nov-16 today in history

TODAY IN HISTORY

we live in a slightly mad world

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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

19 nov today in history

TODAY IN HISTORY

we live in a slightly mad world

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Nov 19 1581

Russian Czar Ivan The Terrible kills his son, also named Ivan. The younger Ivan interrupted the elder Ivan, who was beating Ivan Jr's pregnant wife because of her inappropriate garb. Still in a fit of range, dad smote his son with a staff, killing him.

Nov 19 1703

The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille. He was a prisoner of Louis XIV, forced to wear a black velvet mask, and his identity has never been revealed.

Nov 19 1915

Labor activist Joe Hill executed for a murder he did not commit.

Nov 19 1954

Driving to Los Angeles, Sammy Davis, Jr. is in a serious automobile accident in San Bernardino. He lost his left eye, but the resultant publicity greatly accelerated his career. The following year, the hepcat turned into a Jew.

Nov 19 1961

Michael Rockefeller, 23 year old son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (later Vice President), disappears while searching for Asmat wood carvings in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea. He was probably eaten by the Asmat.

Nov 19 1970

Lance Rentzel, American professional football player, is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl. He was later sentenced to five years' probation. Rentzel was said to have handled the situation bravely, continuing to play pro football and opening admitting his problems. At one point, he labeled himself a "sex pervert." In 1973 he made further headlines when he pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana.

Nov 19 1994

A Rotterdam University study determined that over one in four members of the Dutch Parliament have smoked marijuana.