30th year - N° 1 Thursday, 1 January 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 1 Thursday, 1 January 2015

1 January / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 584 years ago Saturday 1st of January 1431 214th Pope Alexander VI, originally Roderic Llançol i de Borja is born in Xàtiva, Valencia, Spain.

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(+) 511 years ago Friday 1st of January 1504 Theologian and church reformer Caspar Creuziger aka Cruciger the Elder is born in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 135 years ago Thursday 1st of January 1880 King of Siam Rama VI, originally Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua aka Vajiravudh is born in Grand Palace, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(+) 96 years ago Wednesday 1st of January 1919 Writer J. D. Jerome David Salinger known for The Catcher in the Rye is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 96 years ago Wednesday 1st of January 1919 Actress Carole Landis, originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste aka The Actress Who Could Have Been but never Was is born in Fairchild, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Saturday 1st of January 1927 Dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart, originally Maurice-Jean Berger is born in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(x) 84 years ago Thursday 1st of January 1931 39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker attempts to derail the Vienna-Passau Express D-train in Ansbach, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 75 years ago Monday 1st of January 1940 Serial killer Clifford Robert Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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(-) 62 years ago Came that Fateful Day Thursday 1st of January 1953 Singer-songwriter Hank Hiram King Williams aka Luke the Drifter aka The Hillbilly Shakespeare aka The Singing Kid dies of a drug overdose at the age of 30 in Pure Oil Gas Station, 611 Main Street, Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States. Williams hired college student Charles Carr to drive him to a concert on New Year's Day at the Windsor Theater in Canton, Ohio when Williams was discovered unresponsive in the back seat. The only items found in the backseat of Williams' 1952 Cadillac were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song 'Then Came that Fateful Day'. The cause of death was heart failure caused by the c ombination of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 1st of January 1971 32-year-old Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is treated for rectal bleeding in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Saturday 1st of January 1972 Actor, singer and entertainer Maurice Auguste Chevalier dies of a heart attack at the age of 16 in Hôpital Necker, Rue de Sèvres, XVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 1st of January 2000 The first sunrise of the New Millenium as seen from my quarters in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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