41st year - N° 4 Sunday, 4 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 4 Sunday, 4 January 2026

4 January / Today's 24 Events: (+) 241 years ago  Tuesday 4th of January 1785 Philologist, folklorist and mythologist Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany. (+) 217 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 1809 Inventor Louis Braille is born in Coupvray, Seine-et-Marne, France. (+) 188 years ago  Thursday 4th of January 1838 Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. (+) 145 years ago  Tuesday 4th of January 1881 Sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck is born in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (+) 136 years ago  Saturday 4th of January 1890 Con artist Victor Lustig aka The Count is born in Hostinné, Sudetenland, Austria-Hungary. (+) 130 years ago  Saturday 4th of January 1896 Surrealist artist André Aimé-René Masson is born in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France. (x) 117 years ago  Monday 4th of January 1909 40-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced in absentia to five years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 111 years ago  Monday 4th of January 1915 Automobile designer and manufacturer Armand Peugeot dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. (-) 102 years ago  Friday 4th of January 1924 Cop killer George Parker is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. (-) 87 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 1939 11-month-old Peter Seaton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Seaton was found in his cot in an inferno of blazing flames strong enough to push back a rescuer who had heard him screaming. After the firemen had put the flames out investigators revealed that nothing was found that could have caused the fire. What was especially remarkable was that the surrounding furniture was hardly damaged. (-) 77 years ago Martha Found Her in Bed with Ray Tuesday 4th of January 1949 Janet Fay is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Martha Beck aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with Raymond Fernandez) in 15 Adeline Place, Long Island, New York, United States. (+) 76 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 1950 Robber, kidnapper and murderer John Louis Evans is born in Beaumont, Texas, United States. (x) 68 years ago  Saturday 4th of January 1958 39-year-old Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Percival Hillary reaches the South Pole overland in Polheim, the South Pole. (-) 66 years ago  Monday 4th of January 1960 Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at 180 km/h at the age of 47 in Petit-Villeblévin, Yonne, France. The driver of the Facel-Vega FV3B car, Michel Gallimard, who was Camus' publisher and close friend, also died in the accident. (-) 62 years ago  Saturday 4th of January 1964 Mary Ann Sullivan is raped with a broomstick and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 44a Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 61 years ago  Monday 4th of January 1965 Poet and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot aka T. S. Eliot dies of emphysema at the age of 77 in 3 Kensington Court Gardens, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 59 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 1967 Victim of Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter Adolf Schickel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 27 in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. Schickel was falsely accused of killing his 20-year-old girlfriend Ursula Rohling on 13 September 1966, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter. (x) 52 years ago  Friday 4th of January 1974 Joni Lenz aka Karen Sparks or Sharon Clarke is beaten and sexually assaulted by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in University District, Seattle, Washington, United States. Clarke was probably Bundy's first known victim. A bed rod had been torn away from the bed and savagely rammed into her vagina. Clarkewas transported to the hospital in a comatose state, suffering from damages that would affect her for the rest of her life. (-) 52 years ago  Friday 4th of January 1974 Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Kalangal, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. (x) 42 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 1984 Sigrid Poeltz is attacked and raped by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. (-) 31 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 1995 Murderer Jesse DeWayne Jacobs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 30 years ago  Thursday 4th of January 1996 Carmelina Russo is presumably abducted and killed by unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. Russo's remains were found in pieces floating in the river Escaut 17 days later in Chateau L'Abbaye, France. (-) 21 years ago  Tuesday 4th of January 2005 Double murderer James Scott Porter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Porter's last meal request was for two extra crispy fried chicken breasts, two thighs, onion rings, french fries, fried okra, five slices of buttered garlic bread, a bowl of country gravy, a couple slices of onions, pickles, jalapeno peppers, ketchup, mustard, sliced tomato, one pot of thick coffee and a banana split. (x) 14 years ago  Wednesday 4th of January 2012 Céline Vidal is attacked by serial killer Philippe Pacque aka L'Épervier d'Amiens in Caen, Normandie, France. Vidal survived.

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