Saturday, January 9, 2016

31st year - N° 9 Saturday, 9 January 2016

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31st year - N° 9 Saturday, 9 January 2016

9 January / Today's 16 Events:
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462 years ago

Saturday 9th of January 1554

234th Pope Gregorius XV, originally Alessandro Ludovisio is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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180 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.


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126 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.


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122 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.


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116 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."


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108 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.


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93 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.


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93 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.


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58 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.


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47 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.


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45 years ago

Saturday 9th of January 1971

25-year-old Mass murderer John Linley Frazier aka The Killer Prophet slashes open his arm and writes "Freedom from Pigs" on the wall of his cell in Santa Cruz, California, United States.


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37 years ago

Tuesday 9th of January 1979

Structural engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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30 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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18 years ago

Friday 9th of January 1998

34-year-old Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is sentenced to death in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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12 years ago

Friday 9th of January 2004

33-year-old Murderer Raymond Dale Rowsey in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

Rowsey's execution was the 888th carried out in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Rowsey's final meal request was pizza, chicken wings, two packages of peanut M&M's, and a Pepsi.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 9th of January 2005

A window in a museum in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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