31st year - N° 5 Tuesday, 5 January 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 5 Tuesday, 5 January 2016

5 January / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 102 years ago Monday 5th of January 1914 Artist Nicolas de Staël, originally Nicolaï Vladimirovitch Staël von Holstein is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 102 years ago Monday 5th of January 1914 Actor George Reeves, originally George Keefer Brewer known from Adventures of Superman is born in Woolstock, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Thursday 5th of January 1933 Serial killer Nestor Pirotte aka Le Tueur Fou is born in Sosoye, Namur, Belgium.

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(x) 61 years ago Wednesday 5th of January 1955 24-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is arrested for molesting a 9-year-old girl in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 37 years ago Friday 5th of January 1979 Revolutionary thief Mario Roymans aka Tijl van Limburg dies of internal bleeding at the age of 29 in Nerem, Limburg, Belgium. Roymans was found more dead than alive in his car on 26 December 1978 on an abandoned road near Liège.

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(-) 23 years ago His Execution Would not be Televised Tuesday 5th of January 1993 Child molester and serial killer Westley Allan Dodd aka The Vancouver Child Killer is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington, United States. Dodd's execution was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965. He also requested that his hanging be televised but that request was denied. Dodd ate salmon and potatoes for his last meal.

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(-) 18 years ago Monday 5th of January 1998 Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher dies from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing at the age of 63 in Heavenly Mountain Resort, South Lake Tahoe, California, United States.

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(-) 9 years ago Friday 5th of January 2007 Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō, originally Wu Pai-fu dies of heart failure at the age of 97 in Ikeda, Osaka, Kinki, Japan. Andō claimed that the secret of his long life was playing golf and eating Chikin Ramen almost every day. He was said to have eaten instant ramen until the day before he died.

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