41st year - Nr 205 Friday, 24 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 205 Friday, 24 July 2026

24 July / Today's 24 Events:

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(-) 291 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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(+) 224 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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(-) 199 years ago Tuesday 24th of July 1827 Friedrich Kleine is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 164 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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(+) 162 years ago Sunday 24th of July 1864 Playwright Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 143 years ago Tuesday 24th of July 1883 Swimmer Matthew Webb known for swimming the Channel dies in a dangerous swim through in the Niagara River at the age of 35 in Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, New York, United States. Accounts of the time indicate that in all likelihood Webb successfully survived the first part of the swim but died in the section of the river located near the entrance to the whirlpool.

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(+) 129 years ago Saturday 24th of July 1897 Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 117 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) 111 years ago Saturday 24th of July 1915 844 die in SS Eastland capsizing in Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Passengers began boarding Eastland at about 6:30 am and by 7:10 am the ship had reached its capacity of 2.572 passengers. The ship was packed with many passengers standing on the open upper decks and began to list slightly to the port side. The crew attempted to stabilize the ship by admitting water to its ballast tanks to little avail. Sometime during the next 15 minutes a number of passengers rushed to the port side and at 7:28 am Eastland lurched sharply to port and then rolled completely onto its port side, coming to rest on the river bottom.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 24th of July 1932 Master Sergeant Max J. Beilke is born in Pipestone, Minnesota, United States. Beilke was officially the last American combat soldier to leave Vietnam in 1973. Beilke was killed in the 9/11 terror attack on the Pentagon in 2001.

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(x) 85 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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(+) 82 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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(-) 68 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) 67 years ago Friday 24th of July 1959 Rosaleen Kenny is attacked by serial killer Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy in Southlands Beach, Bermuda, British Overseas Territories. Four others were in the home at the time and heard the commotion, which caused Lightbourne to flee the home. Kenny was injured, but survived.

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(x) 51 years ago Thursday 24th of July 1975 37-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 49. Aktion in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(-) 46 years ago Thursday 24th of July 1980 Actor Peter Richard Henry Sellers known for his role as The Pink Panther dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 46 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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(-) 35 years ago Wednesday 24th of July 1991 Murderer Albert Clozza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago Wednesday 24th of July 1991 Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, originally Izaak Zynger dies of a stroke at the age of 89 in Surfside, Florida, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago Thursday 24th of July 2003 Multiple murderer Allen Wayne Janecka is executed by lethal injection at the age of 54 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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23 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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(-) 19 years ago Tuesday 24th of July 2007 Psychologist Albert Ellis known for founding cognitive-behavioral therapies dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Albert Ellis Institute, 145 E 32nd St, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 16 years ago Saturday 24th of July 2010 Entrepreneur Theodor Paul 'Theo' Albrecht known for co-founding Aldi supermarket dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 88 in Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus, Alfried-Krupp-Straße 21, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 24th of July 2019 AMVK at the gate of Picasso's last residence in Villa Notre Dame de la Vie, Avenue Orangeraie, Mougins, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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