41st year - N° 14 Wednesday, 14 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 14 Wednesday, 14 January 2026

14 January / Today's 38 Events: (+) 2109 years ago  Thursday 14th of January 0083bc Roman politician Marcus Antonius is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (-) 284 years ago  Sunday 14th of January 1742 Astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician and meteorologist Edmond Halley dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Greenwich, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 151 years ago  Thursday 14th of January 1875 Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kaysersberg, Elsass, Germany. (-) 139 years ago He Hung From a Rope Made of Red and White Silk Friday 14th of January 1887 Murderer Thomas J. Cluverius is executed by hanging in Richmond, Virginia, United States. A rope made of red and white silk was used to hang Cluverius. The intention was to cut it into pieces to sell as souvenirs after the hanging. Herbert Tobias Ezekiel who witnessed the hanging, wrote that the Sheriff had oiled the rope with sweet oil rather than cold grease which would have facilitated the slipping of the noose and broken Cluverius’s neck. When the trap was sprung the silk rope stretched until Cluverius’s feet were just inches from the ground. The loop extended nearly eighteen inches above his head and it took ten minutes for him to slowly strangle to death. (-) 128 years ago He Went to Wonderland Friday 14th of January 1898 Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll, originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in The Chestnuts, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. (+) 120 years ago  Sunday 14th of January 1906 SS-Hauptsturmführer Gerhard Schiedlausky is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (x) 118 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1908 55-year-old Tennis player and murderer Vere St. Leger Thomas Goold is sentenced to death for the murder of Emma Levin on 4 August 1907 in Monaco-Ville, Monaco. (+) 117 years ago  Thursday 14th of January 1909 Film director Joseph Walton Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States. (-) 106 years ago His Dodge Veg-O-Matic Stalled Wednesday 14th of January 1920 Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 56 in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 105 years ago  Friday 14th of January 1921 Murderer Pedro Dominguez is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (-) 101 years ago  Wednesday 14th of January 1925 Mass murderer Ben Burchfield aka The Bristol Axe Murderer is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Burchfield hacked to death his estranged wife Delline and her 13-year-old son Charles, 50-year-old James W. Smith, his wife and their 2-year-old daughter Ruby and set the house on fire on 26 November 1922. (+) 101 years ago  Wednesday 14th of January 1925 Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima, originally Kimitake Hiraoka is born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. (+) 93 years ago  Saturday 14th of January 1933 Experimental filmmaker Stan Stanley James Brakhage, originally Robert Sanders is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Brakhage was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth. (-) 90 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1936 Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 88 years ago  Friday 14th of January 1938 Murderer Elvin Jack Odom is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (+) 85 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1941 Actress Faye Dorothy Dunaway is born in Bascom, Florida, United States. (+) 85 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1941 Singer-songwriter Neil Leslie Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. (+) 82 years ago  Friday 14th of January 1944 Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (+) 80 years ago  Monday 14th of January 1946 General practitioner and serial killer Harold Frederick Shipman aka Dr Death is born in Bestwood Estate, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. (x) 75 years ago  Sunday 14th of January 1951 National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 23-year-old Spree killer Billy William Edward Cook aka Billy Boy Cockeyed Cook in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. (+) 74 years ago  Monday 14th of January 1952 Possible victim of Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness Nancy Perry Baird is born in East Layton, Utah, United States. (x) 72 years ago  Thursday 14th of January 1954 Actress Marilyn Monroe, originally Norma Jeane Mortenson is born in San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California, United States. (-) 69 years ago  Monday 14th of January 1957 Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 58 in 232 Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills, California, United States. At the time of his death Bogart only weighed 36kgs. (+) 68 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1958 Mass murderer Colin Ferguson aka The Long Island Rail Road Shooter is born in Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica. (x) 65 years ago  Saturday 14th of January 1961 Serial killer Peter Hößl aka Der Wochenendmörder is arrested and charged with two murders in München, Bayern, Germany. Hößl had been released from prison on 13 February 1959 after serving two years for another murder. (-) 57 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1969 Michèle Louvet is shot by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France. Louvet survived. (x) 52 years ago  Monday 14th of January 1974 36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 43. Aktion aufführungstag laut partitur 15.1., laut einladung 14.1. in Modernes Theater, Hesseloherstraße 3, Schwabing, München, Bayern, Germany. Nitsch' 43. Aktion lasted three hours. (-) 49 years ago  Friday 14th of January 1977 Writer Anaïs Nin, originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 40 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 1986 Founder and main organizer of the Paris-Dakar rally Thierry Sabine is killed when his Ecureuil helicopter crashes into a dune during a sudden sand-storm at the age of 37 in Rharous, Tombouctou, Mali. Also killed onboard were the 33-year-old singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, 24-year-old helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, 25-year-old journalist Nathalie Odent and 37-year-old radiophonic engineer Jean-Paul Lefur. (-) 36 years ago  Sunday 14th of January 1990 Andrey Kravchenko is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Kravchenko's body was found on 19 February 1990. (-) 27 years ago  Thursday 14th of January 1999 Theatre director Jerzy Marian Grotowski dies of leukemia and a heart condition at the age of 66 in Pontedera, Toscana, Italy. 27 years ago  Thursday 14th of January 1999 Some furry animal in the Zoo in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand. (x) 26 years ago  Friday 14th of January 2000 58-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is having brain surgery due to suffering from a cerebral aneurism in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Hindley was admitted to the hospital under the pseudonym 'Christine Charlton'. (-) 23 years ago  Tuesday 14th of January 2003 Triple murderer Samuel Clark Gallamore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 22 years ago  Wednesday 14th of January 2004 Murderer Lewis Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. (-) 22 years ago  Wednesday 14th of January 2004 Murderer Kenneth Eugene Bruce is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Bruce's final meal request was for a double cheeseburger, french fries, orange juice and pecan pie. (-) 19 years ago  Sunday 14th of January 2007 Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra dies of stomach cancer at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 5 years ago The Pizza and Strawberry Shakes Were Wonderful Thursday 14th of January 2021 Multiple murderer Corey Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Johnson's last words were "The pizza and strawberry shakes were wonderful, but I didn't get the jelly-filled doughnuts that I ordered. What's with that? This should be fixed. I am at peace."

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