(x) Eruption of The Great Fire in Rome, Circus Maximus, Roma, Italy.
Four districts are completely destroyed and seven severely damaged.
403 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 July 1610
(-) Artist Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio dies of a fever attack at the age of 38 in Port d’Ercole, Tuscany, Italy.
196 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 July 1817
(-) Writer Jane Austen dies of tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
142 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 July 1871
(+) Artist Giacomo Balla is born in Torino, Italy.
118 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 July 1895
(+) Gangster George R Barnes Kelley aka Machine Gun Kelly, is born in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 July 1908
(+) Actress Lupe Maria Guadelupe Villalobos Vélez is born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 July 1909
(+) Soviet leader Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko is born in Starye Gromyki, Russia.
95 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 July 1918
(+) Political activist Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is born in Mvezo, Mthatha, South Africa.
92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 July 1921
(+) Astronaut John Herschel Glenn is born in Cambridge, Ohio, United States.
91 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 July 1922
(-) Henry McMahon is beaten to death with a rock by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, at the age of 12 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 July 1925
(x) 36-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler publishes part I of "Mein Kampf" in München, Bayern, Germany.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 July 1929
(+) Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 July 1934
(+) Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra, is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 July 1935
(+) Artist Ben Vautier is born in Naples, Italy.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 July 1937
(+) Writer Hunter Stockton Thompson aka the creator of Gonzo journalism, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 July 1941
(+) Lead singer of the Vandellas Martha Rose Reeves is born in Eufala, Alabama, United States.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 July 1951
(-) Rape-murderer Harold Thomas Lantz is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 July 1954
(-) Gangster George R Barnes Kelley aka Machine Gun Kelly, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 July 1969
(-) Mary Jo Kopechne drowned at the age of 28 in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States.
After a party for the "Boiler Room Girls", Senator Edward Kennedy drove her home but his 1967 Oldsmobile Belmont 88 car ended up Poucha Pound; Kennedy managed to escape, Kopechne didn't.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 July 1981
(-) Police inspector Jacques Massie and his family are executed by a terrorist commando in Auriol, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 July 1981
(-) Richard Adam is stabbed in the heart by Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, at the age of 22 in New York, Bini Bon Diner Club, New York, United States.
Abbott had been paroled due to his litterary talent.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 July 1984
(-) Mass Murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans, is shot dead by the police at the age of 41 in San Diego, San Ysidro, California, United States.
He killed 21 and injured 15 people in a 77min shooting rage in a McDonalds’ restaurant.
(-) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, dies of trombosis at the age of 49 in Ibiza, Spain.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 July 1989
(-) Actress Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer is shot dead by 19-year-old stalker Robert John Bardo at the age of 21 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 July 1990
(-) Murderer Mikel Derrick is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
23 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 July 1990
(-) Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger dies at the age of 97 in Topeka, Kansas, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 July 1994
(x) 85 Die in Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina building bomb-attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
17 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 July 1996
(-) Murderer Tommie Smith is executed by lethal injection in Indiana, United States.
The executioner could not find a vein in Smith's arm and had to insert an angio-catheter into his heart, a procedure that took 35 minutes. According to authorities, Smith remained conscious during that procedure.
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