Thursday, July 1, 2021

36th year - N° 182 Thursday, 1 July 2021

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36th year - N° 182 Thursday, 1 July 2021

1 July / Today's 46 Events:
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375 years ago

Sunday 1st of July 1646

Philosopher and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, originally Godefroi Guillaume Leibnitz is born in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.


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172 years ago

Sunday 1st of July 1849

40-year-old Writer Edgar Allan Poe becomes drunk and hallucinatory, and makes a suicide attempt. He is detained for public drunkenness and incarcerated for one night in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

No records exist which support this story other than Poe's own account of it.


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161 years ago

Sunday 1st of July 1860

Engineer and chemist Charles Goodyear dies of heart failure at the age of 60 in Fifth Avenue Hotel, 200 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

Goodyear collapsed when he heard his daughter had died.


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158 years ago

Wednesday 1st of July 1863

Multiple murderer Charles-Louis Kasteleyn is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 43 in Minneplein, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Kasteleyn was the last person to be excuted by the Guillotine in Belgium during peace time.


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149 years ago

Monday 1st of July 1872

Aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot is born in 17 Rue de l'Arbre à Poires, Cambrai, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.


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145 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 1876

Revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin dies of unknown causes at the age of 62 in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.


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137 years ago a Slip of the Tongue

Tuesday 1st of July 1884

Detective and spy Allan Pinkerton known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency dies of a gangrene infection after biting his tongue when he slipped on the pavement at the age of 65 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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129 years ago

Friday 1st of July 1892

Writer James Mallahan Cain known for one of the creators of the roman noir is born in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.


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120 years ago

Monday 1st of July 1901

Peter Stubbe is killed and mutilated by serial killer Ludwig Tessnow aka The Mad Carpenter in Göhren, Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Tessnow also killed Peter's 8-year-old brother Hermann on the same day. Their bodies were found the next day, cut to pieces and with organs missing.


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105 years ago She Came With the Wind

Saturday 1st of July 1916

Actress Olivia Mary de Havilland is born in Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.


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102 years ago

Tuesday 1st of July 1919

Kidnapper and murderer Carl Austin Hall aka John James Byrne is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.


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100 years ago

Friday 1st of July 1921

42-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf moves into "Das Mordhaus" in Neue Straße 8, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Haarmann killed at least four young men here between February and June 1923.


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99 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 1922

Start of the trial against 59-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof in Schwurgericht I, Turmstraße 91, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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96 years ago He Kept His Letters Stored

Wednesday 1st of July 1925

Pianist and composer Erik Satie, originally Éric Alfred Leslie Satie dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 59 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

After his death Satie's friends discovered an apartment replete with squalor and chaos. Among many other unsorted papers and miscellaneous items, it contained a large number of umbrellas and two grand pianos placed one on top of the other, the upper instrument used as storage for letters and parcels.


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84 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 1937

Actor and film director Sydney Irwin Pollack is born in Lafayette, Indiana, United Kingdom.


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83 years ago

Friday 1st of July 1938

Geologist and art vandal László Tóth is born in Pilisvörösvár, Pest, Hungary.


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76 years ago

Sunday 1st of July 1945

Singer-songwriter Debbie Deborah Ann Harry aka Blondie is born in Miami, Florida, United States.


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73 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 1948

Kidnapper and murderer Nizamodeen Hosein is born in Dow, California, Trinidad and Tobago.


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70 years ago

Sunday 1st of July 1951

Motherly widow Mary Hardy Reeser aka The Cinder Lady dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 67 in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.

Reeser's remains, which were largely ashes, were found among the remains of a chair in which she had been sitting. Only part of her left foot which was wearing a slipper and her backbone remained. Plastic household objects at a distance from the seat of the fire were softened and had lost their shapes.


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63 years ago

Tuesday 1st of July 1958

Murderer Alan Jeffrey Bannister is born in Chillicothe, Illinois, United States.


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62 years ago

Wednesday 1st of July 1959

34-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey marries his second wife Joan in Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.


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60 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 1961

Princess of Wales Diana Frances Spencer aka Lady Di is born in Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, United Kingdom.


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60 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 1961

Writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine, originally Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches dies of a ruptured aneurysm at the age of 67 in Meudon, Île-de-France, France.


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53 years ago

Monday 1st of July 1968

Joan Elspeth Schell is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer John Norman Collins aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.


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49 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 1972

30-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown marries his second wife Carol Lofgren in St. Paul Lutheran Church, 5650 N Canfield Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Lofgren said she knew shortly after their marriage that her husband had sexual and behavioral problems. Gacy and Lofgren divorced in February 1976.


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46 years ago

Tuesday 1st of July 1975

Shelly Robertson is abducted and killed by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Golden, Colorado, United States.

Robertson's body was found on 21 August 1975 in a mine in Berthoud Pass, Colorado.


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45 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 1976

Surrealist artist Max Ernst dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 85 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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45 years ago She Was Exorcised to Death

Thursday 1st of July 1976

Catholic exorcism victim Anneliese Anna Elisabeth Michel dies of malnutrition and dehydration at the age of 24 in Wilhelmstraße 84, Klingenberg am Main, Bayern, Germany.

The autopsy report stated that Michel died of malnutrition and dehydration due to being in a semi-starvation state for almost a year while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed 30 kilograms, suffering broken knees due to continuous genuflections. She was unable to move without assistance, and was reported to have contracted pneumonia.


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44 years ago

Friday 1st of July 1977

38-year-old Serial killer Patrick Wayne Kearney aka The Freeway Killer aka The Trash Bag Killer is arrested in Redondo Beach, California, United States.


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34 years ago There Was no Justice in Life

Wednesday 1st of July 1987

Musician Philip Charles Lithman aka Snakefinger dies of a heart attack at the age of 38 in Posthof Club, Posthofstrasse 43, Linz, Oberösterreich, Austria.

On the day of his death Snakefinger's single 'There's No Justice in Life' was released.


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34 years ago

Wednesday 1st of July 1987

The body of 40-year-old Victim of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers Pauline Reade is found in a shallow grave 90cm below the surface in Hollin Brown Knoll, Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

In March 1987 Myra Hindley made a full confession to the murders and directed police search teams to the locations of their victims' graves.


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33 years ago

Friday 1st of July 1988

45-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer is sentenced to death for two counts of murder in City Hall, Room 653, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Heidnik was incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh. In January 1989 he attempted suicide with an overdose of prescribed thorazine.


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30 years ago

Monday 1st of July 1991

Serial killer Joachim Georg Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Justizvollzugsanstalt, Aachener Straße 47, Rheinbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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30 years ago

Monday 1st of July 1991

Actor Michael Landon, originally Eugene Maurice Orowitz dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 55 in Malibu, California, United States.


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28 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 1993

Murderer Curtis Paul Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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28 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 1993

Mass murderer Gian Luigi Ferri, originally Gianluigi Ettore Ferri commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 56 in Pettit & Martin law firm, 101 California Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

Ferri killed eight people and wounded six more in a shooting attack with a pair of TEC-9 handguns and a Norinco NP44 before he was closed in by the police. He claimed he had been poisoned by monosodium glutamate and that he had been 'raped' by Pettit & Martin and other firms.


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26 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 1995

Disc jockey and radio presenter Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack known for his gravelly voice dies of a heart attack at the age of 57 in Belvidere, North Carolina, United States.


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24 years ago Smoke Was Seen Rising from His Ankle

Tuesday 1st of July 1997

Murderer Harold McQueen is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, United States.

During McQueen's execution smoke was seen rising from the electrodes placed on his right ankle. He was declared dead eight minutes after the execution had begun.


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24 years ago

Tuesday 1st of July 1997

Actor Robert Charles Durman Mitchum dies of lung cancer at the age of 80 in Santa Barbara, California, United States.



22 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 1st of July 1999

One of my better students during a one-year teaching job in Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fred Roeskestraat, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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22 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 1999

Murderer Charles Daniel Tuttle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Tuttle's final meal request was for four fried eggs, four sausage patties, a chicken-fried steak, a bowl of gravy, five pieces of toast, five tacos with meat and cheese, four Dr Peppers and five mint sticks.


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21 years ago

Saturday 1st of July 2000

Actor Walter Matthau, originally Walter John Matthow dies of a heart attack at the age of 80 in Saint John's Health Center, 2121 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, United States.

In addition to colon cancer Matthau had atherosclerotic heart disease during the last years of his life.


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17 years ago

Thursday 1st of July 2004

Actor and film director Marlon Brando known from the movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ dies of respiratory failure brought on by pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 80 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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12 years ago

Wednesday 1st of July 2009

Actor Karl Malden, originally Mladen George Sekulovich dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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12 years ago

Wednesday 1st of July 2009

Actress Mollie Isobel Mary Sugden known for her role of Mrs. Slocombe in "Are You Being Served?" dies of heart failure at the age of 87 in Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.


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3 years ago Their Pet Dog Was Alive

Sunday 1st of July 2018

Eleven members of a family are found dead at their home in Burari, Delhi, India.

The victims included a 75-year-old woman Narayan, 60-year-old Partibha, her two sons and their wives 30-year-old Priyanka, 46-year-old Bhupi, 42-year-old Savita, 24-year-old Nitu, 22-year-old Meenu, 42-year-old Lalit, and her grandchildren 12-year-old Dhiru, 12-year-old Shivam and 38-year-old Tina. Ten of the bodies were hanged blindfolded and their hands tied behind their back from an iron rail attached to the ceiling and an 11th body was lying on the ground. The family's p et dog was found alive.


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