41st year - N° 5 Monday, 5 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 5 Monday, 5 January 2026

5 January / Today's 28 Events: (+) 150 years ago  Wednesday 5th of January 1876 First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (x) 131 years ago  Saturday 5th of January 1895 36-year-old Artillery officer and presumed traitor Alfred Dreyfusis convicted in a secret court martial, publicly stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana, in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 116 years ago  Wednesday 5th of January 1910 Murderer Jose Lopez is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (+) 112 years ago  Monday 5th of January 1914 Artist Nicolas de Staël, originally Nicolaï Vladimirovitch Staël von Holstein is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. (+) 112 years ago  Monday 5th of January 1914 Actor George Reeves, originally George Keefer Brewer is born in Woolstock, Iowa, United States. (+) 108 years ago  Saturday 5th of January 1918 Victim of Albert Fish aka The Cannibal Grace Budd is born in New York City, New York, United States. (-) 102 years ago  Saturday 5th of January 1924 Ernst Spiecker is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (+) 94 years ago  Tuesday 5th of January 1932 Raisa Gorbachova, originally Raisa Maximovna Titarenko is born in Rubtsovsk, Altaysky Kray, Russia. (+) 93 years ago  Thursday 5th of January 1933 Serial killer Nestor Pirotte aka Le Tueur Fou is born in Sosoye, Namur, Belgium. (-) 93 years ago  Thursday 5th of January 1933 30th president of the United States Calvin John Coolidge dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 61 in The Beeches, 19-21 Massasoit Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 85 years ago  Sunday 5th of January 1941 Hedwig Ebauer is attacked and thrown out of a train by serial killerPaul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Betriebsbahnhof, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Ebauer was then five months pregnant. Ogorzow had unsuccessfully attempted to strangle her before throwing her from the train alive. Ebauer succumbed to her injuries later that day in the hospital, never regaining consciousness. (+) 84 years ago  Monday 5th of January 1942 Murderer Henry John Burnett is born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. (-) 81 years ago He Saw a Gas Friday 5th of January 1945 Murderer Robert E. Lee Folkes is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 22 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. Folkes was the first man to walk into the gas chamber without wearing a blindfold. (-) 81 years ago  Friday 5th of January 1945 Murderer John Earnest Ransom is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 50 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (+) 80 years ago  Saturday 5th of January 1946 Actress Diane Keaton, originally Diane Hall is born in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 74 years ago  Saturday 5th of January 1952 Mass murderer James Lammers is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States. Lammers' last meal consisted of Polish sausage, brown gravy, potatoes, spinach with bacon, gingerbread, cookies, bread, butter and coffee. (x) 71 years ago  Wednesday 5th of January 1955 24-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is arrested for molesting a 9-year-old girl in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 47 years ago  Friday 5th of January 1979 Revolutionary thief Mario Roymans aka Tijl van Limburg dies of internal bleeding at the age of 29 in Nerem, Limburg, Belgium. Roymans was found more dead than alive in his car on 26 December 1978 on an abandoned road near Liège. (-) 47 years ago  Friday 5th of January 1979 Musician, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 57 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. (-) 44 years ago  Tuesday 5th of January 1982 Tammy Williams is abducted, assaulted and strangled by serial killerMichael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler in Brooklyn, Connecticut, United States. (x) 35 years ago  Saturday 5th of January 1991 Brunhilde Masser is found strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Masser was strangled on 25 October 1990. (-) 33 years ago His Execution Would not be Televised Tuesday 5th of January 1993 Child molester and serial killer Westley Allan Dodd aka The Vancouver Child Killer is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington, United States. Dodd's execution was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965. He also requested that his hanging be televised but that request was denied. Dodd's last meal request was for salmon and potatoes. (-) 28 years ago  Monday 5th of January 1998 Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bonodies from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing at the age of 63 in Heavenly Mountain Resort, South Lake Tahoe, California, United States. (-) 27 years ago  Tuesday 5th of January 1999 Murderer Moody Glenn John is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 27 years ago  Tuesday 5th of January 1999 Serial killer Donald Leroy Evans aka The Rest Area Killer is stabbed to death in the shower by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack at the age of 42 in Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, United States. (-) 21 years ago  Wednesday 5th of January 2005 Manager of The Doors Danny Daniel Stephen Sugerman dies of lung cancer at the age of 51 in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 19 years ago  Friday 5th of January 2007 Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō, originally Wu Pai-fudies of heart failure at the age of 97 in Ikeda, Osaka, Kinki, Japan. Andō claimed that the secret of his long life was playing golf and eating Chikin Ramen almost every day. He was said to have eaten instant ramen until the day before he died. (-) 10 years ago  Tuesday 5th of January 2016 Composer Pierre Boulez dies of unknown causes at the age of 91 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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