Wednesday, July 31, 2013

20 Years Ago the 1,176th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece Collapsed

457 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 July 1556
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Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola dies of chronic stomach ailments at the age of 64 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

229 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1784
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Philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot dies of emphysema at the age of 70 in Langres, France.

138 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1875
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17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson dies of a stroke at the age of 66 in Greeneville, Tennessee, United States.

127 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1886
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Composer Franz Ferenc Liszt dies of pneumonia at the age of 74 in Bayreuth, Austria.

112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1901
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Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet is born in Le Havre, France.

99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1914
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Socialist leader Jean Léon Auguste Marie Joseph Jaurès is shot dead by extremist Robert Villain at the age of 54 in Paris, Montmartre, café Le Croissant, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1914
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Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, is born in Courbevoie, France.

78 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1935
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Serial Killer Fritz Honka is born in Leipzig, Germany.

73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1940
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Punjabi Revolutionary Udham Singh originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1943
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Abortionist Marie-Louise Giraud is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
She was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman executed in France.

70 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1943
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Girlfriend of Spree Killer Charles Starkweather, Caril Ann Fugate is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 July 1944
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Actress Geraldine Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 July 1944
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Writer and pilot Marie Antoine Roger De Saint-Exupéry is lost without a trace flying his Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft at the age of 44 in Corsica, France.

64 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 July 1949
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Laura Showalter is bludgeoned to death by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 57 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.

61 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1952
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Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is born in Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.

59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1954
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Murderer Bernard J. Obrien is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1964
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Musician Jim James Travis Reeves dies in a Beechcraft "Debonair" aircraft crash at the age of 40 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Reeves was disoriented by "Pilot's Vertigo" and actually flying upside down when he tried to take the plane up to avoid a thunderstorm. Instead the plane plunged with its nose in the ground.

47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 July 1966
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Mrs Whitman is stabbed to death by Charles Whitman aka The Man on the Tower, in Austin, Texas, United States.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 July 1968
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Brian Howe is mutilated and strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 3 in Newcastle, Tin Lizzie wasteland, United Kingdom.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1969
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Gary Hinman is stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 34 in California, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 July 1973
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89 Die in Delta Airlines DC-9 crash in Boston, Logan Airport, Massachusetts, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1975
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John Butkovitch is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 July 1977
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Stacy Moskowitz is shot by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
In the same event Robert Violante was also shot, he survived but remained blind.

34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 July 1979
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32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is sentenced to death in Miami, Florida, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 July 1980
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28-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Siegfried Buback in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1981
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32-year-old Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Spokane, Washington, United States.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1982
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44 yougsters Die in autobus collision and fire in Beaune, France.

21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 July 1992
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113 Die in Thai Airways International Airbus 310-300 crash in Ghyangphedi, Nepal.

20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 July 1993
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Fifth King of Belgium Boudewijn I originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart failure at the age of 62 in Motril, Villa Astrid, Andalusia, Spain.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

195 Years Ago She was Bound to Conquer Wuthering Heights

195 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1818
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Writer Emily Jane Brontë is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

160 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1853
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Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, is born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

155 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1858
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Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, United States.

150 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1863
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Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1898
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Artist Henry Spencer Moore is born in Castleford, Yorks, United Kingdom.

115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1898
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First Chancellor of the German Reich Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck dies of gangrene at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, Germany.

98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1915
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Racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in New York, Sing Sing prison, New York, United States.

93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1920
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Last Official Executioner of Sweden Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman dies at the age of 72 in Stockholm, Sweden.

84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 July 1929
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Emma Gross is strangled by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 35 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1937
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Womanizer and reverend Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre, dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Cottage Hospital, United Kingdom.
He was attacked by a lion while acting as a modern ‘Daniël in the Lion’s Den’ two days before.

74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 July 1939
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Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New Jersey, United States.

72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1941
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Musician Paul Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1947
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Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is born in Graz, Austria.

53 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1960
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Jersey.

46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 July 1967
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Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Von Bohlen und Halbach Krupp dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1969
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Serial Killer Zodiac writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in California, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1969
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Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1971
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22-year-old Sergeant Josjima Itsjikawa kills 162 people by hitting an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 with his Japanese Air Force Sabre F-86 Jet in Morioka, Japan.
He escaped by using his ejector-seat.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1975
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62-year-old Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Bloomfield Hills, Machus Red Fox restaurant, Michigan, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 July 1977
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Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 53 in Oberursel, Germany.
The action was taken by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Susanne Albrecht.

35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 July 1978
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29-year-old Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt and Gary Tison escape from prison with the help of Tison's three sons and go on a killing spree that left six dead in Arizona, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 July 1980
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, starts his performance "Illegal" in Antwerpen, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium.
It lasted four days.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1981
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Louise Chartrand is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 17 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.

28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 July 1985
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Minister of science, technology and energy, Damrong Lathapipat commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 52 in Thailand.

28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 July 1985
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Official executioner André Obrecht dies at the age of 86 in Nice, France.

21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 July 1992
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Triple Murderer William Andrews aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Draper State Prison, Utah, United States.

20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 July 1993
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Murderer Danny Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 July 2001
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32-year-old The First Western Female Suicide Bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam, marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Charleroi, Al Hidaya Mosque, Belgium.

6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 July 2007
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Filmmaker Ingmar Ernst Bergmann dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Faarö, Sweden.

6 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 July 2007
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Filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni dies at the age of 94 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

Monday, July 29, 2013

30 Years Ago Le Chien Andalou Rencontra Le Fantôme de la Liberté Perpetuite

914 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1099
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159th Pope Urbanus II originally Otho of Lagery aka The Blessed, dies at the age of 57 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

369 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1644
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235th Pope Urbanus VIII originally Maffeo Barberini, dies at the age of 76 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

157 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1856
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Composer Robert Alexander Schumann dies of heart-failure at the age of 46 in Endenich, Germany.

134 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1879
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Murderess Kate Webster aka Catherine Lawler, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.

130 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1883
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Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is born in Forli, Predappio, Italy.

123 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1890
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Artist Vincent Van Gogh commits suicide by a shot in the stomach at the age of 37 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
He shot himself two days earlier and lingered on for two days in de Hotel de Ravoux

113 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1900
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King Umberto I is shot dead by American anarchist Gaetano Bresci at the age of 56 in Monza, Italy.

112 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 July 1901
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Murderer George Middleton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Clinton Prison, New York, United States.
He needs 4 blows in 12 minutes time.

108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1905
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Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is born in Jönköping, Sweden.

108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1905
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Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl, is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.

108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1905
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Actress Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

99 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 July 1914
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Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Italy.

90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1923
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Sound pioneer Jim James Marshall aka The Father of Loud, is born in Acton, West London, London City of, United Kingdom.

89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1924
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Murder victim Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1938
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Mary Carpenter dies of spontaneous human combustion in Norfolk, United Kingdom.
She was holidaying on a cabin cruiser on the Norfolk Broads.

66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1947
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Murderer Cecil Tate is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1947
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Murderer George F. Gumtow is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, United States.

63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 1950
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Murderer Angel B. Serna is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 July 1963
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Murderer Jack Wade Clark is born in Texas, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 July 1974
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Musician Cass ‘Mama’ Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, dies of heart failure at the age of 32 in London, Mayfair, 9 Curzon Place #12, London City of, United Kingdom.
There is an urban legend that she choked to death in a ham sandwich. The Who drummer Keith Moon died in the same flat four years later.

37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1976
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Donna Lauria is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, at the age of 18 in the Bronx, New York, United States.
In the same event 19-year-old Jody Valenti is also shot, but he survived.

34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1979
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Philosopher Herbert Marcuse dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in Sternberg, Germany.

32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 July 1981
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20-year-old Princess Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di, marries Prince Charles in London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London City of, United Kingdom.

31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1982
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Michelle Steele is abducted, raped and asphyxiated by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 11 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1983
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Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Le Chien Andalou, dies at the age of 83 in Mexico City, Mexico.

30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 July 1983
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Actor David James Graham Niven dies of Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 73 in Chateu d'Oex, Switzerland.

29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1984
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Pia Rontini is shot dead and mutilated by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Vicchio, Tuscany, Italy.
Her left breast and pubis had been removed.

26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 July 1987
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Wanja Bilowetzki is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 12 in Saporosje, Ukraïne, Russia.

23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 1990
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Viktor Petrow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Rostow, Botanic Garden, Russia.

20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1993
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73-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is ruled innocent of being a Nazi camp-commander of Treblinka by the High Court in Israël.

16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 July 1997
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Murderer Bobby West is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 July 1999
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Mass murderer Mark O. Barton commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
He shot nine people and wounded another thirteen in Piedmont Avenue business district after murdering his wife and two children.

13 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 July 2000
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Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte dies of a stroke at the age of 67 in Jamioulx, Charleroi, Belgium.
He killed 7 people, was sentenced to death twice and sentenced to a mental hospital for life three times.

6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 July 2007
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Television personality Tom Thomas James Snyder dies of complications of leukemia at the age of 71 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

65 Years Ago She Became One of the Family

681 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1332
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13-year-old King Jean II aka le Bon, marries 17-year-old Bonne of Luxemburg in France.

473 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1540
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49-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fifth wife Katherine Howard in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, United Kingdom.
He divorced his previous wife less than 20 days earlier.

473 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1540
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First Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell is executed by beheading at the age of 55 in London, England.
After the execution his head was boiled and placed on a spike of London Bridge.

358 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1655
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Poet and duellist Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac presumably dies due to injuries suffered when a wooden beam fell upon him a year earlier at the age of 36 in Paris, Sannois, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

272 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1741
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Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies of internal fire or asthma at the age of 54 in Venice, Italy.

263 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 July 1750
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Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of a fever attack at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Germany.

219 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1794
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Leader of the French Revolution Maximilian François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Place de la Concorde, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

148 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1865
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Multiple murderer Dr. Edward William Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Glasgow Green, Saltmarket, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
It was the last public hanging in Scotland, for which about 100.000 people showed up.

126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 1887
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Artist Marcel Duchamp is born in Blainville-Crevon, France.

111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1902
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Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1907
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Inventor Earl Silas Tupper is born in Berlin, Berlin, United States.

104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1909
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Writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for “Under the Volcano”, is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1909
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Founder of Burda magazine Aenne Burda originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger, is born in Offenburg, Germany.

102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1911
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Murderer Alejandro Gallego is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.

86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 1927
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Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton is born in Florida, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1929
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, is born in Southhampton, New York, United States.

68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 July 1945
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14 die when the Old John Feather Merchant, a US B-25 bomber, flewn by 27-year-old lieutenant-colonel William Franklin Smith Jr crashes into the Empire State building in New York, New York, United States.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1948
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Actress Sally Ann Struthers is born in Portland, Oregon, United States.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1948
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Over 200 Die in IG Farben Works explosion in Ludwigshaven, Germany.

47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 1966
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63-year-old Marie Couderc commits suicide by a shot through the head in a house previously owned by Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Montford l’Amaury, France.

46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 July 1967
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26-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 July 1974
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Joey Kallinger is drowned by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of him, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1975
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47-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is sentenced to death in Katowice, Poland.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1976
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Child murderer Christian Ranucci is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 22 in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 1982
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Kerry Heiss is abducted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 10 in St. Joseph, East Hills shopping centre, Missouri, United States.
She escaped.

27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 July 1986
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24-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is arrested in London, Southwark, Keyworth House, London City of, United Kingdom.

15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 July 1998
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Maria Goetz is strangled by Richard Arinaitwe at the age of 35 in Kampala, Uganda.

8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 July 2005
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Murderer David Aaron Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 2010
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152 Die in Blue Airline Flight ED202 Airbus 321 crash in Islamabad, Pakistan.

3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 2010
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Mass murderer Kazuo Shinozawa is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
He burned six women to death in a jewellery shop robbery in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Province in 2000.

3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 July 2010
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Double murderer Hidenori Ogata is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

25 Years Ago She Went to Find a Hillside Proven Innocent

245 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 July 1768
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Murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, Charlotte Corday is born in Normandy, France.

193 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 July 1820
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Murderer Stephen Sullivan is executed by hanging in Scotland, United Kingdom.

114 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 July 1899
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Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Joliet Prison, Illinois, United States.

110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 July 1903
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Black murderess Jennie Steers is lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

106 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 July 1907
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32-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is released from prison in France.

106 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 July 1907
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Actor Ross Alexander originally Ross Smith, is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 July 1917
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Actor André Bourvil originally Robert Raimbourg, is born in Prétot-Vicqemare, France.

93 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 July 1920
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Murderer Andrew Clement Goslett is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in London, Pentonville Prison, England.

84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 July 1929
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Sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard is born in Reims, France.

73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 July 1940
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Frau Nieswandt is stabbed in the neck and thigh by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Berlin, Germany.
She survived.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 July 1944
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Majdanek-KZ is liberated by the Russian army in Poland.

67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 July 1946
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Writer Gertrude Stein dies of stomach cancer at the age of 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 July 1955
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58 Die in Israelian Jet crash.
The plane was shot down the the Bulgarian army.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 July 1956
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Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Birgit Elisabeth Hogefeld is born in Wiesbaden, Germany.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 July 1964
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94 Die in train derailment in Oporto, Portugal.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 July 1970
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Prime minister Antonio De Oliveira Salazar dies at the age of 81 in Lisbon, Portugal.
As a matter of fact he had been dismissed after a stroke already for 2 years without knowing it himself.

42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 July 1971
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Double murderer Shannon Charles Thomas is born in Texas, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 July 1977
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617 Die in KLM and PanAm Boeing 747 collision in Tenerife, Spain.

36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 July 1977
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48-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested after abducting and strangling an unidentified 13-year-old boy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 July 1977
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Virginia Piper is kidnapped by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Orona, Minnesota, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 July 1980
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Sjah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi dies of lymph-cancer at the age of 60 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 July 1982
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Stephanie Richie is abducted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 19 in St. Joseph, Downtown shopping mall, Missouri, United States.
But she escaped.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 July 1984
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Actor James Neville Mason dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 July 1988
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Killer Groupie Veronica Compton aka Ver Lyn, escapes from prison in Washington, United States.

11 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 July 2002
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84 Die in Sukhoi SU-27 crash during an air show in Lviv, Ukraine.

10 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 July 2003
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Actor and musician Bob Leslie Townes Hope dies at the age of 100 in Toluca Lake, California, United States.

Friday, July 26, 2013

85 Years Ago He Opened His Shining Eyes Wide Open

542 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 July 1471
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211th Pope Paul II originally Pietro Barbo, dies at the age of 54 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

157 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 July 1856
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Writer George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland.

138 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 July 1875
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Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Germany.

122 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1891
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38-year-old Mass murderer of his first wife and four children and second wife Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston, kills his wife Marie and four children 9-year-old Bertha, 7-year-old Marie, 5-year-old Sidney and 18-month-old Leala in Rainhill, Dinham Villa, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 July 1894
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Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley is born in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom.

117 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1896
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Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, United States.

105 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1908
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President of Chile Salvador Isabelino Gossens Allende is born in ValparaIso, Chile.

88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1925
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Logician Gottlob Friedrich Ludwig Frege dies at the age of 76 in Bad Kleinen, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 July 1928
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is born in the Bronx, New York, United States.

82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1931
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Founder of Black Liberation group MOVE John Africa originally Vincent Leaphart, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 July 1940
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Double murderer Claude Edward Cline is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in Oregon, United States.

73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 July 1940
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Mary Jo Kopechne is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 July 1943
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Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is born in Dartford, United Kingdom.

61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 July 1952
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Activist Eva Maria Duarte Peron aka Evita, dies of cancer at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 July 1952
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Joseph Brock is shot dead by Gerhard Puff at the age of 44 in New York, New York, United States.

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1959
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Manuela Knodt is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 16 in Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1959
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Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, is born in Putnam, Connecticut, United States.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 July 1960
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Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 23 in Paris, Prison de la Sante, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

49 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1964
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Bankrobber and Cop Killer Vincent Edward Cooks is born in Texas, United States.

48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 July 1965
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Eleonora G. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 38 in Lagisza, Poland.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 July 1971
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Photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in New York, Greenwich Village, New York, United States.

41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 July 1972
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Lynn Derrick is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 July 1974
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Alice Curtis is robbed and choked to death by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, at the age of 65 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 July 1984
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Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 77 in Madison, Mendota Mental Health Institute, Wisconsin, United States.

26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 July 1987
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Egypt’s most famous writer Tawfiq El-Hakim dies at the age of 88 in Egypt.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 July 1991
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Mass Murderer Tim Kretschmer is born in Leutenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 July 2000
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Double Murderer Orien Cecil Joiner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 July 2000
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Murderer Juan Salvez Soria is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

10 Years Ago the Midnight Cowboy Didn't Finish the Marathon

521 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 July 1492
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213th Pope Innocentus VIII originally Giovanni Battista Cybo, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
On his deathbed he was given three blood transfusions from young boys, who also died.

216 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 July 1797
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38-year-old Admiral Horatio Nelson loses his arm in the battle during a failed siege and conquest of Santa Cruz in Tenerife, Spain.

119 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 July 1894
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Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, is born in Obljaj, Yugoslavia.

108 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 July 1905
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Writer Elias Canetti is born in Rutschuk, Bulgaria.

104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 July 1909
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37-year-old Aircraft pioneer Louis Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France to Dover in United Kingdom.

87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 July 1926
(x)
29-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is elected as mayor in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France.

81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 July 1932
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Writer Cyriel Cyrillus Gustave Emile Buysse dies at the age of 72 in Afsnee, Belgium.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 July 1934
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Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss is shot dead by an SS-commando in an attempted Coup d'Etat to take over Austria at the age of 41 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 July 1934
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Jazz composer Don Ellis is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He composed the soundtrack for the movie 'The Deadly Tower', about Charles Whitman.

72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1941
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Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 28 in Berlin, Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany.

72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1941
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Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo, is born in Webb, Mississippi, United States.

61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1952
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Murderer Harold McQueen is born in Kentucky, United States.

54 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 July 1959
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Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is born in Zhytomyr, Ukraïne, Russia.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 July 1961
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Murderer Samuel McLaughlin is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Belfast, Ireland.

46 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 July 1967
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134 Die in US Forrestal aircraft carrier fire in Vietnam.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1969
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Artist Otto Dix dies of a stroke at the age of 77 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 July 1970
(x)
Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the United States Army Base in San Francisco, The Presidio, California, United States.
It was in remembrance of the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 July 1973
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Charles Cobble is tortured, strangled and shot dead by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, Texas, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1975
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The first test-tube baby Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham General Hospital, United Kingdom.

38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1975
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The oldest surviving Algonquin Indian, Paul Caesar dies at the age of 112 in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada.

33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1980
(x)
20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 3" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.

32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 July 1981
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Sigrun is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 July 1982
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Debra Bonner is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 23 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 July 1982
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An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 1986
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32-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, is sentenced to death for the Simms murder in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 July 2000
(x)
117 Die in Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crash in Gonesse, France.

10 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 July 2003
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Filmmaker John Richard Schlesinger dies at the age of 77 in Desert Regional Medical Center, Palm Springs, California, United States.
He had been on a life-support system after a stroke in december 2000.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

3 Years Ago the Hurricane Turned into Fluid

278 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 July 1735
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Murderess Patience Boston is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Falmouth, Maine, United States.

211 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1802
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Writer Alexandre Dumas originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, is born in Villers-Cotterêts, France.

151 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1862
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8th president of the USA Martin Van Buren dies of bronchial asthma and heart failure at the age of 79 in Kinderhook, New York, United States.

149 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 July 1864
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Dramatist Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1897
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Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, United States.

104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1909
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Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, is born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

99 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 July 1914
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45-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1915
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845 Die in S.S. Eastland capsizing in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1941
(x)
28-year-old Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, is sentenced to death in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 July 1944
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Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Jan-Carl Raspe is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1974
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Musician, poet and artist Wannes Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde finishes reading the news and shoots herself in the head at the age of 29 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States.
"In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first - attempted suicide." She drew the revolver and shot herself behind her right ear.

37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 1976
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Gangster John Salanitro dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1980
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Actor Peter Richard Henry Sellers aka The Pink Panther, dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in London, Dorchester Hotel, London City of, United Kingdom.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 1980
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20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 2" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.

28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1985
(x)
81 Die in DC-6 crash in Colombia.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1991
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Murderer Albert Clozza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 July 1991
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Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Miami, Florida, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 July 2003
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Triple murderer Allen Wayne Janecka is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 July 2007
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Behavioral Therapist Albert Ellis dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in New York, New York, United States.

3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 2010
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Snooker Legend Alex Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane, dies of starvation at the age of 61 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Higgins lost his teeth after intensive radiotherapy used to treat his throat cancer and had been living on liquid food, often Guinnes, for the last years of his life.

3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 July 2010
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ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht dies at the age of 88 in Essen, Alfrid Krupp Hospital, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

85 Years Ago the Last Exit to Brooklyn Would be His Requiem for a Dream

364 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1649
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243rd Pope Clementius XI originally Giovanni Francesco Albani, is born in Urbino, Italy.

256 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 July 1757
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Composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti dies at the age of 71 in Madrid, Spain.

238 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 July 1775
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Villain and later Chief Constable Eugène-François Vidocq is born in Arras, France.

138 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1875
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Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Pittstown, New York, United States.

128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 July 1885
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18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63 in Mount McGregor, New York, United States.

125 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1888
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Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

121 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 July 1892
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Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, is born in Ejersa Goro, Harar, Ethiopia.

113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1900
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Black Elijah Clark is lynched on the spot where he just raped 13-year-old Susan Priest in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.

108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 July 1905
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Struß is born in Egestorf, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1928
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Writer Hubert Selby Jr. is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1937
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Jean De Koven is killed by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 July 1942
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Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is born in Manchester, Gorton, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1943
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Archibald Brown is blown to pieces by Eric Brown at the age of 47 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
Eric places a Hawkins No 75 Grenade mine under Archibald’s wheelchair.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1948
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Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73 in Hollywood, California, United States.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1951
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Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain dies at the age of 95 in a prison on Ile d’Yeu, Vendé, France.

59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1954
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Stripper, performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle originally Ellen F. Steinberg, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 July 1957
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Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh is born in The Hague, Netherlands.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1958
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Ruth Mercado is abducted, assaulted and garotted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 24 in Los Angeles, West Pico Boulevard, California, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1958
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Murderer Abraham Thomas is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 July 1966
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Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift dies of a heart attack due to an alcohol and drug overdose at the age of 45 in New York City, New York, United States.

45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 July 1968
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Norma Vaillancourt is strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 21 in Montreal, Canada.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1969
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Karen Beineman is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1973
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White House intern Monica Samille Lewinsky aka The Woman With Whom President Bill Clinton Did Not Have Sexual Relations, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1975
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41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert has a review of his trial, his 11 life terms for shooting his entire family are reduced to 2 in Ohio, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1975
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Renée McGowan is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Bradford, United Kingdom.

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1979
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Writer Joseph Kessel known for ‘Belle de Jour’, dies at the age of 81 in Avernes, Val d'Oise, France.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 July 1981
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Raymond King is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 15 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 July 1989
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26-year-old Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is arrested in Hachioji, Japan.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1997
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Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
Since killing Fashion designer Gianni Versace, he had been hunted down by the FBI.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 July 2002
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Writer and Rabbi Chaim Herman Harold Potok dies of brain cancer at the age of 73 in Merion, Pennsylvania, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 2003
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Murderer Cedric Lamont Ransom is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

Monday, July 22, 2013

120 Years Ago the Mentally Ill Would Prove Only Slightly Different than Healthy Individuals

337 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1676
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239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, dies of gout at the age of 86 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

169 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1844
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Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism, is born in London, Grosvenor Place, 17 Chapel Street, London City of, United Kingdom.

131 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1882
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Artist Edward Hopper is born in Nyack, New York, United States.

124 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1889
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Horror filmmaker James Whale is born in Dudley, United Kingdom.

120 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1893
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Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger is born in Topeka, Kansas, United States.

115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 July 1898
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Artist Alexander Calder is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1933
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34-year-old Airplane pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post becomes the first man to fly around the world from New York to Moscow and Alaska in an airplane.

79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1934
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Bankrobber and outlaw John Herbert Dillinger is supposedly shot dead by Melvin Purvis at the age of 31 in Chicago, outside the Biograph Theatre, Illinois, United States.
Rumour are that the dead man was John Lawrence, a stand in for the left-without-a-trace Dillinger.

77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1936
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A decapitated body is found as third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Clinton Road, Ohio, United States.

74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1939
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Actor Terence Stamp is born in Stepney, United Kingdom.

67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1946
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90 Die in King David Hotel bomb-attack in Jerusalem, Palestina.
The attack was claimed by the Zionist militiant orgaisation Irgun.

51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1962
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Music producer Steve Albini is born in Pasadena, California, United States.

49 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1964
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Danuta Maciejowicz is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Olsztyn, Poland.

49 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1964
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Elly Hager-Segov is strangled and her throat cut by Hans Van Zon in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 July 1965
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Jadwiga Z. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Sosnowiec-Sroda, Poland.

40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1973
(x)
78 Die in Panam Boeing 707 crash in Tahiti.

40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1973
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Nancy Feusi is presumably killed by Zodiac in California, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 July 1973
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Cop Killer Ronald Ray Howard is born in Texas, United States.

33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 July 1980
(x)
20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Untitled - 1" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.

27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 July 1986
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Florence Tisdall is strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 80 in London, Putney, Ranelagh Gardens Mansions, London City of, United Kingdom.

22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1991
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31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 July 1991
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Tracy Edwards is abducted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.
He manages to escape and alert the police. Upon a thorough search of Dahmer’s apartment reveals various plastic bags filled with meat, 3 male torsos, severed hands, 11 heads and skulls, a human heart, male genital organs and various internal organs.

18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 1995
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Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, in Teheran, Iran.

15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 July 1998
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Serial Killer Heriberto Seda aka The NY Zodiac Killer, is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in New York, Queens, New York, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 July 2006
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46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "He Just Wanted to Play in his Bath Tube and Put a Finger in his Ass" in Berlin, Vilma Gold Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

140 Years Ago His KKK Sidestep Derailed the Rock Island Away

599 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1414
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212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, is born in Celle Ligure, Italy.

197 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 July 1816
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Journalist and founder of the Reuters news agency Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter aka Joseph Josephat, is born in Kassel, Germany.

182 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1831
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40-year-old King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is inaugurated as first King of the Belgians in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 July 1873
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25-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James performs the first train robbery in Adair, Iowa, United States.

115 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1898
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Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Chicago, Oak Park, Illinois, United States.

109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1904
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35-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1911
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Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan is born in Edmonton, Alta, Canada.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1922
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Actress Mollie Isabel Mary Sugden aka Mrs. Slocombe in “Are You Being Served?”, is born in Keighley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1926
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Filmmaker Norman Frederick Jewison is born in Toronto, Canada.

85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 July 1928
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58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for grand larceny in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 July 1929
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Maria Maas is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 25 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1944
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Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1948
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Musician Cat Stevens originally Steven Demetre Georgiou now Yusuf Islam, is born in London, London City of, United Kingdom.

65 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1948
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Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 44 in Sherman, Connecticut, United States.
He had undergone a cancer operation and was involved in a car crash in which he broke his neck. His wife left him and several of his works of art were destroyed in a fire.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 July 1969
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38-year-old Astronaut Neil Armstrong aka The First Man to Walk on the Moon, makes his first "giant step for mankind".

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1972
(x)
11 Die and over 130 are wounded in 26 simultaneous IRA bomb-attacks on this "Bloody Friday" in Belfast, Ireland.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 July 1972
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Cop Killer Misao Katagiri is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Tokyo, Japan.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 July 1973
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Weirdo Albert Brust commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
In his house the police found a wide variety of pornography and torture-devices, as well as the walled-in body of 16-year-old Mark Matson.

38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 July 1975
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Ann Arceneaux is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 16 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1976
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British ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs is blown up by an IRA bomb at the age of 54 in Dublin, Ireland.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1976
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35-year-old Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is arrested in Utah, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 July 1977
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Photographer Lee Elizabeth Miller aka Lady Penrose, dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Chiddingly, Farley Farm House, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 July 1979
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Eddy Smith is killed by Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, at the age of 14 in Atlanta, United States.

17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 July 1996
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Martine Bohn is presumably abducted as second victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Her breastless torso was found a couple of days later in the river La Hayne, her legs and arms in march 1997.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 July 1999
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Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong is executed by a shot in the head at the age of 37 in Bejing, China.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

40 Years Ago The Little Dragon Was Overcome by Misadventure

2369 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 356bc
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Military leader Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedonia, Greece.

1028 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 985
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AntiPope Bonifacius VII originally Franco Ferrucci, dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.
Probably murdered, his naked body was dragged through the streets and left beneath a statue of Marcus Aurelius.

709 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1304
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Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, is born in Arezzo, Italy.

494 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1519
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230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, is born in Bologna, Italy.

191 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1822
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Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf, Moravia, Czechoslowakia.

123 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1890
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King of the Hellenes George II is born in Tatoi Palace, Greece.

118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1895
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Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy is born in Borsod, Hungary.

110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1903
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256th Pope Leo XIII dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
He was the oldest Pope ever.

94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1919
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Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary is born in Tuakau, New Zealand.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1923
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Revolutionary leader Pancho Francisco Villa originally Doroteo Arango Arambula, is shot to pieces in a fusillade at the age of 45 in Parral, Mexico.

88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1925
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Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon is born in Martinique.

81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1932
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Video Artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoul, Korea.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1934
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Murderer Alfred William Bayly is executed by hanging in Auckland, New Zealand.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1934
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The SS is settled as official NAZI-organisation by Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1937
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Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi dies of overwork at the age of 63 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1938
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Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1938
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Actress Diana Rigg is born in Doncaster, United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 1944
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Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, 36-year-old Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 1944
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Triple Murderer Allen Lee Davis aka Tiny, is born in Florida, United States.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1945
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Poet Paul Ambroise Toussaint Jules Valéry dies at the age of 73 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1946
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Serial Killer Leonard Lake aka The Eye of Evil, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1947
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Musician Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is born in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1964
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43-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during a performance on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Aachen, Germany.

44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1969
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Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1970
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Start of the trial against Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1973
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Actor, filmmaker and King of Kung Fu Bruce Lee Siu Loong originally Lee Yuen Kam, aka The Little Dragon, dies of a cerebral edema at the age of 32 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
His brain had swollen considerably from 1400 to 1575 grams.

40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1973
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Land Artist Robert Smithson dies in a plane crash, while surveying sites for his work "Amarillo Ramp" at the age of 35 in Texas, United States.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1974
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Mass Murderess Shirley Marie Curry kills all her children, their father, her former sister-in-law and injures her former brother-in-law in Lowell, Arkansas, United States.

37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1976
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The Viking I lands on Mars .

37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1976
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Bennie Bushnell is shot dead by Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, in Provo, Utah, United States.

36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1977
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Members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Hanna Krabbe, Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer are sentenced to life imprisonment for the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in Germany.

31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1982
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11 Soldiers die in two bomb attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army in London, Hyde Park and Regents Park, London City of, United Kingdom.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1984
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28-year-old Spree Killer Alton Coleman and his accomplice Debra Brown are arrested in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1985
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Maxson Kneiding is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1985
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Chainarong Khovananth is raped and shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States.
Somkid survived.

27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1986
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William Downs is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 74 in London, Stockwell, Overton Road Estate, London City of, United Kingdom.

7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 2006
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Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

2 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 2011
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Murderer Mark Anthony Stroman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.