(+) Writer August Johann Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
144 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1869
(+) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russia.
138 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1875
(+) Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, USA.
134 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1879
(+) Artist Francis Picabia is born in Feydieu, Gironde, France.
121 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1892
(+) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault is born in Paris, France.
112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1901
(-) Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 81 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Her death marks the end of the Victorian Age.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 January 1922
(-) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1925
(-) Murderer Nichol Ferranti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1930
(-) Nora Lake dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 42 in Kerhonkson, New York, USA.
82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1931
(+) Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is born in Anolaima, Colombia.
82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1931
(+) Musician Sam Cooke is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.
79 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1934
(+) Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1936
(+) Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is born in Haynau, Silesia, Germany.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1937
(+) Writer Joseph Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1940
(+) Actor John Hurt is born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1940
(+) Shirelle Addie ‘Micki’ Harris is born in Passiac, New Jersey, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1946
(+) Impresario and band manager Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren is born in London, Stoke Newington, United Kingdom.
56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1957
(x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
He was charged with planting over 30 bombs.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1960
(x) The first atomic bomb-test by France.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 January 1960
(+) INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(-) Notorious bandit and murderer Teofilo Rojas aka Sparks aka Chispas, dies in mysterious circumstances in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia.
He was credited with 592 up to 3500 murders.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 1969
(x) USSR-astronauts Sjalatov, Jelisejev, Kroenov and Volynov, who have just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are attacked by an unidentified young man during an official parade in Moscow, Russia.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1973
(-) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 January 1973
(x) 176 pilgrims Die in Boeing 707 crash in Kano Airport, Nigeria.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 1980
(x) 58-year-old Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is arrested by the KGB and expelled to Gorki in Russia.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 January 1983
(x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald and Dherran Fitzgerald are arrested in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 January 1987
(-) Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol in front of cameras at a news conference at the age of 47 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback.
19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 January 1994
(-) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas dies of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Universal City, California, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 January 2003
(-) Murderer Robert Andrew Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 January 2008
(-) Actor Heath Andrew Ledger dies of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 28 in New York City, New York, USA.
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