Sunday, July 26, 2020

35th year - N° 208 Sunday, 26 July 2020

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35th year - N° 208 Sunday, 26 July 2020

26 July / Today's 29 Events:
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549 years ago

Wednesday 26th of July 1471

211th Pope Paulus II, originally Pietro Barbo dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Some claimed Paul II collapsed from severe indigestion after eating melon in excess. Some say that he had died whilst being sodomized by a page boy.


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164 years ago

Saturday 26th of July 1856

Playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Synge Street 33, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.


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145 years ago

Monday 26th of July 1875

Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland.


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129 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1891

38-year-old Mass murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston kills his wife Marie and four children 9-year-old Bertha, 7-year-old Marie, 5-year-old Sidney and 18-month-old Leala in Dinham Villa, Lawton Road, Rainhill, Merseyside, United Kingdom.


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126 years ago He Came Into a Brave New World

Thursday 26th of July 1894

Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley known for his dystopian novel Brave New World is born in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom.


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124 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1896

Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, United States.


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106 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1914

45-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is sentenced to four years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Because of his previous convictions Landru faced transportation to the penal colony of Guyana.


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95 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1925

Philosopher, logician and mathematician Gottlob Friedrich Ludwig Frege aka The Father of Analytic Philosophy dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.


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92 years ago

Thursday 26th of July 1928

Film director Stanley Kubrick is born in Lying-In Hospital, 305 Second Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.


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89 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1931

Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa, originally Vincent Leaphart is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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80 years ago

Friday 26th of July 1940

Double murderer Claude Cline is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 46 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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80 years ago

Friday 26th of July 1940

Political campaign specialist for Robert F. Kennedy Mary Jo Kopechne is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.


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79 years ago

Saturday 26th of July 1941

Serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Strafgefängnis Plötzensee, Plötzensee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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77 years ago

Monday 26th of July 1943

Singer-songwriter and musician Mick Michael Philip Jagger known from The Rolling Stones is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.


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68 years ago

Saturday 26th of July 1952

Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina Eva María Duarte de Perón aka Evita dies of cancer at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires, Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina.


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61 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1959

Serial killer Michael Bruce Ross aka The Roadside Strangler is born in Putnam, Connecticut, United States.


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61 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1959

Manuela Knodt is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Stadtwald, Bredeney, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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60 years ago

Tuesday 26th of July 1960

Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 24 in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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56 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1964

94 die in Automara express train derailment in Custóias, Norte, Portugal.

The group was returning home to Oporto from the beach resort at Póvoa de Varzim and had only a few minutes left on their trip when disaster struck. The car they were in was supposed to carry no more than 70 people and more than twice that many (161) had been on board.


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55 years ago

Monday 26th of July 1965

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


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49 years ago

Monday 26th of July 1971

Photographer Diane Arbus, originally Diane Nemerov commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in Westbeth Artists Community, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

Artist Marvin Israel found Arbus' body in the bathtub two days later.


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46 years ago

Friday 26th of July 1974

Alice Curtis is choked to death by serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.


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36 years ago

Thursday 26th of July 1984

Murderer and body snatcher Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka America's Most Bizarre Murderer dies of respiratory failure due to lung cancer at the age of 78 in Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.


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33 years ago

Sunday 26th of July 1987

Writer and playwright Tawfīq al-Hakīm aka The Enemy of Woman dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.


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29 years ago

Friday 26th of July 1991

Spree killer and mass murderer Tim Kretschmer known from The Winnenden School Shooting is born in Leutenbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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20 years ago

Wednesday 26th of July 2000

Double murderer Orien Cecil Joiner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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20 years ago

Wednesday 26th of July 2000

Murderer Juan Salvez Soria is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.



17 years ago The Eyes had it

Saturday 26th of July 2003

A choice of delightful meat and other animal products on display at a night market around the corner in Empire Hotel, Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.



14 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 26th of July 2006

A display of mechanical hands in Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Charitéplatz 1, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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