31st year - N° 213 Sunday, 31 July 2016

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31st year - N° 213 Sunday, 31 July 2016

31 July / Today's 12 Events:

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(-) 130 years ago Saturday 31st of July 1886 Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt dies of pneumonia at the age of 75 in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 115 years ago Wednesday 31st of July 1901 Art Brut artist Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet is born in Le Havre, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(+) 102 years ago Friday 31st of July 1914 Actor Louis de Funès, originally Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza aka FuFu is born in Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 81 years ago Wednesday 31st of July 1935 Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Paul Honka aka Der Frauen-Schlächter von St. Pauli is born in Seeburgstraße, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 73 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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(-) 72 years ago Monday 31st of July 1944 Aristocrat, writer, poet and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, originally Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger vanishes without a trace in an unarmed Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplane during a reconnaissance mission from an airbase on Corsica at the age of 44 in Archipel du Frioul, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 72 years ago Monday 31st of July 1944 Actress Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Thursday 31st of July 1952 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Verena Christiane Becker is born in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 56 years ago Sunday 31st of July 1960 Mass murderess Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist is born in Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 30 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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(x) 24 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.

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10 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.

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31st year - N° 212 Saturday, 30 July 2016

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31st year - N° 212 Saturday, 30 July 2016

30 July / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 198 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1818 Poet and writer Emily Jane Brontë aka Ellis Bell known for her novel Wuthering Heights is born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 153 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1863 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford is born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 101 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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(-) 79 years ago He Died a Modern Daniel in Freddie's Den Friday 30th of July 1937 Entertainer, priest and womanizer Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes' Padre dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Two days earlier he was attacked by a lion during a stage act 'Daniel in a Modern Lion's Den'. Davidson gave his usual speech before entering the cage in which two lions, Freddie and Toto, were sitting quietly. Freddie became agitated and knocked Davidson over before seizing him by the neck and running with him around the cage. 16-year-old tamer Irene Somner struggled to pacify the snarling Freddie who eventually dropped th e unconscious Davidson, enabling her to drag him to safety; he was badly gashed and had suffered a broken bone in his neck.

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(+) 77 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1939 Film director Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New York, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1941 Singer-songwriter Paul Albert Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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(+) 59 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) 56 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) 47 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) 47 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) 41 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1975 62-year-old Labour union leader Jimmy James Riddle Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Machus Red Fox Restaurant, 6676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, on the seventh anniversary of his disappearance when he would have been aged 69.

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(x) 36 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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(x) 15 years ago Monday 30th of July 2001 34-year-old Suicide bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Mosquée Al Hidaya, Rue Jules Destrée 71, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

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13 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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(-) 9 years ago Monday 30th of July 2007 Film director Ingmar Ernst Bergman dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Fårö, Gotland, Sweden.

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31st year - N° 211 Friday, 29 July 2016

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31st year - N° 211 Friday, 29 July 2016

29 July / Today's 12 Events:

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(-) 160 years ago Tuesday 29th of July 1856 Romantic composer Robert Schumann dies of a result of syphilis at the age of 46 in Dr. Franz Richarz Sanatorium, Endenich, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. According to studies by the musicologist and literary scholar Eric Sams, Schumann's symptoms during his terminal illness and death appear consistent with those of mercury poisoning, mercury at this time being a common treatment for syphilis and other conditions.

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(+) 133 years ago Sunday 29th of July 1883 Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce is born in Via Varano Costa Nuova, Dovia di Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 111 years ago Saturday 29th of July 1905 Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 111 years ago Saturday 29th of July 1905 Actress and sex symbol Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl is born in 697 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. In the Census of 1930 Bow claims she was born in 1906 and on her gravestone of 1965 the inscription says 1907.

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(+) 103 years ago Tuesday 29th of July 1913 SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is born in Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 29th of July 1914 Manufacturer of the 'Bic' Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Piedmontese, Italy.

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(+) 93 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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(+) 92 years ago Tuesday 29th of July 1924 Murder victim Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia is born in Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago The Boat Was Undamaged Friday 29th of July 1938 Mary Carpenter dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in The Broads, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Mrs Carpenter's ignition took place in full view of her husband and children. She was engulfed in in flames and reduced to a charred corpse in minutes. No one else was burned and the boat was undamaged.

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(-) 37 years ago Sunday 29th of July 1979 Philosopher, sociologist and political theorist Herbert Marcuse aka The Father of the New Left dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in Starnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 33 years ago He Was Afraid of Dying Alone in a Hotel Room Friday 29th of July 1983 Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, originally Buñuel Portolés aka Le Chien Andalou dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Mexico City, Mexico.

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(-) 16 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.

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31st year - N° 210 Thursday, 28 July 2016

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31st year - N° 210 Thursday, 28 July 2016

28 July / Today's 13 Events:

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(x) 476 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1540 King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor 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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(+) 129 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1887 Dada artist Marcel Henri Robert Duchamp aka Rrose Sélavy is born in Blainville Crevon Village, Blainville-Crevon, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(+) 114 years ago He Was a Popup Philosopher Monday 28th of July 1902 Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 109 years ago He Had a Party Plan Sunday 28th of July 1907 Inventor Earl Silas Tupper known for the Tupperware plastic food container is born in Berlin, New Hampshire, United States.

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(+) 107 years ago He Came From Under a Volcano Wednesday 28th of July 1909 Poet and writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for Under the Volcano is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(+) 107 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1909 Women's magazine publisher Aenne Burda, originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger is born in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 89 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1927 Double murderer Lawrence Bernard Singleton is born in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1929 First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy is born in Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York, United States.

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(x) 49 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.

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(+) 44 years ago Friday 28th of July 1972 Murderer Aaron Christopher Foust is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(-) 40 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1976 Child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 22 in Baumettes Prison, 239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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10 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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(x) 6 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 2010 152 die in Airblue Airbus A321-231 Flight 202 crash in Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan.

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