41st year - Nr 194 Monday, 13 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 194 Monday, 13 July 2026

13 July / Today's 25 Events:

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(+) 2126 years ago Tuesday 13th of July 0100bc Dictator of the Roman Empire Julius Gaius Caesar is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 1087 years ago Monday 13th of July 0939 126th Pope Leo VII dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 777 years ago Tuesday 13th of July 1249 8-year-old King of Scots Alexander III aka Alaxandair mac Alaxandair is crowned as King of the Scots in Scone Abbey, Scone, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 499 years ago Wednesday 13th of July 1527 Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and occult philosopher John Dee is born in Tower Ward, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 436 years ago Friday 13th of July 1590 239th Pope Clemens X, originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 233 years ago Saturday 13th of July 1793 Activist during the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by 24-year-old Charlotte Corday at the age of 50 in Rue de Cordeliers 20, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Marat spent most of the time of his last three years in his bath due to dermatitis herpetiformes.

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(-) 219 years ago Monday 13th of July 1807 Murderer Richard Faulkner is executed by hanging at the age of 15 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Faulkner killed 13-year-old George Burnham on 15th February by cruelly beating him to death for no other cause than to revenge his mother having thrown some dirty water upon him.

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(-) 120 years ago Friday 13th of July 1906 Murderer George W. Lauth is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(x) 106 years ago Tuesday 13th of July 1920 27-year-old Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See is sentenced to seven death penalties, one life sentence, ten years hard labour and several other sentences in Schwurgerichtskammer des Landgerichts III, Tegeler Weg 17-21, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Schumann was found guilty of 34 crimes; murders, attempted murders and robberies.

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(-) 92 years ago Friday 13th of July 1934 Murderer George J. Shaughnessy is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 19 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 90 years ago Monday 13th of July 1936 Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman, originally Sven Emil Sigvard Nilsson aka The Doctor and his gang members Eric Hedström, Roland Abrahamsson, Herbert Jansson and Åke Lindberg in Västerås, Västmanlands Län, .

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(+) 82 years ago Thursday 13th of July 1944 Inventor and architect Ernő Rubik known for the mechanical puzzle Rubik’s Cube is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 13th of July 1946 Stand-up comedian and actor Cheech Richard Anthony Marin known from the comedy act Cheech & Chong is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago Friday 13th of July 1951 Composer Arnold Schönberg dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Schönberg had spent the whole day in bed suffering from triskaidekaphobia. On his seventy-sixth birthday, his friend, mentor and fellow composer Oskar Adler wrote Schönberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13. This stunned and depressed the composer, for up to that point he had only been wary of multiples of 13 and never considered adding the digits of his age.

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(-) 72 years ago She Hoped Never to Return Tuesday 13th of July 1954 Painter Frida Kahlo, originally Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 47 in La Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. Kahlo attempted to commit suicide a couple of times but no official autopsy was done. The last words in her diary were "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".

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(-) 71 years ago Wednesday 13th of July 1955 Murderess Ruth Ellis is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 29 in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Ellis was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, after being convicted of the murder of her 25-year-old lover David Blakely on 10 April 1955.

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(-) 59 years ago He Went On Until Off Thursday 13th of July 1967 Cyclist Tom Thomas Simpson drops dead due to the lethal combination of Tonedron amphetamines, alcohol, exhaustion and heat in the 13th stage of the Tour de France cyclist rally at the age of 30 in Mont Ventoux, Vaucluse, France. Simpson's last words as remembered by team mechanic Harry Hall were "On, on, on."

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(x) 56 years ago He Was a Hippie Satanist with a Problem Monday 13th of July 1970 22-year-old Murderer and cannibal Stanley Dean Baker is arrested with Harry Allen Stroup carrying in his pocket the fingers of 22-year-old James Schlosser, whom he killed, cut out the heart and ate it in Big Sur, California, United States. Baker had both a recipe for LSD and a copy of The Satanic Bible in his possession. He readily confessed involvement in the accident, startling police as he added "I have a problem. I'm a cannibal."

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(-) 45 years ago Monday 13th of July 1981 Irish republican hunger striker Martin Edward Hurson, originally Mairtin O hUrsain dies of dehydration after 46 days of hungerstriking at the age of 25 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Hurson, replacing Brendan McLaughlin who withdrew following a perforated stomach ulcer, was the sixth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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(-) 40 years ago He Was that He Was Sunday 13th of July 1986 Artist, writer and sound poet Brion John Clifford Gysin aka The Father of Cut-up dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in 135 rue Saint-Martin, IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 39 years ago Monday 13th of July 1987 Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist terrorist Ajmal Mohammed Amir Kasab is born in Faridkot, Punjab, Pakistan.

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(x) 27 years ago Tuesday 13th of July 1999 40-year-old Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, originally Ángel Leoncio Reyes Recendis aka The Railroad Killer turns himself in to Immigration and Naturalization Services officials in El Paso, Texas, United States. Reséndiz was being hunted down by the FBI for over a month.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 13th of July 2003 A superb portion of beef flank in a specialty restaurant in Hong Kong, China.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 13th of July 2013 A lot of stitches in my shattered left leg after a chance encounter with a yellow car while riding my bike in Stuivenberg Ziekenhuis, Lange Beeldekensstraat 267, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 2 years ago Saturday 13th of July 2024 Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks known for attempting to assassinate Ex-President Donald Trump is shot dead by a Secret Service Counter Assault Team sniper after attempting to assassinate ex-President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the age of 21 in Butler Farm Show Grounds, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. Crooks fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle before being killed. Trump was shot in the upper right ear. 50-year-old Corey Comperatore was killed and two other adult male rally attendees were critically injured.

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