30th year - N° 12 Monday, 12 January 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 12 Monday, 12 January 2015

12 January / Today's 9 Events:

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(+) 122 years ago Thursday 12th of January 1893 Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring is born in Marienbad Sanatorium, Hausstätterstraße 22, Rosenheim, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 87 years ago Thursday 12th of January 1928 Murderess Ruth Brown Snyder aka The Granite Women is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. Snyder's execution by 'State Electrician' Robert G. Elliott was caught on film by a photograph of her as the electricity was running through her body with the aid of a miniature plate camera custom-strapped to the ankle of Chicago Tribune photographer Tom Howard.

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(+) 73 years ago Monday 12th of January 1942 Leader of the Weather Underground Bernardine Rae Dohrn, originally Ohrnstein is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Tuesday 12th of January 1960 24-year-old Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death stabbs his mother Viola to death in Tecumseh, Michigan, United States. "All I remember was slapping her alongside the neck, but after I did that I saw her fall and decided to grab her. But she fell to the floor and when I went back to pick her up, I realized she was dead. Then I noticed that I had my knife in my hand and she had been cut."

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(x) 54 years ago Thursday 12th of January 1961 38-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 34 years ago Monday 12th of January 1981 36-year-old Serial killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company calls in sick at work to dissect two bodies of recent murder victims in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The victims remain unidentified as 'Starving Hippie' and 'Blue Eyed Scot'.

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(-) 29 years ago Sunday 12th of January 1986 Marjem Jurblum is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 7 Rue Pelée, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 27 years ago Tuesday 12th of January 1988 Start of the trial against 25-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 12th of January 2000 My favourite foodstall is hauled away for major streetcleaning at the busstop in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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