29th year - N° 9 Thursday, 9 January 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 29th year - N° 9 Thursday, 9 January 2014

9 January / Today's 10 Events: (-) 178 years ago Saturday 9th of January 1836 Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 33 in Barrière Saint-Jacques, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 124 years ago Thursday 9th of January 1890 Journalist, satirist and writer Kurt Tucholsky aka Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel is born in 13 Lübecker Straße, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (x) 120 years ago Tuesday 9th of January 1894 33-year-old Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor marries Georgiana Yoke posing as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, United States. At the time Holmes was still married to Clara Lovering and Myrta Belknap. (-) 114 years ago Tuesday 9th of January 1900 Murderess Louise Josephine Jemima Masset is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. She killed her illegitimate son Manfred on 27 October 1899. Her last words were "What I suffer is just." (+) 106 years ago Thursday 9th of January 1908 Philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist Simone de Beauvoir, originally Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir is born in 101 Boulevard Montparnasse, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 91 years ago Tuesday 9th of January 1923 Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson, originally Graydon is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On 3 October 1922 her lover Frederick Bywaters stabbed her husband Percy Thompson to death. When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson. (-) 91 years ago Tuesday 9th of January 1923 Murderer Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On 3 October 1922 he stabbed his lover Edith Thompson's husband Percy Thompson to death. (-) 56 years ago Thursday 9th of January 1958 Hit man Elmer Burke aka Trigger is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. He spent his last evening eating a final meal of steak, smoking six cigars and reading newspaper clippings about himself. (x) 45 years ago Thursday 9th of January 1969 44-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 7 1/2-year-old girl in her bed in La Roque, Jersey, United Kingdom. (-) 28 years ago Thursday 9th of January 1986 Yvonne Couronne is tortured and strangled by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 8b Rue Sarette, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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