7 January 1973 - Mark James Robert Essex Dies

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1502 (+) 226th Pope Gregorius XIII originally Ugo Buoncompagni, is born in Bologna, Italy. 1536 (-) First wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon dies of cancer at the age of 50 in Kimbolton Castle, United Kingdom. 1611 (x) Start of the trial against 50-year-old Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices for violating and killing over 650 girls and maidens in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslowakie. Her servants Ilona Nagy's fingers are torn off with red hot pincers, Dorottya Szentes Szeoch and Janos Ficzko Ujvary are decapitated, drained of all their blood and thrown into the fire, while Bathory is sentenced to be walled in in her own castle. in Cachtice, Hungary. 1800 (+) 13th president of the USA Millard Fillmore is born in Summerhill, Cayuga County, New York, USA. 1896 (+) Serial Killer Joe Joseph D. Ball aka The Alligator Man aka the Butcher of Elmendorf aka the Bluebeard of South Texas, is born in Elmendorf, Texas, USA. 1898 (-) Murderer William Henry Theodore Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in San Quentin, California, USA. 1898 (-) Jack O'Neil is executed by hanging in Massachussets, USA. He was the last man to be executed in Massachussets, a couple of months later another man confessed to the crime. 1925 (+) Serial Killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, is born in Mercatale, Italy. 1938 (+) Artist and writer Roland Topor is born in Paris, France. 1943 (-) Engineer Nikola Tesla aka The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century, dies of heart failure at the age of 86 in New York, New York, USA. 1946 (-) Suzanne Degnan is abducted and held for ransom, but quite soon murdered and cut to pieces by William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, at the age of 6 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1967 (-) Deranged deserter Richard James Paris hands his bride 14 sticks of dynamite and shoots into the package in the Las Vegas Orbit Inn, Nevada, USA. His bride and 5 other honeymoon-ers also die in the explosion. 1967 (x) Over 100 Die in bus collision in Ternate, Cavine, Filippines. It crashed into a ravine. 1972 (x) 104 Die in Iberia Caravelle crash in Ibiza, Spain. 1973 (-) Sniper Mark James Robert Essex is killed in a bullet spray at the age of 24 in New Orleans, Downtown Howard Johnson Motel, Louisiana, USA. He confronted 11 hours of siege after killing 7, including a police officer. A week before he had already killed two cops. 1975 (-) Nancy Baird is abducted by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 21 in Framington, Utah, USA. Her body will never be found. 1977 (-) Barbara Kiel is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 22 in Mainz, Germany. She survived. 1988 (-) Murderer Robert Streetman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville, Texas, USA. 1989 (-) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito dies of duodenal cancer at the age of 87 in Tokyo, Fukiage Palace, Japan. 1994 (-) Catherine Rocher is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France. 1998 (x) 55-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, attempts to commit suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Montana, USA. 1999 (-) Double Murderer John Walter Castro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.