When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: 33rd year

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

33rd year - N° 3 Wednesday, 3 January 2018

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33rd year - N° 3 Wednesday, 3 January 2018

3 January / Today's 22 Events:

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2124 years ago

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Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in Arpinum, Frosinone, Italy.

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587 years ago

Monday 3rd of January 1431

19-year-old Heroine Jeanne d'Arc aka La Pucelle d'Orléans is handed over to the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon in Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, Oise, France.

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522 years ago

Friday 3rd of January 1496

44-year-old Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine in Monte Ceceri, Fiesole, Toscana, Italy.

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497 years ago

Monday 3rd of January 1521

38-year-old Theologian and church reformer Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X in the bull 'Decet Romanum Pontificem' in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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178 years ago

Friday 3rd of January 1840

Catholic priest and missionary Father Damiaan, originally Jozef De Veuster aka The Apostle of the Lepers is born in Ninde, Tremelo, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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126 years ago

Sunday 3rd of January 1892

Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien known for The Lord of the Rings is born in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.

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122 years ago

Friday 3rd of January 1896

33-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof is found in farmer Bahorn's pig stye, drunk and with his trousers down in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany.

Großmann was sentenced to ten months imprisonment for bestiality.

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102 years ago

Monday 3rd of January 1916

Murderess Toni Jo Henry, originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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98 years ago

Saturday 3rd of January 1920

Attorney General of Germany Siegfried Buback is born in Wilsdruff, Sachsen, Germany.

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95 years ago

Wednesday 3rd of January 1923

Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

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69 years ago

Monday 3rd of January 1949

Sylvia Marie Likens is born in Lebanon, Indiana, United States.

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56 years ago

Wednesday 3rd of January 1962

36-year-old 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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54 years ago

Friday 3rd of January 1964

Film director Bruce LaBruce, originally Justin Stewart or Bryan Bruce is born in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada.

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51 years ago

Tuesday 3rd of January 1967

Nightclub operator Jack Ruby, originally Jacob Leon Rubenstein dies of pulmonary embolism secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma at the age of 56 in Parkland Hospital, 5201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas, United States.

Both President Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald were pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.

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43 years ago

Friday 3rd of January 1975

SS-Rottenführer Richard De Bodt aka De Beul van Breendonk dies of diabetes at the age of 67 in Prison de St. Gilles, Avenue Ducpétiaux 106, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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39 years ago There Was a Vacant Room

Wednesday 3rd of January 1979

Hotelier Conrad Nicholson Hilton dies of natural causes at the age of 92 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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38 years ago

Thursday 3rd of January 1980

Naturalist, artist and writer Joy Friederike Victoria Adamson, originally Friederike Viktoria Gessner is murdered by discharged labourer Paul Nakware Ekai at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Eastern Province, Kenya.

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28 years ago

Wednesday 3rd of January 1990

The body of 35-year-old Victim of Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer June Cicero is discovered by aerial surveillance in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States.

She was strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer on 17 December 1989. The surveillance team also spotted Shawcross masturbating in his car on a bridge over Salmon Creek.

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28 years ago

Wednesday 3rd of January 1990

51-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter his prison cell is searched and several aviation maps and escape routes are found in Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, Alaska, United States.