33rd year - N° 209 Saturday, 28 July 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 209 Saturday, 28 July 2018

28 July / Today's 18 Events:

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(x) 478 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1540 King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor in Oatlands Palace, Walton on Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom. Henry divorced his previous wife Anne of Cleves less than 20 days earlier.

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(-) 363 years ago He Lost a Duel with a Wooden Beam Wednesday 28th of July 1655 Writer and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac, originally Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac dies of unknown causes at the age of 36 in Sannois, Île-de-France, France. It is inconclusive as to whether or not de Bergerac's death was a result of the injury from a falling wooden beam in 1654 while entering the house of his patron or an unspecified disease. There is also strong evidence to support the theory that his death was a result of a botched assassination attempt

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(-) 277 years ago Friday 28th of July 1741 Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies of an internal infection at the age of 63 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 268 years ago Tuesday 28th of July 1750 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of fever at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 224 years ago Monday 28th of July 1794 Leader of the French Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Place de la Révolution, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 153 years ago Friday 28th of July 1865 Doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Saltmarket, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Thousands came to witness the public execution of Dr. Pritchard.

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(+) 131 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1887 Dada artist Marcel Henri Robert Duchamp aka Rrose Sélavy is born in Blainville Crevon Village, Blainville-Crevon, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(+) 116 years ago He Was a Popup Philosopher Monday 28th of July 1902 Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 111 years ago He Had a Party Plan Sunday 28th of July 1907 Inventor Earl Silas Tupper known for the Tupperware plastic food container is born in Berlin, New Hampshire, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago He Came From Under a Volcano Wednesday 28th of July 1909 Poet and writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for Under the Volcano is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(+) 109 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1909 Women's magazine publisher Aenne Burda, originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger is born in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 91 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1927 Double murderer Lawrence Bernard Singleton is born in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1929 First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy is born in Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 28th of July 1967 27-year-old Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 46 years ago Friday 28th of July 1972 Murderer Aaron Christopher Foust is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1976 Child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 22 in Baumettes Prison, 239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 28th of July 2006 The grave of Christa 'Nico' Päffgen on the 'Selbstmörderfriedhof' in Friedhof Grunewald-Forst, Jagen 135, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 8 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 2010 152 die in Airblue Airbus A321-231 Flight 202 crash in Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan.

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