33rd year - N° 24 Wednesday, 24 January 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 24 Wednesday, 24 January 2018

24 January / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 313 years ago Saturday 24th of January 1705 Castrato singer Farinelli, originally Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi is born in Andria, Apulia, Italy.

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(-) 98 years ago Saturday 24th of January 1920 Artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 36 in Hôpital de la Charité, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. When Modigliani died his twenty-one-year-old fiencée Jeanne Hébuterne was eight months pregnant with their second child. A day later Hébuterne was taken to her parents' home. There, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and their unborn child.

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(+) 78 years ago Wednesday 24th of January 1940 Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Sunday 24th of January 1943 Actress Sharon Marie Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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(-) 70 years ago Saturday 24th of January 1948 Lagerkommandant in KZ Auschwitz and Majdanek Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Więzienie Montelupich, ul. Montelupich, Kraków, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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(-) 70 years ago Saturday 24th of January 1948 SS-Helferin and prison guard Maria Mandl aka The Beast is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Więzienie Montelupich, ul. Montelupich, Kraków, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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(+) 69 years ago Monday 24th of January 1949 Comedian and actor John Adam Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Sunday 24th of January 1965 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 91 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 52 years ago Monday 24th of January 1966 117 die in Air India Boeing 707-437 Flight 101 crash in Rochers de la Tournette, Mont Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France. In September 2013 a French alpinist found a metal box containing the Air India logo at the site of the plane crash on Mont Blanc containing rubies, sapphires, and emeralds worth more than $300.000, which he handed in to the police to be returned to the rightful owners.

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(+) 52 years ago Monday 24th of January 1966 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Joseph Bradehoft is born in Greenville, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 40 years ago Tuesday 24th of January 1978 Physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser dies of unknown causes at the age of 67 in Linz am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(-) 29 years ago Tuesday 24th of January 1989 Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 24th of January 2004 A tropical rainstorm at Newton Circus Food Court in Singapore, Singapore.

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