(x) 41-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his second wife Anne Boleyn in London, United Kingdom.
139 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 January 1874
(+) Writer William Somerset Maugham is born in Paris, France.
131 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1882
(+) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf is born in London, United Kingdom.
109 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1904
(x) 179 Die in coal-mine explosion in Cheswick, United Kingdom.
(+) Composer Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1917
(+) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine is born in Moscow, Russia.
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.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 January 1942
(x) Thailand declares war to the USA and United Kingdom .
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.
70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 January 1943
(+) Filmmaker Tobe Hooper known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, is born in Austin, Texas, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 1944
(+) Model, actress and fashion designer Anita Pallenberg is born in Rome, Italy.
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.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1950
(+) Child murderer Melvin Wayne White is born in Texas, USA.
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.
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.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 January 1975
(x) Over 100 Die in Passenger Ferry shipwreck in Dacca, India.
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.
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.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 January 1984
(x) 508 Die in oil-pipeline explosion in Cubato, Brazil.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 January 1985
(-) General René Audran is shot dead by Action Directe in Paris, France.
23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 January 1990
(-) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in Westminster, United Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 January 2005
(x) 258 Die in Mandher Devi temple stampede in Mandhradevi, India.
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.
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.
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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