41st year - N° 8 Thursday, 8 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 8 Thursday, 8 January 2026

8 January / Today's 24 Events: (+) 425 years ago  Monday 8th of January 1601 Writer and philosopher Baltasar Gracián y Morales is born in Belmonte, Aragón, Spain. (-) 384 years ago  Wednesday 8th of January 1642 Astronomer, engineer, philosopher and mathematician Galilei Galileo aka The Father of Science dies of fever and heart palpitations at the age of 78 in Arcetri, Toscana, Italy. (-) 251 years ago  Sunday 8th of January 1775 Printer and type designer John Baskerville dies of unknown causes at the age of 69 in Easy Hill, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom. (-) 130 years ago  Wednesday 8th of January 1896 Poet Paul Marie Verlaine dies of a kidney and stomach disease at the age of 52 in 39 Rue Descartes, Ve, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 122 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1904 SS-Gruppenführer and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program Karl Brandt is born in Mülhausen, Elsass, Germany. (-) 100 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1926 Murderer William Lawrence is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (+) 91 years ago He Was No Hound Dog Tuesday 8th of January 1935 Singer and actor Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King of Rock and Roll is born in 306 Old Saltillo Road, Tupelo, Mississippi, United States. (+) 89 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1937 Singer Shirley Veronica Bassey is born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. (-) 89 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1937 Murderer Frank Duarte is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 25 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (-) 83 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1943 Murderer Charles Sanders is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 22 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (-) 83 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1943 Murderer J. C. Levice is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 23 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (-) 83 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1943 Murderer Grady B. Cole is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (+) 79 years ago  Wednesday 8th of January 1947 Musician and actor David Bowie, originally David Robert Jones is born in 40 Stansfield Road, Brixton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 79 years ago  Wednesday 8th of January 1947 Serial killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer is born in Willimantic, Connecticut, United States. (-) 78 years ago  Thursday 8th of January 1948 Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters dies of acute pulmonary edema and myocarditis at the age of 61 in Westmorland General Hospital, Burton Road, Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom. (x) 64 years ago  Monday 8th of January 1962 93 die in passenger train 464 and express train 164 collision in De Putkop, Harmelen, Utrecht, Netherlands. (x) 58 years ago  Monday 8th of January 1968 the painting 'La Vierge à l'Enfant entourée des saints Innocents' by 391-year-old Painter Peter Paul Rubens is cut into with a knife by an unidentified mentally disturbed person in Musée du Louvre, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 52 years ago  Tuesday 8th of January 1974 Josette Routier is shot dead and violated by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in 19 Rue du Docteur Roux, Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France. (-) 51 years ago  Wednesday 8th of January 1975 Maria Fasching is stabbed to death by serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker in 124 Glenwood Avenue, Leonia, New Jersey, United States. Kallinger had entered the house with his son Mike and tied up 26-year-old Edwina Dee Dee Wiseman, her 4-year-old son Robert, her 90-year-old grandmother Blanche Smith, 21-year-old Randi Romaine, her mother Mrs DeWitt Romaine, her twin sister Rettaand Retta's boyfriend Jeffrey Welby to ransack the house and assault the women. Fasching passed by later and refused to cooperate so Kallinger stabbed her in the back and breast. (+) 43 years ago  Saturday 8th of January 1983 Supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Jong-un Kim is born in Pyongyang, P'yŏngan, North Korea. (x) 37 years ago  Sunday 8th of January 1989 47 die in British Midland Boeing 737-400 Flight 92 crash in East Midlands Airport, Kegworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. The plane crashed on to the embankment of the M1 motorway in an attempt to make an emergency landing. Of the 126 people aboard, 47 died and 74 sustained serious injuries. (x) 30 years ago  Monday 8th of January 1996 237 die in Air Africa Antonov An-32B crash in Simbazikita Street Market, Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Congo. All fatalities were on the ground while the six crew members survived. (-) 30 years ago  Monday 8th of January 1996 President of the French Republic François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterand dies of prostate cancer at the age of 80 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. A few days before his death Mitterand was joined by family members and close friends for a "last meal" that attracted controversy because it included the serving of roast ortolan bunting, a small wild songbird that is a protected species whose sale is illegal in France. 27 years ago  Friday 8th of January 1999 A water pump on a bridge near my quarters in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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