Saturday, August 4, 2018

33rd year - N° 216 Saturday, 4 August 2018

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33rd year - N° 216 Saturday, 4 August 2018

4 August / Today's 21 Events:
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497 years ago

Thursday 4th of August 1521

228th Pope Urbanus VII, originally Giovanni Battista Castagna is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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263 years ago

Monday 4th of August 1755

Painter, balloonist, army officer and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté known for his invention of the modern pencil is born in Saint-Céneri-près-Sées, Basse-Normandie, France.


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226 years ago

Saturday 4th of August 1792

Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom.


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159 years ago He Was Often Starved by His Uncle

Thursday 4th of August 1859

Writer Knut Hamsun, originally Knud Pedersen is born in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.


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143 years ago

Wednesday 4th of August 1875

Writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen dies of liver cancer at the age of 70 in Rolighed, Østerbro, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.


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126 years ago

Thursday 4th of August 1892

Andrew Jackson Borden is hacked to death by presumed axe murderess Lizzie Borden in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

One of his eyeballs had been split cleanly in two, suggesting he had been asleep when attacked. His wife Abby was also killed. "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."


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121 years ago

Wednesday 4th of August 1897

28-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is arrested after an attempt to kill a woman in Bois des Pelleries, Tournon-sur-Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France.


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112 years ago The Captain Left the Ship

Saturday 4th of August 1906

150 die in SS Sirio shipwreck in Cabo de Palos, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.

The shipwreck gained notoriety because captain Giuseppe Piccone abandoned ship at the first opportunity.


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74 years ago

Friday 4th of August 1944

The Achterhuis where 15-year-old Diarist Anne Annelies Marie Frank was hiding is stormed by a group of German uniformed police led by SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst in Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

On 3 September the Frank family was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz KZ.


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71 years ago

Monday 4th of August 1947

Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze aka Richard Wahnfried is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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63 years ago

Thursday 4th of August 1955

Victim of Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer Roger Edward Dickerson is born in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.


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57 years ago

Friday 4th of August 1961

44th President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama is born in Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital, 1319 Punahou Street, Makiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.


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56 years ago

Saturday 4th of August 1962

Mass murderer Ray Lanker dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head at the age of 14 in Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Earlier that day Lanker shot dead his 45-year-old father Ralph, his mother Virginia, his 12-year-old sister Bea and his 9-year-old brother Thomas in their Grove City home.


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53 years ago

Wednesday 4th of August 1965

Zofia Wiśniewska is attacked by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

Wiśniewska survived.


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44 years ago

Sunday 4th of August 1974

12 die in Italicus Express bomb attack in Apennine Base Tunnel, San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro had been on the train on 3 August but disembarked before the train left Rome. Responsibility was claimed by the neo-fascist terrorist organization Ordine Nero.


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38 years ago

Monday 4th of August 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance '11 Days' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

For 11 days I lived on 250 grams of chips and 1 liter Coca-Cola a day. The next day I ate half a bread, 6 eggs, 6 slices of bacon and 250 grams of mushrooms.


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28 years ago

Saturday 4th of August 1990

69-year-old Composer and bandoneon player Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla aka El Gran suffers a cerebral hemorrhage in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Piazzolla was left in a coma and never regained consciousness until his death on 4 July 1992.


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19 years ago

Wednesday 4th of August 1999

Murderer Ricky Don Blackmon is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.



15 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 4th of August 2003

A sign in a hairdresser shop on Serangoon Road in Little India, Singapore, Singapore.


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11 years ago

Saturday 4th of August 2007

Singer-songwriter Lee Barton Hazlewood dies of renal cancer at the age of 78 in Henderson, Nevada, United States.



11 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 4th of August 2007

Sunset over the beach and the sea in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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