41st year - N° 2 Friday, 2 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 2 Friday, 2 January 2026

2 January / Today's 27 Events: (-) 469 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of January 1557 Painter Jacopo Pontormo, originally Jacopo Carucci dies of unknown causes at the age of 63 in Firenze, Toscana, Italy. (x) 134 years ago  Saturday 2nd of January 1892 42-year-old Writer Guy Henri René Albert de Maupassant tries to commit suicide by cutting his throat in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 130 years ago There Was no Movie Camera Thursday 2nd of January 1896 Film director Dziga Vertov, originally David Abelevich Kaufmanis born in Białystok, Województwo Podlaskie, Poland. (x) 122 years ago  Saturday 2nd of January 1904 49-year-old Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Mrs Anna Hendrickson as John Jacob Adolf Schmidt in Hammond, Indiana, United States. Hoch disappeared with $500 of Hendrickson's money on 20 January. (+) 106 years ago  Friday 2nd of January 1920 Science fiction writer and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov, originally Isaak Yudovich Ozimov is born in Petrovichi, Smolensk Oblast, Russia. (+) 93 years ago  Monday 2nd of January 1933 Conceptual artist On Kawara is born in Kariya, Chūbu, Japan. (-) 89 years ago  Saturday 2nd of January 1937 Actor Ross Alexander, originally Alexander Ross Smith commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 30 in Los Angeles, California, United States. It has been reported that Alexander used the same gun his wife Aleta Freel shot herself with 13 months earlier when she found out about his homosexuality. (+) 88 years ago  Sunday 2nd of January 1938 Serial killer Ian Brady, originally Ian Duncan Stewart aka The Moors Murderers (with Myra Hindley) is born in Rottenrow Maternity Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. (+) 88 years ago He Spiraled onto the Face of the Earth Sunday 2nd of January 1938 Land Art artist Robert Irving Smithson is born in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. (-) 84 years ago  Friday 2nd of January 1942 Joachim Guschinow is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (x) 75 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of January 1951 33-year-old Carl Mosser, his 29-year-old wife Thelma, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 3-year-old Pamela Sue and the family dog are shot dead by 23-year-old Spree killer Billy William Edward Cook aka Billy Boy Cockeyed Cook in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Cook forced them to drive around at gunpoint for 72 hours in the midwest. Their bodies were dumped in a mine shaft near Joplin, Missouri. (+) 74 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of January 1952 Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man is born in Glendale, California, United States. (-) 73 years ago  Friday 2nd of January 1953 Kathleen Maloney is raped and strangled by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 72 years ago  Saturday 2nd of January 1954 During Italy’s first television-transmission 78-year-old 260th Pope Pius XII, originally Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli warns the Italian families for the dangers of television in family life in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (-) 71 years ago  Sunday 2nd of January 1955 President of Panama José Antonio Remón Cantera is fired upon at a race track by an unknown revolutionary commando with sub-machineguns at the age of 47 in Panama City, Provincia de Panamá, Panama. Remón died in hospital two hours later. Two other men including one of Remón's bodyguards were also killed in the attack. (+) 68 years ago  Thursday 2nd of January 1958 Multiple murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking is born in Covington, Louisiana, United States. (-) 66 years ago  Saturday 2nd of January 1960 Cyclist Fausto Angelo Coppi aka Il Campionissimo dies of malaria at the age of 41 in Tortona, Piemonte, Italy. (x) 58 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of January 1968 59-year-old Dentist Philip Blaiberg becomes the second man to have a heart transplant in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. Blaiberg lived nineteen months with his new heart. (x) 55 years ago  Saturday 2nd of January 1971 66 die in crush in Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. As thousands of spectators were leaving the ground by stairway 13, it appears that someone, possibly a child being carried on his father's shoulders, fell, causing a massive chain-reaction pile-up of people. Over 200 people were injured. (-) 54 years ago  Sunday 2nd of January 1972 Timothy Jack McCoy is stabbed to death by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Gacy picked up McCoy from Chicago's Greyhound bus terminal. (x) 52 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of January 1974 28-year-old Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder marries 24-year-old Gisela Deike in Landeskrankenhaus Eickelborn, Eickelbornstraße, Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (x) 47 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of January 1979 Start of the trial against 29-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento in San Jose, California, United States. (x) 45 years ago  Friday 2nd of January 1981 35-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is arrested with prostitute Olivia Reivers in Light Trades House, Melbourne Avenue, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (x) 39 years ago  Friday 2nd of January 1987 Deborah Dudley is abducted and held imprisoned by serial killerGary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Dudley was fatally electrocuted on 18 March 1987 and Heidnikdisposed of her body in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. (-) 34 years ago  Thursday 2nd of January 1992 Maryann Holloman is strangled and cut to pieces by serial killer Joel Rifkin aka The Long Island Ripper in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Holloman’s body was placed in an oil drum found in Coney Island Creek on 2 July 1992. (x) 19 years ago He Thought His Lung Was His Heart Tuesday 2nd of January 2007 36-year-old Murderer and cannibal Nicolas Cocaign aka Le Cannibale de Rouen kills his 41-year-old cellmate Thierry Baudry, cut open his chest with a razorblade and ate part of his lung, which he presumed to be his heart in Maison d'Arrêt, Rouen, Haute-Normendie, France. A third convict, David Lagrue watched the act in stupefied terror and committed suicide in prison in November 2009. (-) 1 years ago It Was a Consequence of Disturbed Interpersonal Relations Thursday 2nd of January 2025 Spree killer Aco Aleksandar Martinović commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 45 in Humci, Cetinje, . The day before Martinović shot and killed four people after a bar brawl, then moved to another location, killing four more people, then again moved to two more locations, where he killed two children and two adults. After being surrounded by police Martinović shot himself in the head near his home and died while being transported to a hospital. It was said the shooting was a "consequence of disturbed interpersonal relations".

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