Wednesday, July 5, 2017

32nd year - N° 186 Wednesday, 5 July 2017

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32nd year - N° 186 Wednesday, 5 July 2017

5 July / Today's 17 Events:
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128 years ago

Friday 5th of July 1889

Poet, writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau is born in Place Sully, Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France, France.


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124 years ago

Wednesday 5th of July 1893

Minnie R. Williams is murdered by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in Holmes Castle, S. Wallace and W. 63rd Street, Englewood, Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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106 years ago

Wednesday 5th of July 1911

President of the French Republic Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou is born in Montboudif, Auvergne, France.


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99 years ago

Friday 5th of July 1918

Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l'Ogresse de la Goutte d'Or dies of nephritis at the age of 44 in Fains-Véel, Lorraine, France.

Some sources claim Weber strangled herself in an asylum.


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97 years ago

Monday 5th of July 1920

Start of the trial against 27-year-old Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See in Schwurgerichtskammer des Landgerichts III, Tegeler Weg 17-21, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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95 years ago

Wednesday 5th of July 1922

Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof commits suicide by hanging with a hankerchief at the age of 59 in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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93 years ago

Saturday 5th of July 1924

During a search for victims of 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf over 500 bones and pieces of skull are found between the Bruckmuhle and the Leinebrücke in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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69 years ago Her Affair Was Her Crush

Monday 5th of July 1948

Actress Carole Landis, originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste aka The Actress Who Could Have Been but never Was commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal at the age of 29 in 1465 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades, California, United States.

Landis was crushed when actor Rex Harrison refused to divorce his wife and actress Lilli Palmer for her while their affair was an open secret in Hollywood.


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63 years ago He Was All Right

Monday 5th of July 1954

19-year-old Singer and actor Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King of Rock and Roll records his first commercial single 'That's All Right' in Sun Records, 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

'That's All Right' is a song written and originally performed and recorded on 6 September 1946 by blues singer Arthur Crudup. Crudup had to wait until the 1960s when he received an estimated 60.000 $ in back royalties. The Presley version was released on 19 July 1954 and considered as the birth of Rock'n'Roll by Rolling Stone magazine.


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53 years ago

Sunday 5th of July 1964

27-year-old Child killer Lucien Léger aka L'étrangleur nº 1 is arrested in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

In Léger's possesion a draft of a novel was found: 'Journal d'un Assassin'.


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47 years ago

Sunday 5th of July 1970

109 die in Air Canada McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 Flight 621 crash in Toronto International Airport, Brampton, Ontario, Canada.


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41 years ago

Monday 5th of July 1976

32-year-old Serial killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, originally Bharat Rajpurohit aka Bad Blood is arrested while drugging and robbing 60 French students in Hotel Vikram, Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi, India.


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41 years ago

Monday 5th of July 1976

Victim of Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer and Karla Homolka Leslie Erin Mahaffy is born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.


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40 years ago

Tuesday 5th of July 1977

Matthew Bowman is murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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40 years ago

Tuesday 5th of July 1977

Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, originally Bharat Rajpurohit aka Bad Blood and his accomplices Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Jean Dhuisme, Mary-Ellen Eather and Barbara Sheryl Smith in Tis Hazari Courts Complex, New Delhi, Delhi, India.


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21 years ago

Friday 5th of July 1996

The first succesfully cloned sheep Dolly is born in Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Dolly's birth was only announced in February 1997.



14 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 5th of July 2003

The Club Moral in an exhibition by Hermann Nitsch in Galerie Kunst & Handel, Bürgergasse 5, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.


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