Friday, July 12, 2013

50 Years Ago She Went Searching for an Expensive Glove in Her Pale Blue Coat

477 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 July 1536
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Humanist Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, dies of dysentery at the age of 69 in Basel, Switzerland.

470 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 July 1543
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52-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his sixth wife Catherine Parr in Hampton Court Palace, United Kingdom.

196 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 July 1817
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Writer and pacifist Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, Massachussets, USA.

159 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 July 1854
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Photography pioneer George Eastman is born in Waterville, New York, USA.

133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 July 1880
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Filmmaker Tod Charles Albert Browning is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

131 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 July 1882
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Composer Alfred Humphreys Pease dies at the age of 44 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

129 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 July 1884
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Artist Amadeo Clemente Modigliani is born in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.

109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 July 1904
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Poet Pablo Neruda originally Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, is born in Parral, Chili.

95 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 July 1918
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621 Die in Japanese Imperial Navy Kawachi destroyer explosion in Shunan, Honshu, Japan.

87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 July 1926
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Writer, traveler and political analyst Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 58 in Baghdad, Iraq.

78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 July 1935
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French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus dies at the age of 75 in Paris, France.

76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 July 1937
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Actor Bill William Henry Cosby is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 July 1951
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Actress Cheryl Ladd originally Cheryl Stoppelmoor, is born in Huron, South Dakota, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 July 1958
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks and rapes an unidentified 31-year-old woman in La Rozelle, Jersey.

50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 July 1963
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Pauline Reade is abducted and her head smashed with a shovel by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 16 in Gorton, United Kingdom.
On 2 july 1987 Ian Brady returned to the Moors where he pinpointed her grave.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 July 1969
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Maria Hettgen is throttled and raped by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 61 in Essen, Werden, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 July 1971
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37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is indicted with a 25 murder count in Yuba City, California, USA.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 July 1979
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Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is shot dead while eating spaghetti in an Italian restaurant at the age of 69 in New York, New York, USA.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 July 1979
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Over 80 Die in Corona de Aragon hotel fire in Zaragossa, Spain.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 July 1986
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Trevor Thomas is strangled in his bath by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 75 in London, Clapham, Jefferys Road, Barton Court, United Kingdom.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 July 1989
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31-year-old Spree Killer Christian Dornier shoots 14 people, including his mother and sister, to death in Luxiol, France.
He is found badly injured in a head-on car collision.

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