Wednesday, January 23, 2013

90 Years Ago a Stove was Sold

230 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1783
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Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, is born in Grenoble, France.

210 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 1803
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Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness dies at the age of 77 in Beaumont, Kildare, Ireland.

181 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1832
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Artist Edouard Manet is born in Paris, 5 Rue des Petits-Augustins, France.

115 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 1898
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Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein is born in Riga, Latvia, Russia.

101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 January 1912
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Blacks Belle Hathaway, John Moore, Eugene Hamming and Dusty Cruthfield are lynched by hanging and riddled with gunfire by some 100 white men in Hamilton, Georgia, USA.

90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 January 1923
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The furniture, including the stove, of 53-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sold at a public auction in Versailles, France.

85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1928
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Actress Jeanne Moreau is born in Paris, France.

82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 1931
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Ballerina Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova known for The Dying Swan, dies of pleurisy at the age of 48 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 January 1932
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Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 1944
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Artist Edvard Munch dies at the age of 80 in Ekerly, Norway.

66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1947
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Artist Pierre Bonnard dies at the age of 80 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 1948
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Murderer Wardell H. Henderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1969
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Therèse Adam is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 49 in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue de Frères Péraux, France.

40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 January 1973
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Alexandros Onassis dies in a plane-crash at the age of 24 in Athens, Ellinikon International Airport, Greece.

38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1975
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Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Department of Defense offices in Oakland, California, USA.

37 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 1976
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Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin dies of natural causes at the age of 44 in the USSR.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1978
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Theresa Wallin is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 22 in Sacramento, Tioga Way 2630, California, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1986
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Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys dies of heart-failure at the age of 64 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1989
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Over 150 Die in Sol de Oro goldmine explosion in Ica, Peru.

24 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 January 1989
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Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.

16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1997
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Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request was a cheeseburger, fries and coffee with milk. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine" were his last words.

16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 January 1997
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23-year-old Serial Killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper, is found guilty of raping and murdering three prostitutes and cutting them up with a chain saw in Athens, Greece.
He is sentenced to 13 life sentences.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 January 2002
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Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu dies at the age of 71 in Paris, France.

9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 January 2004
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Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in West Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Chateau Marmont, California, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 January 2005
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TV-host Johnny Carson dies of emphysema at the age of 79 in Malibu, California, USA.

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