33rd year - N° 19 Friday, 19 January 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 19 Friday, 19 January 2018

19 January / Today's 25 Events:

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(+) 209 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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(+) 179 years ago Saturday 19th of January 1839 Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France.

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(-) 152 years ago Friday 19th of January 1866 Serial killer Martha Grinder aka The Pittsburgh Poisoner is executed by hanging at the age of 51 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. "I loved to see death in all its forms and phases and left no opportunity to gratify my tastes for such sights."

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(-) 148 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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(+) 139 years ago Sunday 19th of January 1879 Writer and revolutionary Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 102 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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(+) 97 years ago Wednesday 19th of January 1921 Writer Patricia Mary Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Highsmith's parents divorced ten days before their daughter's birth.

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(+) 96 years ago Thursday 19th of January 1922 Film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwoździec, Stanisławów Voivodeship, Poland.

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(+) 88 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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(+) 75 years ago Tuesday 19th of January 1943 Singer-songwriter Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Saturday 19th of January 1946 Singer-songwriter, actress and philanthropist Dolly Rebecca Parton is born in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 71 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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(-) 65 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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(+) 64 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) 56 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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(-) 49 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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(+) 45 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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(-) 37 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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(-) 36 years ago Tuesday 19th of January 1982 Mass murderer Alvin Lee King III aka The Daingerfield Church Shooter commits suicide by hanging at the age of 47 in Morris County Correctional Facility, 43 John Street, Morristown, New Jersey, United States. King used strips torn from his towel to fabricate the hanging rope.

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(x) 35 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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(-) 20 years ago Monday 19th of January 1998 Singer-songwriter Carl Lee Perkins known for Blue Suede Shoes dies of throat cancer at the age of 66 in Jackson-Madison County Hospital, 620 Skyline Drive, Jackson, Tennessee, United States. Perkins suffered three strokes in less than 2 months before his death.

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13 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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(-) 12 years ago Thursday 19th of January 2006 Singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett aka The Wicked Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Reston, Virginia, United States.

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(-) 11 years ago Papa Left the Building Friday 19th of January 2007 Singer-songwriter and musician Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty known from The Mamas & the Papas dies of kidney failure at the age of 67 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 9 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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