41st year - Nr 200 Sunday, 19 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 200 Sunday, 19 July 2026

19 July / Today's 31 Events:

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(-) 652 years ago Tuesday 19th of July 1374 Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Arquà, Veneto, Italy.

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(x) 334 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1692 Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes along with Rebecca Nurse are executed by hanging, found guilty of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 212 years ago Tuesday 19th of July 1814 Firearms designer and industrialist Samuel Colt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 192 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1834 Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, originally Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas is born in 8 Rue Saint Georges, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 166 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1860 Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is born in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 136 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1890 King of the Hellenes Geórgios II is born in Tatoi Palace, Dekeleia, Attica, Greece.

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(+) 133 years ago Wednesday 19th of July 1893 Futurist poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky is born in Baghdati, Imereti, Georgia.

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(+) 132 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1894 Leader of the Verdinaso Joris Edmond Eduard Van Severen is born in Wakken, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 128 years ago Eros Came Into Civilization Tuesday 19th of July 1898 Philosopher, sociologist and political theorist Herbert Marcuse aka The Father of the New Left is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 126 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1900 Sculptor Arno Breker known for his public works in Nazi Germany is born in Elberfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 91 years ago Friday 19th of July 1935 Suey Sing Tong hatchet man Hong Yick is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington, United States. Yick is the only person of Chinese descent ever to be executed at the Washington State Penitentiary.

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(-) 80 years ago Friday 19th of July 1946 An unidentified woman is assaulted and hammered to death by serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher in Walkenried, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 77 years ago Tuesday 19th of July 1949 Start of the trial against 40-year-old Serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer in Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 68 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1958 Artist and event organiser Franz Ferdinand Feigl is born in Wilhelmsburg, Sankt Pölten-Land, Austria.

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(+) 60 years ago Tuesday 19th of July 1966 Bank robber Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu is born in Laurel Canyon Boulevard, North Hollywood, California, United States.

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(x) 59 years ago Wednesday 19th of July 1967 79 die in Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 Boeing 727-22 and twin-engine Cessna 310 N3121S mid-air collision in Camp Pinewood, Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States.

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(+) 57 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1969 Suicide bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam is born in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(x) 57 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1969 44-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 10-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 53 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1973 Michael Baulch is strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States. Corll had killed his older brother Billy the previous year. Baulch was strangled and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn.

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(-) 50 years ago Monday 19th of July 1976 Max David Jensen is shot dead by double murderer Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song in Sinclair Gas Station, 168 East and 800 North, Orem, Utah, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Candy, for You' in Muntplein, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. On a busy square in the city I laid out about 1000 lumps of sugar in a square. Next to it I wrote “Candy for you”.

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(x) 42 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1984 38-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is caught in an attempt to break out of prison in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. Guards found two hacksaw blades hidden in Bundy's cell. A steel bar in one of its windows had been sawed completely through at the top and bottom and glued back in place with a homemade soap-based adhesive.

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(-) 42 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1984 Anna Lemesheva is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Chikatilo also cut her nipples and vagina away.

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(x) 41 years ago Friday 19th of July 1985 268 die in dam collapse in Val di Stava, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

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(-) 37 years ago Wednesday 19th of July 1989 Sylvie Rossi is stabbed to death by serial killer Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer aka Le Routard du Crime in Épernay, Marne, France.

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(x) 37 years ago Wednesday 19th of July 1989 111 die in United Airlines Flight 232 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 crash on landing in Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa, United States. 185 people survived.

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(-) 35 years ago Friday 19th of July 1991 Joseph Bradehoft 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.

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(x) 31 years ago He Served no Chili Wednesday 19th of July 1995 45-year-old Serial killer William Lester Suff, originally Bill Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer is found guilty of killing 12 women and attempting to kill another though police suspected him responsible for as many as 22 deaths in Riverside, California, United States. It was alleged that Suff once used the breast of one of his victims in a chili contest and won.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 19th of July 2004 Empty after dinner situation in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 20 years ago He Had a Large Appetite Wednesday 19th of July 2006 Murderer Mauriceo Mashawn Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Brown's final meal request was for fifteen enchiladas heavy with cheese and onions, onion rings or fries, eight pieces fried chicken and eight pieces bbq chicken, eight whole peppers, ten hard shell tacos with plenty of meat, cheese, onions and sause, four double meat-double cheese-double bacon burgers, a boneless T-bone steak with A1 Steak Sauce and a pan of peach cobbler. He was served enchiladas heavy with cheese and onions, fried chicken and a boneless T-bone steak with A1 Steak Sauce.

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(x) 13 years ago Friday 19th of July 2013 Suffolk County DA Daniel F. Conley, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis announced the DNA test results proving that 82-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man was the source of seminal fluid recovered at the scene of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan's 1964 murder in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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