41st year - Nr 187 Monday, 6 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 187 Monday, 6 July 2026

6 July / Today's 40 Events:

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(-) 611 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1415 Theologian and church reformer Jan Hus is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 46 in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 491 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1535 Social philosopher, statesman and humanist Thomas More known for Utopia is executed by beheading at the age of 57 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 276 years ago Monday 6th of July 1750 Catherine Conway, Elizabeth Banks and Margaret Harvey are executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Banks was charged with stripping another woman and Harvey was charged with robbery.

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(-) 186 years ago Monday 6th of July 1840 Murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.

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(-) 178 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1848 Ex-convict turned prospering businessman César-Joseph Guillaume Regnault known for inspiring Victor Hugo’s novel ‘Jean Valjean’ commits suicide because he was blackmailed by an ex-con who recognised him in a bar at the age of 44 in Graville-Sainte-Honorine, Le Havre, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(-) 172 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1854 Physicist and mathematician Georg Simon Ohm dies of unknown causes at the age of 65 in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 133 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1893 Writer Guy Henri René Albert de Maupassant dies of insanity due to syphilis at the age of 43 in Clinique Esprit Blanche, 17 Rue d'Ankara, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 128 years ago Wednesday 6th of July 1898 Composer Hanns Eisler is born in Hofmeisterstraße 14, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 119 years ago She Was Born a Bitch Saturday 6th of July 1907 Painter Frida Kahlo, originally Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón is born in La Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.

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(+) 110 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1916 Writer and artist Unica Zürn known for her collaborations with Hans Bellmer is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 110 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1916 Symbolist painter Odilon Bertrand-Jean Redon dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 101 years ago He Came Like a Comet Monday 6th of July 1925 Musician Bill William John Clifton Haley is born in Highland Park, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Wednesday 6th of July 1927 Actress Janet Leigh, originally Jeanette Helen Morrison is born in Merced, California, United States.

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(-) 92 years ago Friday 6th of July 1934 Murderer Fred Hernandez is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. His 18-year-old brother Manuel was executed at the same time. It was the first execution in the Arizona gas chamber.

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(x) 92 years ago Friday 6th of July 1934 25-year-old Serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer marries 21-year-old Betty Hammer in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(+) 91 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1935 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Gyatso, originally Lhamo Dondrub is born in Taktser, Amdo, Tibet.

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(x) 89 years ago Tuesday 6th of July 1937 Unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka the Cleveland Torso Murderer An unidentified male is pulled out of Cuyahoga River, hacked to death probably three days before in West 3rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The head was never found.

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(x) 82 years ago Was the Day the Clowns Died Thursday 6th of July 1944 167 die in circus fire in Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Over 700 people were injured. Several years later, while being investigated on other arson charges, Robert Dale Segee (1929–1997), who was an adolescent at the time, confessed to starting the blaze. He was never tried for the crime and later recanted his confession.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1946 Actor and film director Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone known for portraying the boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John Rambo is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 80 years ago He Was Betrayed by the Whip Saturday 6th of July 1946 29-year-old Sex killer Neville Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo is arrested posing as 'Group Captain Rupert Brook' in Tollard Royal Hotel, 141 West Hill Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom. In Heath's coat the police found a railway cloakroom ticket which led them to a suitcase containing a riding whip with a diamond pattern weave used in the murder of Margery Gardner.

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(+) 78 years ago Tuesday 6th of July 1948 Serial killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Dolenja Vas is born in Planina nad Horjulom, Gorenjska, Slovenia.

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(x) 69 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1957 17-year-old Musician John Winston Lennon known from The Beatles meets Paul McCartney for the first time in St Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. In the churchyard of St Peter's is the grave of Eleanor Rigby, whose name is said to have inspired one of The Beatles' songs.

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(-) 65 years ago Thursday 6th of July 1961 Murderer Edwin Albert Arthur Bush is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 21 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Bush was the last man to be hanged at Pentonville Prison.

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(-) 64 years ago Friday 6th of July 1962 Writer William Cuthbert Faulkner dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Wright's Sanatorium, Byhalia, Mississippi, United States. Faulkner suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse on 17 June which led to thrombosis.

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(+) 63 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1963 Victim of Dennis Nilsen aka Killing for Company Martyn Duffey is born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(x) 61 years ago Tuesday 6th of July 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Günter Brus performs his aktion 'Selbstbemalung und Selbstverstümmelung' in Galerie Junge Generation, Blutgasse 3, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 57 years ago Sunday 6th of July 1969 Architect Walter Adolph Georg Gropius known for founding the Bauhaus School dies of an inflammation of the glands at the age of 86 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 55 years ago Tuesday 6th of July 1971 Jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Louis Daniel Armstrong aka Satchmo dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Corona, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 51 years ago Sunday 6th of July 1975 Rapper Curtis James Jackson aka 50 Cent is born in Queens, New York, New York, United States. Jackson was raised by his mother Sabrina, who gave birth to him when she was fifteen.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 6th of July 1984 54-year-old Serial killer David Joseph Carpenter aka The Trailside Killer is sentenced to death in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1985 24-year-old Serial killer Charles Chi-Tat Ng is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ng was arrested by the Calgary Police Service after shooting security guard Sean Doyle in the hand while resisting arrest for stealing a can of salmon from a Calgary department store.

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(x) 39 years ago Monday 6th of July 1987 28-year-old Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is sentenced to death in Superior Court, 1061 Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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(x) 38 years ago Wednesday 6th of July 1988 167 die in oil production platform explosion and fire in Piper Alpha, the North Sea, Scotland, United Kingdom. 61 workers escaped and survived. Thirty bodies were never recovered.

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(-) 35 years ago Saturday 6th of July 1991 Jeremiah Weinberger is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Dahmer used Weinberger for experiments before he strangled him and cut up his body, afterwards storing it in acid.

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(-) 27 years ago Tuesday 6th of July 1999 Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 6th of July 2001 A piece of root given to me by a Buddhist monk over a year earlier suddenly sprouting a wonderful flower in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 6th of July 2015 Presumed to be the last remaining original wall painting by Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast himself in Abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicilia, Italy.

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(-) 8 years ago Friday 6th of July 2018 Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, originally Chizuo Matsumoto known for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. Asahara was hanged with six other cult members, while still six more are on death row.

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(-) 6 years ago Monday 6th of July 2020 Composer Ennio Morricone as a result of injuries sustained during a fall at the age of 92 in Università Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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4 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 6th of July 2022 Cleaning up the modelbuilding workshop for the last time in Mekano, Mutsaardstraat 31, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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