(-) Poet Louis Racine dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
170 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1843
(+) 25th president of the USA William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, USA.
168 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1845
(x) 36-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe 's poem "The Raven" is first published in the Evening Mirror in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was paid $9 for its publication.
153 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1860
(+) Writer Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia.
133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 January 1880
(+) Filmmaker W.C. Fields is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1904
(-) Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1905
(+) Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York, New York, USA.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1905
(+) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is born in Oxford, Indiana, USA.
107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1906
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is brought to trial for the strangling of 2 children, but found not guilty in Paris, France.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1924
(+) Composer Luigi Nono is born in Venice, Italy.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1930
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Fr for attempted fraud in Sens, Tribunal de Première Instance, France.
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1939
(+) Feminist writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1940
(x) Over 200 Die in train collision in Osaka, Japan.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1941
(-) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 69 in Athens, Greece.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 January 1942
(+) Musician and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, France.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1945
(+) Actor Tom Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1954
(+) TV-host Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1958
(-) Edith Middleton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.
55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1958
(-) Merle Collison is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 37 in Douglas, Wyoming, USA.
Minutes later Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Fugate are arrested.
54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 January 1959
(-) Patricia Vinico Berkman is stabbed to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 33 in Perth, Australia.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1971
(x) A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 19-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1973
(x) 34-year-old Michelangelo’s "Piëta"-attacker Laszlo Toth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Italy.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1974
(x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1979
(x) 16-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school because she didn't like mondays in San Diego, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
She killed the principal and the janitor and wounded 9 children.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1980
(-) Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Schnozzola, dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1985
(-) Millionaire Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 46 in Germany.
He imprisoned and sexually tortured his maid for a period of 466 days.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1988
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is sentenced to 40 years in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 2001
(-) Murderer Alexander Caruthers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 2002
(-) Murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 2003
(-) Murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 January 2005
(-) Musician and founder of The Beatles, Eric Ronald Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
8 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 January 2005
(-) Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies at the age of 75 in Reno, Nevada, USA .
She was the only women on Nevada's Death Row.
7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 2006
(-) Video Artist Nam June Paik dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Miami, Florida, USA.
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