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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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.

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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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(x) 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.

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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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(x) 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.

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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.

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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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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.

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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.

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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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(x) 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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(x) 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.

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