41st year - N° 22 Thursday, 22 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 22 Thursday, 22 January 2026

22 January / Today's 33 Events: (+) 238 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 1788 Poet George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 177 years ago  Monday 22nd of January 1849 Writer August Johan Strindberg is born in Sundhetskollegiets hus, Riddarholmen, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. (+) 151 years ago  Friday 22nd of January 1875 Film director and Hollywood pioneer D. W. David Llewelyn Wark Griffith aka The Inventor of Hollywood is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, United States. (+) 149 years ago  Monday 22nd of January 1877 Presumed murderer Gaston Dominici is born in Digne-les-Bains, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. (+) 147 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of January 1879 Cubist painter, poet and typographist Francis Picabia, originally Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 134 years ago  Friday 22nd of January 1892 Aircraft designer Marcel Dassault, originally Marcel Bloch is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 125 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 1901 Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 82 in Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Queen Victoria's death marked the end of the Victorian Era. (+) 115 years ago  Sunday 22nd of January 1911 SS-Obersturmführer and gynaecologist Rolf Rosenthal is born in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany. (-) 104 years ago  Sunday 22nd of January 1922 258th Pope Benedictus XV, originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa dies of pneumonia at the age of 32 in Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (-) 101 years ago  Thursday 22nd of January 1925 Murderer Nicholas Ferranti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. (-) 101 years ago  Thursday 22nd of January 1925 Cop killer Florencio Lerma aka Martin Flores is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. (-) 96 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of January 1930 Nora Lake dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 42 in Kingston, New York, United States. Mrs. Lake was found dead on the second floor in a bedroom. Her body was on the floor next to a dresser and a window that overlooked a porch roof. Her face was burned, and there were blisters on her legs but her clothes were not burned.  (+) 96 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of January 1930 Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador aka The Monster of Charquito is born in Anolaima, Cundinamarca, Colombia. (+) 92 years ago there was no Magic to it Monday 22nd of January 1934 Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby is born in San Francisco, California, United States. (+) 89 years ago  Friday 22nd of January 1937 Writer Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (+) 86 years ago  Monday 22nd of January 1940 Actor John Vincent Hurt is born in Chesterfield, East Midlands, United Kingdom. (+) 86 years ago  Monday 22nd of January 1940 Singer Addie Harris aka Micki Harris is born in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. (+) 80 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 1946 Impresario, clothes designer and boutique owner Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren is born in Stoke Newington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 69 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 1957 54-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Metesky was charged with planting over 30 bombs. (-) 63 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 1963 Bandit Teófilo Rojas Varón aka Chispas is killed by a brigade of the Colombian Army at the age of 33 in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia. Rojas commanded a group of 65 outlaws and more than 592 murders were attributed to him. (x) 61 years ago  Friday 22nd of January 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 8. Aktion 'Penisbespülung' in his house in Wien, Wien, Austria. (x) 57 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of January 1969 USSR-cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev who had just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are injured by 21-year-old Would-be assassinViktor Ivanovich Ilyin who fired shots into the motorcade while attempting to kill Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. Ilyin assumed the second car carried Brezhnev. Unbeknownst to him this Zil limousine was filled only with cosmonauts from earlier missions: Alexey Leonov, Valentina Tereshkova, Georgy Beregovoy andAndrian Nikolayev. (-) 53 years ago  Monday 22nd of January 1973 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Baynes Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States. (x) 53 years ago  Monday 22nd of January 1973 176 pilgrims die in Alia Boeing 707-3D3C crash in Kano Airport, Kano, Nigeria. There were 26 survivors. (x) 46 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 1980 59-year-old Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activistAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov is arrested following his public protests against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 and sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. (x) 43 years ago  Saturday 22nd of January 1983 43-year-old Serial killer Richard Fran Biegenwald aka The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer and Dherran Fitzgerald are arrested in 507 Sixth Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States. A search of Biegenwald's home revealed a large cache of weapons and drugs. Police confiscated several pipe bombs, handguns, rifles, shotguns, a machine gun, Rohypnol, chloral hydrate, marijuana, a live puff adder, venom collecting apparatus, and floor plans for several area notable residences and businesses. (+) 43 years ago  Saturday 22nd of January 1983 School shooter Robert Steinhäuser is born in Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany. (-) 39 years ago  Thursday 22nd of January 1987 Treasurer of Pennsylvania Budd Robert Dwyer commits suicide by a shot in his mouth at the age of 48 in 2931 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Dwyer killed himself in front of the gathered reporters at a press conference with a .357 caliber revolver. Dwyer's suicide was subsequently broadcast to a wide television audience across the state of Pennsylvania. He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback. (-) 34 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of January 1992 Murderer Joe Angel Cordova is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Cordova's last meal request was for fried chicken, french fries, hot sauce, rolls, salad with Thousand Island dressing and ice cream. (-) 32 years ago  Saturday 22nd of January 1994 Actor Telly Aristotelis Savalas dies of complications of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Sheraton-Universal Hotel, 333 Universal Hollywood Drive, Universal City, California, United States. (-) 23 years ago  Wednesday 22nd of January 2003 Multiple murderer Robert Andrew Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Lookingbill's last meal request was for fried chicken, French fries, iced tea, apple pie, jalapenos, garlic bread, and vanilla ice cream. 21 years ago  Saturday 22nd of January 2005 Lying in bed with flu and waking up with the haunting ghost of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. (-) 18 years ago  Tuesday 22nd of January 2008 Actor Heath Andrew Ledger dies as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 29 in 421 Broome Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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