30th year - N° 200 Sunday, 19 July 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 200 Sunday, 19 July 2015

19 July / Today's 18 Events:

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(+) 201 years ago Tuesday 19th of July 1814 Firearms designer and industrialist Samuel Colt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 181 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1834 Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, originally Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas is born in 8 Rue Saint Georges, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 155 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1860 Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is born in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 122 years ago Wednesday 19th of July 1893 Futurist poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky is born in Baghdati, Imereti, Georgia.

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(+) 121 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1894 Leader of the Verdinaso Joris Edmond Eduard Van Severen is born in Wakken, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 117 years ago Eros Came Into Civilization Tuesday 19th of July 1898 Philosopher, sociologist and political theorist Herbert Marcuse aka The Father of the New Left is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 115 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1900 Sculptor Arno Breker known for his public works in Nazi Germany is born in Elberfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 66 years ago Tuesday 19th of July 1949 Start of the trial against 40-year-old Serial killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer in Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 57 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1958 Artist and event organiser Franz Ferdinand Feigl is born in Wilhelmsburg, Sankt Pölten-Land, Austria.

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(x) 46 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1969 44-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 10-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 46 years ago Saturday 19th of July 1969 Suicide bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam is born in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(-) 42 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1973 Michael Baulch is strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States. Corll had killed his older brother Billy the previous year. Baulch was strangled and buried at Lake Sam Rayburn.

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(x) 36 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Candy, for You' in Muntplein, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. On a busy square in the city I laid out about 1000 lumps of sugar in a square. Next to it I wrote "Candy for you".

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(x) 31 years ago Thursday 19th of July 1984 38-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is caught in an attempt to break out of prison in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States. Guards found two hacksaw blades hidden in Bundy's cell. A steel bar in one of its windows had been sawed completely through at the top and bottom and glued back in place with a homemade soap-based adhesive.

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(x) 30 years ago Friday 19th of July 1985 268 die in dam collapse in Val di Stava, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

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(-) 24 years ago Friday 19th of July 1991 Joseph Bradehoft is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 19th of July 2004 Empty after dinner situation in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 2 years ago Friday 19th of July 2013 Suffolk County DA Daniel F. Conley, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis announced the DNA test results proving that 82-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man was the source of seminal fluid recovered at the scene of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan's 1964 murder in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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