(x) 15.000 starving Christian soldiers march around the city as instructed by Desiderius in Jerusalem, Israël.
They had been 'crusading' for four years.
860 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 July 1153
(-) 167th Pope Eugenius III originally Bernardo del Paganelli di Montemagno, dies in Tivoli, Italy.
392 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 July 1621
(+) Poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine is born in Château-Thierry, Champagne, France.
390 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 July 1623
(-) 234th Pope Gregorius XV originally Alessandro Ludovisi, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
207 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 July 1806
(-) Captain James Purrinton hacks to death his wife and seven of his eight children after meditating on his bible, then he slits his own throat in Augusta, Old Belgrade Road, Maine, USA.
191 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 July 1822
(-) Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is lost at sea on his boat "Don Juan", presumably drowned between Livorno and Lerici at the age of 29 in Italy.
Some say he was depressed and wanted to die. His body washed ashore several days later, and was cremated on the beach, on this occasion his heart was stolen by Edward Trelawny and from then on kept by Mary Shelley for the rest of her life.
175 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 July 1838
(+) Aircraft designer Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin is born in Konstanz, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
174 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 July 1839
(+) Philantropist and industrialist John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, New York, USA.
146 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 July 1867
(+) Artist Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz is born in Kaliningrad, Russia.
128 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 July 1885
(+) Designer and film director Paul Leni aka The Forgotten Master, is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
109 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 July 1904
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Willi Senger is born in Hannover, Germany.
105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 July 1908
(+) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller is born in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 July 1921
(-) Irene Little is slashed to death by Harold Jones at the age of 11 in Abertillery, United Kingdom.
15-year-old Jones had a "desire to kill".
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 July 1924
(x) 23-year-old Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans is arrested in Hannover, Germany.
79 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 July 1934
(+) Actor Martin “Marty” Alan Feldman is born in London, United Kingdom.
He suffered from Graves Disease, causing his bulging eyes.
74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 July 1939
(-) Sexuologist Henry Havelock Ellis dies at the age of 80 in Washbrook, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
He suffered from impotence until the age of 60 when he got aroused from seeing a woman urinate.
70 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 July 1943
(-) Hero of the French Resistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier, is presumably beaten to death by Nazi Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon at the age of 44 in Metz, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 July 1946
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Neville George Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is arrested in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 July 1961
(x) 227 Die in Save shipwreck in Mozambique.
51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 July 1962
(-) Writer and philosopher Georges Bataille dies of cerebral arteriosclerosis at the age of 64 in Paris, France.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 July 1970
(+) Musician Beck originally Bek David Campbell, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
(x) 51-year-old Filmmaker Kenneth Anger originally Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer, is mugged in the doorway of his building in New York, 354 East Ninety-first street, Apartment 9, New York, USA.
He was knocked out for about 1 1/2 hour and stitched up in Metropolitan Hospital.
32 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 July 1981
(-) IRA-member Joe McDonnel originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 29 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the fifth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 July 1986
(-) William Carmen is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 82 in London, Islington, Clephane Road, Sybil Thorndike House, United Kingdom.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 July 1987
(-) Murderer John R. Thompson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 July 1988
(x) Over 100 Die in train derailment in Trivandrum, India.
It drove off a viaduct.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 July 1990
(-) An unidentified boy is attacked by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 July 1991
(-) Gangster and Cop Killer Johnny Mottry aka Le Tueur à la Lada, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Metz, France.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 July 1994
(-) Great Leader of North Korea Kim Il-sung dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Many people committed suicide or were crushed to death in mass mourning ceremonies during his funeral.
18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 July 1995
(-) Hélène Frinking is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 July 1999
(-) Triple Murderer Allen Lee Davis aka Tiny, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 55 in Starke, Florida, USA.
He suffered a nosebleed, burns to his head, leg and groin during the last execution by use of the Electric Chair in Florida.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 July 2003
(x) 117 Die in Sudan Airways Flight 39 Boeing 737-200 crash in Port-Sudan, Sudan.
The only survivor is a 2-year-old child.
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