41st year - N° 29 Thursday, 29 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 29 Thursday, 29 January 2026

29 January / Today's 41 Events: (-) 263 years ago  Saturday 29th of January 1763 Poet Louis Racine dies of unknown causes at the age of 71 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 183 years ago  Sunday 29th of January 1843 25th President of the United States William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, United States. (x) 181 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 1845 The Evening Mirror first publishes 'The Raven' by 36-year-old Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was paid $9 for its publication. (+) 166 years ago  Sunday 29th of January 1860 Writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is born in Kupecheskaya Street, Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. (+) 146 years ago  Thursday 29th of January 1880 Comedian, actor and juggler W. C. Fields, originally William Claude Dukenfield is born in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States. (+) 134 years ago  Friday 29th of January 1892 Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is born in Csantavér, Vojvodina, Serbia. (-) 122 years ago  Friday 29th of January 1904 Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. Egbert was the first man to be hanged at the Oregon State Penitentiary. (+) 121 years ago  Sunday 29th of January 1905 Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York City, New York, United States. (+) 121 years ago  Sunday 29th of January 1905 Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is born in Oxford, Indiana, United States. (x) 120 years ago  Monday 29th of January 1906 32-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or is brought to trial for the strangling of two children, but found not guilty in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 102 years ago  Tuesday 29th of January 1924 Composer Luigi Nono is born in Zattere al Ponte Lungo, Dorsoduro, Venezia, Veneto, Italy. (x) 96 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 1930 33-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Francs for attempted fraud in Tribunal de Première Instance, 1 Rue du Palais de Justice, Sens, Yonne, France. (+) 87 years ago  Sunday 29th of January 1939 Feminist theorist and writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (x) 86 years ago  Monday 29th of January 1940 190 die in train derailment in Ajikawaguchi station, Osaka, Kinki, Japan. (-) 85 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 1941 General and dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 70 in Ithakē, Ionian Islands, Greece. (+) 84 years ago  Thursday 29th of January 1942 Singer, actress and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 81 years ago  Monday 29th of January 1945 Actor Tom Thomas William Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. (+) 74 years ago  Tuesday 29th of January 1952 Musician Tommy Ramone, originally Erdélyi Tamás is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary. (+) 72 years ago  Friday 29th of January 1954 Talk show host Oprah Gail Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States. Winfrey was born to an unmarried teenage mother who said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter. (-) 68 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 1958 Merle Collison is shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in Douglas, Wyoming, United States. Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is." (-) 68 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 1958 Edith Middleton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Pimlico, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 67 years ago  Thursday 29th of January 1959 Patricia Vinico Berkman, originally Patricia Vinnicombe aka Pnina is stabbed to death by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. (x) 55 years ago  Friday 29th of January 1971 A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 20-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizenin Raghenotunnel, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. (x) 53 years ago  Monday 29th of January 1973 35-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (x) 52 years ago  Tuesday 29th of January 1974 Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, United States. It was the Zodiac's last authenticated piece of correspondence. (-) 51 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 1975 George Frias is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States. (x) 49 years ago  Saturday 29th of January 1977 35-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is moved to Durham Jail in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 47 years ago She Didn't Like Mondays Monday 29th of January 1979 17-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school across he street in Grover Cleveland Elementary School, 6365 Lake Atlin Avenue, San Carlos, San Diego, California, United States. Spencer killed 53-year-old principal Burton Wragg and 56-year-old custodian Mike Suchar and wounded 9 children. After firing thirty rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for several hours before surrendering. During the siege she had a telephone conversation with a journalist who reported that she had said "I don't like Mondays". (-) 46 years ago  Tuesday 29th of January 1980 Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Great Schnozzola dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, United States. (-) 41 years ago  Tuesday 29th of January 1985 Kidnapper Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 46 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Engelbrecht and his 29-year-old wife Helma were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment the day before for torturing and sexually abusing 16-year-old Silvia Hantke in their basement from 10 February 1982 until 23 May 1983. (x) 39 years ago  Thursday 29th of January 1987 32-year-old Serial killer Philippe Pacque aka L'Épervier d'Amiensis sentenced to life imprisonment for one murder and several attacks in La Cour d'Assises de la Somme, 14 Rue Robert de Luzarches, Amiens, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. (x) 38 years ago  Friday 29th of January 1988 25-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 40 years in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Erskine has since been found suffering chronic schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder and now held at the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital. (-) 25 years ago  Monday 29th of January 2001 Murderer Alexander Caruthers aka Gus is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 24 years ago  Tuesday 29th of January 2002 Multiple murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. Anderson's last meal request was for two grilled cheese sandwiches, one pint of cottage cheese, a hominy/corn mixture, one slice of peach pie, one pint of chocolate chip ice cream, and radishes. (-) 23 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 2003 Double murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Dinkins was sentenced to death for the murders of 46-year-old Katherine Thompson and 32-year-old Shelly Cutler in Thompson's Massage Therapy Clinic in Beaumont, Texas on 12 September 1990. His last meal request was for liver and onions, two double meat hamburgers with bacon and mayonnaise, two orders of French fries, vanilla ice cream, two Dr. Peppers, salad with ranch dressing and M&M's. (-) 23 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 2003 Theoretical chemist Ilya Romanovich Prigogine dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. 22 years ago  Thursday 29th of January 2004 A late night dinner of green curry chicken at Kansama Restaurant on Serangoon Road in Singapore, Singapore. (-) 21 years ago  Saturday 29th of January 2005 Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. (-) 21 years ago  Saturday 29th of January 2005 Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Ford was the only women on Nevada's Death Row, sentenced to death for killing six people, and injuring 23 more, driving down a Reno sidewalk on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. (-) 20 years ago  Sunday 29th of January 2006 Video artist Nam June Paik dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 74 in Miami, Florida, United States. In 1996 Paik had a stroke which paralyzed his left side. (-) 6 years ago  Wednesday 29th of January 2020 Double murderer Donnie Cleveland Lance is executed by lethal injection at the age of 67 in Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Highway 36, Jackson, Georgia, United States.

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41st year - N° 28 Wednesday, 28 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 28 Wednesday, 28 January 2026

28 January / Today's 37 Events: (-) 479 years ago He Asked for Monks Tuesday 28th of January 1547 King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudordies of diabetes at the age of 56 in Palace of Whitehall, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. His last words were "Monks! Monks! Monks!" (-) 405 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1621 233rd Pope Paulus V, originally Camillo Borghese dies of a stroke at the age of 99 in Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (+) 320 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1706 Printer and type designer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom. (-) 258 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1768 Composer John Wainwright dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom. (-) 224 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1802 Colonial administrator Joseph Wall is executed by hanging at the age of 65 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Wall was sentenced to death for a series of fatal floggings in 1782. On 10 July 1782 Sergeant Benjamin Armstrong and George Robinsoneach received 800 lashes and on 11 July Corporal Thomas Uptonreceived 350 lashes, Private George Paterson 800 lashes, William Evans 800 lashes, Joseph Shaw 275 lashes and Private Henry Fawcett 47 lashes. From their wounds Corporal Upton died on the 13th, Sergeant Armstrong on the 15th, and George Paterson on 19 July. With a reward of £200 for his capture Wall had been living under an assumed name in France and Italy. (-) 197 years ago His Tanned Skin Was Turned into Artefacts Wednesday 28th of January 1829 Serial killer William Burke aka The Body Snatchers (with William Hare) is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Burke was hanged in front of a crowd possibly as large as 25.000; views from windows in the tenements overlooking the scaffold were hired at prices ranging from 5 to 20 shillings. Burke's skeleton was given to the Anatomical Museum of the Edinburgh Medical School where it remains. His death mask and a book said to be bound with his tanned skin can be seen at Surgeons' Hall Museum. (+) 185 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 1841 Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom. (+) 171 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1855 Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs is born in Rochester, New York, United States. (+) 139 years ago  Friday 28th of January 1887 Pianist Arthur Rubinstein is born in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. (x) 139 years ago  Friday 28th of January 1887 26-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor marries Myrta Z. Belknap while he was still married to Clara Lovering in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. (+) 138 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1888 Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, originally Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin is born in Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast, Russia. (+) 136 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1890 Double murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz is born in Seattle, Washington, United States. (+) 114 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1912 Abstract expressionist painter Jackson Paul Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, United States. (+) 112 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1914 Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. (+) 102 years ago  Monday 28th of January 1924 Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Rue Hôtel des Monnaies, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. (+) 97 years ago  Monday 28th of January 1929 Pop artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. (-) 90 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1936 Kidnapper and murderer Richard Albert Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie James E. Day at the age of 31 in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, United States. Rumors suggested that Day had desired sexual favors from Loeb who refused him. Loeb's last words to his partner in crime Nathan Leopold were "I think I'm going to make it." (+) 90 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1936 Actor Alan Alda, originally Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo aka Hawkeye Pierce is born in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 87 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1939 Poet William Butler Yeats aka W. B. Yeats dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in Hôtel Idéal Séjour, 188 Avenue Virginie Hériot, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France. (+) 81 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1945 Musician Robert Ellidge Wyatt is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom. (x) 78 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1948 Over 300 die in Joo-Maru freighter collision in Seto Inland Sea, Setouchi, Japan. The Joo-Maru collided with an abandoned mine. (-) 77 years ago  Friday 28th of January 1949 Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 41 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, United States. (-) 73 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1953 Cop killer Derek William Bentley is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 20 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 70 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1956 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman James Eugene Glass is born in Houston, Texas, United States. (-) 68 years ago He Snapped Suzy's Neck Tuesday 28th of January 1958 Chester Lauer Ward is shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in S 24th Street 2843, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Both 50-year-old Clara Olson Ward and 51-year-old maid Ludmila Lilyan Fencl were already murdered earlier that day by stabbing. Starkweather also snapped the neck of the family dog Suzy. (x) 52 years ago  Monday 28th of January 1974 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by Murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in San Francisco, California, United States. 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down. (-) 50 years ago  Wednesday 28th of January 1976 Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers dies of a liver disease at the age of 52 in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (x) 48 years ago  Saturday 28th of January 1978 28-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento is arrested in Watt Avenue Complex Apartment #15, Sacramento, California, United States. A search of Chase's apartment revealed assorted human and animal organs in his refrigerator. (x) 40 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 1986 49-year-old pilot Michael J. Smith, 36-year-old mission specialist Judith Resnik, 35-year-old mission specialist Ronald McNair, 39-year-old mission specialist Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old payload specialist Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old payload specialist and teacher Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old commander Francis R. Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger OV-99 spacecraft, just 73 seconds after take-off in off coast, Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States. (-) 30 years ago  Sunday 28th of January 1996 Poet Joseph Brodsky, originally Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskydies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. (x) 24 years ago  Monday 28th of January 2002 94 die in TAME Flight 120 Boeing 727-134 crash into a mountain in Cumbal Volcano, Nariño, Colombia. (-) 24 years ago  Monday 28th of January 2002 Writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren dies of natural causes at the age of 95 in Dalagatan 46, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. (-) 23 years ago  Tuesday 28th of January 2003 Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Curry's final meal request was for chicken fried steak, country gravy, hot buttered corn, mashed potatoes, hot buttered rolls, hot apple pie, vanilla ice cream and tea. (-) 22 years ago He Had Four Foursomes Wednesday 28th of January 2004 Murderer Billy Frank Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Vickers' last meal request was for a four-egg omelet with cheese and onions, a bowl of chili, four slices of fried bologna, four pieces of toast, four slices of cheese, fried potatoes with a bowl of gravy, sliced tomato, hot coffee and black walnut or vanilla ice cream. (-) 21 years ago  Friday 28th of January 2005 Actress Karen Lancaume, originally Karine Bach commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. 21 years ago  Friday 28th of January 2005 Taking his theme from the triumph and tragedy in the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, Ferdinand Hodler created two gigantic dioramas in 1865 and 1894 measuring 7,25 x 4,35m each for the World's Fair in Antwerp. They are a symbolic representation of human fate in general. A figure detail from the diorama 'Plunge' by Ferdinand Hodler in Alpines Museum, Helvetiaplatz 4, Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. (-) 16 years ago  Thursday 28th of January 2010 Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide hanging in his cell at the age of 61 in Gevangenis, Zwarte-Brugstraat 4, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium. Carlier spent 30 years in prison for the sadist murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.

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