(x) 49-year-old King of England Henry VIII divorces his fourth wife Anne of Cleves in London, United Kingdom.
Henry claimed she was so unattractive he could barely sleep with her. They had been married for 6 months only.
163 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 July 1850
(-) 12th president of the USA Zachary Taylor dies of gastroenteritis due to a heat stroke at the age of 65 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 July 1918
(x) Over 100 Die in train N°1 and N°4 collision in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
171 more were injured in what was to be "The Great Train Wreck of 1918".
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 July 1929
(+) Musician Lee Hazlewood is born in Mannford, Oklahoma, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 July 1937
(+) Artist David Hockney is born in Bradford, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 July 1946
(+) Musician Bon Ronald Belford Scott known from AC/DC, is born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 July 1947
(+) Sportsman and presumable murderer O. J. Orenthal James Simpson is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 July 1952
(x) 160 Die in train derailment in Rzepin, Poland.
57 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 July 1956
(+) Actor Tom Hanks is born in Oakland, California, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 July 1962
(x) The "Campbell's Soup Cans" exhibition by 34-year-old Artist and filmmaker Andy Andrew Warhol aka The Pope of Pop, opens in Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, California, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 July 1965
(+) Artist Jason Rhoades is born in Newcastle, California, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 July 1971
(x) 24-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Georg von Rauch is sentenced for assaulting a journalist from "Quick" magazine in Berlin, Moabit, Germany.
Upon sentencing he changes places with Thomas Weissbecker, leaves the courtroom and goes in the underground.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 July 1982
(x) 32-year-old Homeless punk Michael Fagan breaks into the bedroom of Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London, United Kingdom.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 July 1982
(x) 146 Die in Pan Am American Flight 759 crash in Kenner, Louisiana, USA.
Another eight people are killed on the ground.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 July 1985
(-) Murderer Henry M. Porter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 July 1986
(-) Siemens chairman Karl-Heinz Beckurts and his driver Eckhard Groppler die in a bomb-attack by the Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Mara Cagol at the age of 56 in Straßlach, Germany.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 July 1986
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is convicted to death in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 July 1987
(-) Larry Pearson is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 July 2002
(-) Actor Rod Rodney Stephen Steiger dies of pneumonia and complications from surgery for a gall bladder tumor at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
(-) Triple murderer Christopher Sr. Black is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
As final meal he had one steak (medium well), fried chicken (wings and thighs), French fries, mushroom gravy, mixed steamed vegetables, chocolate fudge cake, peach cobbler, sweet tea, bread, and chef salad with Italian dressing.
9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 July 2004
(-) Triple murderer Riley Dobi Noel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 July 2006
(x) 122 Die in Sibir Airlines Airbus A-310 crash off the runway in Irkutsk Airport, Siberia, Russia.
Some 80 people survived.
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