Sunday, January 1, 2017

32nd year - N° 1 Sunday, 1 January 2017

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32nd year - N° 1 Sunday, 1 January 2017

1 January / Today's 23 Events:
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586 years ago

Saturday 1st of January 1431

214th Pope Alexander VI, originally Roderic Llançol i de Borja is born in Xàtiva, Valencia, Spain.


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513 years ago

Friday 1st of January 1504

Theologian and church reformer Caspar Creuziger aka Cruciger the Elder is born in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.


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282 years ago

Saturday 1st of January 1735

Silversmith, engraver, early industrialist and Patriot Paul Revere is born in North End, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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137 years ago

Thursday 1st of January 1880

King of Siam Rama VI, originally Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua aka Vajiravudh is born in Grand Palace, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.


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122 years ago

Tuesday 1st of January 1895

1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation John Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.


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105 years ago

Monday 1st of January 1912

46-year-old Revolutionary leader and medical practitioner Yat-sen Sun aka The Father of the Nation announces the establishment of the Republic of China and is inaugurated as the Provisional President of the Republic in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.


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98 years ago

Wednesday 1st of January 1919

Writer J. D. Jerome David Salinger known for The Catcher in the Rye is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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98 years ago

Wednesday 1st of January 1919

Actress Carole Landis, originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste aka The Actress Who Could Have Been but never Was is born in Fairchild, Wisconsin, United States.


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98 years ago

Wednesday 1st of January 1919

Boxer Rocky Graziano, originally Thomas Rocco Barbella is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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90 years ago

Saturday 1st of January 1927

Dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart, originally Maurice-Jean Berger is born in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.


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86 years ago

Thursday 1st of January 1931

39-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker attempts to derail the Vienna-Passau Express D-train in Ansbach, Bayern, Germany.


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77 years ago

Monday 1st of January 1940

Serial killer Clifford Robert Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


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65 years ago

Tuesday 1st of January 1952

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Knut Detlef Folkerts is born in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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64 years ago Came that Fateful Day

Thursday 1st of January 1953

Singer-songwriter Hank Hiram King Williams aka Luke the Drifter aka The Hillbilly Shakespeare aka The Singing Kid dies of a drug overdose at the age of 30 in Pure Oil Gas Station, 611 Main Street, Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States.

Williams hired college student Charles Carr to drive him to a concert on New Year's Day at the Windsor Theater in Canton, Ohio when Williams was discovered unresponsive in the back seat. The only items found in the backseat of Williams' 1952 Cadillac were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song 'Then Came that Fateful Day'. The cause of death was heart failure caused by the combinati on of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate.


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62 years ago

Saturday 1st of January 1955

Victim of Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness Denise Marie Naslund is born in Washington, United States.


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61 years ago

Sunday 1st of January 1956

Founder of Herbalife International Ltd Mark Reynolds Hughes is born in La Mirada, California, United States.


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59 years ago He Fed the Dead Family's Cat

Wednesday 1st of January 1958

45-year old Peter Smart, his 42-year-old wife Doris and their 10-year old son Michael are shot dead by 31-year-old Serial killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw in 38 Sheepburn Road, Uddingston, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

Manuel stayed in their household for nearly a week, eating leftovers from a Hogmanay meal and even feeding the family cat.


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46 years ago

Friday 1st of January 1971

32-year-old Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is treated for rectal bleeding in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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45 years ago

Saturday 1st of January 1972

Actor, singer and entertainer Maurice Auguste Chevalier dies of a heart attack at the age of 16 in Hôpital Necker, Rue de Sèvres, XVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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39 years ago

Sunday 1st of January 1978

213 die in Air India Boeing 747-237B Flight 855 crash in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.


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36 years ago

Thursday 1st of January 1981

Club Moral is founded by artists Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Danny Devos in Club Moral, Kattenberg 122, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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22 years ago

Sunday 1st of January 1995

Serial killer Fred Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer commits suicide by hanging at the age of 54 in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom.



17 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 1st of January 2000

The first sunrise of the New Millenium as seen from my quarters in Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand.


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