39th year - N° 209 Saturday, 27 July 2024

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39th year - N° 209 Saturday, 27 July 2024

27 July / Today's 26 Events:

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(+) 256 years ago Wednesday 27th of July 1768 Assassin Charlotte Corday aka l'Ange de l'Assassinat known for the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat in his bath is born in Saint-Saturnin-des-Ligneries, Écorches, Basse-Normandie, France.

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(-) 204 years ago Thursday 27th of July 1820 Murderer Stephen Sullivan aka The Colleen Bawn Murderer is executed by hanging in Limerick, Munster, Ireland.

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(-) 121 years ago Monday 27th of July 1903 Black murderess Jennie Steers is lynched for supposedly giving 16 year-old white teenager Elizabeth Dolan a glass of poisoned lemonade in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Saturday 27th of July 1907 Actor Ross Alexander, originally Alexander Ross Smith is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 110 years ago Monday 27th of July 1914 Victim of Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder Elfriede Franke is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 107 years ago Friday 27th of July 1917 Actor André Bourvil, originally André Robert Raimbourg is born in Prétot-Vicquemare, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(-) 104 years ago Tuesday 27th of July 1920 Murderer Arthur Andrew Clement Goslett is executed by hanging by John Ellis at the age of 44 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Goslett battered to death and drowned his 43-year-old wife Evelyn at Weston Avenue, Golder's Green, London on 1 May.

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(+) 95 years ago Saturday 27th of July 1929 Sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard is born in Reims, Marne, France.

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(x) 84 years ago Saturday 27th of July 1940 Gertrud Nieswandt is stabbed in the neck and thigh by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Rummelsburg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Nieswandt survived.

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(-) 78 years ago Saturday 27th of July 1946 Writer Gertrude Stein dies of stomach cancer at the age of 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 69 years ago Wednesday 27th of July 1955 58 die in El Al Flight 402 Lockheed L-149 Constellation crash in Petrich, Oblast Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. The plane strayed into Bulgarian airspace and was shot down by two Bulgarian MiG-15 jet fighters.

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(+) 68 years ago Friday 27th of July 1956 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Birgit Elisabeth Hogefeld is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.

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(-) 55 years ago He Was Uncooperative Sunday 27th of July 1969 Gary Allen Hinman is stabbed to death by criminal hippy gang the Manson Family in 964 Old Topanga Canyon Road, Topanga, California, United States. Family members Bobby Beausoleil, Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins to Hinman's home to convince him to join the Family and turn over the assets Manson thought Hinman had inherited. The three held the uncooperative Hinman hostage for two days, during which time Manson arrived with a sword and slashed his ear. After that Beausoleil stabbed Hinman to death. Before leaving the Topanga Canyon residence Beausoleil or one of the women used Hinman's blood to write "Political piggy" on the wall and to draw a panther paw, a Black Panther symbol.

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(-) 54 years ago He Ruled in Privacy Monday 27th of July 1970 Dictator and Prime Minister of Portugal António de Oliveira Salazar dies of kidney failure at the age of 81 in Lisboa, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Portugal. In 1968 Salazar suffered a brain hemorrhage and lapsed into a coma. Most sources maintain that it occurred when he fell from a chair in his summer house. In February 2009 though there were anonymous witnesses who admitted after some investigation into Salazar's best-kept secrets that he had fallen in a bath instead of from a chair. As he was expected to die shortly after his fall, President Américo Tomás replaced him with Marcello Caetano. Despite the injury Salazar lived for a further two years. When he unexpected ly recovered lucidity his intimates did not tell him he had been removed from power, instead allowing him to 'rule' in privacy until his death.

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(+) 53 years ago Tuesday 27th of July 1971 Triple murderer Shannon Charles Thomas is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 44 years ago Sunday 27th of July 1980 Race car driver and TV personality Jessi Jessica M. Combs aka the fastest woman on four wheels is born in Rockerville, South Dakota, United States.

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(-) 44 years ago Sunday 27th of July 1980 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi dies of chronic lymphocytic leukemia at the age of 61 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt. Pahlavi kept a bag of Iranian soil under his death bed.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 27th of July 1984 Actor James Neville Mason dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 27th of July 1984 46-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 80. Aktion - 3-tage-spiel in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria. Nitsch' 80. Aktion - 3-tage-spiel lasted 72 hours.

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(x) 36 years ago Wednesday 27th of July 1988 32-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton escapes by using bolt cutters to cut through the fences of the medium-security facility in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States. Compton was recaptured in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona nine days later.

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(x) 22 years ago Saturday 27th of July 2002 77 die in Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 crash and explosion in Sknyliv airfield, Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. More than 10.000 spectators attended the air show staged to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian Air Force's 14th Air Corps. The Su-27 aircraft entered a rolling maneuver with a downward trajectory at low altitude. It rolled upright once more and was still descending rapidly when the left wing dropped shortly before it hit the ground. 543 people were injured, 100 of whom were hospitalised. Both pilots survived with minor injuries.

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(-) 21 years ago Sunday 27th of July 2003 Comedian, actor, singer and dancer Bob Hope, originally Leslie Townes Hope dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Toluca Lake, California, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of July 2003 A Malay man making his pick on a well stocked stall of spicy peppers in Chow Kit Market, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 27th of July 2006 51˚ on AMVK's balcony in Helmstedter Straße 27, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 17 years ago Friday 27th of July 2007 Noise music band Club Moral play their 128th concert as The Parts in Sasmeesterswoning, Oosterweelsteenweg 3, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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5 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 27th of July 2019 Two holding cells in Ramatuelle, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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39th year - N° 208 Friday, 26 July 2024

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39th year - N° 208 Friday, 26 July 2024

26 July / Today's 33 Events:

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(-) 553 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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(+) 168 years ago Saturday 26th of July 1856 Playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Synge Street 33, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(+) 149 years ago Monday 26th of July 1875 Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland.

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(-) 133 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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(+) 130 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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(+) 128 years ago Sunday 26th of July 1896 Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 110 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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(-) 99 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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(+) 96 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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(+) 93 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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(-) 84 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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(+) 84 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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(-) 83 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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(+) 81 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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(-) 72 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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(+) 65 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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(-) 65 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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(-) 64 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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(x) 60 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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(-) 59 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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(-) 53 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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(-) 50 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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(x) 49 years ago Von Sonnenaufgang bis Sonnenaufgang Saturday 26th of July 1975 37-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 50. Aktion Erstes 24-stunden-spiel, von Sonnenaufgang 26.7. bis Sonnenaufgang 27.7. in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria. Nitsch' 50. Aktion lasted 24 hours.

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(-) 40 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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(-) 37 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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(+) 33 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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(-) 24 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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(-) 24 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.

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21 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.

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18 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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(-) 4 years ago She Went with the Wind Sunday 26th of July 2020 Actress Olivia Mary de Havilland dies of natural causes at the age of 104 in Hôtel Saint-James, 43 Avenue Bugeaud, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 2 years ago Tuesday 26th of July 2022 Mass murderer Tomohiro Katō known for the Akihabara massacre is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(-) 1 years ago Wednesday 26th of July 2023 Singer-songwriter Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor dies of unknown causes at the age of 57 in Herne Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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