41st year - Nr 203 Wednesday, 22 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 203 Wednesday, 22 July 2026

22 July / Today's 28 Events:

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(-) 350 years ago Wednesday 22nd of July 1676 239th Pope Clemens X, originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri dies of gout at the age of 86 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 226 years ago Tuesday 22nd of July 1800 Christian mystic and visionary Jakob Lorber aka Der Schreibknecht Gottes is born in Kanischa, Spodnja Štajerska, Slovenia.

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(+) 182 years ago His Worth Was a Binder Monday 22nd of July 1844 Oxford don William Archibald Spooner known for Spoonerism is born in 17 Chapel Street, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 144 years ago Saturday 22nd of July 1882 Artist Edward Hopper is born in 82 N Broadway, Nyack, New York, United States.

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(+) 140 years ago Thursday 22nd of July 1886 Victim of Karl Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof Marie Theresia Nitsche is born in Dresden, Sachsen, Germany.

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(+) 137 years ago Monday 22nd of July 1889 Film director James Whale known for the film ‘Frankenstein’ is born in Dudley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 133 years ago Saturday 22nd of July 1893 Psychiatrist Karl Augustus Menninger is born in Topeka, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 128 years ago They Made a Mistake Friday 22nd of July 1898 Sculptor Alexander 'Sandy' Calder is born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, United States. Calder's actual birthday remains a source of much confusion. According to Calder's mother he was born on 22 August yet his birth certificate at Philadelphia City Hall stated 22 July. When Calder's family learned about the birth certificate they reasserted with certainty that city officials had made a mistake.

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(x) 93 years ago Saturday 22nd of July 1933 35-year-old Aviation pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post becomes the first man to fly around the world solo from New York to Berlin, Königsberg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Rukhlovo, Khabarovsk, Flat, Fairbanks, Edmonton, and back to New York in Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. Fifty thousand people greeted Post on his return after 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.

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(-) 92 years ago Sunday 22nd of July 1934 Bank robber John Herbert Dillinger is supposedly shot dead by Melvin Purvis at the age of 31 in Biograph Theater, 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Dillinger was struck four times, with two bullets grazing him, one cut a superficial hole in his right side, and the fatal shot - which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye, severing two sets of veins and arteries. An ambulance was summoned though it was clear Dillinger had quickly died from his gunshot wounds. At 10:50 p.m. Dillinger was pronounced dead at Alexian Brothers Hospital. He died without saying a word. There were reports of people dipping their handkerchiefs and skirts into the blood pool that had formed.In 'The Dillinger Dossier' author Jay Robert Nash maintains that Dillinger escaped death at the Biograph Theater simply by not being there. In his stead was a 'Jimmy Lawrence', a local Chicago petty criminal whose appearance was similar to Dillinger's.

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(x) 90 years ago His Head Was Recovered Wednesday 22nd of July 1936 A decapitated body is found as fifth victim of Unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka the Cleveland Torso Murderer in Clinton Road, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The victim was dismembered while still alive. His head was recovered.

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(+) 87 years ago Saturday 22nd of July 1939 Actor Terence Henry Stamp is born in Stepney, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 80 years ago Monday 22nd of July 1946 91 die in bomb attack in King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Israel. The bombing was a terrorist attack by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization the Irgun on the British administrative headquarters for Palestine which was housed in the southern wing of the hotel.

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(+) 74 years ago Tuesday 22nd of July 1952 Victim of the Zodiac Killer Betty Lou Jensen is born in Hawkins, Colorado, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Sunday 22nd of July 1962 Musician, record producer and audio engineer Steve Albini is born in Pasadena, California, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago There Was no Christmas Without a Funeral Wednesday 22nd of July 1964 Danuta Maciejowicz is strangled and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice in Olsztyn, Województwo Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Poland. On 24 July the magazine 'Kulisy' received a poem from Staniak. "I picked a juicy flower in Olsztyn and I will do it again, because there is no Christmas without a funeral."

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(-) 62 years ago Wednesday 22nd of July 1964 Elly Hager-Segov is strangled and her throat cut by serial killer Hans van Zon in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 61 years ago Thursday 22nd of July 1965 Jadwiga Zygmunt is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Sosnowiec, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(+) 55 years ago Thursday 22nd of July 1971 Fictional character Laura Palmer known from the TV series Twin Peaks is born in Twin Peaks, Washington, United States.

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(+) 53 years ago Sunday 22nd of July 1973 Cop killer Ronald Ray Howard is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago Tuesday 22nd of July 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Untitled Series - 1' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I have cut my hair and thrown it in the sink. Then I have made a cut on the inside of my elbow with a razorblade and let the blood run down off my arm onto the cut-off hair.

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(+) 39 years ago Wednesday 22nd of July 1987 Suicide bomber Matthew Alan Livelsberger known for the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck explosion is born in Bucyrus, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 35 years ago He Should Be Dead for What He Did Monday 22nd of July 1991 31-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal is arrested in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Two Milwaukee police officers were flagged down by Tracy Edwards at the corner of North 25th Street. The officers noted Edwards had a handcuff attached to his wrist whereupon Edwards explained to the officers that a 'freak' had placed the handcuffs upon him. When the officers and Edwards arrived at Apartment 213, Dahmer invited the trio inside and acknowledged he had indeed placed the handcuffs upon Edwards. In the bedroom, officer Rolf Mueller noted there was a large knife beneath the bed; he also saw an open drawer which, upon closer inspection, contained scores of Polaroid pictures - many of which were of human bodies in various stages of dismemberment. Mueller noted the decor indicated they had been taken in the very apartment in which they were standing. He walked into the living room to show them to his partner, uttering the words, "These are for real."

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 22nd of July 1994 Murderer and cannibal Stanley Dean Baker dies of liver cancer at the age of 46 in Bemidji, Minnesota, United States.

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(x) 20 years ago Saturday 22nd of July 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'He Just Wanted to Play in his Bath Tube and Put a Finger in his Ass' in Vilma Gold Gallery, Schlesische Straße 26, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. During a live video-performance by artist Brock Enright the audience was encouraged to react to notes he wrote before a camera from his New York bathroom. He smeared ketchup all over himself and tried to provoke some violence from the audience. After a while I stepped in front of the camera and told him I wanted real blood. He kept provoking and wrote “I’m scared”. I took a shard of glass from the floor and cut my chest until blood streamed down, put my shirt back on and left.

20 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 22nd of July 2006 The grave of Ulrike Marie Meinhof in Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof III, Eisenacher Straße 61, Mariendorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 8 years ago He Ran a Fatal Electric Course Sunday 22nd of July 2018 Serial killer Egidius Leo Schiffer aka Der Würger von Aachen dies of an autoerotic fatality at the age of 62 in Justizvollzugsanstalt, Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. "Schiffer removed a cable from his bedside table lamp, then wound it around his nipples and his penis and stuck the end in a power socket," said Bochum prison spokeswoman Candida Tunkel. Schiffer was still plugged into the device after he was discovered by guards. A post-mortem evaluation determined that Schiffer died as a result of heart failure caused by the electricity coursing through his body.

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(-) 1 years ago Tuesday 22nd of July 2025 Musician and television personality Ozzy John Michael Osbourne known from Black Sabbath dies of acute myocardial infarction at the age of 77 in Jordans, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. Osbourne also suffered from Parkinson's Disease.

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