31st year - N° 214 Monday, 1 August 2016

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31st year - N° 214 Monday, 1 August 2016

1 August / Today's 18 Events:

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(-) 302 years ago Wednesday 1st of August 1714 Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland Anne Stuart dies of at the age of 49 in Kensington Palace, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 197 years ago Sunday 1st of August 1819 Writer Herman Melville known for his novel ‘Moby-Dick’ is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 113 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1903 Frontierswoman and professional scout Martha Jane Canary aka Calamity Jane dies of inflammation of the bowels and pneumonia at the age of 50 in Calloway Hotel, Terry, South Dakota, United States. Calamity Jane was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery next to Wild Bill Hickok.

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(+) 98 years ago Thursday 1st of August 1918 Actress and singer Zhou Xuan, originally Su Pu aka Beautiful Jade aka Golden Voice is born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.

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(+) 86 years ago Friday 1st of August 1930 Sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Felix Bourdieu is born in Denguin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.

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(-) 80 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1936 Aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1936 Multiple murderer Donald Neilson, originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther is born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1936 Fashion designer Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent is born in Oran, Oran, Algeria.

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(+) 74 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1942 Musician Jerry Jerome John Garcia aka Captain Trips known from The Grateful Dead is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(-) 59 years ago Thursday 1st of August 1957 Judy Ann Dull, originally Judith Ann Van Horn Dull is abducted, assaulted and strangled by serial killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer in 1302 N. Sweetzer Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States. Posing as Johnny Glinn, Glatman took Dull for a bondage photo session in his studio and then drove 100 miles to Thousand Palms where he strangled her during a final photo shoot.

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(+) 57 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1959 Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, originally Ángel Leoncio Reyes Recendis aka The Railroad Killer is born in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico.

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(-) 50 years ago Monday 1st of August 1966 Mass murderer Charles Joseph Whitman aka The Man on the Tower is shot dead with two fatal shots of 00-buckshot with a 12-gauge shotgun by patrolman Houston McCoy at the age of 25 in The Tower, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States. Whitman had climbed the observation-tower of the University of Texas and started shooting at random, killing 16 and injuring 32 people. During the night before Whitman also stabbed his 43-year-old mother Margaret Whitman and his 23-year-old wife Kathy Whitman to death."I do not quite understand what it is that compels me to type this letter. Perhaps it is to leave some vague reason for the actions I have recently perf ormed. I do not really understand myself these days. I am supposed to be an average reasonable and intelligent young man. However, lately (I cannot recall when it started) I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts."

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(-) 43 years ago Wednesday 1st of August 1973 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany Walter Ulbricht known for founding the German Democratic Republic dies of a stroke at the age of 80 in Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(-) 39 years ago He Managed a Few Miles Too Short Monday 1st of August 1977 United States Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers known from the 1960 U-2 incident dies in a Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopter crash at the age of 48 in Sepulveda Dam, Encino, California, United States. The National Transportation Safety Board report attributed the probable cause of Powers' crash to a pilot error of poor fuel management.

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(-) 35 years ago Saturday 1st of August 1981 Irish republican hunger striker Kevin Lynch, originally Caoimhghin O Loinsigh dies after 71 days of hungerstriking at the age of 25 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Lynch was the seventh to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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(-) 19 years ago He Received No Award Friday 1st of August 1997 Spree killer and writer Norio Nagayama is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. Nagayama killed 4 people in 1968. While imprisoned he wrote 16 books, receiving an award in 1983.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 1st of August 2003 A 'Love Hotel' in Singapore, Singapore.

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(x) 12 years ago Sunday 1st of August 2004 394 die in Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire in Ycuá Bolaños, Asunción, Ciudad de Asunción, Paraguay.

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