Sunday, January 1, 2012

1 January 1972 - Maurice Auguste Chevalier Dies

1431 (+) 214th Pope Alexander VI is born in Valencia, Spain.
1504 (+) Theologian and church reformer Caspar Cruciger is born in Leipzig, Germany.
1521 (x) 37-year-old Reformer Martin Luther is banned from the church in a papal bull in Rome, Italy.
1655 (-) 236th Pope Innocentus X originally Giambattista Pamfili, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.
1735 (+) Patriot, silversmith and activist Paul Revere is born in Boston, North End, Massachusetts, USA.
1881 (+) King Vajiravudh of Siam Rama VI originally Phra Mongkutklao, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.
1895 (+) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1912 (x) 45-year-old Revolutionary Leader Yat-sen Sun aka Sun Zhongshan aka Sun Deming, calls out the Republic of China in China.
1919 (+) Writer Jerome David Salinger is born in New York, New York, USA.
1919 (+) Actress Carole Landis originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, is born in Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA.
1919 (+) Boxer Rocky Graziano originally Thomas Rocco Barbella, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1927 (+) Choreographer Maurice Béjart is born in Marseille, France.
1931 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, attempts to derail the Vienna-Passau Express D-train in Ansbach, Austria.
1940 (+) Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, is born in Richmond, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1946 (x) Eniac , the first American computer is finished by scientists John William Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1952 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is born in Singen, Germany.
1953 (-) Musician Hank Hiram King Williams dies of a drug overdose at the age of 29 in Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA.
The only items found in the backseat of Hank's car were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song, 'Then Came that Fateful Day'.
1956 (+) Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Reynolds Hughes is born in California, USA.
1958 (-) Peter Smart is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 45 in Uddingston, Scotland, United Kingdom.
His wife Doris and their 10-year-old son Michael were also shot dead.
1971 (x) 90 Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin-18 crash in Moscow, USSR.
1971 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is treated for rectal bleeding in the Oregon State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.


1972 (-) Actor and musician Maurice Auguste Chevalier dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Paris, France.
1978 (x) 213 Die in Air India Jumbo crash in Bombay, India.
1981 (x) Club Moral is founded by artists Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK and Danny Devos aka DDV in Antwerp, Belgium.
1987 (-) Deborah Dudley is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1995 (-) Serial Killer Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 53 in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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