... and all the ships at sea.
January 2, 1611 -Elizabeth Bathory is charged with the murder of 610 people, which she apparently committed as Countess of Csejthe Castle. Bathory had the theory that the blood of virgins would give her everlasting youth. An eviscerated victim would have blood drained into a vat for her bathing. This is a very difficult beauty regime today - where are you going to find that many virgins in one place.
January 2, 1878 -While hunting, farmer John Martin spies a rapidly moving flying disk high in the sky near Denison, Texas. He is the first to use the word "saucer" to describe a UFO phenomenon. He was also the first person in Denison, Tx. to be called 'loony' in his local paper.
January 2, 1935 -Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh. (He would later be found guilty and executed for that crime that he may not have committed.)
January 2, 1939 -Time magazine named chancellor Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year." I'd loved to have seen the ballots on this one.
January 2, 1990 -An out-of-court settlement was reached in comic Richard Belzer's $5,000,000 suit against pro wrestler Hulk Hogan; Hogan demonstrated a "choke hold" on Belzer on Belzer's TV show; Belzer passed out and banged his head on the floor, requiring 8 stitches.
And so it goes
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