(+) 5th president of the USA John Quincy Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachussets, USA.
As son of the 2nd president of the USA, John Adams.
162 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 July 1851
(+) Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy aka The Two-Headed Nightingale, are born in Whiteville, North Carolina, USA.
151 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 July 1862
(-) Murderer John Bell is executed by hanging in Iola, Kansas, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 July 1920
(+) Actor Yul Yuliy Borisovich Brynner is born in Vladivostok, Russia.
84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 July 1929
(-) Maria Witt is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 July 1934
(+) Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is born in Piacenza, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
76 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 July 1937
(-) Composer George Gershwin dies of a brain tumour at the age of 38 in Hollywood, California, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 July 1957
(+) IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, is born in Derry, Ireland.
(-) Serial Killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Glasgow, Barlinnie Prison, Scotland, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 July 1966
(-) Poet Delmore Schwartz aka The European Son, dies of alcohol abuse and insanity at the age of 52 in New York, Hotel Marlon, New York, USA.
His body was found two days later by the hotel management.
40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 July 1973
(x) 122 Die in Brazilian Varig Boeing 707 crash in Orly Airport, France.
12 people survived the crash.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 July 1978
(x) Over 250 Die in Los Alfaques camping fire in San Carlo de la Rapita, Tarragona, Spain.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 July 1979
(x) The abandoned space station Skylab returns to earth in debris in Rawlinna and Esperance, Western Australia, Australia.
It had been in a 'parking orbit' for almost 6 years.
34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 July 1979
(-) Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, dies at the age of 70 in Bromma, Sweden.
31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 July 1982
(x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is released from prison in Valence, France.
30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 July 1983
(x) 119 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Cuenca, Ecuador.
27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 July 1986
(-) Test-pilot Ross Mulhare crashes with a top-secret F-19 Stealth Fighter plane in Bakersfield, California, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 July 1989
(-) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Steyning, Sussex, United Kingdom.
22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 July 1991
(x) 261 Die in Canadian Nationair D- 8 crash in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The plane carried pilgrims on their way to the Hajj and made an emergency landing.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 July 1997
(x) 91 Die in Royal Jomtien Hotel fire in Pattaya, Thailand.
17-year-old kitchen helper Khayan Kasien confessed to causing a gas leak that sparked the blaze. He said that he removed a hose from a kitchen gas cylinder without turning the valve off beforehand.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 July 2001
(-) Double Murderer James Joseph Jr. Wilkens is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 July 2001
(-) Musician Herman Brood commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the Hilton Hotel at the age of 54 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 July 2006
(-) Double murderer Derrick Sean O’Brien is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 July 2006
(x) 209 Die in Suburban Railway bomb-attack by Islamic terrorists in Mumbai, India.
Seven bombs
2 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 July 2011
(x) 110 Die in MS Bulgaria cruiser sinking in Koeibisjev Lake, Tatarstan, Russia.
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