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31st year - N° 24 Sunday, 24 January 2016
24 January / Today's 12 Events:
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96 years ago
Saturday 24th of January 1920
Artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 36 in Hôpital de la Charité, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.
When Modigliani died his twenty-one-year-old fiencée Jeanne Hébuterne was eight months pregnant with their second child. A day later Hébuterne was taken to her parents' home. There, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and their unborn child.
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76 years ago
Wednesday 24th of January 1940
Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.
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73 years ago
Sunday 24th of January 1943
Actress Sharon Marie Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.
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68 years ago
Saturday 24th of January 1948
SS-Helferin and prison guard Maria Mandl aka The Beast is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Więzienie Montelupich, ul. Montelupich, Kraków, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.
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68 years ago
Saturday 24th of January 1948
Lagerkommandant in KZ Auschwitz and Majdanek Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Więzienie Montelupich, ul. Montelupich, Kraków, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.
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67 years ago
Monday 24th of January 1949
Comedian and actor John Adam Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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51 years ago
Sunday 24th of January 1965
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 91 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
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50 years ago
Monday 24th of January 1966
Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Joseph Bradehoft is born in Greenville, Illinois, United States.
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50 years ago
Monday 24th of January 1966
117 die in Air India Boeing 707-437 Flight 101 crash in Rochers de la Tournette, Mont Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France.
In September 2013 a French alpinist found a metal box containing the Air India logo at the site of the plane crash on Mont Blanc containing rubies, sapphires, and emeralds worth more than $300.000, which he handed in to the police to be returned to the rightful owners.
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38 years ago
Tuesday 24th of January 1978
Physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser dies of unknown causes at the age of 67 in Linz am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
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27 years ago
Tuesday 24th of January 1989
Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States.
12 years ago The Eyes had it
Saturday 24th of January 2004
A tropical rainstorm at Newton Circus Food Court in Singapore, Singapore.