159 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 January 1854
(x) 300 Die in San Francisco steamer shipwreck in the USA.
137 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 January 1876
(+) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 January 1895
(x) 35-year-old French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in Paris, France.
He was sent to Devil's Island off French Guiana.
103 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 January 1910
(-) Murderer Jose Lopez is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
99 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 January 1914
(+) Artist Nicolas de Staël is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
99 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 January 1914
(+) Actor George Bessolo Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, is born in Woolstock, Iowa, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 January 1924
(-) An unidentified boy is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 January 1932
(+) First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, is born in Siberia, USSR.
80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 January 1933
(+) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte is born in Sosoye, Belgium.
80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 5 January 1933
(-) 30th president of the USA Calvin John Coolidge dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 January 1942
(+) Murderer Henry John Burnett is born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 January 1945
(-) Murderer John Earnest Ransom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 January 1945
(-) Murderer Robert E. Lee Folkes is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in Oregon, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 January 1946
(+) Actress Diane Keaton is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 5 January 1952
(-) Murderer James Lanmore is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 January 1979
(-) Musician Charles Mingus dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 56 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 January 1982
(-) Tammy Williams is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 17 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 January 1990
(x) Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren and 7 of his followers are arrested on suspicion of ritual murder in Missouri, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 5 January 1993
(-) Child-rapist and murderer Westley Allan Dodd is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 5 January 1998
(-) Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher, dies from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing at the age of 62 in South Lake Tahoe, California, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 5 January 2005
(-) Manager of ‘The Doors’ Daniel Danny Sugarman dies of lung cancer at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 5 January 2007
(-) Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Ando dies of heart failure at the age of 96 in Osaka, Japan.
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