(x) 27-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France.
187 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 January 1826
(-) Artist Théodore Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 34 in Paris, France.
133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 January 1880
(+) General Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1918
(+) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is born in Scornicesti, Romania.
88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 January 1925
(+) Actor Paul Leonard Newman is born in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA.
85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 January 1928
(+) Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, is born in Paris, France.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1932
(-) Chewing gum industrialist William Jr. Wrigley dies at the age of 70 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1938
(x) The dismembered body of 41-year-old Florence Polillo is found, she is the third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, 2315 East 20th Street, Ohio, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1944
(+) Political Activist Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 January 1947
(+) Actor Patrick Dewaere is born in Saint-Brieuc, France.
(x) 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery, presumably by 55-year-old Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, in Teikoku Bank, Toshima, Tokio, Japan.
He posed as a health officer, and ordered16 employees to drink some 'dysentery medicine, what was actually potassium cyanide.
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1955
(+) Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 January 1958
(+) Murderer John Hardy Rose is born in North Carolina, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 January 1958
(x) 167 Die in Nankai Maru capsizing in Awaji Island, Japan.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1962
(-) Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Napoli, Capodicine Airport, Italy.
He was meeting a scriptwriter who was about to write his life as a film.
50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1963
(x) 15-year-old Douglas Godfrey shoots his mother in a self-created ‘sniper’ attack in Bloomfield township, Michigan, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1965
(x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1965
(x) Hindi becomes the official language in India.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1966
(x) The Beaumont Children 9-year-old Jane Nartare, 7-year-old Arnna Kathleen and 4-year-old Grant Ellis collectively disappear in Adelaide, Gleneig Beach, South Australia, Australia.
It remains Australia's most infamous cold case.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1968
(x) 69 Die in Dakar submarine wrecking in the Mediterranean Sea.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1968
(-) Linda Slawson is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1971
(x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is found guilty of the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1974
(x) The RAF aka Rote Armee Fraktion - Aufbauorganisation calls itself the successor of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe in Germany.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1979
(-) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 1983
(-) Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 20 in London, United Kingdom.
22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 1991
(x) 31-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Did Dillinger Die Right There and Then?" in Leuven, Galerie Transit, Brabant, Belgium.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 January 1996
(-) Child rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 January 1999
(-) Murderer Martin S. Vega is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 January 2000
(-) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt dies at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 January 2008
(-) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 49 in Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center , California, USA.
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