40th year - N° 13 Monday, 13 January 2025

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40th year - N° 13 Monday, 13 January 2025

13 January / Today's 34 Events:

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(+) 159 years ago Saturday 13th of January 1866 Occult teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Shirak, Armenia. The exact date of Gurdjieff's birth remains unknown – conjectures range from 1866 to 1877.

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(x) 117 years ago Monday 13th of January 1908 171 die in Rhoads Opera House fire in Rhoads Opera House, South Washington Street and East Philadelphia Avenue, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, United States. Nearly 400 people had packed an opera house to watch or perform in a play called 'The Scottish Reformation'. The fire wiped out about 10 percent of the town population.

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(+) 116 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 1909 Communist and presumed arsonist Marinus Van der Lubbe known for the Reichstag fire is born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 106 years ago Monday 13th of January 1919 Marie-Thérèse Marchadier aka La Belle Mytèse is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France. To Marchadier, Landru was known as Lucien Guillet. She was his last victim. Her three dogs were found strangled in the garden.

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(+) 106 years ago Monday 13th of January 1919 Actor Robert Charles Langford Modini Stack is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 103 years ago Friday 13th of January 1922 Murderer Thomas Roman is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 103 years ago Friday 13th of January 1922 Murderer Ricardo Lauterio is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 97 years ago Friday 13th of January 1928 Murderer Garfield Fuller aka C. R. 'Dad' Davis is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia State Penitentiary, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 97 years ago Friday 13th of January 1928 Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Vaughan Street Jail, 444 York Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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(-) 84 years ago Monday 13th of January 1941 Poet and writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 59 in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. On 11 January 1941 Joyce underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer. While he at first improved, he relapsed the following day and despite several transfusions fell into a coma. Joyce awoke at 2 a.m. on 13 January and asked for a nurse to call his wife and son before losing consciousness again. They were still on their way when Joyce died 15 minutes later.

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(x) 84 years ago Monday 13th of January 1941 Lotte Marlow is assaulted by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Marlow survived.

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(-) 82 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 1943 Allen M. Small dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 52 in Deer Island, Maine, United States. The carpet beneath Small's body was scorched but there was no other sign of fire in the house. Small's pipe was unlit and on a shelf and his stove lids were all still in place.

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(x) 81 years ago Thursday 13th of January 1944 47-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is released from prison by the French Gestapo in Prison de Fresnes, Fresnes, Val-de-Marne, France. Petiot paid a bond of 100.000 Francs for his release.

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(+) 79 years ago Sunday 13th of January 1946 Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 67 years ago Monday 13th of January 1958 31-year-old Serial killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw is arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 64 years ago Friday 13th of January 1961 Mass murderer Jeremy Nevill Bamber, originally Jeremy Paul Marsham aka The White House Farm Murderer is born in St Mary Abbot's Hospital, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Bamber was born to to Juliet Dorothy Wheeler, a vicar's daughter who had had an affair with British Army Sergeant Major Leslie Brian Marsham.

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(x) 57 years ago Saturday 13th of January 1968 36-year-old Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black plays live in Folsom State Prison, Represa, Folsom, California, United States. Cash performed two shows at Folsom. The resulting album consisted of fifteen tracks from the first show and two tracks from the second.

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(+) 52 years ago Saturday 13th of January 1973 Triple murderer Daniel Lewis Lee is born in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Monday 13th of January 1975 Lesley Whittle is kidnapped and killed by multiple murderer Donald Neilson aka The Black Panther in Beech Croft, Bridgnorth Road, Highley, Shropshire, United Kingdom. Neilson then drove Whittle to Bathpool Park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. There he forced her down into the drainage shaft of the nearby reservoir. Inside the shaft he placed a hood over her head, removed the dressing gown leaving her naked and then tethered her to the side of the shaft by a wire noose. There was a mattress and a sleeping bag. On 6 March 1975 police found Whittle's body hanging from a steel wire only 180mm from the bottom of the 6m deep shaft.

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(x) 45 years ago Sunday 13th of January 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Happy Star/Nominette' in 't Fabrieksken, Burchtstraat 20, Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. During a concert by the band 'Happy Star/Nominette', I rolled violently through a heap of flour and screamed as loud as I could in a microphone until I was exhausted.

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(x) 44 years ago Tuesday 13th of January 1981 52-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 1982 78 die in Air Florida Boeing 737-222 Flight 90 crash in 14th Street Bridge, Virginia, United States. Five people survived.

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(x) 41 years ago Friday 13th of January 1984 33-year-old Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano, originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury is sentenced to life-imprisonment for one murder in Seminole County Courthouse, 101 Bush Boulevard, Sanford, Florida, United States. It was Stano's eighth life-sentence and the first time ever that somebody was sentenced for the murder of an unidentified person.

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(x) 40 years ago Sunday 13th of January 1985 428 die in express train derailment in Awash, Afar, Ethiopia. The engineer failed to reduce speed at the curving bridge, plunging the train's carriages into a ravine.

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(+) 34 years ago Sunday 13th of January 1991 K-pop star Goo Ha-ra is born in Gwangju, Honam, South Korea.

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(x) 33 years ago Monday 13th of January 1992 Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago Friday 13th of January 1995 Drug trafficker Ting Chon Chan aka Steven Chan is executed by the firing squad in Cibubur, Jakarta, Indonesia. Chan became the first person known to have been executed for drug-related offences in Indonesia. He was sentenced to death for smuggling 420 grams of heroin.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 1999 Murderer Jess James Gillies is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Gillies' last meal request was for New York steak cooked rare, 1 ½ cups of sliced mushrooms, 2 eggs, 10 strips of bacon, 2 slices wheat toast with butter, 3 tablespoons strawberry preserves, 8 ounces milk, 8 ounces apple juice, 32 ounces chocolate milkshake.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 1999 Cop killer Troy Dale Farris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 1999 Triple murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 13th of January 2002 An abandoned brothel where I performed 'Only the Lonely' in Oudemansstraat 13, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 21 years ago Tuesday 13th of January 2004 General practitioner and serial killer Harold Frederick Shipman aka Dr Death commits suicide hanging in his cell at the age of 58 in Wakefield Prison, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 15 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 2010 Mass murderer John Gilbert Freeman dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 80 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 4 years ago Wednesday 13th of January 2021 Murderess Lisa Marie Montgomery is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. On 16 December 2004 Montgomery entered the house of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in Skidmore, Missouri, strangled her and cut her eight-months infant from her womb. The child was safely recovered.

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