(-) Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is assassinated by his Praetorian Guards at the age of 28 in Rome, Italy.
1937 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 January 76
(+) Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus is born in Rome, Italy.
308 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1705
(+) Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, is born in Andria, Italy.
167 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1846
(-) Murderess Elisabeth Van Valkenburgh is executed by hanging in Fulton, New York, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 January 1920
(-) Artist Amadeo Clemente Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 35 in Paris, France.
92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1921
(-) Eventual Murderer Morris Stein aka Stinie Morrison, dies of hungerstriking in claiming his innocence in a murder trial in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 January 1940
(+) Performance artist Vito Acconci is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 January 1943
(+) Actress Sharon Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1944
(+) Countertenor Klaus Nomi originally Klaus Sperber, is born in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
(-) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Kraków, Montelupich Prison, Poland.
64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1949
(+) Actor John Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 1952
(+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Siegfried Hausner is born in Selb, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1961
(+) Actress Natassja Kinski is born in Berlin, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1961
(x) A B-52 Stratofortress bomber carrying two 24-megaton H-bombs breaks up in mid-air in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA.
One weapon nearly detonates; its uranium core is still lost.
48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 January 1965
(-) Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1966
(+) Seventeenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Joseph Bradehoft is born in Wisconsin, USA.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1966
(x) 117 Die in Air India Boeing 707 crash in Mont Blanc region, France.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1978
(-) Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser dies at the age of 66 in Linz am Rhein, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 1983
(-) Ervin Gibson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 1985
(x) 70-year-old Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is released from prison in Italy.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 January 1986
(-) Founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Lafayette Ronald Hubbard dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1989
(-) Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 42 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1989
(x) Raphael’s "La Madonna di Foligno" is attacked with a fire-bomb by an unidentified wheelchair-patient in Rome, Vatican Museum, Italy.
22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 January 1991
(-) Pascale Escarfail is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 January 1992
(-) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Arkansas, USA.
It took medical staff more than 50 minutes to find a suitable vein in Rector's arm. Witnesses were not permitted to view this scene, but reported hearing Rector's loud moans throughout the process. During the ordeal, Rector (who suffered serious brain damage from a lobotomy) tried to help the medical personal find a vein.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1995
(-) Murderer Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He is one of only a few white criminals to have been executed for murdering a black victim.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 January 1995
(-) Murderer Clifton Russell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 January 2000
(-) Murderer Billy George Jr. Hughes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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