Saturday, July 20, 2013

40 Years Ago The Little Dragon Was Overcome by Misadventure

2369 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 356bc
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Military leader Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedonia, Greece.

1028 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 985
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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
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Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, is born in Arezzo, Italy.

494 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1519
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230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, is born in Bologna, Italy.

191 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1822
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Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf, Moravia, Czechoslowakia.

123 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 July 1890
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King of the Hellenes George II is born in Tatoi Palace, Greece.

118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 July 1895
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Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy is born in Borsod, Hungary.

110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1903
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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
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Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary is born in Tuakau, New Zealand.

90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1923
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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
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Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon is born in Martinique.

81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1932
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Video Artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoul, Korea.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1934
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Murderer Alfred William Bayly is executed by hanging in Auckland, New Zealand.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1934
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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
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Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi dies of overwork at the age of 63 in Rome, Roma, Italy.

75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 July 1938
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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
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Actress Diana Rigg is born in Doncaster, United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 July 1944
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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
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Triple Murderer Allen Lee Davis aka Tiny, is born in Florida, United States.

68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1945
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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
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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
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Musician Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is born in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico.

49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1964
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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
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Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.

43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 July 1970
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Start of the trial against Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 July 1973
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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
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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
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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
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The Viking I lands on Mars .

37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 July 1976
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Murderer Mark Anthony Stroman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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