Thursday, July 25, 2019

34th year - N° 206 Thursday, 25 July 2019

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34th year - N° 206 Thursday, 25 July 2019

25 July / Today's 25 Events:
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527 years ago

Monday 25th of July 1492

213th Pope Innocentius VIII, originally Giovanni Battista Cybo dies of fever at the age of 60 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

In July Innocentius VIII fell into a fever. He was said to have been given the world's first blood transfusion by his Jewish physician Giacomo di San Genesio, who had him bathe in the blood of three 10-year-old boys. The boys subsequently died.


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222 years ago He Wanted to Get Rid of this Useless Piece of Flesh

Tuesday 25th of July 1797

39-year-old Admiral Horatio Nelson aka 1st Viscount Nelson loses his right arm in the battle during a failed siege and conquest in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain.

The surgeon had been warned of the contingency and got his instruments ready. Nelson was cited as saying, as he pointed to his right arm "Doctor, I want to get rid of this useless piece of flesh here". Nelson's operation was quick and aseptic. The limb was thrown over board despite the admiral's wish to keep it.


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125 years ago

Wednesday 25th of July 1894

Assassin Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World known for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is born in Obljaj, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia.


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114 years ago

Tuesday 25th of July 1905

Writer Elias Canetti is born in Ruse, Rusenska Oblast, Bulgaria.


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110 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1909

37-year-old Aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft in Northfall Meadow, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.

Blériot won the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.


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104 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1915

Murderer Donald Harry Fearn is born in Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States.


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93 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1926

29-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is elected as mayor in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Yonne, France.


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87 years ago

Monday 25th of July 1932

Naturalist writer Cyriel Cyrillus Gustave Emile Buysse dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Afsnee, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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85 years ago

Wednesday 25th of July 1934

Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss is shot dead by ten Austrian Nazis in an attempted Coup d'Etat to take over Austria at the age of 42 in Bundeskanzleramt, Wien, Wien, Austria.


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67 years ago

Friday 25th of July 1952

Murderer Harold McQueen is born in Richmond, Kentucky, United States.


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60 years ago

Saturday 25th of July 1959

Serial killer Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko aka The Terminator aka Citizen O is born in Lasky, Zhytomyr Oblast, Russia.


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58 years ago

Tuesday 25th of July 1961

Murderer Samuel McLaughlin is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 40 in Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.


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50 years ago

Friday 25th of July 1969

Painter and printmaker Otto Wilhelm Heinrich Dix dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Singen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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46 years ago

Wednesday 25th of July 1973

Charles Cary Cobble is abducted, sexually assaulted and shot dead by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States.

Cobble was buried by Wayne Henley in Corll's boat shed near Lake Sam Rayburn.


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46 years ago

Wednesday 25th of July 1973

Marty Ray Jones is abducted, sexually assaulted and shot dead by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States.

Jones was buried by Wayne Henley in Corll's boat shed near Lake Sam Rayburn.


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41 years ago

Tuesday 25th of July 1978

First in-vitro baby Louise Joy Brown is born in Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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39 years ago

Friday 25th of July 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 3' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

I have filled a plate with petrol and held my head above it until all the petrol had evaporated.


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38 years ago

Saturday 25th of July 1981

Sigrun Arnd is raped and beaten to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.


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37 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1982

Debra Lynn Bonner is abducted and killed by serial killer Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer in Three Bears Motel, 2717 S 216th Street, Des Moines, Washington, United States.


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37 years ago

Sunday 25th of July 1982

Lyubov Volobuyeva is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Pashkovsky Airport, Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Volobuyeva's body with seven knife wounds was found on 7 August 1982 near the airport workshops.


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33 years ago

Friday 25th of July 1986

33-year-old Serial killer Bobby Joe Long, originally Robert Joseph Long aka The Adman Rapist is sentenced to death for the Michelle Simms murder in Tampa, Florida, United States.


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19 years ago

Tuesday 25th of July 2000

113 die in Air France Flight 4590 Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde crash in Hôtelissimo Les Relais Bleus, Gonesse, Île-de-France, France.

It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27-year operational history.


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16 years ago

Friday 25th of July 2003

Film and stage director John Richard Schlesinger dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 77 in Desert Hospital, 1150 N Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California, United States.

Schlesinger had been on a life-support system after a stroke in December 2000.



14 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 25th of July 2005

The rusty gate of what seemed like the ideal hide-out for mafia gangsters to keep and torture kidnap victims in Porto San Giorgio, Marche, Italy.


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3 years ago The Lily Garden Turned Red

Monday 25th of July 2016

26-year-old Mass murderer Satoshi Uematsu known for the Sagamihara stabbings stabs 19 mentally disabled people from 18 to 70 years old to death in a residential care center in Tsukui Yamayuri En, Sagamihara, Kantō, Japan.

Another 26 patients were injured. Uematsu turned himself in at the Tsukui Police Station two hours after the incident with a bag of multiple kitchen knives and other bloodstained sharp tools.


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