(x) The storming of the Bastille to release 7 prisoners marks the beginning of the French Revolution in Paris, France.
Ten days earlier the Marquis de Sade had been transferred from the Bastille to an asylum in Charenton.
196 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 July 1817
(-) Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël originally Germaine Necker aka Madame, dies at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
151 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 July 1862
(+) Artist Gustav Klimt is born in Vienna, Baumgarten, Austria.
145 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1868
(+) Writer, traveler and political analyst Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, is born in Washington Hall, Durham, United Kingdom.
138 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 July 1875
(+) Womanizer and reverend Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre, is born in Southampton, United Kingdom.
132 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1881
(-) Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is shot dead by Pat Garret at the age of 21 in Fort Summer, New Mexico, USA.
132 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1881
(-) Daniel Stott is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, in Garden Prairie, Illinois, USA.
123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 July 1890
(+) Artist Ossip Zadkine is born in Vitebsk, Belarus.
110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1903
(-) Womanizer and murderer Samuel Herbert Dougal is executed by hanging in Chelmsford Prison, United Kingdom.
110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1903
(-) Black rapist Ed Claus is lynched by hanging in Eastman, Georgia, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1904
(+) Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer is born in Rapzymin, Poland.
101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 July 1912
(+) Singer-songwriter Woody Woodrow Wilson Guthrie is born in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA.
100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 July 1913
(+) 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1914
(-) Black thief James Bailey is lynched by hanging for stealing 3 mules in Lake Cormorant, Missouri, USA.
(+) Filmmaker Ingmar Ernst Bergmann is born in Uppsala, Sweden.
94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 July 1919
(+) Actor Lino Angiolino Joseph Pascal Ventura is born in Parma, Italy.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 July 1926
(+) Actor Harry Dean Stanton is born in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 July 1933
(x) Every millionaire in the city is placed under 24-hour surveillance because of a kidnap-epidemic throughout the nation in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 July 1933
(-) Murderer Albert Fuller is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 July 1957
(x) 270 Die in USSR Eshghabad shipwreck in the Caspian Sea.
53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1960
(x) 83-year-old Presumed murderer of the Drummond family, Gaston Dominici is released from Prison de Baumettes in Marseille, France.
49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1964
(-) Mary Fleming aka Mary Turner, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 30 in London, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1966
(x) 21-year-old Gloria Davy, 20-year-old Pamela Wilkening, 20-year-old Mary Ann Jordan, 21-year-old Suzanne Farris, 24-year-old Nina Schmale, 23-year-old Valentina Pasion, 22-year-old Marlita Gargullo and 20-year-old Patricia Matusek are raped and killed by 24-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, in Chicago, South Community Hospital, Illinois, USA.
Corazon Amurao hid under a bed and escaped the massacre, she identified Speck due to the “Born to Raise Hell” tattoo on his forearm.
47 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1966
(x) 225 Die in mental hospital fire in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1970
(x) Cannibal Dean Stanley Baker is arrested carrying in his pocket the fingers of a man he killed, cut out the heart and ate it in Yellowstone Park, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 July 1974
(-) Janice Ott is strangled and bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Lake Sammanish, Washington, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 July 1975
(x) 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert is sentenced to 11 life-sentences for the murders of 11 members of his family in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 July 1981
(-) Jennifer Daniels is smothered by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, at the age of 1 in Perry, Florida, USA.
8-month-old
30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1983
(-) Graeme Cunningham is abducted and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 13 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 July 1988
(-) Jewgeni Muratow is stabbed to death and his tongue bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.
24 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 July 1989
(-) Mentally deranged murderer Horace Franklin Dunkins is executed by Old Sparky in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
The first blow just rendered him unconscious, the second one was administered only 9 minutes later due to a lack of power, he was pronounced dead 19 minutes after the first jolt.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 July 1991
(-) Barbara Jacobs is found strangled by Joel Rifkin at the age of 32 in New York, Hudson River near West Tenth Street, New York, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 July 1999
(-) Mass Murderer Cyrano Marks commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 39 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He first killed his girlfriend and four of her five children, and her sister.
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