Happy December! This month of holidays and festivities will bring lots of terrible anniversaries. December 1st is apparently a very good day to murder your family with an axe; below you will see three familicide axe murders that took place on this day. 1860 – A gas explosion at the Risca Blackvein coal mine in Risca, Wales, kills 146 people. 1907 – An explosion at the Naomi Mine in Fayette, Pennsylvania, kills 34 people. 1914 – In Naihati, India, Tazmal Hossein, while working in a mill, stabs a coworker and then runs amok, wounding every man who gets in his way. Ten mill hands are killed and 11 are injured. 1923 – Antonio Alvarez kills his wife and eight children in their sleep with an axe in Puebla, Mexico, because he is frightened by a fortune teller’s prediction that the area would be destroyed on January 21, 1924, by a devastating earthquake. Afterward, he commits suicide. 1924 – In Haiger, Germany, Fritz Heinrich Angerstein fatally stabs his wife Käthe 18 times, then attacks his mother-in-law and smashes in his maidservant’s head with an axe. He then hacks at the bodies of his mother-in-law and wife, fearing they might get up again. His mother-in-law, at least, is still moaning. He washes the axe and his hands, sits down, and sleeps. When his 18-year-old sister-in-law Ella returns from a train journey, Angerstein kills her with the axe. A few hours later a bookkeeper, Ditthart, and a clerk, Kiel, arrive at the villa to work. One after the other Angerstein calls them into his study, locks the door, and kills them with the axe. During the course of the day he also kills the son of his gardener, Geist, and another laborer working for him, Darr, with a hatchet. Angerstein’s German shepherd is later found in the locked cellar with his head smashed in. Angerstein sets fire to the house, stabs himself, and tells police that a group of bandits is responsible for the crime, although within three days he confesses the truth. He is arrested and later executed. 1928 – An earthquake in Talca, Chile, kills 225 people. 1929 – Czesław Konieczny kills his mother and six siblings in their sleep with an axe in Pieruszyce, Poland, during the night from December 1 to December 2. Some of the victims have their skulls crushed. He is arrested and later executed. 1941 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States. 1955 – In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the citys racial segregation laws. 1957 – Charles Starkweather begins his nearly two-month killing spree in which he murders 11 people in the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. In all the murders committed in 1958, Starkweather is accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Late on November 30, Starkweather becomes angry at Lincoln, Nebraska, service station attendant Robert Colvert for refusing to sell him a stuffed animal on credit. Starkweather returns several times during the night to purchase small items, then in the early hours of December 1—brandishing a shotgun—he forces Colvert to hand over $100, then drives Colvert to a remote area, where he shoots him in the head. Starkweather later claims that after killing Colvert he believed he had transcended his former self, reaching a new plane of existence in which he was above and outside the law. Starkweather is executed 17 months later; Fugate serves seventeen years in prison. 1958 – A fire breaks out at Our Lady of Angels, a Catholic grade school in Chicago, Illinois; 92 students and three nuns are killed when smoke, heat, fire, and toxic gasses cut off their normal means of escape through corridors and stairways. Many more are injured when they jump from second-floor windows which, because the building has an English basement, are nearly as high as a third floor would be on level ground. 1971 – Aeroflot Flight 2174 loses control due to icing and crashes near Saratov Airport in the Soviet Union, killing all 57 passengers and crew on board. 1971 – Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. 1974 – TWA Flight 514 crashes near Mt. Weather, Virginia, killing 92 people. 1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308 crashes on Corsica’s Mont San-Pietro, killing 180 people. 1984 – LTTE cadres kill eleven Sinhalese civilians in the fishing village of Kokilai, Sri Lanka. 1991 – In San Jose City, Philippines, Army soldier Rodelio Garcia is meeting with a group of militia members when he suddenly goes into a rage and starts shooting with his government-issued M-16 rifle. Six people are killed. 1993 – In Minnesota, 18 people are killed when a Northwest Airline commuter plane crashes. 1997 – Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opens fire on a group of praying students at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and injuring five more. He is sentenced to life in prison. 2000 – Three terrorist attacks kill 16 people and injure 17 in Assam, India. 2001 – Arab suicide bombers detonate on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, Israel—a pedestrian mall frequented by many young people. A car bomb explodes nearby 20 minutes later. Ten people are killed, including many children, and 188 are injured in the terrorist attacks. 2002 – A fire at the La Guajira discotheque in Caracas, Venezuela, kills 47 people. 2004 – The Taliban attack the staff of the Ministry of Rural Development in Farah Province, Afghanistan, killing three, wounding two, and taking one hostage. 2006 – An LTTE suicide bomber triggers the explosives packed into a vehicle in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as a five-car convoy carrying Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse passes by, in an attempt to assassinate him. Secretary Rajapakse escapes unharmed, although two people are killed and 14 others are wounded, mostly civilians who are passing by the site. 2006 – In Bhágalpur, Bihar, India, a portion of the 150-year-old Ulta Pul bridge being dismantled collapses over a passing train of India’s Eastern Railways, killing 35 and injuring 17. 2007 – Three ETA gunmen kill one Spanish civil guard and mortally wound another (who dies four days later) in Capbreton, France. 2008 – A suicide car bomb targeting a military checkpoint in Swat Valley, Pakistan, detonates prematurely and kills seven civilians in two passing cars. One soldier is injured in the blast. 2008 – A suicide bomber targets a police vehicle in a crowded market in Musa Qala District, Afghanistan. The resulting blast leaves 10 civilians dead and left another 27, including two policemen, injured. 2008 – A bomb blast outside of a building used by the AK Party occurs in Istanbul, Turkey. Two of the injured are reported to be police. 2009 – Pakistani government official is assassinated in a suicide bomb attack at his residence in Swat, Pakistan, and 10 others are injured in the attack. 2013 – At least four die and 63 are injured following a Metro-North Railroad train derailment near Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York City.
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