Monday, January 16, 2012

16 January 1969 - Jan Palach Commits Suicide

1864 (x) 18-year-old Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, marries John Nichols in London, United Kingdom.
1907 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery in Brieg Penitentiary, Germany.
1930 (+) Multiple Murderer Clarence Ray Allen is born in Blair, Oklahoma, USA.
1933 (+) Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1935 (-) Gangster Kate “Ma” Barker originally Arizona Clark, is shot dead by FBI agents at the age of 61 in Ocala, Florida, USA.
Her son Fred was also shot dead.
1936 (-) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 65 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The first blow short-circuited because of a number of needles Fish had inserted in his scrotum during his lifetime. He was the oldest man ever to be executed in Sing Sing.
1943 (+) Artist Heinz Cibulka is born in Wien, Austria.
1944 (x) Over 500 Die in trainwreck in a tunnel in Leon, Spain.
1947 (+) Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah now known as Sara Jane Olson, is born in Barnesville, Minnesota, USA.
1948 (+) Filmmaker John Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York, USA.
1957 (-) Composer Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 89 in New York, New York, USA.
1960 (-) Murderer Homer Buckley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Reidsville Prison, Georgia, USA.
1961 (+) Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner is born in Utah, USA.
1965 (-) Anna Kalinka is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 16 in Warsaw, Praga, Poland.



1969 (-) Revolutionary student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 20 in Prague, Wenceslas Square, Czechoslowakia.
1969 (x) USSR spacecrafts Soyoez 4 and Soyoez 5 are linked in Space.
1970 (-) Jean Way is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 23 in Montreal, Canada.
1978 (-) Child-killer and would-be mass-murderer Ronald Frank Cooper is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in South Africa.
1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Das Berchtesgaden Diner" in Aalst, Fabrieksken, East Flanders, Belgium.
1985 (-) Multiple Murderer Doyle Skillern is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1988 (-) James Doxtator is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in West Allis, South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.
2002 (-) Murderer Jermarr Carlos Arnold is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2007 (-) Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf August Oetker dies of pneumonia at the age of 90 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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