Birthdays: Ted Sorel, D. B. Sweeney, Josh Duhamel, Russell Tovey, Laura Ramsey Movie releases: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Confessions of a Serial Killer, Castle Freak, Island of the Dead
FLW: put that cigarette out
Famous Last Words Hector Hugh Munro Beaumont-Hamel, France November 14, 1916 "Put that damned cigarette out!" (Alternatively "Put that bloody cigarette out!") Munro, whose pen-name was Saki, was a homosexual author at a time when it was illegal in Britain to be gay. At 43, over the age to enlist, he nevertheless joined the military…
Kills father, wounds mother after argument over reading a letter
From the Chicago Daily Tribune Published November 14, 1929 A man and his father argued after the younger man grabbed a letter from the elder's hands to read it, resulting in the son shooting his father fatally and wounding his mother's arm with the same bullet.
Fictional History: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
London, England Lord Blackwood is hanged. Dr. John Watson oversees the execution.
Victim of the Beast 666
November 14, 1958 Salt Lake City, Utah Lilly Gray dies; officially, the death is recorded as natural causes, though her grave marker indicates she was a "victim of the beast 666" Lily's grave has long been an object of intrigue, for numerous reasons. Her name on the stone reads "Lilly" while church records spell her…
