Wednesday, July 29, 2020

35th year - N° 211 Wednesday, 29 July 2020

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35th year - N° 211 Wednesday, 29 July 2020

29 July / Today's 36 Events:
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921 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1099

159th Pope Urbanus II, originally Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery known for initiating the First Crusade dies of unknown causes at the age of 57 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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376 years ago

Friday 29th of July 1644

235th Pope Urbanus VIII, originally Maffeo Barberini dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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164 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1856

Romantic composer Robert Schumann dies of a result of syphilis at the age of 46 in Dr. Franz Richarz Sanatorium, Endenich, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

According to studies by the musicologist and literary scholar Eric Sams, Schumann's symptoms during his terminal illness and death appear consistent with those of mercury poisoning, mercury at this time being a common treatment for syphilis and other conditions.


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141 years ago She Was Given the First Long Drop

Tuesday 29th of July 1879

Murderess Kate Webster, originally Catherine Lawler aka The Barnes Mystery Murderess is executed by hanging by William Marwood at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

For Webster's execution hangman William Marwood used his newly developed 'long drop' technique to cause instantaneous death.


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137 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1883

Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce is born in Via Varano Costa Nuova, Dovia di Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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130 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1890

Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh dies of injuries suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot in the stomach two days earlier at the age of 37 in Auberge Ravoux, Auvers-sur-Oise, Île-de-France, France.


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121 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1899

Murderess Mary Frances Creighton aka The Long Island Borgia is born in Rahway, New Jersey, United States.


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120 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1900

King of Italy Umberto I, originally Umberto Rainerio Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia is shot four times by the Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci at the age of 56 in Monza, Lombardia, Italy.


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118 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1902

Murderer George D. Middleton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 55 in Dannemora Prison, Dannemora, New York, United States.

State Electrician Davis switched on a 7½ ampere current of 1800 volts for 7 seconds. There was a quick convulsive movement of the whole body, the current evidently making the body rigid, just as the current was turned on, but no sign of pain on the victim's face and no twitching of any muscle. The current was lowered to 200 volts for two seconds, then raised to 1800 volts for four seconds, and then lowered to 200 volts for 47 seconds, and then just before being finally switched off the current was jumped up again to 1800 volts for a second or so. In just one minute and twenty-four seconds from the moment Middlet on seated himself alive and well in the fatal chair, Dr. Ransom pronounced him dead.


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115 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1905

Second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is born in Östra Storgatan 91, Jönköping, Småland, Sweden.


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115 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1905

Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.


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115 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1905

Actress and sex symbol Clara Gordon Bow aka The It Girl is born in 697 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

In the Census of 1930 Bow claims she was born in 1906 and on her gravestone of 1965 the inscription says 1907.


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107 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1913

SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke is born in Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany.


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106 years ago

Wednesday 29th of July 1914

Manufacturer of the 'Bic' Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Piedmontese, Italy.


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97 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1923

Guitar amplification pioneer Jim James Charles Marshall aka The Father of Loud is born in Acton, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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96 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1924

Murder victim Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia is born in Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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82 years ago The Boat Was Undamaged

Friday 29th of July 1938

Mary Carpenter dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in The Broads, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Mrs Carpenter's ignition took place in full view of her husband and children. She was engulfed in in flames and reduced to a charred corpse in minutes. No one else was burned and the boat was undamaged.


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73 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1947

Double murderer Cecil Tate is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.


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73 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1947

Double murderer George Gumtow is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.


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70 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1950

Murderer Angel P. Serna is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 27 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.


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53 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 1967

134 die in USS Forrestal aircraft carrier fire in Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam.

An electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on a F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited and triggered a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161.


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46 years ago She Didn't Choke in a Ham Sandwich

Monday 29th of July 1974

Singer-songwriter Cass Elliot, originally Ellen Naomi Cohen aka Mama Cass known from The Mamas & the Papas dies of heart failure due to fatty myocardial degeneration due to obesity at the age of 33 in Flat 12, 9 Curzon Square, Mayfair, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

There is an urban legend that Elliot choked to death in a ham sandwich. The Who drummer Keith Moon died of a drug overdose also at 32 years old in the same flat four years later.


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44 years ago

Thursday 29th of July 1976

Donna Ann Lauria is shot dead by serial killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam in Pelham Bay, Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

In the same event Berkowitz also shot Lauria's 19-year-old friend Jody Valenti in her thigh, but she survived


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41 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1979

Philosopher, sociologist and political theorist Herbert Marcuse aka The Father of the New Left dies of a stroke at the age of 81 in Starnberg, Bayern, Germany.


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39 years ago

Wednesday 29th of July 1981

Princess of Wales Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di dies of a stroke in St Paul's Cathedral, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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38 years ago

Thursday 29th of July 1982

Michelle Steele is abducted, raped and asphyxiated by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.


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37 years ago

Friday 29th of July 1983

Actor David James Graham Niven dies of Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 73 in Chemin David Niven, Château-d'Œx, Vaud, Switzerland.


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37 years ago He Was Afraid of Dying Alone in a Hotel Room

Friday 29th of July 1983

Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, originally Buñuel Portolés aka Le Chien Andalou dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Mexico City, Mexico.


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36 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1984

Pia Gilda Rontini is stabbed and shot dead by unidentified serial killer Il Mostro di Firenze in Vicchio, Toscana, Italy.

The killer removed the Rontini's pubic area and left breast. 


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36 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 1984

Claudio Stefanacci is stabbed and shot dead by unidentified serial killer Il Mostro di Firenze in Vicchio, Toscana, Italy.


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33 years ago

Wednesday 29th of July 1987

Ivan Wanja Bilovetsky is beaten and strangled by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Zaporozhye, Zaporozhye Oblast, Russia.


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27 years ago

Thursday 29th of July 1993

A five-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court overturns the guilty verdict of 73-year-old Guard at Sobibór KZ John Demjanjuk, originally Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk on appeal in Jerusalem District Court, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.


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23 years ago

Tuesday 29th of July 1997

Murderer Robert 'Bobby' Wallace West is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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21 years ago He Hoped not to Ruin Their Trading Day

Thursday 29th of July 1999

Mass murderer Mark Orrin Barton commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Acworth, Georgia, United States.

On 27 July Barton woke up early in the morning and bludgeoned his 27-year-old wife Leigh Ann and his children 11-year-old Matthew David and 8-year-old Mychelle Elizabeth to death as they slept. On 29 July he went to the offices of his former employer Momentum Securities with a Colt 1911A1, a Glock 17, a H&R Revolver and a Raven MP-25 and shot and killed 58-year-old Edward Quinn, 38-year-old Kevin Dial, 42-year-old Russell J. Brown and 30-year-old Scott A. WebbBarton then walked to the nearby All-Tech Investment Group building and killed 48-year-old Allen Charles Tenenbaum, 52-year-old Dean Delawalla, 60-year-old Joseph J. Dessert, 45-year-old Jamshid Havash and 44-year-old Vadewattee Muralidhara. Immediately prior to entering the manager's office at All-Tech Barton was heard to say "I hope this doesn't ruin your trading day."


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20 years ago

Saturday 29th of July 2000

Serial killer Nestor Pirotte aka Le Tueur Fou dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Prison de Jamioulx, Rue Vandamme 120, Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Hainaut, Belgium.

Only one person attended Pirotte's funeral.


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13 years ago

Sunday 29th of July 2007

Television personality Tom Thomas James Snyder dies of complications from leukemia at the age of 71 in San Francisco, California, United States.


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