(+) Military leader Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedonia, Greece.
1028 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 985
(-) AntiPope Bonifacius VII originally Franco Ferrucci, dies in Rome, Roma, Italy.
Probably murdered, his naked body was dragged through the streets and left beneath a statue of Marcus Aurelius.
709 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1304
(+) Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, is born in Arezzo, Italy.
494 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1519
(+) 230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, is born in Bologna, Italy.
191 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1822
(+) Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf, Moravia, Czechoslowakia.
123 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1890
(+) King of the Hellenes George II is born in Tatoi Palace, Greece.
118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1895
(+) Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy is born in Borsod, Hungary.
110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1903
(-) 256th Pope Leo XIII dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
He was the oldest Pope ever.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1919
(+) Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary is born in Tuakau, New Zealand.
90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1923
(-) Revolutionary leader Pancho Francisco Villa originally Doroteo Arango Arambula, is shot to pieces in a fusillade at the age of 45 in Parral, Mexico.
88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1925
(+) Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon is born in Martinique.
81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1932
(+) Video Artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoul, Korea.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1934
(-) Murderer Alfred William Bayly is executed by hanging in Auckland, New Zealand.
79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1934
(x) The SS is settled as official NAZI-organisation by Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1937
(-) Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi dies of overwork at the age of 63 in Rome, Roma, Italy.
75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1938
(+) Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1938
(+) Actress Diana Rigg is born in Doncaster, United Kingdom.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 1944
(x) Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, 36-year-old Graff Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 1944
(+) Triple Murderer Allen Lee Davis aka Tiny, is born in Florida, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1945
(-) Poet Paul Ambroise Toussaint Jules Valéry dies at the age of 73 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1946
(+) Serial Killer Leonard Lake aka The Eye of Evil, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1947
(+) Musician Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is born in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico.
49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1964
(x) 43-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during a performance on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Aachen, Germany.
44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1969
(x) Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1970
(x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
(-) Actor, filmmaker and King of Kung Fu Bruce Lee Siu Loong originally Lee Yuen Kam, aka The Little Dragon, dies of a cerebral edema at the age of 32 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
His brain had swollen considerably from 1400 to 1575 grams.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1973
(-) Land Artist Robert Smithson dies in a plane crash, while surveying sites for his work "Amarillo Ramp" at the age of 35 in Texas, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1974
(x) Mass Murderess Shirley Marie Curry kills all her children, their father, her former sister-in-law and injures her former brother-in-law in Lowell, Arkansas, United States.
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1976
(x) The Viking I lands on Mars .
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1976
(-) Bennie Bushnell is shot dead by Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, in Provo, Utah, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1977
(x) Members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Hanna Krabbe, Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer are sentenced to life imprisonment for the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1982
(x) 11 Soldiers die in two bomb attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army in London, Hyde Park and Regents Park, London City of, United Kingdom.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1984
(x) 28-year-old Spree Killer Alton Coleman and his accomplice Debra Brown are arrested in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1985
(-) Maxson Kneiding is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1985
(-) Chainarong Khovananth is raped and shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States.
Somkid survived.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1986
(-) William Downs is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 74 in London, Stockwell, Overton Road Estate, London City of, United Kingdom.
7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 2006
(-) Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
2 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 2011
(-) Murderer Mark Anthony Stroman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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