31st year - N° 28 Thursday, 28 January 2016

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31st year - N° 28 Thursday, 28 January 2016

28 January / Today's 18 Events:

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(-) 469 years ago He Asked for Monks Tuesday 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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(-) 395 years ago Thursday 28th of January 1621 233rd Pope Paulus V, originally Camillo Borghese dies of a stroke at the age of 99 in Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 161 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) 129 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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(+) 126 years ago Tuesday 28th of January 1890 Double murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz is born in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 28th of January 1914 Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Monday 28th of January 1924 Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Rue Hôtel des Monnaies, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 87 years ago Monday 28th of January 1929 Pop artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 28th of January 1936 Actor Alan Alda, originally Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo aka Hawkeye Pierce is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 80 years ago Tuesday 28th of January 1936 Kidnapper and murderer Richard Albert Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie James E. Day at the age of 31 in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, United States. Rumors suggested that Day had desired sexual favors from Loeb who refused him. Loeb's last words to his partner in crime Nathan Leopold were "I think I'm going to make it."

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(+) 71 years ago Sunday 28th of January 1945 Musician Robert Ellidge Wyatt known from The Soft Machine is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.

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(+) 60 years ago Saturday 28th of January 1956 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman James Eugene Glass is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 42 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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(-) 40 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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(x) 38 years ago Saturday 28th of January 1978 28-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento is arrested in Watt Avenue Complex Apartment #15, Sacramento, California, United States. A search of Chase's apartment revealed assorted human and animal organs in his refrigerator.

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(-) 11 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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11 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 28th of January 2005 Taking his theme from the triumph and tragedy in the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, Ferdinand Hodler created two gigantic dioramas in 1865 and 1894 measuring 7,25 x 4,35m each for the World's Fair in Antwerp. They are a symbolic representation of human fate in general. A figure detail from the diorama 'Plunge' by Ferdinand Hodler in the Alpines Museum in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(-) 6 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. Carlier spent 30 years in prison for the sadist murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.

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