Sunday, July 21, 2013

140 Years Ago His KKK Sidestep Derailed the Rock Island Away

599 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1414
(+)
212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, is born in Celle Ligure, Italy.

197 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 July 1816
(+)
Journalist and founder of the Reuters news agency Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter aka Joseph Josephat, is born in Kassel, Germany.

182 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1831
(x)
40-year-old King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is inaugurated as first King of the Belgians in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 July 1873
(x)
25-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James performs the first train robbery in Adair, Iowa, United States.

115 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1898
(+)
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Chicago, Oak Park, Illinois, United States.

109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1904
(x)
35-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1911
(+)
Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan is born in Edmonton, Alta, Canada.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1922
(+)
Actress Mollie Isabel Mary Sugden aka Mrs. Slocombe in “Are You Being Served?”, is born in Keighley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1926
(+)
Filmmaker Norman Frederick Jewison is born in Toronto, Canada.

85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 July 1928
(x)
58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for grand larceny in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 July 1929
(-)
Maria Maas is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 25 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1944
(-)
Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1948
(+)
Musician Cat Stevens originally Steven Demetre Georgiou now Yusuf Islam, is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1948
(-)
Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 44 in Sherman, Connecticut, United States.
He had undergone a cancer operation and was involved in a car crash in which he broke his neck. His wife left him and several of his works of art were destroyed in a fire.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 July 1969
(x)
38-year-old Astronaut Neil Armstrong aka The First Man to Walk on the Moon, makes his first "giant step for mankind".

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1972
(x)
11 Die and over 130 are wounded in 26 simultaneous IRA bomb-attacks on this "Bloody Friday" in Belfast, Ireland.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1972
(-)
Cop Killer Misao Katagiri is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Tokyo, Japan.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 July 1973
(-)
Weirdo Albert Brust commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
In his house the police found a wide variety of pornography and torture-devices, as well as the walled-in body of 16-year-old Mark Matson.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 July 1975
(-)
Ann Arceneaux is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 16 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1976
(-)
British ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs is blown up by an IRA bomb at the age of 54 in Dublin, Ireland.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1976
(x)
35-year-old Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is arrested in Utah, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1977
(-)
Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Chiddingly, Farley Farm House, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 July 1979
(-)
Eddy Smith is killed by Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, at the age of 14 in Atlanta, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 July 1996
(-)
Martine Bohn is presumably abducted as second victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Her breastless torso was found a couple of days later in the river La Hayne, her legs and arms in march 1997.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1999
(-)
Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong is executed by a shot in the head at the age of 37 in Bejing, China.

No comments: