31st year - N° 205 Saturday, 23 July 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 205 Saturday, 23 July 2016

23 July / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 241 years ago Sunday 23rd of July 1775 Criminal and criminalist Eugène François Vidocq known for founding the first known private detective agency is born in 222 Rue du Mirroir-de-Venise, Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(+) 128 years ago Monday 23rd of July 1888 Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 111 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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(+) 88 years ago He Took the Exit Monday 23rd of July 1928 Writer Hubert Selby known for Last Exit to Brooklyn is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 74 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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(-) 65 years ago Monday 23rd of July 1951 General Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain dies of natural causes at the age of 95 in Fort de Pierre-Levée, Île d'Yeu, Pays de la Loire, France. In February 1973 Pétain's coffin was stolen from the Île d'Yeu cemetery by extremists who demanded that President Georges Pompidou consent to his interment in the Douaumont cemetery among the war dead. Authorities retrieved the coffin a few days later and Pétain was ceremoniously reburied with a Presidential wreath on his coffin, but on the Île d'Yeu as before.

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(+) 62 years ago Friday 23rd of July 1954 Writer, sex educator, former prostitute, feminist stripper and pornographic actress Annie Sprinkle, originally Ellen F. Steinberg is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 50 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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(+) 43 years ago Monday 23rd of July 1973 White House intern Monica Lewinsky aka The Woman with Whom President Bill Clinton Did not Have Sexual Relations is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 34 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.

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(x) 27 years ago He Wanted a Close-up Sunday 23rd of July 1989 27-year-old Serial killer, cannibal and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer is arrested in Hachioji, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. Miyazaki attempted to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school–aged girl in a park near her home and was apprehended by the girl's father. After fleeing naked on foot Miyazaki eventually returned to the park to retrieve his Toyota car whereupon he was arrested by police who had responded to a call by the grandfather. A search of Miyazaki's two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5.763 videotapes, some containing anime and slasher films. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims.

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10 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.

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(-) 2 years ago Wednesday 23rd of July 2014 Double murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Wood was executed with a combination of midazolam and hydromorphone. The execution began at 1:52 p.m. and ended at 3:49 p.m. when Wood was pronounced dead. Wood gasped and snorted for well over an hour, and a media witness compared Wood's breathing to a "fish gulping for air". An Associated Press reporter said Wood gasped more than 600 times.

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