Friday, January 1, 2010

1 January 2007 - Berlin, Germany


A tree stump in the Grunewald, Berlin, Germany.
1431 (+) 214th Pope Alexander VI originally Rodrigo Borgia, is born in Valencia, Spain.
1504 (+) Theologian and church reformer Caspar Cruciger is born in Leipzig, Germany.
1521 (x) 37-year-old Reformer Martin Luther is banned from the church in a papal bull in Rome, Italy.
1655 (-) 236th Pope Innocentus X originally Giambattista Pamfili, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.
1735 (+) Patriot, silversmith and activist Paul Revere is born in Boston, North End, Massachusetts, USA.
1881 (+) King Vajiravudh of Siam Rama VI originally Phra Mongkutklao, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.
1895 (+) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1912 (x) Revolutionary president Sun Zhong-Shan calls out the Republic of China in China.
1919 (+) Writer Jerome David Salinger is born in New York, New York, USA.
1919 (+) Actress Carole Landis originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, is born in Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA.
1931 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, attempts to derail the Vienna-Passau Express D-train in Ansbach, Austria.
1940 (+) Serial Killer Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, is born in Richmond, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1946 (x) Eniac , the first American computer is finished by scientists John William Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1952 (+) RAF member Knut Folkerts is born in Singen, Germany.
1953 (-) Musician Hank Williams dies of a drug over-dose at the age of 29 in Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA.
The only items found in the backseat of Hank's car were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song, "Then Came that Fateful Day."
1958 (-) Peter Smart is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape, at the age of 45 in Uddingston, Scotland, United Kingdom.
His wife Doris and their 10-year-old son Michael were also shot dead.
1971 (x) 90 Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin-18 crash in Moscow, USSR.
1971 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is treated for rectal bleeding in the Oregon State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
1972 (-) Actor and musician Maurice Chevalier dies of a heart-attack at the age of 83 in Paris, France.
1978 (x) 213 Die in Air India Jumbo crash in Bombay, India.
1981 (x) Club Moral is founded by artists AMVK and DDV in Antwerp, Belgium.
1987 (-) Deborah Dudley is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1995 (-) Serial Killer Frederick West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 53 in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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