2119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 January 106bc
(+) Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in Arpinum, Italy.
582 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 January 1431
(x) 19-year-old Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon in Beaulieu, France.
517 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 January 1496
(x) 43-year-old Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine in Italy.
173 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 January 1840
(+) Missionary Father Damiaan originally Jozef De Veuster, is born in Tremelo, Brabant, Belgium.
121 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 January 1892
(+) Writer John Reginald Reuel Tolkien aka The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
97 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 January 1916
(+) Murderess Toni Jo Henry originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 January 1920
(+) Attorney-General Siegfried Buback is born in Wilsdruff, Germany.
90 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 January 1923
(x) 29-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring marries Carin Freiin von Fock in Munich, Germany.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 January 1949
(+) Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski, Sylvia Marie Likens is born in Lebanon, Indiana, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 January 1951
(+) Actor Mel Gibson aka Mad Max, is born in Peerskill, New York, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 January 1959
(x) Alaska becomes the 49th US state in Alaska, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 January 1962
(x) 35-year-old Revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in Rome, Italy.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 January 1964
(+) Gay Zombie film-maker Bruce LaBruce originally Justin Stewart, is born in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 January 1967
(-) Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby dies of a heart attack and bloodclot in his lungs at the age of 55 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 January 1975
(-) Executioner of Breendonk-KZ Richard De Bodt dies at the age of 68 in Brussels, St. Gilles prison, Brabant, Belgium.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 January 1979
(-) Hotel-magnate Conrad Nicholson Sr. Hilton dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 January 1980
(-) Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is murdered by unidentified poachers at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Kenya.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 January 1990
(x) 50-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, his prison cell is searched, several aviation maps and escape routes are found in Lemon Creek Prison, Juneau, Alaska, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 January 1990
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is arrested in Salmon Creek, New York, USA.
He was masturbating in his car on a bridge over the creek in which the body of his latest victim was floating.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 January 1994
(x) 120 Die in Bajkal Toepolev 154 crash in Irkoetsk, Siberia, Russia.
9 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 January 2004
(x) 148 Die in Flash Airlines Flight 604 Boeing 737 crash in the Red Sea.
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