33rd year - N° 205 Tuesday, 24 July 2018

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33rd year - N° 205 Tuesday, 24 July 2018

24 July / Today's 11 Events:

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(-) 283 years ago Sunday 24th of July 1735 Murderess Patience Boston is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Falmouth, Maine, United States.

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(+) 216 years ago Saturday 24th of July 1802 Writer Alexandre Dumas, originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie known for Les Trois Mousquetaires is born in Villers-Cotterêts, Picardie, France.

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(-) 156 years ago Thursday 24th of July 1862 8th President of the United States Martin Van Buren dies of bronchial asthma and heart failure at the age of 80 in Lindenwald, Kinderhook, New York, United States.

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(+) 154 years ago Sunday 24th of July 1864 Playwright Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 121 years ago Saturday 24th of July 1897 Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago Saturday 24th of July 1909 Serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer is born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 77 years ago Thursday 24th of July 1941 29-year-old Serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder is sentenced to death in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 74 years ago Monday 24th of July 1944 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Jan-Carl Raspe is born in Seefeld, Tirol, Austria.

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(-) 60 years ago Thursday 24th of July 1958 Ruth Rita Mercado aka Angela Rojas is abducted, raped and garotted by serial killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, United States. Mercado's body was found on 31 October.

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(x) 38 years ago Thursday 24th of July 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 2' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I was laying on the floor in an empty room and let and icecube melt on my naked chest.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 24th of July 2003 Originally built for its researchers and scientists to study above-ground flora and fauna more effectively, the Canopy Walkway is opened to public whereby visitors will literally feel like they are hovering above the forest grounds, taking in views and landscapes that is unbeknown to the eye at ground level. The idea of walking at 'tree level' may be disorienting to some at first but it is certainly a spectacle that should not be missed out on in Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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