33rd year - N° 26 Friday, 26 January 2018

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33rd year - N° 26 Friday, 26 January 2018

26 January / Today's 20 Events:

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(x) 678 years ago Tuesday 26th of January 1340 28-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France in Vrijdagmarkt, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 192 years ago Il a Quitté le Radeau Thursday 26th of January 1826 Artist Théodore Jean-Louis André Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 35 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 112 years ago Friday 26th of January 1906 Actress Starr Wyman Faithfull aka The Drowned Girl is born in Evanston, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 100 years ago Saturday 26th of January 1918 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians is born in Scornicești, Olt, Romania. Nicolae was the third of ten children in the Ceaușescu family.

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(+) 93 years ago Monday 26th of January 1925 Actor Paul Leonard Newman is born in Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 26th of January 1928 Film director Roger Vadim, originally Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 86 years ago Tuesday 26th of January 1932 Chewing gum industrialist William Wrigley dies of natural causes at the age of 71 in Wrigley Mansion, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 70 years ago There Was no Dysentery Outbreak Monday 26th of January 1948 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery by 56-year-old Tempera painter and presumed mass poisoner Sadamichi Hirasawa in Teikoku Ginko, Shiinamachi, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. A man calling himself an epidemiologist arrived at the Imperial Bank, explaining that he was a public health official who had orders to inoculate the staff against a sudden outbreak of dysentery. He gave all sixteen people present a pill and a few drops of liquid. Those present drank the cyanide solution and died while he robbed the bank of 160.000 yen. Hirasawa is believed to have been falsely charged.

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(+) 63 years ago Wednesday 26th of January 1955 Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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(-) 59 years ago Stieg Er Aus Monday 26th of January 1959 Heilstrom mystic Bruno Gröning dies of stomach cancer at the age of 53 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 56 years ago They Didn't Discuss the Ending of the Film Friday 26th of January 1962 Mobster and father of modern organized crime in the United States Charles Luciano, originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Aeroporto Internazionale, Napoli, Campania, Italy. Luciano had gone to the airport to meet with American producer Martin Gosch about a film based on his life. After the meeting Luciano was stricken with a heart attack and died.

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(x) 53 years ago Tuesday 26th of January 1965 19-year-old Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 39 years ago He Was in Undeniable Intimate Circumstances Friday 26th of January 1979 Businessman, philanthropist, public servant and politician Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in 13 West 54th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Rockefeller died in the presence of his 25-year-old aide Megan Marshack. "It became known that he had been alone with a young woman who worked for him, in undeniably intimate circumstances, and in the course of that evening had died from a heart attack."

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(-) 35 years ago Wednesday 26th of January 1983 Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 27 years ago Saturday 26th of January 1991 32-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Did Dillinger Die Right There and Then?' in Galerie Transit, Tiensevest 39, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. The space was divided in two parts by a cutout décor. On one side I was laying naked on a rotating metal table lighted by a stroboscope. From the other side the public could see the performance only through a few small holes in the décor. The stroboscope made it look like sometimes I was on the table and sometimes I wasn't.

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(-) 18 years ago Wednesday 26th of January 2000 Science fiction writer Alfred Elton van Vogt dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 18 years ago Wednesday 26th of January 2000 Science fiction writer Alfred Elton van Vogt dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 26th of January 2003 A crumpled page about the murder of John F. Kennedy recovered from artist Francis Bacon's studio in its reconstruction at The Huge Lane Gallery in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(-) 10 years ago Saturday 26th of January 2008 Only child of actor Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi Christian Devi Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 50 in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, 1300 N Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 7 years ago Wednesday 26th of January 2011 Serial rapist and killer Mike James Mitchell DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow dies of pneumonia at the age of 71 in Federal Medical Center, Old North Carolina Highway 75, Butner, North Carolina, United States.

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