Friday, July 12, 2019

34th year - N° 193 Friday, 12 July 2019

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34th year - N° 193 Friday, 12 July 2019

12 July / Today's 19 Events:
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483 years ago

Sunday 12th of July 1536

Humanist and theologian Desiderius Roterodamus Erasmus dies of dysentery at the age of 70 in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland.


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476 years ago

Monday 12th of July 1543

King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor dies of dysentery in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.


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202 years ago

Saturday 12th of July 1817

Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau known for his book ‘Walden’ is born in Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse, Concord, Massachusetts, United States.


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165 years ago

Wednesday 12th of July 1854

Innovator and entrepreneur George Eastman is born in 29 Stafford Avenue, Waterville, New York, United States.


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139 years ago

Monday 12th of July 1880

Film director Tod Charles Albert Browning is born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.


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137 years ago

Wednesday 12th of July 1882

Composer Alfred Humphreys Pease is born at the age of 44 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.


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135 years ago

Saturday 12th of July 1884

Artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani is born in Via Roma 38, Livorno, Toscana, Italy.


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125 years ago

Thursday 12th of July 1894

33-year-old Murderer Albert Joseph Pierre Bruneau aka The Murderous Priest is sentenced to death for the murder of Abbé Fricot in Laval, Mayenne, France.


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95 years ago

Saturday 12th of July 1924

Victim of Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho Lee Albert Miglin is born in Westville, Illinois, United States.


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93 years ago

Monday 12th of July 1926

Writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 58 in Baġdād, Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād, Iraq.

There is much debate on Bell's death but it is unknown whether the overdose was an intentional suicide or accidental since she had asked her maid to wake her.


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84 years ago

Friday 12th of July 1935

Artillery officer and presumed traitor Alfred Dreyfus dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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61 years ago

Saturday 12th of July 1958

33-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey attacks and rapes an unidentified 31-year-old woman in La Rozelle, Jersey, United Kingdom.


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56 years ago

Friday 12th of July 1963

Pauline Reade is abducted and her head smashed with a shovel by serial killers the Moors Murderers aka Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in Hollin Brown Knoll, Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

In March 1987 Myra Hindley visited the Moors several times trying to find their missing victims' graves. On the afternoon of 1 July 1987, after more than 100 days of searching, the police found Reade's body lying in a shallow grave 90cm below the surface.


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50 years ago

Saturday 12th of July 1969

Maria Hettgen is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Hardenbergerufer, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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48 years ago

Monday 12th of July 1971

37-year-old Serial killer Juan Vallejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer is indicted with a 25 murder count in Yuba City, California, United States.


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33 years ago

Saturday 12th of July 1986

Trevor Thomas is strangled in his bathtub by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Barton Court, Jeffreys Road, Clapham, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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30 years ago

Wednesday 12th of July 1989

31-year-old Spree killer Christian Dornier shoots 15 people, including his 57-year-old mother Jeanne and 26-year-old sister Corinne, to death in Luxiol, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

Other victims included Pierre BoeufMarie-Alice Champroy, 67-year-old Louis Cuenot, 5-year-old Pauline Faivre-Pierret, 47-year-old Louis Girardot, 45-year-old Marcel Lechine, 50-year-old Louis Liard, 81-year-old Marie Périard, her 79-year-old brother Stanislas, 40-year-old Georges Pernin, 10-year-old Johann Robez-Masson and his 14-year-old brother < strong>Johnny. Dornier was chased by 40 police officers and wounded in the stomach during a shootout before being taken into custody. He was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and thus could not be held accountable for his crime according to French law.


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20 years ago

Monday 12th of July 1999

Mass murderer Cyrano A. Marks commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 40 in 3783 Adamsville Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Minutes before Marks killed his 33-year-old girlfriend Deleane Briskey, her children 15-year-old Craig DeCarlo, 16-year-old Tasha, 13-year-old David Antonio and 9-year-old Antuan Lucas and Deleane's 37-year-old sister Essie Jo Hugley. 11-year-old Santonio Lucas survived.



16 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 12th of July 2003

I walked about 15kms of the Hong Kong Trail in just one afternoon, starting off from The Peak via the Pokfulam Water Reservoir and Chi Fu Fa Yuen to Aberdeen, then took a bus back to my lodgings at Wang Fat Apartments in Wan Chai in Hong Kong, China.


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