Wednesday, January 9, 2013

100 Years Ago Never a Quitter was Born

689 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 January 1324
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Explorer Marco Polo dies at the age of 69 in Venice, Italy.

459 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 January 1554
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234th Pope Gregorius XV originally Alessandro Ludovisi, is born in Bologna, Italy.

225 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 January 1788
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Connecticut becomes the fifth of the United States in Connecticut, USA.

177 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 January 1836
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Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 35 in Paris, France.

123 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1890
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Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, is born in Berlin, Germany.

113 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 January 1900
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Child Murderess Louise Josephine Masset is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
She was convicted of murdering her young son Manfred in the ladies' lavatories at Dalston Junction station in 1899.

105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1908
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Feminist writer and philosopher Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand De Beauvoir is born in Paris, France.

100 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1913
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37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California, USA.
He was the only president to resign without completing an elected term.

90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 January 1923
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Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson originally Graydon, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson.

90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 January 1923
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Murderer Frederick Baywaters is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.
On 3 October 1922 he stabbed his lover Edith Thompson's husband Percy to death.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 January 1925
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Actor Lee Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef is born in Somerville, New Jersey, USA.

88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 January 1925
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Wife murderer Sam Flowers is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He killed his wife on 20 february 1923.

72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1941
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Songwriter, musician and activist Joan Chandos Baez is born in Staten Island, New York, USA.

67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 January 1946
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Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel is born in Germany.

63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 January 1950
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Musician Ralph Christian Möbius aka Rio Reiser, is born in Berlin, Germany.

60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 January 1953
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Murderer Morris Leland is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in Oregon, USA.
In the summer of 1949 he abducted 15-year-old high school student Thelma Taylor and held her captive under St. John's Bridge in Portland.

60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 January 1953
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Murderer Frank Oliver Payne is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in Oregon, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1958
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Hitman Elmer Burke aka ‘Trigger’, is executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1958
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Attacker of Pope John Paul II Mehmet Ali Agca is born in Hekimhan, Turkey.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1969
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 7 1/2-year-old girl in her bed in La Rocque, Jersey.

42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 January 1971
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24-year-old Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier slashes open his arm and writes “Freedom From Pigs” on the wall of his cell in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 January 1972
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The ocean-liner Queen Elisabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong.

34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 January 1979
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Engineer and inventor of concrete ceilings Piero Luigi Nervi dies at the age of 87 in Rome, Italy.

29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 January 1984
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Natalja Schalopina is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.

27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 January 1986
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Yvonne Couronne is tortured and strangled by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 14th, 8b rue Sarette, France.

20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 January 1993
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42-year-old Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is arrested after a routine traffic stop in California, USA.
He is suspected of 22 murders, mostly prostitutes.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 January 1998
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33-year-old Serial Killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, is sentenced to death in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 January 2001
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Murderer Jack Wade Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 January 2004
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Murderer Raymond Dale Rowsey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
His final meal was a pizza, chicken wings, two packages of peanut M&M candy and a Pepsi.

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