Thursday, July 31, 2014

29th year - N° 212 Thursday, 31 July 2014

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29th year - N° 212 Thursday, 31 July 2014

31 July / Today's 5 Events:
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71 years ago

Saturday 31st of July 1943

Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.


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70 years ago

Monday 31st of July 1944

Actress Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.


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28 years ago

Thursday 31st of July 1986

Edit Fintor is beaten to death by serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard in Nijverheidskaai, Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.


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22 years ago

Friday 31st of July 1992

113 die in Thai Airways International Airbus A310-304 Flight 311 crash in Langtang National Park, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 31st of July 2006

I don't see anything but my shadow on a medieval barn door in Prerow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.


Wednesday, July 30, 2014

29th year - N° 211 Wednesday, 30 July 2014

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29th year - N° 211 Wednesday, 30 July 2014

30 July / Today's 8 Events:
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99 years ago

Friday 30th of July 1915

Lieutenant in the New York City Police Department, racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

Becker's electrocution took nine minutes, causing him intense agony, and was described for years afterward as "the clumsiest execution in the history of Sing Sing."


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75 years ago

Sunday 30th of July 1939

Film director Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New York, United States.


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57 years ago

Tuesday 30th of July 1957

Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman David William Hilligiest is born in Houston, Texas, United States.


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54 years ago

Saturday 30th of July 1960

35-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.


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45 years ago

Wednesday 30th of July 1969

Unidentified serial killer Zodiac writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in San Francisco, California, United States.


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45 years ago

Wednesday 30th of July 1969

22-year-old Serial killer John Norman Collins, originally John Chapman aka The Ypsilanti Killer is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.


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34 years ago

Wednesday 30th of July 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance 'Illegal' in ICC, Meir 50, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

On 30 July 1980 I mailed out invitations to friends and acquaintances to search me in the International Cultural Centre. Then I went in hiding inside the building, without food, drink and with sleeping-tablets at hand. On 2 August 1980 I was found by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 30th of July 2003

A giant Buddha statue in a temple in Singapore, Singapore.


Tuesday, July 29, 2014

29th year - N° 210 Tuesday, 29 July 2014

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29th year - N° 210 Tuesday, 29 July 2014

29 July / Today's 4 Events:
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100 years ago

Wednesday 29th of July 1914

Manufacturer of the 'Bic' Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Piedmontese, Italy.


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91 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1923

Guitar amplification pioneer Jim James Charles Marshall aka The Father of Loud is born in Acton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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90 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1924

Murder victim Elizabeth Short, originally The Black Dahlia is born in Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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14 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 2000

Serial killer Nestor Pirotte aka Le Tueur Fou dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Prison de Jamioulx, Rue Vandamme 120, Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Hainaut, Belgium.

Only one person attended Pirotte's funeral.


Monday, July 28, 2014

29th year - N° 209 Monday, 28 July 2014

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29th year - N° 209 Monday, 28 July 2014

28 July / Today's 4 Events:
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474 years ago

Monday 28th of July 1540

49-year-old King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor marries his fifth wife Katherine Howard in Oatlands Palace, Walton on Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Henry divorced his previous wife Anne of Cleves less than 20 days earlier.


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47 years ago

Friday 28th of July 1967

27-year-old Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 28th of July 2006

The grave of Christa 'Nico' Päffgen on the 'Selbstmörderfriedhof' in Friedhof Grunewald-Forst, Jagen 135, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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4 years ago

Wednesday 28th of July 2010

152 die in Airblue Airbus A321-231 Flight 202 crash in Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan.


Sunday, July 27, 2014

29th year - N° 208 Sunday, 27 July 2014

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29th year - N° 208 Sunday, 27 July 2014

27 July / Today's 4 Events:
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26 years ago

Wednesday 27th of July 1988

32-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton escapes by using bolt cutters to cut through the fences of the medium-security facility in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States.

Compton was recaptured in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona nine days later.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 27th of July 2003

A Malay man making his pick on a well stocked stall of spicy peppers in Chow Kit Market, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


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11 years ago

Sunday 27th of July 2003

Comedian, actor, singer and dancer Bob Hope, originally Leslie Townes Hope dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Toluca Lake, California, United States.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 27th of July 2006

51˚ on AMVK's balcony in Helmstedter Straße 27, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


Saturday, July 26, 2014

29th year - N° 207 Saturday, 26 July 2014

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29th year - N° 207 Saturday, 26 July 2014

26 July / Today's 8 Events:
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139 years ago

Monday 26th of July 1875

Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland.


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118 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1896

Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, United States.


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100 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1914

45-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Because of his previous convictions Landru faced transportation to the penal colony of Guyana.


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73 years ago

Saturday 26th of July 1941

Serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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55 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1959

Manuela Knodt is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Stadtwald, Bredeney, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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43 years ago

Monday 26th of July 1971

Photographer Diane Arbus, originally Diane Nemerov commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in Westbeth Artists Community, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

Artist Marvin Israel found Arbus' body in the bathtub two days later.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 26th of July 2003

A choice of delightful meat and other animal products on display at a night market around the corner in Empire Hotel, Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 26th of July 2006

A display of mechanical hands in Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


Friday, July 25, 2014

29th year - N° 206 Friday, 25 July 2014

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29th year - N° 206 Friday, 25 July 2014

25 July / Today's 5 Events:
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105 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1909

37-year-old Aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft in Northfall Meadow, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.

Blériot won the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.


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88 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1926

29-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is elected as mayor in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Yonne, France.


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36 years ago

Tuesday 25th of July 1978

First in-vitro baby Louise Joy Brown is born in Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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34 years ago

Friday 25th of July 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 3' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

I have filled a plate with petrol and held my head above it until all the petrol had evaporated.



9 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 25th of July 2005

The rusty gate of what seemed like the ideal hide-out for mafia gangsters to keep and torture kidnap victims in Porto San Giorgio, Marche, Italy.


Thursday, July 24, 2014

29th year - N° 205 Thursday, 24 July 2014

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29th year - N° 205 Thursday, 24 July 2014

24 July / Today's 7 Events:
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279 years ago

Sunday 24th of July 1735

Murderess Patience Boston is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Falmouth, Maine, United States.


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117 years ago

Saturday 24th of July 1897

Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, United States.


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105 years ago

Saturday 24th of July 1909

Serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer is born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.


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73 years ago

Thursday 24th of July 1941

29-year-old Serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder is sentenced to death in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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70 years ago

Monday 24th of July 1944

Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Jan-Carl Raspe is born in Seefeld, Tirol, Austria.


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34 years ago

Thursday 24th of July 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 2' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

I was laying on the floor in an empty room and let and icecube melt on my naked chest.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 24th of July 2003

Originally built for its researchers and scientists to study above-ground flora and fauna more effectively, the Canopy Walkway is opened to public whereby visitors will literally feel like they are hovering above the forest grounds, taking in views and landscapes that is unbeknown to the eye at ground level. The idea of walking at 'tree level' may be disorienting to some at first but it is certainly a spectacle that should not be missed out on in Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


Wednesday, July 23, 2014

29th year - N° 204 Wednesday, 23 July 2014

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29th year - N° 204 Wednesday, 23 July 2014

23 July / Today's 6 Events:
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126 years ago

Monday 23rd of July 1888

Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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109 years ago

Sunday 23rd of July 1905

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinrich Struß is born in Egestorf, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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72 years ago

Thursday 23rd of July 1942

Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is born in Gorton, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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48 years ago

Saturday 23rd of July 1966

Actor Montgomery Edward 'Monty' Clift dies of occlusive coronary artery disease at the age of 46 in 217 East 61st Street, New York, New York, United States.


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32 years ago

Friday 23rd of July 1982

48-year-old Mass murderer James Urban Ruppert has a review of his trial in Findlay, Ohio, United States.

A 3-judge panel found Ruppert guilty of first degree murder in the case of his mother and brother but this time, they found him not guilty on the other 9 counts of murder by reason of insanity. He received life sentences for each of the two charges to be served consecutively rather than concurrently.



8 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 23rd of July 2006

The wound on my chest after performing 'He Just Wanted to Play in his Bath Tube and Put a Finger in his Ass' in Vilma Gold Gallery, Schlesische Straße 26, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.