(+) 225th Pope St. Pius V originally Michele Ghisleri, is born in Bosco, Italy.
485 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1528
(+) Queen of Navarra Jeanne d’Albret is born in Paris, France.
307 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 1706
(+) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, USA.
262 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 1751
(-) Composer Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni dies of diabetes at the age of 79 in Venezia, Italy.
139 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 January 1874
(-) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke due to pneumonia, and the other one of fear, at the age of 62 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and lifted right testicle.
120 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1893
(-) 19th president of the USA Rutherford Birchard Hayes dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Fremont, Ohio, USA.
119 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 January 1894
(x) 33-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Georgiana Yoke as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, USA.
116 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 1897
(+) Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is born in Auxerre, 100 Rue de Paris, Yonne, France.
114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1899
(+) Gangster Al Alphonse Capone is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1899
(+) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, is born in London, United Kingdom.
94 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 January 1919
(x) 460 Die in Chaonia Steamer shipwreck in the Strait of Messina.
85 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1928
(+) Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is born in London, United Kingdom.
(+) Musician and actress Dalida originally Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti is born in Caïro, Egypt.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 January 1942
(+) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammed Ali is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 1943
(+) Symbionese Liberation Army member Wendy Masako Yoshimura is born in Manzanar Internment Camp for Japanese Americans , California, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 January 1944
(+) Singer and actress Françoise Madeleine Hardy is born in Paris 9th, France.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 January 1947
(-) Margot M. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 20 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
63 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1950
(x) 11 Thieves steal $1.218.211,29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities from the Brinks Building Offices in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Although all of the gangsters were captured and put on trial only 58.000 Dollars were ever recovered. The rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1956
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is committed to DeWitt State Hospital, diagnosed with schizophrenia and paranoia in Auburn, California, USA.
During his treatment he received 23 electroshocks in three months time.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1961
(-) Patrice Lumumba is assasinated while imprisoned by Joseph Kasavubu at the age of 35 in Katanga, Belgian Congo.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 January 1966
(x) A US-bomber with 4 Hydrogen-bombs aboard crashes into the sea in Palomares, Spain.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 January 1975
(x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 January 1977
(-) Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.
He gained international notoriety for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled. His ashes were scattered from an airplane over Spanish Fork, Utah.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1978
(x) 25-year-old Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is stabbed by a white inmate in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 January 1981
(x) Over 200 Die in ferry capsizing in Meghna, Bangladesh.
25 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 1988
(x) 108 Die in CAAC Iljoeshin-18 crash in Chongquing, China.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1989
(-) Mass Murderer Patrick Edward Purdy aka The S.A.T.A.N. Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 5 and wounding over 30 children at the age of 24 in Stockton, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
All of the fatally shot victims and many of the wounded were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 1995
(-) Double Murderer Mario Marquez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 January 2002
(x) 42-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Only the Lonely" in Antwerp, Oudemansstraat 13, Antwerp, Belgium.
8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 January 2005
(-) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies of multiple strokes two days before at the age of 85 in Beijing, China.
He spent nearly 16 years under house arrest after he opposed a military intervention to end the student-led protest at Tienanmen Square.
7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 January 2006
(-) Multiple Murderer Clarence Ray Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 76 in San Quentin State Prison, California, USA.
His last meal consisted of Buffalo steak and frybread as well as a bucket of KFC white-meat-only chicken, sugar-free pecan pie, sugar-free walnut ice cream and whole milk. The ice-cream was left out to thaw for one hour, which he turned into a milkshake by hand.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 January 2007
(-) Cop Killer Johnathan Moore is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 2010
(x) 68-year-old War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the fourth time in Iraq.
3 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 January 2010
(-) Actor Erich Wolf Segal dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in London, United Kingdom.
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