32nd year - N° 19 Thursday, 19 January 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 19 Thursday, 19 January 2017

19 January / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 208 years ago Thursday 19th of January 1809 Writer Edgar Allan Poe is born in 62 Carver Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 178 years ago Saturday 19th of January 1839 Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France.

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(-) 147 years ago Wednesday 19th of January 1870 Mass murderer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Prisons de la Roquette, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 101 years ago Wednesday 19th of January 1916 Artist, writer and sound poet Brion John Clifford Gysin aka The Father of Cut-up is born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 19th of January 1930 Actress and animal rights activist Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. For much of her career Hedren's year of birth was listed as 1935, although in 2004 she acknowledged that she was actually born in 1930.

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(x) 70 years ago Sunday 19th of January 1947 392 die in Himera ocean liner explosion in Athens, Attica, Greece. The ship struck a forgotten WWII mine.

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(-) 64 years ago Monday 19th of January 1953 Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 63 years ago Tuesday 19th of January 1954 Photographer Cindy Cynthia Morris Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Friday 19th of January 1962 21-year-old Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell marries 15-year-old Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, United States. In January 1966 Malone filed for divorce.

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(-) 48 years ago Sunday 19th of January 1969 Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 dies due to injuries after his self-immolation protest three days earlier at the age of 21 in Charles University Faculty Hospital, Studničkova 2028/7, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 44 years ago Friday 19th of January 1973 Actress Karen Lancaume, originally Karine Bach known from Baise-moi is born in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 36 years ago Monday 19th of January 1981 Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a loft window at the age of 23 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 34 years ago Wednesday 19th of January 1983 70-year-old SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Nikolaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon is arrested and extradited to France to stand trial in La Paz, Pedro Domingo Murillo, Bolivia.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 19th of January 2005 Snow on a high bridge railing in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(-) 8 years ago Monday 19th of January 2009 Art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann dies of cancer at the age of 72 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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