29 January / Today's 41 Events:
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263 years ago Saturday 29th of January 1763
Poet Louis Racine dies of unknown causes at the age of 71 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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183 years ago Sunday 29th of January 1843
25th President of the United States William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, United States.
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181 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 1845
The Evening Mirror first publishes 'The Raven' by 36-year-old Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
He was paid $9 for its publication. |
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166 years ago Sunday 29th of January 1860
Writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is born in Kupecheskaya Street, Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
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146 years ago Thursday 29th of January 1880
Comedian, actor and juggler W. C. Fields, originally William Claude Dukenfield is born in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States.
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134 years ago Friday 29th of January 1892
Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is born in Csantavér, Vojvodina, Serbia.
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122 years ago Friday 29th of January 1904
Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.
Egbert was the first man to be hanged at the Oregon State Penitentiary. |
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121 years ago Sunday 29th of January 1905
Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York City, New York, United States.
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121 years ago Sunday 29th of January 1905
Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is born in Oxford, Indiana, United States.
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120 years ago Monday 29th of January 1906
32-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or is brought to trial for the strangling of two children, but found not guilty in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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102 years ago Tuesday 29th of January 1924
Composer Luigi Nono is born in Zattere al Ponte Lungo, Dorsoduro, Venezia, Veneto, Italy.
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96 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 1930
33-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Francs for attempted fraud in Tribunal de Première Instance, 1 Rue du Palais de Justice, Sens, Yonne, France.
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87 years ago Sunday 29th of January 1939
Feminist theorist and writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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86 years ago Monday 29th of January 1940
190 die in train derailment in Ajikawaguchi station, Osaka, Kinki, Japan.
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85 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 1941
General and dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 70 in Ithakē, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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84 years ago Thursday 29th of January 1942
Singer, actress and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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81 years ago Monday 29th of January 1945
Actor Tom Thomas William Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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74 years ago Tuesday 29th of January 1952
Musician Tommy Ramone, originally Erdélyi Tamás is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.
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72 years ago Friday 29th of January 1954
Talk show host Oprah Gail Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.
Winfrey was born to an unmarried teenage mother who said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter. |
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68 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 1958
Merle Collison is shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in Douglas, Wyoming, United States.
Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is." |
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68 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 1958
Edith Middleton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Pimlico, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
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67 years ago Thursday 29th of January 1959
Patricia Vinico Berkman, originally Patricia Vinnicombe aka Pnina is stabbed to death by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
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55 years ago Friday 29th of January 1971
A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 20-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizenin Raghenotunnel, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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53 years ago Monday 29th of January 1973
35-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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52 years ago Tuesday 29th of January 1974
Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, United States.
It was the Zodiac's last authenticated piece of correspondence. |
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51 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 1975
George Frias is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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49 years ago Saturday 29th of January 1977
35-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is moved to Durham Jail in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
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47 years ago She Didn't Like MondaysMonday 29th of January 1979
17-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school across he street in Grover Cleveland Elementary School, 6365 Lake Atlin Avenue, San Carlos, San Diego, California, United States.
Spencer killed 53-year-old principal Burton Wragg and 56-year-old custodian Mike Suchar and wounded 9 children. After firing thirty rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for several hours before surrendering. During the siege she had a telephone conversation with a journalist who reported that she had said "I don't like Mondays". |
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46 years ago Tuesday 29th of January 1980
Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Great Schnozzola dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, United States.
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41 years ago Tuesday 29th of January 1985
Kidnapper Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 46 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Engelbrecht and his 29-year-old wife Helma were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment the day before for torturing and sexually abusing 16-year-old Silvia Hantke in their basement from 10 February 1982 until 23 May 1983. |
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39 years ago Thursday 29th of January 1987
32-year-old Serial killer Philippe Pacque aka L'Épervier d'Amiensis sentenced to life imprisonment for one murder and several attacks in La Cour d'Assises de la Somme, 14 Rue Robert de Luzarches, Amiens, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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38 years ago Friday 29th of January 1988
25-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 40 years in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Erskine has since been found suffering chronic schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder and now held at the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital. |
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25 years ago Monday 29th of January 2001
Murderer Alexander Caruthers aka Gus is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
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24 years ago Tuesday 29th of January 2002
Multiple murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.
Anderson's last meal request was for two grilled cheese sandwiches, one pint of cottage cheese, a hominy/corn mixture, one slice of peach pie, one pint of chocolate chip ice cream, and radishes. |
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23 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 2003
Double murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Dinkins was sentenced to death for the murders of 46-year-old Katherine Thompson and 32-year-old Shelly Cutler in Thompson's Massage Therapy Clinic in Beaumont, Texas on 12 September 1990. His last meal request was for liver and onions, two double meat hamburgers with bacon and mayonnaise, two orders of French fries, vanilla ice cream, two Dr. Peppers, salad with ranch dressing and M&M's. |
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23 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 2003
Theoretical chemist Ilya Romanovich Prigogine dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.
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22 years ago Thursday 29th of January 2004
A late night dinner of green curry chicken at Kansama Restaurant on Serangoon Road in Singapore, Singapore.
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21 years ago Saturday 29th of January 2005
Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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21 years ago Saturday 29th of January 2005
Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Ford was the only women on Nevada's Death Row, sentenced to death for killing six people, and injuring 23 more, driving down a Reno sidewalk on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. |
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20 years ago Sunday 29th of January 2006
Video artist Nam June Paik dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 74 in Miami, Florida, United States.
In 1996 Paik had a stroke which paralyzed his left side. |
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6 years ago Wednesday 29th of January 2020
Double murderer Donnie Cleveland Lance is executed by lethal injection at the age of 67 in Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Highway 36, Jackson, Georgia, United States.
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