Thursday, January 12, 2012

12 January 1976 - Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie Dies

1860 (-) Murderer Patrick Maude is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.
1876 (+) Writer Jack London is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1891 (+) Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond is born in London, United Kingdom.
1893 (+) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is born in Mariënbad-sanatorium, Rosenheim, Germany.
1918 (+) Spiritual Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is born in Raipur, India.
1926 (x) Start of the second trial against 24-year-old Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans in Hannover, Schwurgericht, Germany.
1928 (-) Murderess Ruth Brown Snyder aka The Granite Woman, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The final moments of her execution were caught on film with the aid of a miniature one time use camera strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer.
1928 (-) Murderer Judd Henry Gray aka Lover Boy, is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1942 (+) Weather Underground Leader Bernardine Rae Dohrn originally Ohmstein, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1944 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Inge Viett is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
1949 (-) Murderess Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, dies at the age of 42 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
She killed an elderly widow “in one of my funny moods”.
1950 (x) 64 Die in Truculent submarine collision with the Swedish tanker Davina in the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom.
1950 (+) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is born in Arkansas, USA.
1953 (-) Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.
1960 (-) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1960 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, stabbs his mother Viola to death in Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.
1961 (x) 37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife in New York, New York, USA.
1975 (-) Caryn Campbell is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA.


1976 (-) Writer Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie dies at the age of 85 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
1983 (-) Cult-leader Lindbergh Sanders is shot dead with 6 other members in a 30-hour gun-fight with the police at the age of 49 in Memphis, Shannon Street, Tennessee, USA.
The day before Sanders had taken police officer Robert S. Hester hostage. During the shootout Hester was beaten to death.
1986 (-) Marjem Jurblum is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 81 in Paris 11th, 7 rue Pelée, France.
1988 (x) Start of the trial against 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
2000 (-) Double murderer Earl Carl Jr. Heiselbetz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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