(-) Murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, Charlotte Corday is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 24 in Paris, France.
197 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1816
(x) The French passenger vessel "Medusa" is wrecked off the coast in Senegal.
124 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1889
(+) Writer Erle Stanley Gardner is born in Malden, Massachussets, USA.
114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 July 1899
(+) Actor James Francis Cagney is born in New York, New York, USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1901
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Friedel Rothe is born in Hannover, Germany.
95 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1918
(-) Last Tsar of Russia and Grand Duke of Finland Nikolaus II and his family are stabbed with bayonets and executed with a shot through the head at the age of 50 in Jkaterinaburg, Ipatiev House, Russia.
85 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 July 1928
(-) General Alvaro Obregon is shot dead by 26-year-old José De Leon Toral at the age of 48 in San Angel, Mexico.
He was just elected for a second term as president.
79 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 July 1934
(+) Actor Donald Sutherland is born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.
71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 July 1942
(-) Greta Kneller is presumably killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 July 1944
(x) 322 Die in ammunition-stock explosion in Port Chicago, California, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 July 1945
(+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan, The Want-Ad Killer, Eileen Marie Hunley is born in Minnesota,, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1946
(-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Walkenried, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1946
(+) Singer Demis Artemios Ventouris Roussos is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 July 1947
(x) 630 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bombay, India.
59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 July 1954
(-) Presumed murderess of President Faure Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Hove, United Kingdom.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 July 1955
(x) 53-year-old Filmmaker Walt Walter Elias Disney opens the first Disneyland attraction park in Anaheim, California, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 July 1958
(-) King Feisal II and his entire family are assassinated during a military coup in Bagdad, Royal Palace, Iraq.
(+) Filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai is born in Shanghai, China.
54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 July 1959
(-) Musician Billie Holiday originally Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in New York, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, USA.
She died under police guard on charges of possession of drugs.
45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1968
(+) Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is born in China.
42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 July 1971
(x) 46-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is arrested in St. Helier, Jersey.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 July 1973
(-) Homer Garcia is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 July 1975
(x) Apollo and Soyoez join in Space.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 July 1975
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Honka is arrested in Hamburg-Ottensen, Zeißstrasse 74, Germany.
After a fire in the apartment below his attic flat, the police found bodyparts of 4 women.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 July 1977
(x) The villa of 78-year-old War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten is burned to the ground by persons unknown in Blaricum, the Netherlands.
32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 July 1981
(x) 114 Die in Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1996
(-) War-criminal Paul Touvier dies of prostate cancer at the age of 81 in Paris, prison-hospital of Fresnes, France.
17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 July 1996
(x) 230 Die in TWA flight 800 Boeing 747 explosion in Long Island, New York, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 July 2003
(x) After spending 38 years behind bars 62-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, appeals for a release from prison in Regensburg, Germany.
It is denied.
7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 July 2006
(-) Writer Mickey Frank Morrison Spillane dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 88 in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 July 2007
(x) Over 200 Die in TAM flight 3054 Airbus 320 crash in Sao Paulo, Conhongas Airport, Brazil.
The plane skidded off the tarmac into a petrol station.
4 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 July 2009
(-) CBS Anchorman Walter Leland Cronkite dies of cerebrovascular disease at the age of 92 in New York, New York, USA.
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