30th year - N° 195 Tuesday, 14 July 2015

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30th year - N° 195 Tuesday, 14 July 2015

14 July / Today's 11 Events:

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(-) 198 years ago Monday 14th of July 1817 Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël, originally Anne Louise Germaine Necker aka Madame de Staël dies of paralysis at the age of 51 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 153 years ago Monday 14th of July 1862 Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt known from the Wiener Secession is born in Baumgarten, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 147 years ago Tuesday 14th of July 1868 Victim of Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf Gertrud Bell is born in Washington Hall, Washington, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.

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(+) 140 years ago Wednesday 14th of July 1875 Entertainer, priest and womanizer Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes' Padre is born in Sholing, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 97 years ago Sunday 14th of July 1918 Film director Ingmar Ernst Bergman is born in Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden.

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(+) 96 years ago Monday 14th of July 1919 Actor Lino Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 57 years ago Monday 14th of July 1958 Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown William Kindred aka Billy Shotgun is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 57 years ago Monday 14th of July 1958 Rapist and murderer Frederick Ducharme is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

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(x) 49 years ago He Came to Raise Hell Thursday 14th of July 1966 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 25-year-old Mass murderer Richard Benjamin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell in 2319 East 100th Street, Jeffery Manor, Chicago, United States. 23-year-old Corazon Amurao hid under a bed and escaped the massacre, she identified Speck due to the 'Born to Raise Hell' tattoo on his forearm. Photographs of the eight nurses were the basis of 'Eight Student Nurses', a 1966 painting series by Gerhard Richter.

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(x) 40 years ago Monday 14th of July 1975 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, United States.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 14th of July 2001 The inside of a hot air balloon in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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