31st year - N° 202 Wednesday, 20 July 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 202 Wednesday, 20 July 2016

20 July / Today's 15 Events:

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(+) 712 years ago Sunday 20th of July 1304 Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism is born in Arezzo, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 497 years ago Sunday 20th of July 1519 230th Pope Innocentius IX, originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 194 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1822 Biologist and Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf bei Odrau, Moravskoslezský Kraj, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 121 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1895 Artist László Moholy-Nagy, originally László Weisz is born in Bácsborsód, Dél-Alföld, Hungary.

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(+) 97 years ago Sunday 20th of July 1919 Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Percival Hillary is born in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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(-) 93 years ago Friday 20th of July 1923 Revolutionary general Pancho Villa, originally José Doroteo Arango Arámbula is shot to pieces in a fusillade at the age of 45 in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. While driving back through the city in his black 1919 Dodge roadster Villa passed by a school and a pumpkinseed vendor ran toward Villa's car and shouted "Viva Villa!" – a signal for a group of seven riflemen who then appeared in the middle of the road and fired more than 40 shots into the automobile. In the fusillade of shots, nine Dumdum bullets, normally used for hunting big game hit Villa in the head and upper chest, killing him instantly.

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(+) 91 years ago Monday 20th of July 1925 Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, France.

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(+) 84 years ago Wednesday 20th of July 1932 Video artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoel, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea.

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(-) 82 years ago Friday 20th of July 1934 Murderer Alfred William Bayly is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Mount Eden Prison, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand. He killed his neighbours, Samuel and Christobel Lakey in Ruwaro on 16 October 1933.

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(-) 79 years ago He Was Totally Wired Tuesday 20th of July 1937 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi known for inventing radio dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 78 years ago She Was Very Russian, You Know Wednesday 20th of July 1938 Actress Natalie Wood, originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko aka Natasha Gurdin is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1946 Serial killer Leonard Thomas Lake aka The Eye of Evil is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago Monday 20th of July 1964 43-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during his performance 'Kukei, akopee-Nein!' on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Audimax der Technischen Hochschule, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Local students were so upset by the onslaught of absurdity unleashed by the performers that they stormed the stage and started a fight.

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(x) 46 years ago Monday 20th of July 1970 Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial killer John Norman Collins, originally John Chapman aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 10 years ago Thursday 20th of July 2006 Child killer Robert James Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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