Sunday, July 7, 2013

180 Years Ago La Pornocratie Voyait la Lumière

709 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1304
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194th Pope Benedictus XI originally Nicholas Boccasini, dies at the age of 64 in Perugia, Italy.
He was probably poisoned.

180 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1833
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Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist, is born in Namur, Namur, Belgium.

153 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1860
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Composer Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, Czechoslowakia.

126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1887
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Artist Marc Chagall originally Moishe Shagal, is born in Vitebsk, Russia.

123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1890
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Founder of the chocolate company Henri Heinrich Nestlé dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Germany.

122 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 July 1891
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Film-extra Virginia Rappe is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

115 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1898
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Wife murderer Leonard Coey is born in Arizona, USA.

112 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1901
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Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans is born in Hannover, Germany.

111 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1902
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Filmmaker Vittorio De Sica is born in Sora, Latium, Italy.

108 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1905
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14-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, burns down a warehouse ‘for thrills’ in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1906
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Serial Poisoner Anna Maria Hahn is born in Bavaria, Germany.

106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1907
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Writer Robert Anson Heinlein aka The Dean of Science Fiction Writers, is born in Butler, Montana, USA.

102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1911
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Murderer Domingo Franco is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1916
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Murderer Miguel Peralta is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1922
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Fashion designer Pierre Cardin is born in Venezia, Italy.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1922
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Cop Killer Elvie D. Kerby is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Oregon, USA.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1922
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Cop Killer John L. Rathie is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Oregon, USA.

89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1924
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Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is born in Kreis Annaberg, Kuhberg, Germany.

86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1927
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Murderer Louis Boersig is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1930
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Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dies of heart and kidney disfunction at the age of 71 in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1935
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Kitty Catherine Susan Genovese is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 July 1936
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Greek Folk-legend Nikos Xilouris is born in Anoghia, Greece.

73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1940
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Beatle Ringo Starr originally Starkey, is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

67 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1946
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40-year-old Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes crashes with his own designed XF-11 spy-aircraft in Los Angeles, Country Club Golf House, California, USA.

66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1947
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An Unidentified Flying Object supposedly carrying an alien crashes in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.
The US Airforce maintain that is was a research balloon.

64 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 July 1949
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Actress Shelley Duvall is born in Houston, Texas, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1958
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Alaska is called out as 49th of the United States in the USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1961
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Over 100 Die in Doekia coal-mine explosion in Dolni-Soetsja, Czechoslowakia.

46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1967
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Actress Vivien Lady Olivier Leigh originally Vivien Hartley, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 53 in London, United Kingdom.

41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 1972
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25-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion members Irmgard Möller and Klaus Jünschke are arrested in Offenbach, Germany.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1973
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Over 80 Die in bus collision in Alwar, India.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1973
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Megan Emerick is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 17 in Anchorage, Sewrad, Alaska, USA.

40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 July 1973
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Homer Garcia is tortured and shot dead by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, Texas, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 July 1982
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Amina Agisheff is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 35 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 July 1985
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Joyce Nelson is beaten to death by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 61 in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, California, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 July 1997
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Leonce Millet Jr. is beaten and shot as seventh and eighth victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 66 in Gonzales, Texas, USA.
They both survived.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 July 1999
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Murderer Tyrone Fuller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 July 2006
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Musician Syd Roger Keith Barrett dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 60 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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