41st year - Nr 201 Monday, 20 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 201 Monday, 20 July 2026

20 July / Today's 33 Events:

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(+) 2382 years ago Friday 20th of July 0356bc King of Macedonia Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedonia, Greece.

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(-) 1041 years ago Wednesday 20th of July 0985 Antipope Bonifatius VII, originally Franco Ferrucci dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is possible that Bonifatius was murdered but it cannot be confirmed by any known sources. It is clear that there was certainly a sense from the public of disgust at his reign as his body was dragged through the streets, stripped naked until it was left beneath Marcus Aurelius's statue in front of the Lateran Palace.

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(+) 722 years ago Sunday 20th of July 1304 Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism is born in Arezzo, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 507 years ago Sunday 20th of July 1519 230th Pope Innocentius IX, originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 204 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1822 Biologist and Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf bei Odrau, Moravskoslezský Kraj, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 131 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1895 Artist László Moholy-Nagy, originally László Weisz is born in Bácsborsód, Dél-Alföld, Hungary.

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(-) 123 years ago Monday 20th of July 1903 256th Pope Leo XIII, originally Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Leo XIII was the longest-lived pope ever.

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(+) 107 years ago Sunday 20th of July 1919 Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist Edmund Percival Hillary is born in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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(-) 103 years ago Friday 20th of July 1923 Revolutionary general Pancho Villa, originally José Doroteo Arango Arámbula is shot to pieces in a fusillade at the age of 45 in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico. While driving back through the city in his black 1919 Dodge roadster Villa passed by a school and a pumpkinseed vendor ran toward Villa's car and shouted "Viva Villa!" – a signal for a group of seven riflemen who then appeared in the middle of the road and fired more than 40 shots into the automobile. In the fusillade of shots, nine Dumdum bullets, normally used for hunting big game hit Villa in the head and upper chest, killing him instantly.

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(+) 101 years ago Monday 20th of July 1925 Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, France.

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(+) 94 years ago Wednesday 20th of July 1932 Video artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoul, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea.

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(-) 92 years ago Friday 20th of July 1934 Murderer Alfred William Bayly is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Mount Eden Prison, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand. He killed his neighbours, Samuel and Christobel Lakey in Ruwaro on 16 October 1933.

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(-) 89 years ago He Was Totally Wired Tuesday 20th of July 1937 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi known for inventing radio dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 88 years ago She Was Very Russian, You Know Wednesday 20th of July 1938 Actress Natalie Wood, originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko aka Natasha Gurdin is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Wednesday 20th of July 1938 Actress Diana Enid Elizabeth Rigg known for playing Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series The Avengers is born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 82 years ago His Trousers Were Singed Thursday 20th of July 1944 Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, 37-year-old Would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler Claus Philipp Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in an attempt to assassinate him in Wolfsschanze, Rastenburg, Ostpreußen, Germany. Hitler survived the bomb attack with minor injuries. His trousers were singed and tattered and he suffered from a perforated eardrum.

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(+) 82 years ago Thursday 20th of July 1944 Triple murderer Allen Lee Davis aka Tiny is born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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(-) 81 years ago Friday 20th of July 1945 Poet and philosopher Paul Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry dies of unknown causes at the age of 74 in 40 rue de Villejust, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 80 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1946 Serial killer Leonard Thomas Lake aka The Eye of Evil is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Monday 20th of July 1964 43-year-old Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during his performance 'Kukei, akopee-Nein!' on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Audimax der Technischen Hochschule, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Local students were so upset by the onslaught of absurdity unleashed by the performers that they stormed the stage and started a fight.

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(x) 56 years ago Monday 20th of July 1970 Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial killer John Norman Collins, originally John Chapman aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago He Had a Swelling Itching Brain Friday 20th of July 1973 Martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, originally Lǐ Zhènfān dies of an allergic reaction to the tranquilizer meprobamate at the age of 33 in Flat A3 - 2/F, Beacon Hill Road 67, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Lee had been suffering from headaches and cerebral edema before. According to autopsy reports Lee's brain had swollen considerably 13% from 1400 to 1575 grams.

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(-) 53 years ago Friday 20th of July 1973 Land Art artist Robert Irving Smithson dies in a plane crash while surveying sites for his work 'Amarillo Ramp' at the age of 35 in Amarillo Ramp, Tevocas Lake, Amarillo, Texas, United States. Smithson's 'Amarillo Ramp' was finished by Richard Serra, Nancy Holt and Tony Shafrazi.

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(x) 52 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1974 37-year-old Mass murderess Shirley Marie Curry kills all her children, their father, her former sister-in-law and injures her former brother-in-law in Springdale, Arkansas, United States. Curry killed her 43-year-old ex-husband Jimmy Lee Curry, her daughters 17-year-old Sabrina Marie and 11-year-old Jessie Lee, her 14-year-old son Richard Allen and 31-year-old Jo Ann Brophy. 46-year-old James Robert Dotson was shot and critically wounded.

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(-) 50 years ago Tuesday 20th of July 1976 Bennie Jenkins Bushnell is shot dead by double murderer Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song in Provo, Utah, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Wednesday 20th of July 1977 Members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Hanna Krabbe, Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 20th of July 1984 29-year-old Spree killer Alton Coleman and his accomplice Debra Brown are arrested in Mason Park, Evanston, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1985 Maxson Carl Kneiding is stabbed and shot dead by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in Stanley Avenue, Glendale, California, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 20th of July 1985 Chainarong Khovananth is shot dead by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in 13037 Schoenborn Street, Glendale, California, United States. Ramirez then tied up and beat Khovananth's wife Somkid and his 8-year-old son. Both survived.

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(-) 20 years ago Thursday 20th of July 2006 Child killer Robert James Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 15 years ago One, Two, There it Went Wednesday 20th of July 2011 Double murderer Mark Anthony Stroman aka The 9/11 Revenge Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Stroman's last meal request was for chicken fried steak with gravy, a ham-and-cheese omelet with onions and tomatoes, bacon, fried potatoes, fried squash and okra, pork chops with eggs sunny-side up, Dr. Pepper and a pint of vanilla Blue Bell ice cream. Stroman's last words were "It's been a great honor. I feel it; I am going to sleep now. Goodnight. One, two, there it goes."

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 20th of July 2024 A view from down under the church in Snaaskerke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 20th of July 2024 An abandoned shed along the Plassendale-Nieuwpoort canal in Leffinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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