31st year - N° 217 Thursday, 4 August 2016

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31st year - N° 217 Thursday, 4 August 2016

4 August / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 495 years ago Thursday 4th of August 1521 228th Pope Urbanus VII, originally Giovanni Battista Castagna is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 261 years ago Monday 4th of August 1755 Painter, balloonist, army officer and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté known for his invention of the modern pencil is born in Saint-Céneri-près-Sées, Basse-Normandie, France.

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(+) 224 years ago Saturday 4th of August 1792 Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 157 years ago He Was Often Starved by His Uncle Thursday 4th of August 1859 Writer Knut Hamsun, originally Knud Pedersen is born in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.

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(-) 141 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1875 Writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen dies of liver cancer at the age of 70 in Rolighed, Østerbro, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(-) 124 years ago Thursday 4th of August 1892 Andrew Jackson Borden is hacked to death by presumed axe murderess Lizzie Borden in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. One of his eyeballs had been split cleanly in two, suggesting he had been asleep when attacked. His wife Abby was also killed. "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."

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(x) 119 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1897 28-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is arrested after an attempt to kill a woman in Bois des Pelleries, Tournon-sur-Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 69 years ago Monday 4th of August 1947 Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze aka Richard Wahnfried is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 55 years ago Friday 4th of August 1961 44th President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama is born in Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital, 1319 Punahou Street, Makiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 4th of August 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance '11 Days' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. For 11 days I lived on 250 grams of chips and 1 liter Coca-Cola a day. The next day I ate half a bread, 6 eggs, 6 slices of bacon and 250 grams of mushrooms.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 4th of August 2003 A sign in a hairdresser shop on Serangoon Road in Little India, Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 9 years ago Saturday 4th of August 2007 Singer-songwriter Lee Barton Hazlewood dies of renal cancer at the age of 78 in Henderson, Nevada, United States.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 4th of August 2007 Sunset over the beach and the sea in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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