40th year - N° 216 Monday, 4 August 2025

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40th year - N° 216 Monday, 4 August 2025

4 August / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 504 years ago Thursday 4th of August 1521 228th Pope Urbanus VII, originally Giovanni Battista Castagna is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 270 years ago Monday 4th of August 1755 Painter, balloonist, army officer and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté known for his invention of the modern pencil is born in Saint-Céneri-près-Sées, Basse-Normandie, France.

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(+) 233 years ago Saturday 4th of August 1792 Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Field Place, Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 166 years ago He Was Often Starved by His Uncle Thursday 4th of August 1859 Writer Knut Hamsun, originally Knud Pedersen is born in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.

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(-) 150 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1875 Writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen dies of liver cancer at the age of 70 in Rolighed, Østerbro, Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(+) 140 years ago Tuesday 4th of August 1885 Eccentric painter Olive Edith May Branson is born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.

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(-) 133 years ago Thursday 4th of August 1892 Andrew Jackson Borden is hacked to death by presumed axe murderess Lizzie Borden in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. One of his eyeballs had been split cleanly in two, suggesting he had been asleep when attacked. His wife Abby was also killed. "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."

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(x) 128 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1897 28-year-old Serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L'Eventreur du Sud-Est is arrested after an attempt to kill a woman in Bois des Pelleries, Tournon-sur-Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 124 years ago Sunday 4th of August 1901 Jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Louis Daniel Armstrong aka Satchmo is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(x) 119 years ago The Captain Left the Ship Saturday 4th of August 1906 150 die in SS Sirio shipwreck in Cabo de Palos, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain. The shipwreck gained notoriety because captain Giuseppe Piccone abandoned ship at the first opportunity.

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(+) 118 years ago Sunday 4th of August 1907 Commander of KZ Jägala Aleksander Laak is born in Pöide Vald, Saaremaa, Estonia.

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(-) 92 years ago Friday 4th of August 1933 Murderer Olin Clay Fogleman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(x) 81 years ago Friday 4th of August 1944 The Achterhuis where 15-year-old Diarist Anne Annelies Marie Frank was hiding is stormed by a group of German uniformed police led by SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst in Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. On 3 September the Frank family was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz KZ.

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(+) 78 years ago Monday 4th of August 1947 Electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze aka Richard Wahnfried is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 75 years ago Friday 4th of August 1950 Mass murderer Kenneth Granviel is born in Tarrant, Texas, United States.

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(+) 71 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1954 Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Cynthia Ann 'Cindy' Schall is born in San Mateo, California, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Thursday 4th of August 1955 Victim of Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer Roger Edward Dickerson is born in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Friday 4th of August 1961 44th President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama is born in Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital, 1319 Punahou Street, Makiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Friday 4th of August 1961 Double murderer Eddie Edward Thomas James is born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 63 years ago Saturday 4th of August 1962 Mass murderer Ray Lanker dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head at the age of 14 in Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Earlier that day Lanker shot dead his 45-year-old father Ralph, his mother Virginia, his 12-year-old sister Bea and his 9-year-old brother Thomas in their Grove City home.

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(x) 60 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1965 Zofia Wiśniewska is attacked by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland. Wiśniewska survived.

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(x) 51 years ago Sunday 4th of August 1974 12 die in Italicus Express bomb attack in Apennine Base Tunnel, San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro had been on the train on 3 August but disembarked before the train left Rome. Responsibility was claimed by the neo-fascist terrorist organization Ordine Nero.

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(x) 45 years ago Monday 4th of August 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance '11 Days' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. For 11 days I lived on 250 grams of chips and 1 liter Coca-Cola a day. The next day I ate half a bread, 6 eggs, 6 slices of bacon and 250 grams of mushrooms.

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(x) 35 years ago Saturday 4th of August 1990 69-year-old Composer and bandoneon player Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla aka El Gran suffers a cerebral hemorrhage in VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Piazzolla was left in a coma and never regained consciousness until his death on 4 July 1992.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 4th of August 1999 Murderer Ricky Don Blackmon is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 4th of August 2003 A sign in a hairdresser shop on Serangoon Road in Little India, Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 18 years ago Saturday 4th of August 2007 Singer-songwriter Lee Barton Hazlewood dies of renal cancer at the age of 78 in Henderson, Nevada, United States.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 4th of August 2007 Sunset over the beach and the sea in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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3 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 4th of August 2022 Evening down in San Rocco, Mariakerke, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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