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Jarno Sebastian Elg is a Finnish Devil-worshipper, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 23-year-old man, eating some of the body parts and instigating others to participate in a ritual that included torturing the victim and listening to black metal music on November 21, 1998, in Hyvinkaa. Elg’s partners were 17-year-old Terhi […]
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Bill Bixby was an American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series.
His lead television roles were as Ray Walston’s young friend, reporter Tim O’Hara, in My Favorite Martian (1963–1966) on CBS; Tom Corbett in […]
The Humberto Vidal Explosion was a gas explosion that occurred on November 21, 1996 on the Humberto Vidal shoe store located in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed.
Most of the victims were inside the building at the moment of the explosion, but others […]
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Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova was a Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia. She was shot to death in her apartment building on November 20, 1998.
Starovoitova was gunned down in the entryway of her apartment building on November 20, 1998. Her aide, Ruslan Linkov, […]
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Zarya was the first module of the International Space Station and she launched November 20, 1998. The FGB provided electrical power, storage, propulsion, and guidance to the ISS during the initial stage of assembly.
As other modules with more specialized functionality are constructed, the Zarya’s role will primarily be storage, both inside the pressurized section and […]
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The Port Arthur massacre was a killing spree which claimed the lives of 35 people and wounded 37 others mainly at the historic Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility […]
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The McCaughey septuplets are the world’s first surviving set of septuplets.
They were born in Des Moines, Iowa on November 19, 1997, nine weeks prematurely, to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey, residents of the nearby town of Carlisle. The septuplets have one older sister, Mikayla Marie.
The septuplets were conceived as the result of fertility drugs.The birth attracted […]
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Greer Lankton was an American artist, whose work was dedicated to creating life-like, posable dolls and figures. Greer Lankton was born Greg Lankton in Flint, Michigan, to a presbytarian minister and his wife.
Greer had a rough childhood, and was picked on for being feminine. It was during her cildhood that she began creating dolls. “It […]
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Tony Silva is an American ornithologist, one-time president of the American Parrot Association, and former director at Tenerife’s Loro Parque, Europe’s largest parrot park. He is author of the book “A Monologue Of Endangured Parrots.”
On November 18, 1996, he was arrested and sentenced to 82 months without parole with conspiracy to violate wildlife privates and […]
The Vukovar massacre was a war crime that took place between November 18 and November 21, 1991 near the city of Vukovar, a mixed Croat/Serb community in northeastern Croatia.
Over 200 people, mostly Croats, of whom 194 have been identified, were murdered by members of the Serb militias aided by the Yugoslav People’s Army.
Yugoslav military leaders […]
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