40th year - N° 15 Wednesday, 15 January 2025

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40th year - N° 15 Wednesday, 15 January 2025

15 January / Today's 31 Events:

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(+) 403 years ago Saturday 15th of January 1622 Playwright and actor Molière, originally Jean-Baptiste Poquelin known for Le Misanthrope is born in 1 Rue Sauval, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 119 years ago Monday 15th of January 1906 Shipping magnate and businessman Aristotelis Socrates Onassis is born in Smyrna, İzmir, Turkey.

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(+) 107 years ago Tuesday 15th of January 1918 2nd President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Hussein Nasser is born in Bakos, Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

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(-) 107 years ago Tuesday 15th of January 1918 Murderer Frederick Small is executed by hanging at the age of 51 in State Prison for Men, Concord, New Hampshire, United States.

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(-) 106 years ago Wednesday 15th of January 1919 Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back by members of the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision 43-year-old Otto Runge, 30-year-old Kurt Vogel and 25-year-old Hermann Souchon at the age of 48 in Tiergarten, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Official declarations said Liebknecht had been shot in an attempt to escape.

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(-) 106 years ago Wednesday 15th of January 1919 Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg aka Rote Rosa is shot in the back of the head and thrown in the Landwehr Canal by members of the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision 43-year-old Otto Runge, 30-year-old Kurt Vogel and 25-year-old Hermann Souchon at the age of 48 in Landwehrkanal, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Luxemburg's body was not found until 1 June 1919.

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(-) 101 years ago Tuesday 15th of January 1924 Heinrich Koch is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 96 years ago Tuesday 15th of January 1929 Activist and African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, originally Michael King is born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 93 years ago Friday 15th of January 1932 Murderer Guy Fairley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Covington County Jail, 203 First Street, Collins, Mississippi, United States. The hanging of Fairley was so badly handled that it created a public outcry against hanging in Mississippi.

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(+) 90 years ago Tuesday 15th of January 1935 Double murderer Robert Alton Harris is born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States.

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(+) 84 years ago Wednesday 15th of January 1941 Singer-songwriter, musician and artist Don Van Vliet, originally Don Glen Vliet aka Captain Beefheart is born in Glendale, California, United States.

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(x) 81 years ago He Was Plaster Casted Saturday 15th of January 1944 A plaster cast is made from the torso of 36-year-old Serial killer Bruno Lüdke as an example of a 'born criminal' in Kriminalmedizinisches Zentralinstitut der Sicherheitspolizei, Sensengasse 2, Wien, Wien, Austria. Lüdke's plaster bust is still kept in the Museum für Gerichtsmedizin in Wien.

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(-) 80 years ago Monday 15th of January 1945 Murderer Henry William Merten is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 80 years ago Monday 15th of January 1945 Murderer Walter Lorne Wilson aka Walter Higgins is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 35 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Wednesday 15th of January 1947 Murder victim Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia is found severely tortured, murdered, drained of all her blood and sliced in half at the waist at the age of 23 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California, United States. Short's unsolved murder has been the source of widespread speculation leading to many suspects along with several books and film adaptations of the story. Short's murder is one of the oldest unsolved murder cases in Los Angeles history.

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(x) 74 years ago Monday 15th of January 1951 45-year-old Wife of camp commandant and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch, originally Margarete Ilse Köhler aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe is sentenced to life imprisonment in Augsburg, Bayern, Germany. At least four separate witnesses for the prosecution testified that they had seen Koch choose tattooed prisoners, who were then killed, or had seen or been involved in the process of making human-skin lampshades from tattooed skin. However, this charge was dropped by the prosecution when they could not prove lampshades or any other items were actually made from human skin.

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(-) 65 years ago Friday 15th of January 1960 Murderer Homer Bunckley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Georgia State Prison, Georgia Highway 147, Reidsville, Georgia, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Saturday 15th of January 1972 32-year-old Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci starts his performance series 'Seedbed' in Sonnabend Gallery, 420 W. Broadway, Soho, New York, New York, United States. In the gallery there was a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extended across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery. The performance lasted until 29 January.

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(x) 49 years ago She Accomplished Little Thursday 15th of January 1976 46-year-old Attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford Sara Jane Kahn Moore is sentenced to life imprisonment in San Francisco, California, United States. "Am I sorry I tried? Yes and no. Yes, because it accomplished little except to throw away the rest of my life. And, no, I'm not sorry I tried, because at the time it seemed a correct expression of my anger."

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(-) 47 years ago Sunday 15th of January 1978 Margaret Bowman is bludgeoned with a piece of oak firewood and garroted with a nylon stocking by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house, 655 W Jefferson St, Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

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(-) 47 years ago Sunday 15th of January 1978 Lisa Levy is beaten and strangled by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house, 655 W Jefferson St, Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Bundy tore one of Levy's nipples, bit deeply into her left buttock and sexually assaulted her with a hair mist bottle. During his trial in 1979 incriminating physical evidence included impressions of the bite wounds Bundy had inflicted on Levy's buttock matched to castings of Bundy's teeth.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 15th of January 1978 32-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness attacks 20-year-old Kathy Kleiner, 21-year-old Karen Chandler and 21-year-old Cheryl Thomas as they were sleeping in their rooms in Florida State University Chi Omega sorority house, 655 W Jefferson St, Tallahassee, Florida, United States. All three survived Bundy's attack with permanent damage.

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(-) 44 years ago Thursday 15th of January 1981 Mobster Meyer Lansky, originally Meier Suchowlański aka The Mob's Accountant dies of lung cancer at the age of 79 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Tuesday 15th of January 1985 Thirteenth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes aka CCC in Nato Cultural Centre, 13 Chaussée de Louvain, Woluwe-Saint-Etienne, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. It was the eight action in their First Anti-Imperialist October Campaign.

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(-) 39 years ago Wednesday 15th of January 1986 Yvonne Schaible is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 20 Rue Censier, Ve, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 15th of January 1989 Over 150 die in Chittagong bound express train and Dhaka bound mail train head-on collision in Tongi station, Maizdi Khan, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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26 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 15th of January 1999 A streetsleeper in Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 26 years ago Friday 15th of January 1999 40-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Pain' in an abandoned Landrover in Tharin Village, Taling Chan, Central Thailand, Thailand. HANOI - A 32-year-old man spoke for the first time in his life after undergoing an operation on his abcessed foot, doctors from a southern provincial hospital said yesterday. A doctor from the casualty department of Binh Dinh Provincial Hospital said that Truong Van Xa uttered his first words to describe his pain on Dec 31. Although Xa had been injected with local anaesthetic, when the operating doctor made the first incision on his infected wound, he screamed. "Oh my gosh, it's so painful," Xa exclaimed, according to his doctor, Truong Thi Thom who performed the operation. Xa, who until that moment had lived his life as a deaf mute, astonished the doctor by then saying "thank you doctor."In an abandoned LandRover I took off my shoes and made an incision in my foot. The above newspaper article I left behind.

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(x) 24 years ago Monday 15th of January 2001 Wikipedia goes online in the Whole Wide World.

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(-) 22 years ago Wednesday 15th of January 2003 Murderer John Richard Baltazar is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Baltazar requested 'Cool Whip' and cherries but did not receive the food because the prison does not stock it.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 15th of January 2013 A layer of snow on our rooftop terrace in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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40th year - N° 14 Tuesday, 14 January 2025

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40th year - N° 14 Tuesday, 14 January 2025

14 January / Today's 38 Events:

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(+) 2108 years ago Thursday 14th of January 0083bc Roman politician Marcus Antonius is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 283 years ago Sunday 14th of January 1742 Astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician and meteorologist Edmond Halley known for Halley’s Comet dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Greenwich, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 150 years ago Thursday 14th of January 1875 Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kaysersberg, Elsass, Germany.

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(-) 138 years ago He Hung From a Rope Made of Red and White Silk Friday 14th of January 1887 Murderer Thomas J. Cluverius is executed by hanging in Richmond, Virginia, United States. A rope made of red and white silk was used to hang Cluverius. The intention was to cut it into pieces to sell as souvenirs after the hanging. Herbert Tobias Ezekiel who witnessed the hanging, wrote that the Sheriff had oiled the rope with sweet oil rather than cold grease which would have facilitated the slipping of the noose and broken Cluverius's neck. When the trap was sprung the silk rope stretched until Cluverius's feet were just inches from the ground. The loop extended nearly eighteen inches above his head and it took ten minutes for him to slowly stran gle to death.

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(-) 127 years ago He Went to Wonderland Friday 14th of January 1898 Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll, originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in The Chestnuts, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 119 years ago Sunday 14th of January 1906 SS-Hauptsturmführer Gerhard Schiedlausky is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 117 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1908 55-year-old Tennis player and murderer Vere St. Leger Thomas Goold is sentenced to death for the murder of Emma Levin on 4 August 1907 in Monaco-Ville, Monaco.

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(+) 116 years ago Thursday 14th of January 1909 Film director Joseph Walton Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 105 years ago His Dodge Veg-O-Matic Stalled Wednesday 14th of January 1920 Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 56 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 104 years ago Friday 14th of January 1921 Murderer Pedro Dominguez is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 100 years ago Wednesday 14th of January 1925 Mass murderer Ben Burchfield aka The Bristol Axe Murderer is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Burchfield hacked to death his estranged wife Delline and her 13-year-old son Charles, 50-year-old James W. Smith, his wife and their 2-year-old daughter Ruby and set the house on fire on 26 November 1922.

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(+) 100 years ago Wednesday 14th of January 1925 Poet, writer and actor Yukio Mishima, originally Kimitake Hiraoka is born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 14th of January 1933 Experimental filmmaker Stan Stanley James Brakhage, originally Robert Sanders is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Brakhage was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth.

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(-) 89 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1936 Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 87 years ago Friday 14th of January 1938 Murderer Elvin Jack Odom is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 84 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1941 Actress Faye Dorothy Dunaway known for her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde is born in Bascom, Florida, United States.

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(+) 84 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1941 Singer-songwriter Neil Leslie Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Friday 14th of January 1944 Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 79 years ago Monday 14th of January 1946 General practitioner and serial killer Harold Frederick Shipman aka Dr Death is born in Bestwood Estate, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 74 years ago Sunday 14th of January 1951 National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 23-year-old Spree killer Billy William Edward Cook aka Billy Boy Cockeyed Cook in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Monday 14th of January 1952 Possible victim of Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness Nancy Perry Baird is born in East Layton, Utah, United States.

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(x) 71 years ago Thursday 14th of January 1954 Actress Marilyn Monroe, originally Norma Jeane Mortenson is born in San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California, United States.

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(-) 68 years ago Monday 14th of January 1957 Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 58 in 232 Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills, California, United States. At the time of his death Bogart only weighed 36kgs.

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(+) 67 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1958 Mass murderer Colin Ferguson aka The Long Island Rail Road Shooter is born in Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica.

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(x) 64 years ago Saturday 14th of January 1961 Serial killer Peter Hößl aka Der Wochenendmörder is arrested and charged with two murders in München, Bayern, Germany. Hößl had been released from prison on 13 February 1959 after serving two years for another murder.

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(-) 56 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1969 Michèle Louvet is shot by serial killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre in Nogent-sur-Oise, Oise, France. Louvet survived.

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(x) 51 years ago Monday 14th of January 1974 36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 43. Aktion aufführungstag laut partitur 15.1., laut einladung 14.1. in Modernes Theater, Hesseloherstraße 3, Schwabing, München, Bayern, Germany. Nitsch' 43. Aktion lasted three hours.

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(-) 48 years ago Friday 14th of January 1977 Writer Anaïs Nin, originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell known for Delta of Venus dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 1986 Founder and main organizer of the Paris-Dakar rally Thierry Sabine is killed when his Ecureuil helicopter crashes into a dune during a sudden sand-storm at the age of 37 in Rharous, Tombouctou, Mali. Also killed onboard were the 33-year-old singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, 24-year-old helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, 25-year-old journalist Nathalie Odent and 37-year-old radiophonic engineer Jean-Paul Lefur.

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(-) 35 years ago Sunday 14th of January 1990 Andrey Kravchenko is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Kravchenko's body was found on 19 February 1990.

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(-) 26 years ago Thursday 14th of January 1999 Theatre director Jerzy Marian Grotowski dies of leukemia and a heart condition at the age of 66 in Pontedera, Toscana, Italy.

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26 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 14th of January 1999 Some furry animal in the Zoo in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(x) 25 years ago Friday 14th of January 2000 58-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is having brain surgery due to suffering from a cerebral aneurism in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Hindley was admitted to the hospital under the pseudonym 'Christine Charlton'.

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(-) 22 years ago Tuesday 14th of January 2003 Triple murderer Samuel Clark Gallamore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago Wednesday 14th of January 2004 Murderer Lewis Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago Wednesday 14th of January 2004 Murderer Kenneth Eugene Bruce is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Bruce's final meal request was for a double cheeseburger, french fries, orange juice and pecan pie.

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(-) 18 years ago Sunday 14th of January 2007 Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra dies of stomach cancer at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 4 years ago The Pizza and Strawberry Shakes Were Wonderful Thursday 14th of January 2021 Multiple murderer Corey Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Johnson's last words were "The pizza and strawberry shakes were wonderful, but I didn't get the jelly-filled doughnuts that I ordered. What's with that? This should be fixed. I am at peace."

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