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Events on Friday 27 January 1922 1
1864 – 1922Nellie Bly (1864-1922)Died 27 January 1922, aged 57Nellie Bly, the American journalist famous for her 1889-90 race around the world in emulation of Around the World in Eighty Days and for her undercover exposé of a New York asylum, died of pneumonia in New York City. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism. Her real name was Elizabeth Cochrane.