41st year - Nr 186 Sunday, 5 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 186 Sunday, 5 July 2026

5 July / Today's 33 Events:

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(-) 209 years ago Saturday 5th of July 1817 Michael Christoph Gottfried is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Michael was Gottfried's second husband.

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(-) 143 years ago Thursday 5th of July 1883 Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb dies of a stroke at the age of 45 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 137 years ago Friday 5th of July 1889 Poet, writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau is born in Place Sully, Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 133 years ago Wednesday 5th of July 1893 Minnie R. Williams is murdered by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in Holmes Castle, S. Wallace and W. 63rd Street, Englewood, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Wednesday 5th of July 1911 President of the French Republic Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou is born in Montboudif, Auvergne, France.

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(-) 108 years ago Friday 5th of July 1918 Serial killer Jeanne Weber, originally Jeanne Moulinet aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or dies of nephritis at the age of 44 in Fains-Véel, Lorraine, France. Some sources claim Weber strangled herself in an asylum, most probably she hanged herself during a nephritic crisis.

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(x) 106 years ago Monday 5th of July 1920 Start of the trial against 27-year-old Serial killer Friedrich Schumann aka Der Massenmörder vom Falkenhager See in Schwurgerichtskammer des Landgerichts III, Tegeler Weg 17-21, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 104 years ago Wednesday 5th of July 1922 Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof commits suicide by hanging with a hankerchief at the age of 59 in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 102 years ago Saturday 5th of July 1924 During a search for victims of 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf over 500 bones and pieces of skull are found between the Bruckmuhle and the Leinebrücke in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 87 years ago Wednesday 5th of July 1939 52-year-old Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run suspect Frank Dolezal is arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Two days later Dolezal confessed to killing Florence Polillo, five days later he recanted his confession after a lie detector test, on 24 August he was found dead in his cell.

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(-) 78 years ago Her Affair Was Her Crush Monday 5th of July 1948 Actress Carole Landis, originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste aka The Actress Who Could Have Been but never Was commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal at the age of 29 in 1465 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades, California, United States. Landis was crushed when actor Rex Harrison refused to divorce his wife and actress Lilli Palmer for her while their affair was an open secret in Hollywood.

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(x) 72 years ago He Was All Right Monday 5th of July 1954 19-year-old Singer and actor Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King of Rock and Roll records his first commercial single 'That's All Right' in Sun Records, 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. 'That's All Right' is a song written and originally performed and recorded on 6 September 1946 by blues singer Arthur Crudup. Crudup had to wait until the 1960s when he received an estimated 60.000 $ in back royalties. The Presley version was released on 19 July 1954 and considered as the birth of Rock'n'Roll by Rolling Stone magazine.

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(+) 69 years ago Friday 5th of July 1957 Serial killer Donald Leroy Evans aka The Rest Area Killer is born in Watervliet, Michigan, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Sunday 5th of July 1964 27-year-old Child killer Lucien Léger aka L'étrangleur nº 1 is arrested in Paris, Île-de-France, France. In Léger's possesion a draft of a novel was found: 'Journal d'un Assassin'.

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(-) 57 years ago Saturday 5th of July 1969 Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin is shot dead by unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer in Blue Rock Springs Park parking lot, Vallejo, California, United States. Ferrin's 19-year-old friend Michael Mageau survived four gun shots.

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(x) 56 years ago Sunday 5th of July 1970 Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the United States Army Base in The Presidio, San Francisco, California, United States. The attack was in remembrance of the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

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(x) 56 years ago Sunday 5th of July 1970 109 die in Air Canada McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 Flight 621 crash in Toronto International Airport, Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

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(x) 54 years ago They Took an Extended Break Wednesday 5th of July 1972 31 mental patiens die in hospital fire in Coldharbour Hospital, Sherborne, Dorset, United Kingdom. Eventually the inquiry found the fire had been caused by one of the patients lighting a flame. But the fact that the ward's night nurse and the charge nursed had taken an extended break had allowed the blaze to spread.

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(x) 51 years ago Saturday 5th of July 1975 Anna Rogulskyj is attacked by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Alice Street, Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Rogulskyj was found by a passerby at 2:20 am. She was rushed to the casuality department at Airedale hospital and then was transferred to Leeds General Infirmary where she survived a twelve-hour operation which included the removal of splinters of bone from her brain and a steel plate was fitted to her skull. At one point she was given last rites but she survived.

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(-) 51 years ago Saturday 5th of July 1975 Mary Kathleen Thill is abducted and killed by serial killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in Seward, Alaska, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Monday 5th of July 1976 32-year-old Serial killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, originally Bharat Rajpurohit aka Bad Blood is arrested while drugging and robbing 60 French students in Hotel Vikram, Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

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(+) 50 years ago Monday 5th of July 1976 Victim of Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer and Karla Homolka Leslie Erin Mahaffy is born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

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(x) 49 years ago Tuesday 5th of July 1977 Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, originally Bharat Rajpurohit aka Bad Blood and his accomplices Marie-Andrée Leclerc, Jean Dhuisme, Mary-Ellen Eather and Barbara Sheryl Smith in Tis Hazari Courts Complex, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

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(-) 49 years ago Tuesday 5th of July 1977 Matthew Bowman is murdered by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Tuesday 5th of July 1983 Innocent murderer Aleksandr Kravchenko is executed by the firing squad at the age of 29 in Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Kravchenko was sentenced to death for the murder of 10-year-old Yelena Zakotnova on 22 December 1978, who was actually killed by Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper as his first victim.

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(-) 42 years ago Thursday 5th of July 1984 Jerry Howell is abducted, tortured and killed by serial killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher in 4315 Charlotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago She Needed 478 Stitches Friday 5th of July 1985 Whitney Bennet is beaten with a tire iron by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in Sierra Madre, California, United States. Bennett survived but needed 478 stitches to her head.

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(+) 30 years ago Friday 5th of July 1996 The first succesfully cloned sheep Dolly is born in Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom. Dolly's birth was only announced in February 1997.

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(-) 25 years ago Thursday 5th of July 2001 Falun Gong practicer Yulian Chi dies of hunger strike and extreme torture at the Dalian Yaojia Detention Center at the age of 44 in Xinshiji Hospital, Dalian, Liaoning, China.

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(x) 23 years ago Saturday 5th of July 2003 Noise music band Club Moral play their 96th concert at the Masomania event in Neue Galerie, Sackstraße 16, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 5th of July 2003 The Club Moral in an exhibition by Hermann Nitsch in Galerie Kunst & Handel, Bürgergasse 5, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 5th of July 2015 Our new quarters during an art project related to Thelema Abbey in Vico I Convento 13, Ficarra, Sicilia, Italy.

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(-) 9 years ago Finit la Messe pour le Temps Présent Wednesday 5th of July 2017 Composer and electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry dies of unknown causes at the age of 90 in Hôpital Paris Saint-Joseph, 185, rue Raymond Losserand, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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