90 Years Ago He Was Naked but not Dead

407 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1606
(-) Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

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216 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1797
(+) Composer Franz Peter Schubert is born in Vienna, Lichtenthal, Austria.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 1921
(+) Tenor and actor Mario Lanza originally Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 January 1923
(+) Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.

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76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 January 1937
(+) Composer Philip Glass is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1939
(+) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is born in Webster, South Dakota, USA.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1941
(+) Founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is born in Ventersdorp, South Africa.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 1949
(+) Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, is born in Cuhahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 January 1954
(-) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor window of his flat at the age of 63 in New York, New York, USA.
He was lonely and depressed over the FM patent dispute.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 1955
(-) Founder of the WMCA John Raleigh Mott dies at the age of 89 in Cornell, New York, USA.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1956
(+) Sex Pistol John Joseph Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, is born in London, United Kingdom.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 January 1959
(-) Jack Larber dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 72 in San Francisco, Laguna Honda Home, California, USA.

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49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1964
(x) Serial Killer Wladimir Ionesyan aka Iwan The Axeman, is sentenced to death for five murders in Armenia, Russia.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1967
(-) Bozena Raczkiewicz is knifed and mutilated to death with a broken bottle by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 18 in Lodz, Poland.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1969
(-) Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, dies of intense muscular spasms at the age of 74 in Meherazad, India.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 January 1974
(-) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn originally Szmuel Gelbfisz, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 January 1974
(x) 92 Die in Pan Am Airliner crash in Pago Pago, Samoa.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1978
(-) Elena Rytka is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 18 in Huddersfield, Great Northern Street, United Kingdom.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 January 1979
(x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is released from the Norfolk Regional Center after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1986
(-) Virginie Labrette is tortured to death by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 76 in Paris 12th, 25 rue de Wattignies, France.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1995
(-) Murderer Willie Ray Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 January 1996
(x) 86 Die in an explosives-filled truck crash in Colombo, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
At least 1400 people are injured.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 2000
(x) 88 Die in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 MD-83 crash into the Pacific Ocean in Point Mugu, California, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 January 2002
(-) Murderer Randall Wayne Sr. Hafdahl aka Jack Douglas Cone, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 2006
(-) Double murderer Jaime Jr. Elizalde is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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4 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 January 2009
(x) 113 Die in an oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenya.

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65 Years Ago No Non-Violence Happened

178 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 January 1835
(x) 67-year-old 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory, escapes the first ever assassination-attempt on a president when Richard Lawrence’s 2 pistols both misfire in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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164 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 January 1849
(+) President of France Félix Faure is born in Paris, France.

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131 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 January 1882
(+) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in Hyde Park, New York, USA.

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124 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 January 1889
(-) Juliette Deitsch is murdered in a magickal sex-rite by Etienne Deschamps at the age of 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

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124 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 January 1889
(-) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge, Austria.
He probably killed his lover, 17-year-old baroness Mary Vetsera, first and then took his own life. There is no question that the depression-prone Rudolf and Mary had a suicide-pact.

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117 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 1896
(x) Presentation of the first motion picture, "A Passion Play" by Rich Hollaman in Hollywood, Eden Musée, California, USA.

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98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 January 1915
(+) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, is born in Berlin, Germany.

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86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 January 1927
(+) Prime-minister Olof Palme is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 1930
(+) Actor Gene Eugene Allen Hackman is born in San Bernardino, California, USA.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 1930
(+) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is born in Germany.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 1930
(+) Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon, Samuel Joseph Byck is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 January 1933
(x) 43-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is appointed as ReichsKanssler in Berlin, Germany.

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76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 January 1937
(+) Actress Vanessa Redgrave is born in London, United Kingdom.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 January 1945
(x) Cabatuan-KZ is liberated by the American Armed Forces in Japan.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 1947
(+) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott is born in London, Manor Park, East Ham Hospital, Essex, United Kingdom.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 January 1948
(-) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 January 1948
(-) Mahatma Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-Violence, is shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse at the age of 78 in Delhi, Berli House, India.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 January 1951
(+) Musician Phil Collins is born in London, United Kingdom.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 January 1951
(-) Automobile designer and engineer Ferdinand Porsche dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Stuttgart, Germany.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 January 1953
(-) Murderer Albert W. M. Kames is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 1969
(x) The Beatles play their last public concert, on the roof of Apple Records in London, United Kingdom.
The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 January 1971
(-) Donald Edward is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, Mangum, Texas, USA.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 January 1972
(x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is arrested and charged with child-abuse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 January 1972
(x) 13 Die in the Bloody Sunday events in Londonderry, Ireland.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 January 1977
(-) Christine Feund is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 January 1980
(-) Mary Maher is stabbed and choked by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Daytona, Florida, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 January 1985
(-) Rapist and murderer James David Raulerson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Florida, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 January 1993
(x) Over 140 Die in train derailment in Darajani, Kenya.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 January 1994
(-) Writer Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle known for “Planet of the Apes”, dies at the age of 82 in Paris, France.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 January 1996
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, butchers a family of four in Ukraïne, Russia.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 January 1998
(-) Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in North Carolina, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 January 2002
(-) Double murderer Windell Broussard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 January 2003
(-) Murderer Granville Riddgle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 January 2007
(-) Triple murderer Christopher Swift is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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250 Years Ago an Ode to Solitude Ended

250 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 January 1763
(-) Poet Louis Racine dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.

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170 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1843
(+) 25th president of the USA William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, USA.

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168 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1845
(x) 36-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe 's poem "The Raven" is first published in the Evening Mirror in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was paid $9 for its publication.

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153 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1860
(+) Writer Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia.

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133 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 January 1880
(+) Filmmaker W.C. Fields is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1904
(-) Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1905
(+) Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York, New York, USA.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1905
(+) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is born in Oxford, Indiana, USA.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1906
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is brought to trial for the strangling of 2 children, but found not guilty in Paris, France.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1924
(+) Composer Luigi Nono is born in Venice, Italy.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1930
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Fr for attempted fraud in Sens, Tribunal de Première Instance, France.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 1939
(+) Feminist writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1940
(x) Over 200 Die in train collision in Osaka, Japan.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1941
(-) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 69 in Athens, Greece.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 January 1942
(+) Musician and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, France.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1945
(+) Actor Tom Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1954
(+) TV-host Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1958
(-) Edith Middleton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 1958
(-) Merle Collison is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 37 in Douglas, Wyoming, USA.
Minutes later Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Fugate are arrested.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 January 1959
(-) Patricia Vinico Berkman is stabbed to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 33 in Perth, Australia.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1971
(x) A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 19-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1973
(x) 34-year-old Michelangelo’s "Piëta"-attacker Laszlo Toth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Italy.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1974
(x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 1979
(x) 16-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school because she didn't like mondays in San Diego, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
She killed the principal and the janitor and wounded 9 children.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1980
(-) Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Schnozzola, dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 1985
(-) Millionaire Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 46 in Germany.
He imprisoned and sexually tortured his maid for a period of 466 days.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 January 1988
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is sentenced to 40 years in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

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12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 January 2001
(-) Murderer Alexander Caruthers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 January 2002
(-) Murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 January 2003
(-) Murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 January 2005
(-) Musician and founder of The Beatles, Eric Ronald Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 January 2005
(-) Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies at the age of 75 in Reno, Nevada, USA .
She was the only women on Nevada's Death Row.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 January 2006
(-) Video Artist Nam June Paik dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Miami, Florida, USA.

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35 Years Ago Dinner Was Almost Ready

466 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1547
(-) King of England Henry VIII dies of diabetes at the age of 55 in Whitehall, United Kingdom.

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392 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1621
(-) 233rd Pope Paulus V originally Camillo Borghese, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.

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307 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1706
(+) Printer and typographer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

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245 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1768
(-) Composer John Wainwright dies at the age of 44 in Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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225 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1788
(+) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, is born in London, United Kingdom.

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211 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1802
(-) Murderer Joseph Wall Esq. is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.

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184 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1829
(-) Serial Killer William Burke aka The Bodysnatcher, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
A huge crowd showed up to see him hang.

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172 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1841
(+) Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.

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158 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1855
(+) Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs I is born in Rochester, New York, USA.

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126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 1887
(x) 26-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Myrta Z. Belknap as Henry Howard Holmes in Colorado, USA.

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126 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 1887
(+) Composer Arthur Rubinstein is born in Lodz, Poland.

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123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1890
(+) Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1912
(+) Artist Jackson Paul Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, USA.

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99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1914
(+) Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1924
(+) Artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

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84 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1929
(+) Artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1936
(+) Actor Alan Alda is born in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1936
(-) Richard Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer, is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie Day at the age of 30 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 January 1939
(-) Writer William Butler Yeats dies at the age of 73 in Menton, Hôtel Idéal Séjour, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1945
(+) Musician Robert Wyatt-Ellidge is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1948
(x) Over 250 Die in Joo Maru freighter collision in Japan.
It collided with an abandoned mine.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1948
(-) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Krakow, Poland.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 1949
(-) Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1953
(-) Cop Killer Derek William Bentley is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1958
(-) Lauer and 46-year-old Clara Ward is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 47 in Lincoln, 2843 24th Street, Nebraska, USA.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 1965
(+) Fifth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Sears is born in Wisconsin, USA.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 January 1974
(x) 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by the Black Zebra Killers while 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down in San Francisco, California, USA.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 1976
(-) Artist Marcel Broodthaers dies at the age of 52 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 January 1978
(x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is arrested in Sacramento, California, USA.
Assorted human and animal organs are found in his refrigerator.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 1986
(x) US-astronauts 49-year-old Michael Smith, 36-year-old Judith Resnik, 35-year-old Ronald McNair, 39-year-old Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old Francis Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger Spacecraft, just 1min 12 sec after take-off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 January 1996
(-) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York, New York, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 January 2003
(-) Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 January 2004
(-) Murderer Billy Frank Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 January 2005
(-) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in Paris XIV, France.
She played a violent murderess in the movie "Baise-Moi".

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3 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 January 2010
(-) Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.
He spent 30 years in prison for the murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.

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30 Years Ago FuFu Stopped Laughing

417 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 January 1596
(-) Sea Captain, slaver and pirate Sir Francis Drake aka El Draque, dies of dysentery at the age of 56 in Portobelo, Colón, Panama.

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257 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 January 1756
(+) Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

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181 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 January 1832
(+) Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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177 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 January 1836
(+) Writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch is born in Lemberg, Austria.

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139 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 January 1874
(+) Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Greene Elliott is born in Hamlin, New York, USA.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 January 1892
(+) Composer Mitya Stillman is born in Russia.

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112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 January 1901
(-) Composer Giuseppe Verdi dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Milan, Italy.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 January 1906
(+) Actress Starr Wyman Faithfull aka The Drowned Girl, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 January 1928
(-) Murderer Daniel Driscoll is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 January 1928
(-) Murderer Edward Rowlands is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 1944
(+) Musician Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, United Kingdom.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 January 1945
(x) Auschwitz-KZ is liberated by the Russian army in Poland.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 1949
(x) Over 600 Die in Taiping steamer collision with collier in China.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 January 1958
(-) August Meyer is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 70 in Bennet, Meyer Farm, Nebraska, USA.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 January 1958
(-) Robert Jensen is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 17 in Bennet, Schoolhouse, Nebraska, USA.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 January 1963
(-) John Sturkey is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 19 in Perth, Cottelsoe and Nedlands, Australia.
Nicholas August, Roweena Reeves and Brian Weir are also shot and woonded in separate events on the same night.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 January 1967
(x) US-astronauts 40-year-old Gus Grisson, 33-year-old Edward H. White and 31-year-old Roger B. Chaffee are burned alive in their Apollo/Saturn 204 in John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.
They were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 1972
(-) Musician Mahalia Jackson dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 1977
(-) Lawrence Merrick is shot dead by persons unknown in Los Angeles, the Merrick Studio Academy of Dramatic Arts, California, USA.
He was working on a documentary about Charles Manson.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 1977
(x) 27-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison in Germany.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 January 1978
(-) Evelyn Miroth is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 38 in Sacramento, Merrywood Drive 3207, California, USA.
In the same event he also killed 6-year-old Jason Miroth and 22-month-old David Ferreira. He then took the baby’s body home, decapitated it and ate parts of its brains before dumping it in a cardboard box.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 January 1981
(x) 443 Die in Tamponas 2 Ocean Liner fire in the Java Sea.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 January 1982
(-) An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Lucas & Toole aka The Hand of Death, in Plainview, Texas, USA.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 1983
(-) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Nantes, France.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 January 1984
(x) 25-year-old Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, suffers second and third degree burns on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium, California, USA.

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21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 January 1992
(-) Wife of Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach Henriette “Henny” von Schirach originally Henriette Hoffmann, dies at the age of 79 in München, Germany.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 2000
(-) Double murderer James Walter Moreland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 January 2000
(x) Start of the trial against Murderer Robert Frederick Glass for the consensual murder of Sharon Lopatka in North Carolina, USA.
He had fulfilled her wish to be tortured and strangled to death.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 January 2008
(-) Second President of Indonesia Hadji Muhammad Suharto dies of a sepsis infection and haemoglobin drop at the age of 86 in Jakarta, Pertamina hospital, Indonesia.

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4 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 January 2009
(-) Writer John Updike dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 January 2010
(-) Writer Jerome David Salinger dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Comish, New Hampshire, USA.

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65 Years Ago They Were Saved from Dysentery

673 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1340
(x) 27-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France.

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187 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 January 1826
(-) Artist Théodore Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 34 in Paris, France.

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133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 January 1880
(+) General Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1918
(+) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is born in Scornicesti, Romania.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 January 1925
(+) Actor Paul Leonard Newman is born in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 January 1928
(+) Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, is born in Paris, France.

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81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1932
(-) Chewing gum industrialist William Jr. Wrigley dies at the age of 70 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1938
(x) The dismembered body of 41-year-old Florence Polillo is found, she is the third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, 2315 East 20th Street, Ohio, USA.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1944
(+) Political Activist Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 January 1947
(+) Actor Patrick Dewaere is born in Saint-Brieuc, France.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 January 1948
(x) 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery, presumably by 55-year-old Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, in Teikoku Bank, Toshima, Tokio, Japan.
He posed as a health officer, and ordered16 employees to drink some 'dysentery medicine, what was actually potassium cyanide.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1955
(+) Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 January 1958
(+) Murderer John Hardy Rose is born in North Carolina, USA.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 January 1958
(x) 167 Die in Nankai Maru capsizing in Awaji Island, Japan.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1962
(-) Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Napoli, Capodicine Airport, Italy.
He was meeting a scriptwriter who was about to write his life as a film.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1963
(x) 15-year-old Douglas Godfrey shoots his mother in a self-created ‘sniper’ attack in Bloomfield township, Michigan, USA.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1965
(x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1965
(x) Hindi becomes the official language in India.

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47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1966
(x) The Beaumont Children 9-year-old Jane Nartare, 7-year-old Arnna Kathleen and 4-year-old Grant Ellis collectively disappear in Adelaide, Gleneig Beach, South Australia, Australia.
It remains Australia's most infamous cold case.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1968
(x) 69 Die in Dakar submarine wrecking in the Mediterranean Sea.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1968
(-) Linda Slawson is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1971
(x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is found guilty of the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1974
(x) The RAF aka Rote Armee Fraktion - Aufbauorganisation calls itself the successor of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe in Germany.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1979
(-) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1983
(-) Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 20 in London, United Kingdom.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1991
(x) 31-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Did Dillinger Die Right There and Then?" in Leuven, Galerie Transit, Brabant, Belgium.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1996
(-) Child rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1999
(-) Murderer Martin S. Vega is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 2000
(-) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt dies at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 2008
(-) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 49 in Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center , California, USA.

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100 Years Ago a Chimera Danced

480 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1533
(x) 41-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his second wife Anne Boleyn in London, United Kingdom.

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139 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 January 1874
(+) Writer William Somerset Maugham is born in Paris, France.

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131 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1882
(+) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf is born in London, United Kingdom.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1904
(x) 179 Die in coal-mine explosion in Cheswick, United Kingdom.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 January 1913
(+) Composer Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland.

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96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1917
(+) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine is born in Moscow, Russia.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1923
(+) Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), is born in Dodge Center, Minnesota, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 January 1942
(x) Thailand declares war to the USA and United Kingdom .

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70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1943
(-) Actor Spencer Charters commits suicide by coal-monoxide poisoning combined with sleeping tablets at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1943
(+) Filmmaker Tobe Hooper known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, is born in Austin, Texas, USA.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 1944
(+) Model, actress and fashion designer Anita Pallenberg is born in Rome, Italy.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 January 1947
(-) Gangster Al Alphonse Capone dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 48 in Palm Island, Florida, USA.

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63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1950
(+) Child murderer Melvin Wayne White is born in Texas, USA.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1965
(-) Persian prime minister Ali Mansoer dies due to injuries suffered in an assault on January 21st in Iran.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1973
(-) James Ralph, 21-year-old Joan, 9-year-old David Hughes, 4-year-old Damon Francis Gianera is shot dead by Herbert Mullin in Santa Cruz West Side, Happy Valley, California, USA.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 January 1975
(x) Over 100 Die in Passenger Ferry shipwreck in Dacca, India.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1979
(-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 76 in Hutton-Le-Hole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 1983
(x) 69-year-old Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is arrested and expelled to France in La Paz, Bolivia.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1984
(x) 508 Die in oil-pipeline explosion in Cubato, Brazil.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 January 1985
(-) General René Audran is shot dead by Action Directe in Paris, France.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1990
(-) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1996
(-) Double murderer Billy Bailey is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.
He was the last man to be hanged in the USA. For his last meal he had a well-done steak, a baked potato with sour cream and butter, buttered rolls, peas and vanilla ice cream.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1999
(x) 39-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "AARA" in Bangkok, About Café, Thailand.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 2000
(-) Murderer Glen Charles McGinnis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 2005
(-) Murderer Troy Albert Kunkle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 2005
(x) 258 Die in Mandher Devi temple stampede in Mandhradevi, India.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 2006
(-) Triple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 2006
(-) Pornographic actress Anna Malle originally Hotop, dies in a car crash, not wearing a seat belt at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 2010
(-) War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is executed by hanging at the age of 68 in Iraq.

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65 Years Ago The Beast was Terminated

1972 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 41
(-) Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is assassinated by his Praetorian Guards at the age of 28 in Rome, Italy.

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1937 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 January 76
(+) Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus is born in Rome, Italy.

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308 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1705
(+) Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, is born in Andria, Italy.

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167 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1846
(-) Murderess Elisabeth Van Valkenburgh is executed by hanging in Fulton, New York, USA.

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93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1920
(-) Artist Amadeo Clemente Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 35 in Paris, France.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1921
(-) Eventual Murderer Morris Stein aka Stinie Morrison, dies of hungerstriking in claiming his innocence in a murder trial in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 January 1940
(+) Performance artist Vito Acconci is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 January 1943
(+) Actress Sharon Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1944
(+) Countertenor Klaus Nomi originally Klaus Sperber, is born in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1948
(-) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Poland.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1949
(+) Actor John Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 1952
(+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Siegfried Hausner is born in Selb, Germany.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1961
(+) Actress Natassja Kinski is born in Berlin, Germany.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1961
(x) A B-52 Stratofortress bomber carrying two 24-megaton H-bombs breaks up in mid-air in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA.
One weapon nearly detonates; its uranium core is still lost.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 January 1965
(-) Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.

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47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1966
(+) Seventeenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Joseph Bradehoft is born in Wisconsin, USA.

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47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1966
(x) 117 Die in Air India Boeing 707 crash in Mont Blanc region, France.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1978
(-) Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser dies at the age of 66 in Linz am Rhein, Germany.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1983
(-) Ervin Gibson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 1985
(x) 70-year-old Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is released from prison in Italy.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 January 1986
(-) Founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Lafayette Ronald Hubbard dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1989
(-) Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 42 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1989
(x) Raphael’s "La Madonna di Foligno" is attacked with a fire-bomb by an unidentified wheelchair-patient in Rome, Vatican Museum, Italy.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 1991
(-) Pascale Escarfail is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.

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21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 January 1992
(-) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Arkansas, USA.
It took medical staff more than 50 minutes to find a suitable vein in Rector's arm. Witnesses were not permitted to view this scene, but reported hearing Rector's loud moans throughout the process. During the ordeal, Rector (who suffered serious brain damage from a lobotomy) tried to help the medical personal find a vein.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1995
(-) Murderer Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He is one of only a few white criminals to have been executed for murdering a black victim.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1995
(-) Murderer Clifton Russell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 2000
(-) Murderer Billy George Jr. Hughes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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90 Years Ago a Stove was Sold

230 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1783
(+) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, is born in Grenoble, France.

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210 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 1803
(-) Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness dies at the age of 77 in Beaumont, Kildare, Ireland.

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181 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1832
(+) Artist Edouard Manet is born in Paris, 5 Rue des Petits-Augustins, France.

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115 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 1898
(+) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein is born in Riga, Latvia, Russia.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 January 1912
(x) Blacks Belle Hathaway, John Moore, Eugene Hamming and Dusty Cruthfield are lynched by hanging and riddled with gunfire by some 100 white men in Hamilton, Georgia, USA.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 January 1923
(x) The furniture, including the stove, of 53-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sold at a public auction in Versailles, France.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1928
(+) Actress Jeanne Moreau is born in Paris, France.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 1931
(-) Ballerina Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova known for The Dying Swan, dies of pleurisy at the age of 48 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

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81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 January 1932
(+) Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 1944
(-) Artist Edvard Munch dies at the age of 80 in Ekerly, Norway.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1947
(-) Artist Pierre Bonnard dies at the age of 80 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 1948
(-) Murderer Wardell H. Henderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1969
(-) Therèse Adam is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 49 in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue de Frères Péraux, France.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 January 1973
(-) Alexandros Onassis dies in a plane-crash at the age of 24 in Athens, Ellinikon International Airport, Greece.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1975
(x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Department of Defense offices in Oakland, California, USA.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 1976
(-) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin dies of natural causes at the age of 44 in the USSR.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1978
(-) Theresa Wallin is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 22 in Sacramento, Tioga Way 2630, California, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1986
(-) Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys dies of heart-failure at the age of 64 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1989
(x) Over 150 Die in Sol de Oro goldmine explosion in Ica, Peru.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1989
(-) Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1997
(-) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request was a cheeseburger, fries and coffee with milk. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine" were his last words.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1997
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper, is found guilty of raping and murdering three prostitutes and cutting them up with a chain saw in Athens, Greece.
He is sentenced to 13 life sentences.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 January 2002
(-) Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu dies at the age of 71 in Paris, France.

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9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 2004
(-) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in West Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Chateau Marmont, California, USA.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 2005
(-) TV-host Johnny Carson dies of emphysema at the age of 79 in Malibu, California, USA.

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50 Years Ago the Town Wasn't Big Enough for Both of Them

164 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1849
(+) Writer August Johann Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

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144 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1869
(+) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russia.

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138 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1875
(+) Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, USA.

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134 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1879
(+) Artist Francis Picabia is born in Feydieu, Gironde, France.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1892
(+) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault is born in Paris, France.

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112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1901
(-) Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 81 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Her death marks the end of the Victorian Age.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 January 1922
(-) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1925
(-) Murderer Nichol Ferranti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1930
(-) Nora Lake dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 42 in Kerhonkson, New York, USA.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1931
(+) Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is born in Anolaima, Colombia.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1931
(+) Musician Sam Cooke is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1934
(+) Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1936
(+) Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is born in Haynau, Silesia, Germany.

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76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1937
(+) Writer Joseph Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1940
(+) Actor John Hurt is born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1940
(+) Shirelle Addie ‘Micki’ Harris is born in Passiac, New Jersey, USA.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1946
(+) Impresario and band manager Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren is born in London, Stoke Newington, United Kingdom.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1957
(x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
He was charged with planting over 30 bombs.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1960
(x) The first atomic bomb-test by France.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1960
(+) INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1963
(-) Notorious bandit and murderer Teofilo Rojas aka Sparks aka Chispas, dies in mysterious circumstances in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia.
He was credited with 592 up to 3500 murders.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1969
(x) USSR-astronauts Sjalatov, Jelisejev, Kroenov and Volynov, who have just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are attacked by an unidentified young man during an official parade in Moscow, Russia.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1973
(-) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1973
(x) 176 pilgrims Die in Boeing 707 crash in Kano Airport, Nigeria.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1980
(x) 58-year-old Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is arrested by the KGB and expelled to Gorki in Russia.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 January 1983
(x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald and Dherran Fitzgerald are arrested in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1987
(-) Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol in front of cameras at a news conference at the age of 47 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 January 1994
(-) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas dies of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Universal City, California, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 2003
(-) Murderer Robert Andrew Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 2008
(-) Actor Heath Andrew Ledger dies of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 28 in New York City, New York, USA.

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75 Years Ago a Howlin' Wolf Manned Jack

220 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1793
(-) King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Paris, France.

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171 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1842
(+) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer is born in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

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158 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 January 1855
(+) Inventor and designer John Moses Browning is born in Ogden, Utah, USA.

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117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 January 1896
(+) Younger sister of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler Paula Hitler is born in Hafeld, Austria.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1899
(+) General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is born in Randalstown, Ireland.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1905
(+) Fashion designer Christian Dior is born in Granville, France.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1921
(+) Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh is born in East Camden, New Jersey, USA.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1922
(+) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas is born in Garden City, New York, USA.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1924
(-) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin dies of sclerosis of the cerebral arteries at the age of 53 in Gorky, Russia.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1925
(+) Actor Benny Hill is born in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1931
(-) Film star Alma Ruben commits suicide by drug-overdose after being arrested for smuggling drugs in Hollywood, California, USA.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1938
(+) Disc Jockey Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1938
(-) Film pioneer Georges Meliès dies at the age of 76 in Paris, France.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 January 1941
(+) Musician Plàcido Domingo is born in Madrid, Spain.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 1944
(+) Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, is born in Oscoda, Michigan, USA.

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63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1950
(-) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.

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63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1950
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Silke Maier-Witt is born in Nagold, Germany.

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61 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1952
(+) Multiple Murderer Raymond Lee Stewart is born in Burlington, North Carolina, USA.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1953
(+) Triple murderer Pierre Dale Selby aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is born in Trinidad.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1959
(-) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 January 1960
(x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Coalbrook, South Africa.
Many were trapped underground due to a cave-in.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1961
(-) Writer Blaise Cendrars originally Frédéric Louis Sauser, dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Paris, France.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1963
(x) 37-year-old Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany is sentenced to life-imprisonment for soaking his wife in nitric acid in San José, California, USA.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 January 1965
(-) Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 27 in Antwerpen, Gloriantlaan, Antwerp, Belgium.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 January 1968
(x) A US B52-bomber with 4 nuclear bombs aboard crashes in Thule, Greenland.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 January 1978
(-) Yvonne Pearson is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 22 in the United Kingdom.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1980
(x) Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 1985
(x) 71 Die in L118 Elektra crash in Reno, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 January 1997
(-) Elvis Impresario Tom Thomas Andrew Parker originally Andreas Cornelis ‘Dries’ van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1998
(-) Double Murderer Jose Jesus Ceja is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request were two chili beef burritos, two cans of Coke Classic and a slice of cherry pie.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 1998
(-) Murderer Lloyd Wayne Hampton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 January 2000
(-) Multiple murderer Larry Keith Robison is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 January 2002
(-) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, dies of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81 in Bel Air, California, USA.

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9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 January 2004
(-) Murderer Kevin Lee Zimmerman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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239 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 January 1774
(-) Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of an accident at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.

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238 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 January 1775
(+) Physicist André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, St. Nizier, France.

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117 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1896
(+) Comedian and actor George Burns is born in New York City, New York, USA.

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103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 January 1910
(+) Writer and naturalist Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1913
(-) Axe-murderer John Schild is executed by hanging in Berks City, Pennsylvania, USA.

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93 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 January 1920
(+) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1930
(+) Astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1936
(-) King of England George V originally George Frederick Ernest Albert, dies of a cold at the age of 70 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Physician Lord Dawson of Penn, hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 January 1939
(-) Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in Salem State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
It was the first execution in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 January 1946
(+) Filmmaker David Keith Lynch is born in Missoula, Montana, USA.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 January 1959
(+) Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1960
(x) 51-year-old Richard Bugdalle aka The Bully of Sachsenhausen, is convicted to 16 terms of life imprisonment in München, Germany.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1965
(-) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 January 1968
(x) 34-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1969
(+) Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is born in Kaposvar, Hungary.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1975
(-) Emily Jackson is hammered and stabbed 52 times with a Phillips screwdriver by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 42 in Leeds, Manor Street, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1982
(x) Officially 66 (but rumoured 340) Die in soccer riot during the game Spartak Moscow-Haarlem in Russia.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 January 1984
(-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller originally Johann Peter Weißmüller aka Tarzan, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 79 in Acapulco, in a mental hospital, Mexico.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 January 1985
(x) An unidentified member of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 January 1987
(-) Murderer Ramon Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1988
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is arrested on a charge of burglary in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

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21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1992
(x) 87 Die in Air Inter Light 148 Airbus A-300 crash in Strasbourg, France.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1993
(-) Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, dies of appendiceal cancer at the age of 63 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 January 1997
(-) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 January 1999
(-) Double Murderer Mark Arlo Sheppard is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 January 2000
(-) Murderer David Hicks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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