Thursday, January 5, 2012

5 January 1998 - Sonny Bono Dies

1854 (x) 300 Die in San Francisco steamer shipwreck in the USA.
1876 (+) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1895 (x) 35-year-old French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in Paris, France.
He was sent to Devil's Island off French Guiana.
1910 (-) Murderer Jose Lopez is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1914 (+) Artist Nicolas de Staël is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1914 (+) Actor George Bessolo Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, is born in Woolstock, Iowa, USA.
1924 (-) An unidentified boy is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.
1932 (+) First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, is born in Siberia, USSR.
1933 (+) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte is born in Sosoye, Belgium.
1933 (-) 30th president of the USA Calvin John Coolidge dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
1942 (+) Murderer Henry John Burnett is born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1945 (-) Murderer John Earnest Ransom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1945 (-) Murderer Robert E. Lee Folkes is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in Oregon, USA.
1946 (+) Actress Diane Keaton is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.
1952 (-) Murderer James Lanmore is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1979 (-) Musician Charles Mingus dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 56 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
1982 (-) Tammy Williams is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 17 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, USA.
1990 (x) Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren and 7 of his followers are arrested on suspicion of ritual murder in Missouri, USA.
1993 (-) Child-rapist and murderer Westley Allan Dodd is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.


1998 (-) Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher, dies from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing at the age of 62 in South Lake Tahoe, California, USA.
2005 (-) Manager of ‘The Doors’ Daniel Danny Sugarman dies of lung cancer at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
2007 (-) Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Ando dies of heart failure at the age of 96 in Osaka, Japan.

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