41st year - N° 3 Saturday, 3 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 3 Saturday, 3 January 2026

3 January / Today's 26 Events: (+) 2132 years ago  Sunday 3rd of January 0106bc Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in Arpinum, Frosinone, Italy. (x) 595 years ago  Monday 3rd of January 1431 19-year-old Heroine Jeanne d'Arc aka La Pucelle d'Orléans is handed over to the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon in Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, Oise, France. (x) 530 years ago  Friday 3rd of January 1496 44-year-old Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine in Monte Ceceri, Fiesole, Toscana, Italy. (x) 505 years ago  Monday 3rd of January 1521 38-year-old Theologian and church reformer Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X in the bull 'Decet Romanum Pontificem'in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (+) 186 years ago  Friday 3rd of January 1840 Catholic priest and missionary Father Damiaan, originally Jozef De Veuster aka The Apostle of the Lepers is born in Ninde, Tremelo, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. (+) 134 years ago  Sunday 3rd of January 1892 Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. (x) 130 years ago  Friday 3rd of January 1896 33-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof is found in farmer Bahorn's pig stye, drunk and with his trousers down in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany. Großmann was sentenced to ten months imprisonment for bestiality. (+) 110 years ago  Monday 3rd of January 1916 Murderess Toni Jo Henry, originally Annie Beatrice McQuistonis born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. (+) 106 years ago  Saturday 3rd of January 1920 Attorney General of Germany Siegfried Buback is born in Wilsdruff, Sachsen, Germany. (x) 103 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of January 1923 Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring is born in München, Bayern, Germany. (+) 90 years ago  Friday 3rd of January 1936 Post-minimalist sculptor Richard Henry Nonas is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. (x) 82 years ago  Monday 3rd of January 1944 Over 500 die in Galicia mail express, a shunting engine and a coal train collision and fire in Tunnel Nº 20, Torre del Bierzo, León, Spain. Although the official death toll was 78 and at the time it was estimated to be 200–250, more recent studies have estimated the death toll at over 500. (+) 77 years ago  Monday 3rd of January 1949 Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski Sylvia Marie Likens is born in Lebanon, Indiana, United States. (+) 70 years ago  Tuesday 3rd of January 1956 Actor Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson is born in Peekskill, New York, United States. (x) 67 years ago  Saturday 3rd of January 1959 Alaska is admitted as 49th U.S. state in Juneau, Alaska, United States. (x) 64 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of January 1962 36-year-old 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. (+) 62 years ago  Friday 3rd of January 1964 Film director Bruce LaBruce, originally Justin Stewart or Bryan Bruce is born in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada. (-) 59 years ago He Was Dead Alright Tuesday 3rd of January 1967 Nightclub operator Jack Ruby, originally Jacob Leon Rubensteindies of pulmonary embolism secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma at the age of 56 in Parkland Hospital, 5201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas, United States. Both President Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald were pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital. (-) 51 years ago  Friday 3rd of January 1975 SS-Rottenführer Richard De Bodt aka De Beul van Breendonkdies of diabetes at the age of 67 in Prison de St. Gilles, Avenue Ducpétiaux 106, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. (-) 47 years ago There Was a Vacant Room Wednesday 3rd of January 1979 Hotelier Conrad Nicholson Hilton dies of natural causes at the age of 92 in Santa Monica, California, United States. (-) 46 years ago  Thursday 3rd of January 1980 Naturalist, artist and writer Joy Friederike Victoria Adamson, originally Friederike Viktoria Gessner is murdered by discharged labourer Paul Nakware Ekai at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Eastern Province, Kenya. (x) 36 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of January 1990 The body of 35-year-old Victim of Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer June Cicero is discovered by aerial surveillance in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States. She was strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer on 17 December 1989. The surveillance team also spotted Shawcross masturbating in his car on a bridge over Salmon Creek. (x) 36 years ago  Wednesday 3rd of January 1990 51-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter his prison cell is searched and several aviation maps and escape routes are found in Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, Alaska, United States. (x) 32 years ago  Monday 3rd of January 1994 125 die in Baikal Airlines Flight 130 inflight fire in Mamony, Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, . (x) 22 years ago  Saturday 3rd of January 2004 148 die in Flash Airlines Flight 604 crash in The Red Sea, Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt. (-) 7 years ago  Thursday 3rd of January 2019 Serial killer Gao Chengyong aka The Chinese Jack the Ripper is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Baiyin, Gansu, China.

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