40th year - N° 4 Saturday, 4 January 2025

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40th year - N° 4 Saturday, 4 January 2025

4 January / Today's 25 Events:

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(+) 240 years ago Tuesday 4th of January 1785 Philologist, folklorist and mythologist Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 216 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 1809 Inventor Louis Braille is born in Coupvray, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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(+) 187 years ago Thursday 4th of January 1838 Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 144 years ago Tuesday 4th of January 1881 Sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck is born in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 135 years ago Saturday 4th of January 1890 Con artist Victor Lustig aka The Count known for trying to sell the Eiffel Tower twice is born in Hostinné, Sudetenland, Austria-Hungary.

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(+) 129 years ago Saturday 4th of January 1896 Surrealist artist André Aimé-René Masson is born in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France.

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(x) 116 years ago Monday 4th of January 1909 40-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced in absentia to five years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 110 years ago Monday 4th of January 1915 Automobile designer and manufacturer Armand Peugeot dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 101 years ago Friday 4th of January 1924 Cop killer George Parker is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 86 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 1939 11-month-old Peter Seaton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Seaton was found in his cot in an inferno of blazing flames strong enough to push back a rescuer who had heard him screaming. After the firemen had put the flames out investigators revealed that nothing was found that could have caused the fire. What was especially remarkable was that the surrounding furniture was hardly damaged.

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(-) 76 years ago Martha Found Her in Bed with Ray Tuesday 4th of January 1949 Janet Fay is beaten to death with a hammer by serial killer Martha Beck aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with Raymond Fernandez) in 15 Adeline Place, Long Island, New York, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 1950 Robber, kidnapper and murderer John Louis Evans is born in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

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(x) 67 years ago Saturday 4th of January 1958 39-year-old Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Percival Hillary reaches the South Pole overland in Polheim, the South Pole.

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(-) 65 years ago Monday 4th of January 1960 Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at 180 km/h at the age of 47 in Petit-Villeblévin, Yonne, France. The driver of the Facel-Vega FV3B car, Michel Gallimard, who was Camus' publisher and close friend, also died in the accident.

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(-) 61 years ago Saturday 4th of January 1964 Mary Ann Sullivan is raped with a broomstick and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 44a Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 60 years ago Monday 4th of January 1965 Poet and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot aka T. S. Eliot dies of emphysema at the age of 77 in 3 Kensington Court Gardens, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 58 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 1967 Victim of Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter Adolf Schickel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 27 in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. Schickel was falsely accused of killing his 20-year-old girlfriend Ursula Rohling on 13 September 1966, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 4th of January 1974 Joni Lenz aka Karen Sparks or Sharon Clarke is beaten and sexually assaulted by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in University District, Seattle, Washington, United States. Clarke was probably Bundy's first known victim. A bed rod had been torn away from the bed and savagely rammed into her vagina. Clarke was transported to the hospital in a comatose state, suffering from damages that would affect her for the rest of her life.

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(-) 51 years ago Friday 4th of January 1974 Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Kalangal, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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(x) 41 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 1984 Sigrid Poeltz is attacked and raped by serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

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(-) 30 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 1995 Murderer Jesse DeWayne Jacobs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Thursday 4th of January 1996 Carmelina Russo is presumably abducted and killed by unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. Russo's remains were found in pieces floating in the river Escaut 17 days later in Chateau L'Abbaye, France.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 4th of January 2000 Cars and trucks in the evening traffic jam in Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 4th of January 2005 Double murderer James Scott Porter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Porter's last meal request was for two extra crispy fried chicken breasts, two thighs, onion rings, french fries, fried okra, five slices of buttered garlic bread, a bowl of country gravy, a couple slices of onions, pickles, jalapeno peppers, ketchup, mustard, sliced tomato, one pot of thick coffee and a banana split.

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(x) 13 years ago Wednesday 4th of January 2012 Céline Vidal is attacked by serial killer Philippe Pacque aka L'Épervier d'Amiens in Caen, Normandie, France. Vidal survived.

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40th year - N° 3 Friday, 3 January 2025

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40th year - N° 3 Friday, 3 January 2025

3 January / Today's 27 Events:

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(+) 2131 years ago Sunday 3rd of January 0106bc Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in Arpinum, Frosinone, Italy.

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(x) 594 years ago Monday 3rd of January 1431 19-year-old Heroine Jeanne d'Arc aka La Pucelle d'Orléans is handed over to the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon in Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, Oise, France.

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(x) 529 years ago Friday 3rd of January 1496 44-year-old Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine in Monte Ceceri, Fiesole, Toscana, Italy.

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(x) 504 years ago Monday 3rd of January 1521 38-year-old Theologian and church reformer Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X in the bull 'Decet Romanum Pontificem' in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 185 years ago Friday 3rd of January 1840 Catholic priest and missionary Father Damiaan, originally Jozef De Veuster aka The Apostle of the Lepers is born in Ninde, Tremelo, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 133 years ago Sunday 3rd of January 1892 Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien known for the fantasy work ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is born in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.

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(x) 129 years ago Friday 3rd of January 1896 33-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof is found in farmer Bahorn's pig stye, drunk and with his trousers down in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany. Großmann was sentenced to ten months imprisonment for bestiality.

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(+) 109 years ago Monday 3rd of January 1916 Murderess Toni Jo Henry, originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 105 years ago Saturday 3rd of January 1920 Attorney General of Germany Siegfried Buback is born in Wilsdruff, Sachsen, Germany.

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(x) 102 years ago Wednesday 3rd of January 1923 Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 89 years ago Friday 3rd of January 1936 Post-minimalist sculptor Richard Henry Nonas is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 81 years ago Monday 3rd of January 1944 Over 500 die in Galicia mail express, a shunting engine and a coal train collision and fire in Tunnel Nº 20, Torre del Bierzo, León, Spain. Although the official death toll was 78 and at the time it was estimated to be 200–250, more recent studies have estimated the death toll at over 500.

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(+) 76 years ago Monday 3rd of January 1949 Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski Sylvia Marie Likens is born in Lebanon, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago Tuesday 3rd of January 1956 Actor Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson known from Mad Max is born in Peekskill, New York, United States.

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(x) 66 years ago Saturday 3rd of January 1959 Alaska is admitted as 49th U.S. state in Juneau, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 63 years ago Wednesday 3rd of January 1962 36-year-old 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 61 years ago Friday 3rd of January 1964 Film director Bruce LaBruce, originally Justin Stewart or Bryan Bruce is born in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 58 years ago He Was Dead Alright Tuesday 3rd of January 1967 Nightclub operator Jack Ruby, originally Jacob Leon Rubenstein dies of pulmonary embolism secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma at the age of 56 in Parkland Hospital, 5201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas, United States. Both President Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald were pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.

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(-) 50 years ago Friday 3rd of January 1975 SS-Rottenführer Richard De Bodt aka De Beul van Breendonk dies of diabetes at the age of 67 in Prison de St. Gilles, Avenue Ducpétiaux 106, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 46 years ago There Was a Vacant Room Wednesday 3rd of January 1979 Hotelier Conrad Nicholson Hilton dies of natural causes at the age of 92 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(-) 45 years ago Thursday 3rd of January 1980 Naturalist, artist and writer Joy Friederike Victoria Adamson, originally Friederike Viktoria Gessner is murdered by discharged labourer Paul Nakware Ekai at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Eastern Province, Kenya.

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(x) 35 years ago Wednesday 3rd of January 1990 51-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter his prison cell is searched and several aviation maps and escape routes are found in Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 35 years ago Wednesday 3rd of January 1990 The body of 35-year-old Victim of Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer June Cicero is discovered by aerial surveillance in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States. She was strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer on 17 December 1989. The surveillance team also spotted Shawcross masturbating in his car on a bridge over Salmon Creek.

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(x) 31 years ago Monday 3rd of January 1994 125 die in Baikal Airlines Flight 130 inflight fire in Mamony, Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, .

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 3rd of January 2004 Setting sun in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 21 years ago Saturday 3rd of January 2004 148 die in Flash Airlines Flight 604 crash in The Red Sea, Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt.

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(-) 6 years ago Thursday 3rd of January 2019 Serial killer Gao Chengyong aka The Chinese Jack the Ripper is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Baiyin, Gansu, China.

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