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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

nov-16 today in history

TODAY IN HISTORY

we live in a slightly mad world


Nov 16 1906

Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act committed in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. He pinched the bottom of a woman described as "pretty and plump", causing outrage amongst New York high society. Caruso claimed a monkey pinched the lady's bottom.

Nov 16 1957

Serial killer Ed Gein kills his final victim, Bernice Worden, a storeclerk in her 50's. Her decapitated body is later found outdoors hanging from a block and tackle, gutted. Some parts were unaccounted for.

Nov 16 1981

Actor William Holden dies after a fall, hitting his head on a table. He is too f*#king drunk to telephone for assistance; instead he bleeds to death while dabbing his serious wound with kleenex.

Nov 16 1989

A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops slaughters six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University

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