(+) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière is born in Paris, France.
107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 January 1906
(+) Billionaire Aristoteles Sokratis Onassis is born in Smyrna, Turkey.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 January 1918
(-) Wife-murderer Frederick Small is executed by hanging in Concord State Prison, New Hampshire, USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 January 1918
(+) President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 January 1919
(-) Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back of the head by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.
94 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 January 1919
(-) Rosa Luxemburg is shot in the back of the head and thrown in the Landwehr Canal by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.
Her body was only found on 1 june 1919.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 January 1924
(-) Heinrich Koch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 20 in Hannover, Germany.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 January 1929
(+) Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 January 1932
(-) Murderer Guy Fairley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Mississippi, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 January 1941
(+) Musician and artist Don Donald Glen Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, is born in Glendale, California, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 January 1945
(-) Murderer Henry W. M. Merton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in Oregon, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 January 1945
(-) Murderer Walter Higgins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 32 in Oregon, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 January 1947
(-) Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is found severely tortured, murdered, drained of all her blood and cut to pieces by persons unknown at the age of 22 in Los Angeles, Leimert Park, California, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 January 1951
(x) 44-year-old KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.
(+) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 January 1971
(x) 30-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci starts his performance series "Seedbed" at Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 January 1978
(-) Lisa Levy is clubbed to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 20 in Tallahassee, Chi Omega Sorority House and nearby apartments, Florida, USA.
21-year-old Karen Chandler, Kathy Kleiner and Cheryl Thomas are severely battered but survived.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 January 1981
(-) Gangster Meyer Lansky originally Majer Suchowlinski, dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 January 1985
(x) Thirteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Nato Cultural Centre, Brabant, Belgium.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 January 1986
(-) Yvonne Schaible is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 4th, 20 rue Censier, France.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 January 1989
(x) Over 150 Die in 2-train collision in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
They crashed head-on into each other.
14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 January 1999
(x) 39-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Pain" in an abandoned Landrover in Bangkok, Taling Chan, Thailand.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 January 2001
(x) Wikipedia goes online.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 January 2003
(-) Murderer John Richard Baltazar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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