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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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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(x) 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.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 30th of July 2003 A giant Buddha statue in a temple in Singapore, Singapore.

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