31st year - N° 207 Monday, 25 July 2016

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31st year - N° 207 Monday, 25 July 2016

25 July / Today's 12 Events:

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(x) 219 years ago He Wanted to Get Rid of this Useless Piece of Flesh Tuesday 25th of July 1797 39-year-old Admiral Horatio Nelson aka 1st Viscount Nelson loses his right arm in the battle during a failed siege and conquest in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain. The surgeon had been warned of the contingency and got his instruments ready. Nelson was cited as saying, as he pointed to his right arm "Doctor, I want to get rid of this useless piece of flesh here". Nelson's operation was quick and aseptic. The limb was thrown over board despite the admiral's wish to keep it.

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(+) 122 years ago Wednesday 25th of July 1894 Assassin Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World known for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is born in Obljaj, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia.

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(+) 111 years ago Tuesday 25th of July 1905 Writer Elias Canetti is born in Ruse, Rusenska Oblast, Bulgaria.

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(x) 107 years ago Sunday 25th of July 1909 37-year-old Aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft in Northfall Meadow, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. Blériot won the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.

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(+) 101 years ago Sunday 25th of July 1915 Murderer Donald Harry Fearn is born in Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States.

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(x) 90 years ago Sunday 25th of July 1926 29-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is elected as mayor in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Yonne, France.

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(-) 84 years ago Monday 25th of July 1932 Naturalist writer Cyriel Cyrillus Gustave Emile Buysse dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Afsnee, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 57 years ago Saturday 25th of July 1959 Serial killer Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko aka The Terminator aka Citizen O is born in Lasky, Zhytomyr Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 38 years ago Tuesday 25th of July 1978 First in-vitro baby Louise Joy Brown is born in Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(x) 36 years ago Friday 25th of July 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 3' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I have filled a plate with petrol and held my head above it until all the petrol had evaporated.

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(x) 30 years ago Friday 25th of July 1986 33-year-old Serial killer Bobbie Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist is sentenced to death for the Michelle Simms murder in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 25th of July 2005 The rusty gate of what seemed like the ideal hide-out for mafia gangsters to keep and torture kidnap victims in Porto San Giorgio, Marche, Italy.

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