(x) Start of the Great Fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
147 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 January 1866
(+) Occult Teacher George Ivanowitsch Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Leniniakin, Russia.
The exact date of his birth remains unknown (conjectures range from 1866 to 1877).
105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1908
(x) 171 Die in Rhodes Opera House cinema fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, USA.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 January 1909
(+) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.
94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1919
(+) Actor Robert Langford Modini Stack is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 January 1922
(-) Murderer Ricardo Lauterio is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 January 1922
(-) Murderer Thomas Roman is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 January 1928
(-) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Winnipeg, Canada.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 January 1928
(-) Murderer Garfield Fuller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1941
(-) Writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 58 in Zurich, Switzerland.
72 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1941
(-) Lotte Marlow is assaulted by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 25 in Berlin, Germany.
She survived.
70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 January 1943
(-) Allen M. Small dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 52 in Deer Island, Maine, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 January 1944
(x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is released from prison by the French Gestapo in Fresnes, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 January 1946
(+) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1958
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
(x) 35-year-old Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, plays live in Folsom State Prison, California, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1975
(-) Lesley Whittle is kidnapped and killed by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, at the age of 17 in Highley, Shropshire, United Kingdom.
33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 January 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Happy Star/Nominette" in Aalst, Fabrieksken, East Flanders, Belgium.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 January 1981
(x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 January 1982
(x) 78 Die in Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 crash into the icy Potomac River in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 January 1984
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for one murder in Seminole County Courthouse, Florida, USA.
It’s his eighth life-sentence, and the first time ever that somebody is sentenced for the murder of an unidentified person.
28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 January 1985
(x) 418 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Awash, Ethiopia.
It was the worst train disaster in Africa.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1986
(-) Françoise Vendome is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 12th, 68 rue de Charenton, France.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 January 1991
(x) 40 Die in soccer riot in Johannesburg, South Africa.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 January 1992
(x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
18 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 January 1995
(-) Malaysian drug trafficker Chan Ting Chong aka Steven, is executed by the Firing Squad in Indonesia.
He was the first person known to have been executed for drug-related offences in Indonesia.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 January 1999
(-) Murderer Jess James Gillies is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 January 1999
(-) Cop Killer Troy Dale Farris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 January 1999
(-) Murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is executed at the age of 37 in Missouri, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 January 2002
(-) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Frederick Shipman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 56 in Wakefield, Her Majesty's Prison, United Kingdom.
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