Friday 29 January 2016
37 events for Friday 29 January 2016
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253 Years Ago Today
Saturday 29th of January 1763
Poet Louis Racine dies of unknown causes at the age of 71 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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173 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of January 1843
25th President of the United States William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, United States. -
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171 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 1845
The Evening Mirror first publishes 'The Raven' by 36-year-old Writer Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
He was paid $9 for its publication. -
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156 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of January 1860
Writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is born in Kupecheskaya Street, Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. -
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136 Years Ago Today
Thursday 29th of January 1880
Comedian, actor and juggler W. C. Fields, originally William Claude Dukenfield is born in Darby, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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124 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of January 1892
Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is born in Csantavér, Vojvodina, Serbia. -
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112 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of January 1904
Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.
Egbert was the first man to be hanged at the Oregon State Penitentiary. -
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111 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of January 1905
Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is born in New York City, New York, United States. -
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111 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of January 1905
Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess is born in Oxford, Indiana, United States. -
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110 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of January 1906
32-year-old Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or is brought to trial for the strangling of two children, but found not guilty in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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92 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of January 1924
Composer Luigi Nono is born in Zattere al Ponte Lungo, Venezia, Dorsoduro, Veneto, Italy. -
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86 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 1930
33-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Francs for attempted fraud in Tribunal de Première Instance, 1 Rue du Palais de Justice, Sens, Yonne, France. -
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77 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of January 1939
Feminist theorist and writer Germaine Greer known for The Female Eunuch is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. -
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76 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of January 1940
190 die in train derailment in Ajikawaguchi station, Osaka, Kinki, Japan. -
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75 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 1941
General and dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 70 in Ithakē, Ionian Islands, Greece. -
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74 Years Ago Today
Thursday 29th of January 1942
Singer, actress and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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71 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of January 1945
Actor Tom Thomas William Selleck known from Magnum P. I. is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. -
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64 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of January 1952
Musician Tommy Ramone, originally Erdélyi Tamás is born in Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary. -
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62 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of January 1954
Talk show host Oprah Gail Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.
Winfrey was born to an unmarried teenage mother who said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter. -
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58 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 1958
Edith Middleton dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in London, Pimlico, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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58 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 1958
35-year-old Merle Collison is shot dead by spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red in Douglas, Wyoming, United States.
Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is." -
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57 Years Ago Today
Thursday 29th of January 1959
34-year-old Patricia Vinico Berkman, originally Patricia Vinnicombe aka Pnina is stabbed to death by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. -
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45 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of January 1971
A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 20-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Raghenotunnel, Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium. -
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43 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of January 1973
35-year-old Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Lazio, Italy. -
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42 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of January 1974
Unidentified serial killer Zodiac sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, United States.
It was the Zodiac's last authenticated piece of correspondence. -
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37 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of January 1979
17-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer known for Not Liking Mondays opens fire on a school across he street in Grover Cleveland Elementary School, 6365 Lake Atlin Avenue, San Diego, San Carlos, California, United States.
She killed principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar and wounded 9 children. After firing thirty rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for several hours before surrendering. During the siege she had a telephone conversation with a journalist who reported that she had said "I don't like Mondays". -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of January 1980
Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Great Schnozzola dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, United States. -
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31 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of January 1985
Kidnapper Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 46 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Engelbrecht and his 29-year-old wife Helma were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment the day before for torturing and sexually abusing 16-year-old Silvia Hantke in their basement from 10 February 1982 until 23 May 1983. -
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28 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of January 1988
25-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 40 years in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Erskine has since been found suffering chronic schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder and now held at the maximum security Broadmoor Hospital. -
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15 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of January 2001
Murderer Alexander Caruthers aka Gus is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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14 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of January 2002
Multiple murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.
Anderson's last meal before the execution was two grilled cheese sandwiches, one pint of cottage cheese, a hominy/corn mixture, one slice of peach pie, one pint of chocolate chip ice cream, and radishes. -
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13 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 2003
Theoretical chemist Ilya Romanovich Prigogine dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. -
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13 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of January 2003
Double murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Dinkins was sentenced to death for the murders of 46-year-old Katherine Thompson and 32-year-old Shelly Cutler in Thompson's Massage Therapy Clinic in Beaumont, Texas on 12 September 1990. His last meal was for liver and onions, two double meat hamburgers with bacon and mayonnaise, two orders of French fries, vanilla ice cream, two Dr. Peppers, salad with ranch dressing, and M&M's. -
12 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Thursday 29th of January 2004
A late night dinner of green curry chicken at Kansama Restaurant on Serangoon Road in Singapore, Singapore. -
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11 Years Ago Today
Saturday 29th of January 2005
Guitarist Eric Ronald Griffiths known from The Quarrymen dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. -
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11 Years Ago Today
Saturday 29th of January 2005
Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Facility, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Ford was the only women on Nevada's Death Row, sentenced to death for killing six people, and injuring 23 more, driving down a Reno sidewalk on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. -
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10 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of January 2006
Video artist Nam June Paik dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 74 in Miami, Florida, United States.
In 1996 Paik had a stroke which paralyzed his left side.
Friday 22 January 2016
25 events for Friday 22 January 2016
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228 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of January 1788
Poet George Gordon Byron aka Lord Byron is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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167 Years Ago Today
Monday 22nd of January 1849
Writer August Johan Strindberg is born in Sundhetskollegiets hus, Stockholm, Riddarholmen, Södermanland, Sweden. -
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141 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of January 1875
Film director and Hollywood pioneer D. W. David Llewelyn Wark Griffith aka The Inventor of Hollywood is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, United States. -
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137 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of January 1879
Cubist artist Francis Picabia, originally Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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124 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of January 1892
Aircraft designer Marcel Dassault, originally Marcel Bloch is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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115 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of January 1901
Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 82 in Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Queen Victoria's death marked the end of the Victorian Era. -
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94 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of January 1922
258th Pope Benedictus XV, originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa dies of pneumonia at the age of 32 in Palazzo Apostolico, Rome, Vatican City, Lazio, Italy. -
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86 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of January 1930
Nora Lake dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 42 in Kingston, New York, United States.
Mrs. Lake was found dead on the second floor in a bedroom. Her body was on the floor next to a dresser and a window that overlooked a porch roof. Her face was burned, and there were blisters on her legs but her clothes were not burned. -
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86 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of January 1930
Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito is born in Anolaima, Cundinamarca, Colombia. -
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82 Years Ago Today there was no Magic to it
Monday 22nd of January 1934
Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby known from ‘The Magician’ is born in San Francisco, California, United States. -
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79 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of January 1937
Writer Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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76 Years Ago Today
Monday 22nd of January 1940
Singer Addie Harris aka Micki Harris known from The Shirelles is born in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. -
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76 Years Ago Today
Monday 22nd of January 1940
Actor John Vincent Hurt is born in Chesterfield, East Midlands, United Kingdom. -
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70 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of January 1946
Impresario, clothes designer and boutique owner Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren is born in London, Stoke Newington, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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59 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of January 1957
54-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States.
Metesky was charged with planting over 30 bombs. -
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47 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of January 1969
USSR-cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev who had just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are injured by 21-year-old Would-be assassin Viktor Ivanovich Ilyin who fired shots into the motorcade while attempting to kill Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.
Ilyin assumed the second car carried Brezhnev. Unbeknownst to him this Zil limousine was filled only with cosmonauts from earlier missions: Alexey Leonov, Valentina Tereshkova, Georgy Beregovoy and Andrian Nikolayev. -
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43 Years Ago Today
Monday 22nd of January 1973
176 pilgrims die in Alia Boeing 707-3D3C crash in Kano Airport, Kano, Nigeria.
There were 26 survivors. -
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43 Years Ago Today
Monday 22nd of January 1973
36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Baynes Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of January 1980
59-year-old Nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov is arrested following his public protests against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 and sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. -
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33 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of January 1983
43-year-old Serial killer Richard Fran Biegenwald aka The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer and Dherran Fitzgerald are arrested in 507 Sixth Avenue, Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States.
A search of Biegenwald's home revealed a large cache of weapons and drugs. Police confiscated several pipe bombs, handguns, rifles, shotguns, a machine gun, Rohypnol, chloral hydrate, marijuana, a live puff adder, venom collecting apparatus, and floor plans for several area notable residences and businesses. -
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29 Years Ago Today
Thursday 22nd of January 1987
Treasurer of Pennsylvania Budd Robert Dwyer commits suicide by a shot in his mouth at the age of 48 in 2931 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
Dwyer killed himself in front of the gathered reporters at a press conference with a .357 caliber revolver. Dwyer's suicide was subsequently broadcast to a wide television audience across the state of Pennsylvania. He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback. -
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22 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of January 1994
Actor Telly Aristotelis Savalas known from the TV-series ‘Kojak’ dies of complications of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Sheraton-Universal Hotel, 333 Universal Hollywood Drive, Universal City, California, United States. -
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13 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of January 2003
Multiple murderer Robert Andrew Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Lookingbill's last meal request was for fried chicken, French fries, iced tea, apple pie, jalapenos, garlic bread, and vanilla ice cream. -
11 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Saturday 22nd of January 2005
Lying in bed with flu and waking up with the haunting ghost of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. -
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8 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of January 2008
Actor Heath Andrew Ledger dies as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 29 in 421 Broome Street, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.
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