Tuesday, July 23, 2013

85 Years Ago the Last Exit to Brooklyn Would be His Requiem for a Dream

364 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1649
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243rd Pope Clementius XI originally Giovanni Francesco Albani, is born in Urbino, Italy.

256 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 July 1757
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Composer Domenico Giuseppe Scarlatti dies at the age of 71 in Madrid, Spain.

238 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 July 1775
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Villain and later Chief Constable Eugène-François Vidocq is born in Arras, France.

138 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1875
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Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Pittstown, New York, United States.

128 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 July 1885
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18th president of the USA Ulysses Simpson Hiram Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63 in Mount McGregor, New York, United States.

125 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1888
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Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

121 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 July 1892
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Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, is born in Ejersa Goro, Harar, Ethiopia.

113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1900
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Black Elijah Clark is lynched on the spot where he just raped 13-year-old Susan Priest in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.

108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 July 1905
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Struß is born in Egestorf, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1928
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Writer Hubert Selby Jr. is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

76 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1937
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Jean De Koven is killed by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 July 1942
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Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is born in Manchester, Gorton, United Kingdom.

70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1943
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Archibald Brown is blown to pieces by Eric Brown at the age of 47 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
Eric places a Hawkins No 75 Grenade mine under Archibald’s wheelchair.

65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1948
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Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 73 in Hollywood, California, United States.

62 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1951
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Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain dies at the age of 95 in a prison on Ile d’Yeu, Vendé, France.

59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 July 1954
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Stripper, performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle originally Ellen F. Steinberg, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

56 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 July 1957
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Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh is born in The Hague, Netherlands.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1958
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Ruth Mercado is abducted, assaulted and garotted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 24 in Los Angeles, West Pico Boulevard, California, United States.

55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1958
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Murderer Abraham Thomas is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 July 1966
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Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift dies of a heart attack due to an alcohol and drug overdose at the age of 45 in New York City, New York, United States.

45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 July 1968
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Norma Vaillancourt is strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 21 in Montreal, Canada.

44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1969
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Karen Beineman is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1973
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White House intern Monica Samille Lewinsky aka The Woman With Whom President Bill Clinton Did Not Have Sexual Relations, is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1975
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41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert has a review of his trial, his 11 life terms for shooting his entire family are reduced to 2 in Ohio, United States.

38 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1975
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Renée McGowan is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Bradford, United Kingdom.

34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 July 1979
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Writer Joseph Kessel known for ‘Belle de Jour’, dies at the age of 81 in Avernes, Val d'Oise, France.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 July 1981
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Raymond King is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 15 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 July 1989
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26-year-old Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is arrested in Hachioji, Japan.

16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 1997
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Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
Since killing Fashion designer Gianni Versace, he had been hunted down by the FBI.

11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 July 2002
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Writer and Rabbi Chaim Herman Harold Potok dies of brain cancer at the age of 73 in Merion, Pennsylvania, United States.

10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 July 2003
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Murderer Cedric Lamont Ransom is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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