Sunday, January 6, 2013

20 Years Ago Giselle Goes to Her Grave

601 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 January 1412
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Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is born in Domrémy, Bar, France.
This is an educated guess, some scholars suggest that the actual birthdate is the 7th.

472 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 January 1540
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48-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fourth wife Anne of Cleves in Greenwich, Palace of Placenta, United Kingdom.

161 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 January 1852
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Inventor Louis Braille dies of tuberculosis at the age of 43 in Paris, France.

141 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 January 1872
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Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin is born in Moscow, Russia.

129 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 January 1884
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Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel dies of chronic nephritis at the age of 61 in Brno, Czechoslowakia.

101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 January 1912
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New Mexico becomes the 47th of the United States in the USA.

94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 January 1919
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26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 January 1938
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Singer and actor Adriano Celentano is born in Milan, Italy.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 January 1946
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Musician Syd Roger Keith Barrett is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

63 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 January 1950
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Double Murderer Daniel Raven is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.

58 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 January 1955
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Actor Rowan Sebastian Atkinson aka Mr. Bean, is born in Consett, Durham, United Kingdom.

53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1960
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32-year-old Mass Murderer Julian Andrew Frank detonates a bomb on a National Airlines flight in Bolivia, North Carolina, USA.
He had taken a life insurance for almost one million dollars, payable to his wife, to take care of a money deal that went wrong. All other 33 on board were killed as well.

48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1965
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30-year-old Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges performs a self-trepanation with a Black & Decker power drill, a surgical knife and a hypodermic syringe for local anesthetic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 January 1967
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84 Die in bus collision in Terpate, the Philippines.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 January 1972
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44-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is arrested in Siemanowice, Poland.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 January 1975
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Mary Rudolph is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Dumont, New Jersey, USA.
His son Michael Kallinger also takes part in the attack.

37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 January 1976
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Françoise Jakubowska is battered, shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 20 in Villers-Saint-Paul, France.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1982
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Over 100 Dolphins commit suicide by hitting the coast-line in Kioesjoe, Japan.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1982
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Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 January 1986
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Andrée Ladam is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 14th, rue Baillou, France.

24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 January 1989
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Murderer George C Mercer aka Tiny, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.
He was the first person to be executed after the re-installment of the death penalty in Missouri in 1971.

20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1993
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Choreographer Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev dies of AIDS at the age of 54 in Hôpital Notre Dame du Perpétuel Secours in Levallois-Perret, Paris, France.

20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1993
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Musician Dizzy John Birks Gillespie dies of cancer at the age of 75 in New Jersey, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 January 1999
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Murderer John Glenn Moody is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 January 2004
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Mentally deranged murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
He lived on Death Row longer than any Arkansas prisoner.

9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 January 2004
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Murderer Ynobe Katron Matthews is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 January 2006
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Musician Lou Allen Rawls dies of lung and brain cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, USA.

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