41st year - N° 31 Saturday, 31 January 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 31 Saturday, 31 January 2026

31 January / Today's 32 Events: (-) 420 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1606 Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 229 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1797 Composer Franz Peter Schubert is born in Nussdorfer Straße 54, Himmelpfortgrund, Wien, Wien, Austria. (+) 222 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1804 Ex-convict turned prospering businessman César-Joseph Guillaume Regnault is born in XIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 175 years ago  Friday 31st of January 1851 Double murderer Reuben Dunbar is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in New York Hospital, New York City, New York, United States. Dunbar killed his two nephews 9-year-old David and 7-year-old Stephen V. Lester in Westerlo on 28 September 1850. (+) 105 years ago  Monday 31st of January 1921 Tenor and actor Mario Lanza, originally Alfred Arnold Cocozza is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. (+) 103 years ago  Wednesday 31st of January 1923 Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. (+) 89 years ago  Sunday 31st of January 1937 Minimal composer Philip Morris Glass is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. (+) 87 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1939 Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is born in Webster, South Dakota, United States. (+) 85 years ago  Friday 31st of January 1941 Founder and leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche is born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal Province, South Africa. (+) 77 years ago  Monday 31st of January 1949 Serial killer Robert Andrew 'Bob' Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher is born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States. (-) 72 years ago He Didn't Dance to the Radio Sunday 31st of January 1954 Electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of his apartment at the age of 64 in New York City, New York, United States. Armstrong was financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA over the FM patent dispute. (+) 72 years ago He Was Born a Human Sunday 31st of January 1954 Murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan is born in Geneva, Illinois, United States. (-) 71 years ago  Monday 31st of January 1955 Leader of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) John Raleigh Mott dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Orlando, Florida, United States. (+) 70 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1956 Musician John Joseph Lydon aka Johnny Rotten is born in Benwell Road, Holloway, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (x) 62 years ago  Friday 31st of January 1964 27-year-old Serial killer Vladimir Ionesyan aka Mosgaz aka Iwan the Axeman is sentenced to death for five murders in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. With the proceeds of his crimes Ionesyan supported his former‐ballerina girlfriend Alevtina Dmitrieva. She was sentenced to 15 years as his accomplice. (-) 59 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1967 Bozena Raczkiewicz is killed and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. The neck of the bottle used to violate and mutilate Rackiewicz bore Staniak's fingerprints. He was arrested a few days later. (-) 57 years ago  Friday 31st of January 1969 Spiritual master Meher Baba, originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka Avatar dies of intense muscular spasms that had no clear origin at the age of 75 in Meherazad, Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra, India. (-) 52 years ago  Thursday 31st of January 1974 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn, originally Szmuel Gelbfisz aka Samuel Goldfish dies of natural causes at the age of 95 in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 51 years ago  Friday 31st of January 1975 Clyde Hays is stabbed to death by serial killer Vaughn Greenwood aka The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, United States. (-) 48 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1978 Elena Rytka is hammered and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Great Northern Street, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (x) 47 years ago  Wednesday 31st of January 1979 50-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is released from a psychiatric hospital after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Norfolk Regional Center, Norfolk, Nebraska, United States. (-) 40 years ago  Friday 31st of January 1986 Virginie Labrette is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 25 rue de Wattignies, XIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 39 years ago  Saturday 31st of January 1987 Artist and activist with Femen Oksana Shachko is born in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. (-) 31 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1995 Murderer Clifton Charles Russell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 31 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 1995 Murderer Willie Ray Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (x) 30 years ago  Wednesday 31st of January 1996 91 die in Central Bank bomb explosion in Central Bank, Colombo, Basnahira Palata, Sri Lanka. Another 1400 people are injured when a commando of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam crash a lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives through the main gate. The suicide bombers were Raju, Subramanium Vigneswaram aka Kittu and Sivasamy Dharmendra aka Raju. (x) 26 years ago  Monday 31st of January 2000 88 die in Alaska Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Flight 261crash in Point Mugu, Anacapa Island, California, United States. Due to the extreme impact forces, very few bodies were found intact. All occupants were identified using fingerprints, dental records, tattoos, personal items, and anthropological examination. (-) 24 years ago  Thursday 31st of January 2002 Cop killer Randall Wayne Hafdahl aka Jack Douglas Cone is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Hafdahl's last meal request was for chef salad with ranch dressing, double meat cheese burger (all the way), french fries, ketchup and a chocolate shake. (-) 20 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 2006 Double murderer Jaime Elizalde is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Elizalde's last meal request was for fried chicken, onion rings, French fries, two bowls of peach cobbler, two milk shakes and two glasses of orange juice. 19 years ago  Wednesday 31st of January 2007 The neon sign on top of the Central Railway Station in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. (x) 17 years ago  Saturday 31st of January 2009 113 die in overturned truck oil spill ignition in Molo, Nakuru, Kenya. The incident occurred when onlookers attempted to obtain remnants of the spilled fuel for personal use. (-) 14 years ago  Tuesday 31st of January 2012 Artist Mike Michael Kelley commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 58 in South Pasadena, California, United States.

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