Monday, January 14, 2013

115 Years Ago Lewis Went to Wonderland

271 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 January 1742
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Astrologist Edmund Halley dies at the age of 85 in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

138 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 January 1875
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Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kayserberg, Germany.

115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 January 1898
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Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

105 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 1908
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Murderess Marie Girodin Wilkinson St-Léger Gould is executed by the Guillotine in Monaco.

104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 January 1909
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Filmmaker Joseph Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.

93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 January 1920
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Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 55 in New York City, New York, USA.

92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 January 1921
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Murderer Pedro Dominguez is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 January 1925
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Writer Yukio Mishima is born in Tokio, Japan.

88 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 January 1925
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Murderer Ben Burchfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.

80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 January 1933
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Experimental film-maker Stan James Stanley Brakhage originally Robert Sanders, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
He was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth.

77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 1936
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Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 January 1938
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Murderer Elvin Jack Odom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 1941
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Actress Faye Dunaway is born in Bascom, Florida, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 January 1944
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Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Germany.

68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 January 1945
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Musician Neil Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 January 1946
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General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Frederick Shipman is born in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

62 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 January 1951
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National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 22-year-old Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook in the USA.

56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 January 1957
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Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 57 in Holmby Hills, 232 Mapleton Drive, California, USA.
At the time of his death he only weighed 36kgs.

52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 January 1961
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Serial Killer Peter Hoessl aka Der Wochenendmörder, is arrested and charged with 5 murders in 5 years in München, Germany.

44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 1969
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Michèle Louvet is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, France.
She survived.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 January 1972
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King of Denmark Frederick the 9th dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Denmark.

38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 1975
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Louise Greenberg is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Margate, New Jersey, USA.
He is accompanied by his son Michael.

36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 January 1977
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Erotic writer Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, dies at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 1986
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Paris-Dakar rally-organiser Thierry Sabine dies in an Ecureuil helicopter-crash at the age of 36 in Mali.
Also killed were the singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, journalist Nathalie Odent and Jean-Paul Lefur.

23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 January 1990
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Andrej Krawtschenko is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Schachty cemetary, Russia.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 January 1999
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Dramatist Jerzy Grotowski dies of cancer at the age of 65 in Pontadera, Tuscany, Italy.

10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 January 2003
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Multiple murderer Samuel Clark Gallamore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Murderer Lewis Williams is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Murderer Kenneth Eugene Bruce is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 January 2007
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Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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