Tuesday, January 1, 2013

60 Years Ago Came that Fateful Day

582 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 January 1431
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214th Pope Alexander VI is born in Valencia, Spain.

509 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 January 1504
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Theologian and church reformer Caspar Cruciger is born in Leipzig, Germany.

492 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 January 1521
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37-year-old Reformer Martin Luther is banned from the church in a papal bull in Rome, Italy.

358 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 January 1655
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236th Pope Innocentus X originally Giambattista Pamfili, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.

278 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 January 1735
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Patriot, silversmith and activist Paul Revere is born in Boston, North End, Massachusetts, USA.

132 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 January 1881
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King Vajiravudh of Siam Rama VI originally Phra Mongkutklao, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.

118 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 January 1895
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FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

101 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 January 1912
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45-year-old Revolutionary Leader Yat-sen Sun aka Sun Zhongshan aka Sun Deming, calls out the Republic of China in China.

94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 January 1919
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Writer Jerome David Salinger is born in New York, New York, USA.

94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 January 1919
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Actress Carole Landis originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, is born in Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA.

94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 January 1919
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Boxer Rocky Graziano originally Thomas Rocco Barbella, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 January 1927
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Choreographer Maurice Béjart is born in Marseille, France.

82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 January 1931
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Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, attempts to derail the Vienna-Passau Express D-train in Ansbach, Austria.

73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 January 1940
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Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, is born in Richmond, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 January 1946
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Eniac , the first American computer is finished by scientists John William Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 January 1952
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Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is born in Singen, Germany.

60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 January 1953
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Musician Hank Hiram King Williams dies of a drug overdose at the age of 29 in Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA.
The only items found in the backseat of Hank's car were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song, 'Then Came that Fateful Day'.

57 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 January 1956
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Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Reynolds Hughes is born in California, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 January 1958
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Peter Smart is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 45 in Uddingston, Scotland, United Kingdom.
His wife Doris and their 10-year-old son Michael were also shot dead.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 January 1971
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90 Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin-18 crash in Moscow, USSR.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 January 1971
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31-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is treated for rectal bleeding in the Oregon State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.

41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 January 1972
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Actor and musician Maurice Auguste Chevalier dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 January 1978
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213 Die in Air India Jumbo crash in Bombay, India.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 January 1981
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Club Moral is founded by artists Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK and Danny Devos aka DDV in Antwerp, Belgium.

26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 January 1987
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Deborah Dudley is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 January 1995
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Serial Killer Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 53 in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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