30th year - N° 8 Thursday, 8 January 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 8 Thursday, 8 January 2015

8 January / Today's 11 Events:

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(-) 119 years ago Wednesday 8th of January 1896 Poet Paul Marie Verlaine dies of a kidney and stomach disease at the age of 52 in 39 Rue Descartes, Ve, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 111 years ago Friday 8th of January 1904 SS-Gruppenführer and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program Karl Brandt is born in Mülhausen, Elsass, Germany.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 8th of January 1937 Singer Shirley Veronica Bassey is born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 68 years ago Wednesday 8th of January 1947 Musician and actor David Bowie, originally David Robert Jones is born in 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 68 years ago Wednesday 8th of January 1947 Serial killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer is born in Willimantic, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Thursday 8th of January 1948 Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters dies of acute pulmonary edema and myocarditis at the age of 61 in Westmorland General Hospital, Burton Road, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

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(-) 41 years ago Tuesday 8th of January 1974 Josette Routier is shot dead and violated by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in 19 Rue du Docteur Roux, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France.

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(-) 40 years ago Wednesday 8th of January 1975 Maria Fasching is stabbed to death by serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker in 124 Glenwood Avenue, Leonia, New Jersey, United States. Kallinger had entered the house with his son Mike and tied up 26-year-old Edwina Dee Dee Wiseman, her 4-year-old son Robert, her 90-year-old grandmother Blanche Smith, 21-year-old Randi Romaine, her mother Mrs DeWitt Romaine, her twin sister Retta and Retta's boyfriend Jeffrey Welby to ransack the house and assault the women. Fasching passed by later and refused to cooperate so Kallinger stabbed h er in the back and breast.

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(+) 32 years ago Saturday 8th of January 1983 Supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Jong-un Kim is born in Pyongyang, P'yŏngan, North Korea.

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(x) 19 years ago Monday 8th of January 1996 237 die in Air Africa Antonov An-32B crash in Simbazikita Street Market, Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo. All fatalities were on the ground while the six crew members survived.

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16 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 8th of January 1999 A water pump on a bridge near my quarters in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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