Friday, January 31, 2014

29th year - N° 31 Friday, 31 January 2014

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29th year - N° 31 Friday, 31 January 2014

31 January / Today's 6 Events:

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75 years ago
Tuesday 31st of January 1939

Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is born in Webster, South Dakota, United States.


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35 years ago
Wednesday 31st of January 1979

50-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is released from a psychiatric hospital after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Norfolk Regional Center, Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.

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18 years ago
Wednesday 31st of January 1996

91 die in Central Bank bomb explosion in Central Bank, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Another 1400 people are injured when a commando of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam crash a lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives through the main gate. The suicide bombers were Raju, Subramanium Vigneswaram aka Kittu and Sivasamy Dharmendra aka Raju.

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14 years ago
Monday 31st of January 2000

88 die in Alaska Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Flight 261 crash in Point Mugu, Anacapa Island, California, United States.

Due to the extreme impact forces, very few bodies were found intact. All occupants were identified using fingerprints, dental records, tattoos, personal items, and anthropological examination.


7 years ago The Eyes had it
Wednesday 31st of January 2007

The neon sign on top of the Central Railway Station in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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5 years ago
Saturday 31st of January 2009

113 die in overturned truck oil spill ignition in Molo, Nakuru, Kenya.

The incident occurred when onlookers attempted to obtain remnants of the spilled fuel for personal use.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

29th year - N° 30 Thursday, 30 January 2014

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29th year - N° 30 Thursday, 30 January 2014

30 January / Today's 6 Events:

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167 years ago
Saturday 30th of January 1847

Virginia Eliza Clem dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25 in Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, New York, New York, United States.


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69 years ago
Tuesday 30th of January 1945

Triple murderer James Emery Paster aka Skip is born in Hamilton, Ohio, United States.


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43 years ago
Saturday 30th of January 1971

Donald Wayne Waldrop is raped, tortured and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in .

Donald was lured with his brother Jerry on their way to visit a bowling alley by David Brooks into Corll's apartment.

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43 years ago
Saturday 30th of January 1971

Jerry Lynn Waldrop is raped, tortured and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 3200 Mangum Road, Houston, Texas, United States.

Jerry was lured with his brother Donald on their way to visit a bowling alley by David Brooks into Corll's apartment.

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40 years ago
Wednesday 30th of January 1974

97 die in Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-321B Flight 806 crash in Tafuna Airport, Pago Pago, American Samoa, United States.

There were four survivors.


15 years ago The Eyes had it
Saturday 30th of January 1999

My daily ferry ride across the river coming from Taling Chan to my studio in Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

29th year - N° 29 Wednesday, 29 January 2014

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29th year - N° 29 Wednesday, 29 January 2014

29 January / Today's 34 Events:

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251 years ago
Saturday 29th of January 1763

Poet Louis Racine dies of unknown causes at the age of 71 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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171 years ago
Sunday 29th of January 1843

25th President of the United States William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, United States.


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169 years ago
Wednesday 29th of January 1845

The Evening Mirror first publishes 'The Raven' by 36-year-old Writer Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

He was paid $9 for its publication.


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154 years ago
Sunday 29th of January 1860

Writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is born in Kupecheskaya Street, Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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134 years ago
Thursday 29th of January 1880

Comedian, actor and juggler W. C. Fields, originally William Claude Dukenfield is born in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States.

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110 years ago
Friday 29th of January 1904

Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Egbert was the first man to be hanged at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

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109 years ago
Sunday 29th of January 1905

Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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109 years ago
Sunday 29th of January 1905

Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is born in Oxford, Indiana, United States.

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108 years ago
Monday 29th of January 1906

32-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or is brought to trial for the strangling of two children, but found not guilty in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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90 years ago
Tuesday 29th of January 1924

Composer Luigi Nono is born in Zattere al Ponte Lungo, Dorsoduro, Venezia, Veneto, .

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84 years ago
Wednesday 29th of January 1930

33-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Francs for attempted fraud in Tribunal de Première Instance, 1 Rue du Palais de Justice, Sens, Yonne, France.

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75 years ago
Sunday 29th of January 1939

Germaine Greer known for The Female Eunuch is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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74 years ago
Monday 29th of January 1940

190 die in train derailment in Ajikawaguchi station, Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

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73 years ago
Wednesday 29th of January 1941

General and dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 70 in Ithakē, Ionian Islands, Greece.

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72 years ago
Thursday 29th of January 1942

Singer, actress and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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69 years ago
Monday 29th of January 1945

Actor Tom Thomas William Selleck known from Magnum P. I. is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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60 years ago
Friday 29th of January 1954

Talk show host Oprah Gail Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.

Winfrey was born to an unmarried teenage mother who said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter.

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56 years ago
Wednesday 29th of January 1958

Merle Collison is shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in Douglas, Wyoming, United States.

Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is."

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56 years ago
Wednesday 29th of January 1958

Edith Middleton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Pimlico, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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55 years ago
Thursday 29th of January 1959

Patricia Vinico Berkman, originally Patricia Vinnicombe aka Pnina is stabbed to death by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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43 years ago
Friday 29th of January 1971

A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 20-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Raghenotunnel, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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41 years ago
Monday 29th of January 1973

35-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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40 years ago
Tuesday 29th of January 1974

Unidentified serial killer Zodiac sends an 'Exorcist'-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, United States.

It was the Zodiac's last authenticated piece of correspondence.

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35 years ago
Monday 29th of January 1979

17-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer known for Not Liking Mondays opens fire on a school across he street in Grover Cleveland Elementary School, 6365 Lake Atlin Avenue, San Carlos, San Diego, California, United States.

She killed principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar and wounded 9 children. After firing thirty rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for several hours before surrendering. During the siege she had a telephone conversation with a journalist who reported that she had said "I don't like Mondays".

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34 years ago
Tuesday 29th of January 1980

Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Great Schnozzola dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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29 years ago
Tuesday 29th of January 1985

Kidnapper Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 46 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Engelbrecht and his 29-year-old wife Helma were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment the day before for torturing and sexually abusing 16-year-old Silvia Hantke in their basement from 10 February 1982 until 23 May 1983.

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26 years ago
Friday 29th of January 1988

25-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 40 years in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Erskine has since been found suffering chronic schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder and now held at the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital.

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13 years ago
Monday 29th of January 2001

Murderer Alexander Caruthers aka Gus is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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12 years ago
Tuesday 29th of January 2002

Multiple murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Anderson's last meal before the execution was two grilled cheese sandwiches, one pint of cottage cheese, a hominy/corn mixture, one slice of peach pie, one pint of chocolate chip ice cream, and radishes.

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11 years ago
Wednesday 29th of January 2003

Double murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Dinkins was sentenced to death for the murders of 46-year-old Katherine Thompson and 32-year-old Shelly Cutler in Thompson's Massage Therapy Clinic in Beaumont, Texas on 12 September 1990. His last meal was for liver and onions, two double meat hamburgers with bacon and mayonnaise, two orders of French fries, vanilla ice cream, two Dr. Peppers, salad with ranch dressing, and M&M's.


10 years ago The Eyes had it
Thursday 29th of January 2004

A late night dinner of green curry chicken at Kansama Restaurant on Serangoon Road in Singapore, Singapore.

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9 years ago
Saturday 29th of January 2005

Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths known from The Quarrymen dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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9 years ago
Saturday 29th of January 2005

Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Ford was the only women on Nevada's Death Row, sentenced to death for killing six people, and injuring 23 more, driving down a Reno sidewalk on Thanksgiving Day in 1980.

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8 years ago
Sunday 29th of January 2006

Video artist Nam June Paik dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 74 in Miami, Florida, United States.

In 1996 Paik had a stroke which paralyzed his left side.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

29th year - N° 28 Tuesday, 28 January 2014

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29th year - N° 28 Tuesday, 28 January 2014

28 January / Today's 8 Events:

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467 years ago He Asked for Monks
Wednesday 28th of January 1547

King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor dies of diabetes at the age of 56 in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

His last words were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"


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159 years ago
Sunday 28th of January 1855

Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs is born in Rochester, New York, United States.

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127 years ago
Friday 28th of January 1887

26-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor marries Myrta Z. Belknap while he was still married to Clara Lovering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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90 years ago
Monday 28th of January 1924

Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Rue Hôtel des Monnaies, Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

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40 years ago
Monday 28th of January 1974

32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by Murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in San Francisco, California, United States.

23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down.

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38 years ago
Wednesday 28th of January 1976

Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers dies of a liver disease at the age of 52 in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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9 years ago
Friday 28th of January 2005

Actress Karen Lancaume, originally Karine Bach known from Baise-moi commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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4 years ago
Thursday 28th of January 2010

Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide hanging in his cell at the age of 61 in Gevangenis, Zwarte-Brugstraat 4, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.

He spent 30 years in prison for the sadist murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.