(+) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is born in London, United Kingdom.
90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 January 1923
(x) French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr-area up to Bochum as a repercussion for damages suffered during WWI in Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 January 1928
(-) Writer Thomas Hardy dies of a cold-inflammation at the age of 87 in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 January 1935
(x) 37-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo from Hawaï to California in the USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 January 1936
(+) Artist Eva Hesse is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
75 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 January 1938
(x) 31-year-old Writer Samuel Beckett is stabbed and wounded by a pimp in Paris, France.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 January 1941
(+) Artist Barry Flanagan is born in Prestatyn, Wales, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 January 1950
(x) Start of the trial against 25-year-old Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, who was charged with the murder of his wife and baby daughter, who were actually killed by John Christie, in London, Old Bailey N°1 Court, United Kingdom.
60 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 January 1953
(x) First Bomb explosion by 49-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York’s Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 January 1955
(-) Murderer Eugene Monahan is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 January 1957
(-) Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Colorado, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 January 1957
(-) Murderer Otto Austin Loel is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 January 1959
(-) Carrol Jackson is killed and raped by Melvin Rees aka The Sex Beast, in Apple Grove, Virginia, USA.
He also forced her husband and two children in the trunk of a car, and killed them later.
47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 January 1966
(-) Artist Alberto Giacometti dies at the age of 64 in Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland.
(-) Composer Reszoe Seress aka Rudi, originally Spitzer, commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 78 in Budapest, Hungary.
He actually survived jumping out of his window, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire. His song 'Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)' sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 January 1979
(-) Diane Wilder is strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellington, Bayside Drive, Washington, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 January 1979
(x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 1" in Gent, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, East Flanders, Belgium.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 January 1982
(x) Start of the trial against 42-year-old Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 January 1983
(-) USSR-leader Nikolay Viktorovitsch Podgorny dies at the age of 79 in Moscow, Russia.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 January 2005
(-) Actress Thelma White originally Thelma Wolpa aka Reefer Madness, dies of pneumonia at the age of 94 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, USA.
The last years of her life she spent solitary with her Mexican Hairless Dogs.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 January 2007
(-) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Edward Wilson dies at the age of 75 in Capitola, California, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 January 2008
(-) Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary dies of heart failure at the age of 88 in Auckland, City Hospital, New Zealand.
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