41st year - N° 9 Friday, 9 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 9 Friday, 9 January 2026

9 January / Today's 33 Events: (-) 702 years ago  Sunday 9th of January 1324 Merchant traveller Marco Polo dies of a serious illness at the age of 70 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy. (+) 472 years ago  Saturday 9th of January 1554 234th Pope Gregorius XV, originally Alessandro Ludovisio is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. (x) 238 years ago  Wednesday 9th of January 1788 Connecticut is admitted as fifth state of the U.S. in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. (-) 190 years ago  Saturday 9th of January 1836 Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 33 in Barrière Saint-Jacques, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 136 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1890 Journalist, satirist and writer Kurt Tucholsky aka Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel is born in 13 Lübecker Straße, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (x) 132 years ago  Tuesday 9th of January 1894 33-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor marries Georgiana Yoke posing as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, United States. At the time Holmes was still married to Clara Lovering and Myrta Belknap. (-) 126 years ago What She Suffered Was Just Tuesday 9th of January 1900 Murderess Louise Josephine Jemima Masset is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. She killed her illegitimate son Manfred on 27 October 1899. Her last words were "What I suffer is just." (+) 118 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1908 Philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist Simone de Beauvoir, originally Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir is born in 101 Boulevard Montparnasse, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 113 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1913 37th President of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California, United States. (-) 103 years ago  Tuesday 9th of January 1923 Murderer Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On 3 October 1922 he stabbed his lover Edith Thompson's husband Percy Thompson to death. (-) 103 years ago  Tuesday 9th of January 1923 Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson, originally Graydon is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On 3 October 1922 her lover Frederick Bywaters stabbed her husband Percy Thompson to death. When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson. (-) 101 years ago  Friday 9th of January 1925 Murderer Sam Flowers is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Flowers killed his wife on 20 february 1923 (+) 101 years ago  Friday 9th of January 1925 Actor Lee Clarence Leroy Van Cleef is born in Somerville, New Jersey, United States. (+) 85 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1941 Singer, songwriter, musician and activist Joan Chandos Baez is born in Staten Island, New York, New York, United States. (+) 80 years ago  Wednesday 9th of January 1946 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrich Wessel is born in Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. (+) 76 years ago  Monday 9th of January 1950 Musician Rio Reiser, originally Ralph Christian Möbius is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (-) 73 years ago  Friday 9th of January 1953 Child killer Leland Morris is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 22 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. On 5 August 1949 Morris abducted and killed 15-year-old Thelma Taylor in Portland. The site of the murder under St. John's Bridge is supposedly haunted by Taylor. (-) 73 years ago  Friday 9th of January 1953 Murderer Frank Oliver Payne is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 52 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. (+) 68 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1958 Assassin and Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Ağca is born in Hekimhan, Malatya ili, Turkey. (-) 68 years ago He Read About Himself in the Newspaper Thursday 9th of January 1958 Hit man Elmer Burke aka Trigger is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. Burke spent his last evening eating a final meal of steak, smoking six cigars and reading newspaper clippings about himself. (x) 57 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1969 44-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 7 1/2-year-old girl in her bed in La Roque, Jersey, United Kingdom. (x) 55 years ago He Wanted Freedom from Pigs Saturday 9th of January 1971 25-year-old Mass murderer John Linley Frazier aka The Killer Prophet slashes open his arm and writes “Freedom from Pigs” on the wall of his cell in Santa Cruz, California, United States. (x) 54 years ago She Was not so Seawise Sunday 9th of January 1972 The ocean-liner Queen Elisabeth is destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. The vessel was sold at auction in 1970 to Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung and renamed Seawise University as a play on Tung's initials (C.Y.'s). (-) 51 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1975 Casimir Strawinski is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 47 years ago  Tuesday 9th of January 1979 Structural engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (-) 42 years ago  Monday 9th of January 1984 Natalya Shalapinina is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Park of Aviators, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Shalapinina had been a close friend of Olga Kuprina, killed by Chikatilo in 1982. (-) 40 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1986 Yvonne Couronne is tortured and strangled by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 8b Rue Sarette, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 40 years ago  Thursday 9th of January 1986 Françoise Vendôme is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 68 Rue de Charenton, VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Vendôme's body was discovered on 12 January. (x) 34 years ago They Found a Bloody Knife in His Mitsubishi Thursday 9th of January 1992 42-year-old Serial killer William Lester Suff, originally Bill Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer is arrested after a routine traffic stop in Riverside, California, United States. In Suff's Mitsubishi van a police officer found a bloody knife and objects believed to be related to 12 or more killings between 1989 and 1991. (x) 28 years ago  Friday 9th of January 1998 34-year-old Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is sentenced to death in Chicago, Illinois, United States. (-) 25 years ago  Tuesday 9th of January 2001 Murderer Jack Wade Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 22 years ago  Friday 9th of January 2004 Murderer Raymond Dale Rowsey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Rowsey's execution was the 888th carried out in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Rowsey's final meal request was for pizza, chicken wings, two packages of peanut M&M's, and a Pepsi. 21 years ago  Sunday 9th of January 2005 A window in a museum in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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