31st year - N° 199 Sunday, 17 July 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 199 Sunday, 17 July 2016

17 July / Today's 14 Events:

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(+) 127 years ago Wednesday 17th of July 1889 Lawyer and writer Erle Stanley Gardner known for creating Perry Mason is born in Malden, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Monday 17th of July 1899 Actor James Francis Cagney is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Wednesday 17th of July 1901 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Friedel Rothe is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 70 years ago He Was Aphrodite's Child Wednesday 17th of July 1946 Singer-songwriter Demis Roussos, originally Artemios Ventouris-Roussos is born in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

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(-) 62 years ago Saturday 17th of July 1954 Presumed murderess Marguerite Jeanne 'Meg' Japy Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac known for her many love affairs with important men dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(x) 61 years ago Sunday 17th of July 1955 54-year-old Film director and animator Walt Walter Elias Disney opens his first attraction park in Disneyland, Anaheim, California, United States. It is the only theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney himself.

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(+) 58 years ago Thursday 17th of July 1958 Film director Kar-wai Wong is born in Shanghai, China.

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(-) 57 years ago Friday 17th of July 1959 Singer-songwriter Billie Holiday, originally Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day dies of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in Metropolitan Hospital, Harlem, New York, New York, United States. On 31 May Holiday was taken to hospital with liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying and her hospital room was raided. Holiday stayed under police guard until she died.

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(+) 48 years ago Wednesday 17th of July 1968 Serial killer Yang Xinhai aka The Monster Killer is born in Zhengyang County, Henan, China.

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(x) 45 years ago Saturday 17th of July 1971 46-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey is arrested in Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(x) 41 years ago Thursday 17th of July 1975 40-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Paul Honka aka Der Frauen-Schlächter von St. Pauli is arrested in Zeißstrasse 74, Ottensen, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. After a fire in the apartment below Honka's attic flat the police found bodyparts of four women.

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(x) 39 years ago Sunday 17th of July 1977 The villa of 78-year-old War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten is burned to the ground by persons unknown in Vliegweg, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 17th of July 2003 10 Minutes Before the Worm in Butterfly Park, Jalan Cendarasari, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 17th of July 2009 An Easter Bunny lost in time in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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