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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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