(-) Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Westminster, United Kingdom.
216 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1797
(+) Composer Franz Peter Schubert is born in Vienna, Lichtenthal, Austria.
92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 1921
(+) Tenor and actor Mario Lanza originally Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
(+) Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 January 1937
(+) Composer Philip Glass is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1939
(+) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is born in Webster, South Dakota, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1941
(+) Founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is born in Ventersdorp, South Africa.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 1949
(+) Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, is born in Cuhahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 January 1954
(-) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor window of his flat at the age of 63 in New York, New York, USA.
He was lonely and depressed over the FM patent dispute.
58 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 1955
(-) Founder of the WMCA John Raleigh Mott dies at the age of 89 in Cornell, New York, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1956
(+) Sex Pistol John Joseph Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, is born in London, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 January 1959
(-) Jack Larber dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 72 in San Francisco, Laguna Honda Home, California, USA.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1964
(x) Serial Killer Wladimir Ionesyan aka Iwan The Axeman, is sentenced to death for five murders in Armenia, Russia.
46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1967
(-) Bozena Raczkiewicz is knifed and mutilated to death with a broken bottle by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 18 in Lodz, Poland.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1969
(-) Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, dies of intense muscular spasms at the age of 74 in Meherazad, India.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 January 1974
(-) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn originally Szmuel Gelbfisz, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Hollywood, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 January 1974
(x) 92 Die in Pan Am Airliner crash in Pago Pago, Samoa.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1978
(-) Elena Rytka is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 18 in Huddersfield, Great Northern Street, United Kingdom.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 January 1979
(x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is released from the Norfolk Regional Center after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 January 1986
(-) Virginie Labrette is tortured to death by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 76 in Paris 12th, 25 rue de Wattignies, France.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 1995
(-) Murderer Willie Ray Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 January 1996
(x) 86 Die in an explosives-filled truck crash in Colombo, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
At least 1400 people are injured.
13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 January 2000
(x) 88 Die in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 MD-83 crash into the Pacific Ocean in Point Mugu, California, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 January 2002
(-) Murderer Randall Wayne Sr. Hafdahl aka Jack Douglas Cone, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 January 2006
(-) Double murderer Jaime Jr. Elizalde is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 January 2009
(x) 113 Die in an oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenya.
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