31st year - N° 208 Tuesday, 26 July 2016

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
31st year - N° 208 Tuesday, 26 July 2016

26 July / Today's 17 Events:

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(+) 160 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1856 Playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Synge Street 33, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(+) 141 years ago Monday 26th of July 1875 Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland.

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(+) 122 years ago He Came Into a Brave New World Thursday 26th of July 1894 Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley known for his dystopian novel Brave New World is born in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 120 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1896 Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 102 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1914 45-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Because of his previous convictions Landru faced transportation to the penal colony of Guyana.

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(+) 88 years ago Thursday 26th of July 1928 Film director Stanley Kubrick is born in Lying-In Hospital, 305 Second Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1931 Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa, originally Vincent Leaphart is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1941 Serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 73 years ago Monday 26th of July 1943 Singer-songwriter and musician Mick Michael Philip Jagger known from The Rolling Stones is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 64 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1952 Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina Eva María Duarte de Perón aka Evita dies of cancer at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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(-) 57 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1959 Manuela Knodt is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Stadtwald, Bredeney, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 57 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1959 Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is born in Putnam, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 45 years ago Monday 26th of July 1971 Photographer Diane Arbus, originally Diane Nemerov commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in Westbeth Artists Community, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Artist Marvin Israel found Arbus' body in the bathtub two days later.

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(-) 32 years ago Thursday 26th of July 1984 Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer dies of respiratory failure due to lung cancer at the age of 78 in Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 25 years ago Friday 26th of July 1991 Spree killer and mass murderer Tim Kretschmer known from The Winnenden School Shooting is born in Leutenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 26th of July 2003 A choice of delightful meat and other animal products on display at a night market around the corner in Empire Hotel, Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 26th of July 2006 A display of mechanical hands in Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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