33rd year - N° 204 Monday, 23 July 2018

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33rd year - N° 204 Monday, 23 July 2018

23 July / Today's 19 Events:

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(+) 243 years ago Sunday 23rd of July 1775 Criminal and criminalist Eugène François Vidocq known for founding the first known private detective agency is born in 222 Rue du Mirroir-de-Venise, Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(-) 143 years ago Friday 23rd of July 1875 Inventor and entrepreneur Isaac Merritt Singer known for the Singer Sewing Machine Company dies of heart failure at the age of 64 in Paignton, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(+) 130 years ago Monday 23rd of July 1888 Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 113 years ago Sunday 23rd of July 1905 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinrich Struß is born in Egestorf, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 90 years ago He Took the Exit Monday 23rd of July 1928 Writer Hubert Selby known for his novel ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 81 years ago Friday 23rd of July 1937 Jean de Koven is murdered by kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil in Studio Hôtel, 4 Rue du Vieux Colombier, XVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. de Koven was found five months later buried in Weidmann's villa La Voulzie on Avenue Pigault-Lebrun in La Celle-Saint-Cloud.

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(+) 76 years ago Thursday 23rd of July 1942 Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is born in Gorton, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 70 years ago Friday 23rd of July 1948 Film director and Hollywood pioneer D. W. David Llewelyn Wark Griffith aka The Inventor of Hollywood dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73 in Knickerbocker Hotel, 1714 Ivar Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Monday 23rd of July 1951 General Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain dies of natural causes at the age of 95 in Fort de Pierre-Levée, Île d'Yeu, Pays de la Loire, France. In February 1973 Pétain's coffin was stolen from the Île d'Yeu cemetery by extremists who demanded that President Georges Pompidou consent to his interment in the Douaumont cemetery among the war dead. Authorities retrieved the coffin a few days later and Pétain was ceremoniously reburied with a Presidential wreath on his coffin, but on the Île d'Yeu as before.

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(+) 64 years ago Friday 23rd of July 1954 Writer, sex educator, former prostitute, feminist stripper and pornographic actress Annie Sprinkle, originally Ellen F. Steinberg is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 52 years ago Saturday 23rd of July 1966 Actor Montgomery Edward 'Monty' Clift dies of occlusive coronary artery disease at the age of 46 in 217 East 61st Street, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 50 years ago Tuesday 23rd of July 1968 Norma Vaillancourt is strangled and her breasts chewed away by serial killer Wayne Boden aka The Vampire Rapist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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(-) 49 years ago Wednesday 23rd of July 1969 Karen Sue Beineman is sexually assaulted, tortured and strangled by serial killer John Norman Collins aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States. Beineman was Collins' last victim, he was arrested on 27 July.

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(+) 45 years ago Monday 23rd of July 1973 White House intern Monica Lewinsky aka The Woman with Whom President Bill Clinton Did not Have Sexual Relations is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Friday 23rd of July 1982 48-year-old Mass murderer James Urban Ruppert has a review of his trial in Findlay, Ohio, United States. A 3-judge panel found Ruppert guilty of first degree murder in the case of his mother and brother but this time, they found him not guilty on the other 9 counts of murder by reason of insanity. He received life sentences for each of the two charges to be served consecutively rather than concurrently.

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(-) 32 years ago She Had Her Hair Done Wednesday 23rd of July 1986 Florence Tisdall is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Ranelagh Gardens, Fulham, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Tisdall was partly deaf and blind and could only move around with the aid of a walking frame. On this day she had managed a rare trip out to have her hair done especially for the occasion of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York which was being broadcast on television that day. She was Erskine's last victim.

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(x) 29 years ago He Wanted a Close-up Sunday 23rd of July 1989 27-year-old Serial killer, cannibal and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer is arrested in Hachioji, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. Miyazaki attempted to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school–aged girl in a park near her home and was apprehended by the girl's father. After fleeing naked on foot Miyazaki eventually returned to the park to retrieve his Toyota car whereupon he was arrested by police who had responded to a call by the grandfather. A search of Miyazaki's two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5.763 videotapes, some containing anime and slasher films. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims.

12 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 23rd of July 2006 The wound on my chest after performing 'He Just Wanted to Play in his Bath Tube and Put a Finger in his Ass' in Vilma Gold Gallery, Schlesische Straße 26, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 4 years ago Wednesday 23rd of July 2014 Double murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Wood was executed with a combination of midazolam and hydromorphone. The execution began at 1:52 p.m. and ended at 3:49 p.m. when Wood was pronounced dead. Wood gasped and snorted for well over an hour, and a media witness compared Wood's breathing to a "fish gulping for air". An Associated Press reporter said Wood gasped more than 600 times.

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