited suicide are found on a plateau in the French Alps. Their bodies are charred and arranged in a star formation. Causes of death included stabbing, asphyxiation, gunshot, and poisoning. In 1994, 53 other members had suicided in similar fashion.

Dec 23 1997

Mayor Craig Johnson of Snow Hill, MD is arrested on two counts of misconduct in office, after he allows the squad car issued to him to be photographed for a pornographic Internet website "Wetlands". One of the pictures shows Cherie Messner, wife of the Wetlands operator, apparently urinating on the squad car in question.

12/23/2007 4:48:09 PM

Dec 24 1865

Southern whitefolk unite together to form a service organization wherein they consort with other southern whitefolk. Members participate in festive cruciform fire ceremonies and lively negro butcherings. By the 1920's membership in the Ku Klux Klan reaches an astonishing 2 million.

Dec 24 1954

Rock musician Johnny Ace plays a little .45 calibre solitaire (Russian Roulette) at City Auditorium in Houston after a concert. Blammo. He thought it would impress his girlfriend, perhaps it did.

Dec 24 1985

Fidel Castro announces that he has given up cigars.

Dec 24 1989

Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega seeks asylum at the Papal Nunciature. American troops try blasting him with rock music and the sounds of rabbits being slaughtered, but he takes two weeks to emerge. The isthmus groundhog does not see his shadow and is taken by the US Army to Florida lockup where he still resides.

Dec 24 1997

It is revealed that actor Woody Allen (age 62) was married to his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn (age 27) in Venice, Italy yesterday. She becomes her own stepmother, and Woody his own neurotic son in law.

Dec 24 1997

Disgruntled (former) postal worker David Lee Jackson takes seven hostages at a Denver mail sorting facility. He holds them for over nine hours before surrendering to police. Jackson had been fired 18 months previously for threatening his superior.

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Dec 25 272

First official public celebration of Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, a pagan Roman holiday that was later co-opted by Christians to celebrate the birth of their favorite Jew. Turning the holiday into "Christmas" (in 336 AD) was part of a pattern of the church stealing various pagan festivals and feast days.

Dec 25 1926

Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.

Dec 25 1946

W.C. Fields dead at 67, due to the cumulative effects of his drinking and lifestyle.

Dec 25 1989

An eager firing squad executes Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu and his wife Elena on live television. Ceaucescu had run Romania as his private communist fiefdom, garnering the animosity of nearly the entire population. The new government abolishes capital punishment shortly thereafter.

Dec 25 1995

Rat pack member Dean Martin dead at 78, a martini glass in his hand.

12/25/2007 8:11:49 PM

Billy Martin died on Christmas 1989. I remember it well .


Im not a yankees fan but Billy was the man! It was always fun watching him go nuts on an ump.

12/25/2007 8:19:38 PM

Dec 26 1893

Dictator Mao Tse-tung born in Hunan province.

Dec 26 1980

Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" who drank the blood of two of his six victims, commits suicide on death row by overdosing on hoarded medication, San Quentin, CA 1980

Dec 26 1985

"Gorillas in the Mist" author killed with machete in Africa.

Dec 26 1996

The body of Jon Benet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the Boulder, Colorado home of John and Patsy Ramsey. Her skull had an 8 inch crack, and the child's mouth was covered with duct tape. In late 1997 it was leaked to the media that a taser gun may have been involved in the killing. The family remains under an "umbrella of suspicion":

-Jon Benet's body was found only after police searched the house, and John Ramsey tainted the crime scene by moving the body
-The garrote used in strangulation was made from one of Patsy's paintbrushes
-A rough draft of the ransom note was found on Patsy's notepad. Handwriting comparisons between the note and the mother remain inconclusive

In any event, the Ramsey's treatment of the six year old child by entering her in beauty contests dressed like a young adult nymph is perverse.

12/26/2007 6:05:39 PM

Dec 27 1937

Mae West performs an "Adam & Eve" skit that gets her banned from NBC radio.

Dec 27 1985

Abu Nidal gunmen open fire at Rome and Vienna airports in coordinated attacks, killing 18 holiday travelers.

Dec 27 1992

Harry Connick, Jr., was arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York City after telling authorities he had an unloaded 9mm pistol in his luggage, which he said he had forgotten that his sister had given to him.

12/27/2007 6:01:00 PM

Dec 28 1908

An earthquake in Messina, Sicily kills 160,000. Nearly all of the city is destroyed. Countless art treasures are destroyed, as well as the Cathedral Annunziata dei Catalani.

Dec 28 1983

Dennis Wilson, original drummer of the Beach Boys, drowned while diving from a boat near Marquesas Pier. He was rather drunk at the time.

Dec 28 1987

R. Gene Simmons kills two coworkers and injures four others in Russellville Arkansas, and then surrenders. The busy man had killed 14 of his relatives over the Christmas holidays.

Dec 28 1991

Jack Ruby's pistol, used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, sells at auction at Christie's for $220,000.

12/28/2007 4:19:31 PM

Quote :

"Dec 26 1996 The body of Jon Benet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the Boulder, Colorado home of John and Patsy Ramsey. Her skull had an 8 inch crack, and the child's mouth was covered with duct tape. In late 1997 it was leaked to the media that a taser gun may have been involved in the killing. The family remains under an "umbrella of suspicion": -Jon Benet's body was found only after police searched the house, and John Ramsey tainted the crime scene by moving the body -The garrote used in strangulation was made from one of Patsy's paintbrushes -A rough draft of the ransom note was found on Patsy's notepad. Handwriting comparisons between the note and the mother remain inconclusive In any event, the Ramsey's treatment of the six year old child by entering her in beauty contests dressed like a young adult nymph is perverse."

Can't believe that was eleven years ago. She'd be almost an adult now.

12/28/2007 4:26:25 PM

Dec 29 1170

Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is slashed to death by four of King Henry II's knights at the altar of the Virgin Mary. "Is there no one who will rid me from this turbulent priest", cried Henry in frustration earlier that month. It was apparently not a serious demand for Becket's death, but that did not stop his brains from being splattered in Canterbury Cathedral.

Dec 29 1890

The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in Wounded Knee, South Dakota as over 200 Sioux were killed by US troops sent to disarm them.

Dec 29 1972

Members of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes admit at a press conference that they survived by Cannibalism. This spawned a popular theme for bumper stickers, "Rugby Players Eat Their Dead". But best of all is the quote from one of the team, "If we had been soccer players, we would have died."

Dec 29 1975

Bomb explodes at LaGuardia airport in New York, killing 11 people and injuring many others.

Dec 29 1993

Former child star Todd Bridges (who played Willis on "Different Strokes") arrested for transportation of methamphetamine.

Dec 29 1997

Male nurse Orville Lynn Majors is charged with six counts of murder at Vermillion County Hospital in Newport, MD. He is suspected of many other murders, likely over 100. Majors would apparently inject older patients with potassium chloride or other drugs, and frequently he expressed a dislike for elderlies. When off duty, hospital deaths occurred once every 551 hours; but on duty, once every 23 hours.

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Dec 30 1903

The worst theater fire in US history occurs at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, killing 602. Most of the exits were locked; no fire drills had ever been conducted; and no water was available for extinguishing the fire. But, a prominent sign displayed above the entrance to the edifice read: "Absolutely Fireproof".

Dec 30 1916

Rasputin, famed Russian court mystic, is beaten, castrated, and his penis flung across the room. He is subsequently shot several times and thrown into a frozen river.

Dec 30 1977

Ted Bundy escapes from a jail in Aspen, Colorado by using a hacksaw. He moves to Chicago, then Michigan, Atlanta, and finally Florida, where he commits a series of grotesque murders.

Dec 30 1989

Ignoring evidence to the contrary, Drug Enforcement Agency Director John Lawn orders that cannabis remain on the Schedule One narcotics list, reserved for drugs which have no known medical use.

Dec 30 1994

John C. Salvi III took things into his own hands and killed two employees at a Brookline, Mass., abortion clinic and wounded five others. John was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms on March 18.

Dec 30 1996

Actor Jack Nance (appeared in the Lynch productions Twin Peaks and Eraserhead) murdered.

12/30/2007 6:51:18 PM

Dec 31 1898

Joseph Vacher, known as "Jack the Ripper of France", guillotined. He had a hideous appearance and suffered from Bell's Palsy, a partial paralysis of the face. Vacher killed and mutilated at least 14 victims, young men and women, and commited necrophilia on many of their corpses.

Dec 31 1916

Forty-five retarded girls die in a fire at the St. Ferdinand de Halifax convent asylum in Canada.

Dec 31 1970

The Beatles break up, as Paul McCartney files suit to dissolve their partnership.

Dec 31 1973

Carlos the Jackal tries to assassinate Teddy Zeiff, Jewish owner of a major English department store chain. His gun jams. But we all learn his name when he takes the OPEC ministers hostage two years later.

Dec 31 1980

Marshall McLuhan dead at age 69.

Dec 31 1982

A coordinated series of four bombs planted by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN explode in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan inside of 90 minutes, injuring three police.

Dec 31 1984

The drummer from Def Leppard, Rick Allen, has his arm torn off in a car accident. He continues with the band single-handedly.

Dec 31 1985

Rock musician Ricky Nelson dies in an airplane crash in De Kalb, TX at age 45.

Dec 31 1999

Paris intends the Eiffel Tower to lay "a gigantic egg" at midnight to honor the coming millenium. What do they smoke in Paris?

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Jan 1

Annual Catholic Feast of the Circumcision, to celebrate the removal of the Holy Foreskin.

Jan 1 1926

Idi Amin's birthday!

Jan 1 1946

Emperor Hirohito descends from being a divine being to mere mortal man. General MacArthur insisted on it.

Jan 1 1959

Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba from Fulgencio Batista. "Don't worry, Castro's regime can't last."

Jan 1 1976

Potheads alter the "HOLLYWOOD" sign to read "HOLLYWEED". Way to go!

Jan 1 1993

During Hong Kong's new year's festivities, a stampede kills 20 and injures many more.

Jan 1 1998

Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in Aspen of traumatic neck and head wounds resulting from an accident while playing "ski football".

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