30th year - N° 14 Wednesday, 14 January 2015

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30th year - N° 14 Wednesday, 14 January 2015

14 January / Today's 18 Events:

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(-) 273 years ago Sunday 14th of January 1742 Astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician and meteorologist Edmond Halley known for Halley’s Comet dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Greenwich, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 140 years ago Thursday 14th of January 1875 Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kaysersberg, Elsass, Germany.

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(-) 117 years ago He Went to Wonderland Friday 14th of January 1898 Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll, originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in The Chestnuts, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(x) 107 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1908 55-year-old Tennis player and murderer Vere St. Leger Thomas Goold is sentenced to death for the murder of Emma Levin on 4 August 1907 in Monaco-Ville, Monaco.

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(+) 106 years ago Thursday 14th of January 1909 Film director Joseph Walton Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 95 years ago His Dodge Veg-O-Matic Stalled Wednesday 14th of January 1920 Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 56 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Wednesday 14th of January 1925 Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima, originally Kimitake Hiraoka is born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 82 years ago Saturday 14th of January 1933 Experimental filmmaker Stan Stanley James Brakhage, originally Robert Sanders is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Brakhage was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth.

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(+) 74 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1941 Singer-songwriter Neil Leslie Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 71 years ago Friday 14th of January 1944 Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 64 years ago Sunday 14th of January 1951 National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 23-year-old Spree killer Billy William Edward Cook aka Billy Boy Cockeyed Cook in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

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(+) 63 years ago Monday 14th of January 1952 Possible victim of Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness Nancy Perry Baird is born in East Layton, Utah, United States.

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(-) 58 years ago Monday 14th of January 1957 Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 58 in 232 Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills, California, United States. At the time of his death Bogart only weighed 36kgs.

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(-) 46 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1969 Michèle Louvet is shot by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France. Louvet survived.

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(-) 38 years ago Friday 14th of January 1977 Writer Anaïs Nin, originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell known for Delta of Venus dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 30 years ago Monday 14th of January 1985 428 die in express train derailment in Awash, Afar, Ethiopia. The engineer failed to reduce speed at the curving bridge, plunging the train's carriages into a ravine.

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16 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 14th of January 1999 Some furry animal in the Zoo in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(-) 8 years ago Sunday 14th of January 2007 Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra dies of stomach cancer at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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