41st year - Nr 209 Tuesday, 28 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 209 Tuesday, 28 July 2026

28 July / Today's 34 Events:

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(x) 694 years ago Monday 28th of July 1332 13-year-old King of France Jean le Bon marries 17-year-old Bonne of Luxemburg in the presence of six thousand guests in Collégiale Notre-Dame de Melun, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France.

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(-) 486 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1540 1st Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell is executed by beheading at the age of 55 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. After the execution Cromwell's head was boiled and placed on a spike of London Bridge.

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(x) 486 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1540 King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor is executed by beheading in Oatlands Palace, Walton on Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom. Henry divorced his previous wife Anne of Cleves less than 20 days earlier.

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(-) 371 years ago He Lost a Duel with a Wooden Beam Wednesday 28th of July 1655 Writer and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac, originally Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac dies of unknown causes at the age of 36 in Sannois, Île-de-France, France. It is inconclusive as to whether or not de Bergerac's death was a result of the injury from a falling wooden beam in 1654 while entering the house of his patron or an unspecified disease. There is also strong evidence to support the theory that his death was a result of a botched assassination attempt

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(-) 285 years ago Friday 28th of July 1741 Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies of an internal infection at the age of 63 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 276 years ago Tuesday 28th of July 1750 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of fever at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 232 years ago Monday 28th of July 1794 Leader of the French Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Place de la Révolution, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 161 years ago Friday 28th of July 1865 Doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Saltmarket, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Thousands came to witness the public execution of Dr. Pritchard.

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(+) 145 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1881 Symbolist painter Léon Spilliaert is born in Kapellestraat, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 139 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1887 Dada artist Marcel Henri Robert Duchamp aka Rrose Sélavy is born in Blainville Crevon Village, Blainville-Crevon, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(+) 124 years ago He Was a Popup Philosopher Monday 28th of July 1902 Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 119 years ago He Had a Party Plan Sunday 28th of July 1907 Inventor Earl Silas Tupper known for the Tupperware plastic food container is born in Berlin, New Hampshire, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1909 Women's magazine publisher Aenne Burda, originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger is born in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 117 years ago He Came From Under a Volcano Wednesday 28th of July 1909 Poet and writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for his novel Under the Volcano is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(-) 115 years ago Friday 28th of July 1911 Murderer Alejandro Gallego is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Thursday 28th of July 1927 Presumed multiple murderer Lawrence Bernard Singleton is born in Tampa, Florida, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1929 First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy is born in Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York, United States.

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(-) 81 years ago She Fell 75 Stories Saturday 28th of July 1945 Lieutenant-colonel and pilot William Franklin Smith known for flying an airplane into the Empire State Building crashes the Old John Feather Merchant US B-25 Mitchell bomber into 78th and 80th floors at the age of 27 in Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Fourteen people were killed: Smith, Staff Sergeant Christopher Domitrovich and Navy Aviation Machinist's Mate Albert Perna and eleven people in the building. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was injured when the cables supporting her elevator sheared and the elevator fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement. Oliver survived the f all and rescuers found her amongst the rubble. This still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall.

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(x) 78 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1948 200 die in IG Farben Works explosion in Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(x) 59 years ago Friday 28th of July 1967 27-year-old Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 54 years ago Friday 28th of July 1972 Murderer Aaron Christopher Foust aka Ace is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(-) 52 years ago Sunday 28th of July 1974 Joey Kallinger is drowned by serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of Joey, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.

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(x) 51 years ago Monday 28th of July 1975 48-year-old Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is sentenced to death for the murders of 14 women and attempted murder of six more in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland.

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(-) 50 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 1976 Child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 22 in Baumettes Prison, 239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(x) 40 years ago Monday 28th of July 1986 23-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is arrested in Keyworth Street Hostel, Southwark, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 36 years ago Saturday 28th of July 1990 Viktor Petrov is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in SFU Botanical Garden, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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(-) 28 years ago Tuesday 28th of July 1998 Cecilia Marie Goetz is strangled and stabbed to death by serial killer Richard Arinaitwe in Room 321 Hotel Equatorial, Kampala, Kampala, Uganda.

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(-) 21 years ago It Was a Good Day to Die Thursday 28th of July 2005 Rapist and murderer David Aaron Martinez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Martinez' last words were "Only the sky and green grass goes on forever, and today is a good day to die."

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 28th of July 2006 The grave of Christa 'Nico' Päffgen on the 'Selbstmörderfriedhof' in Friedhof Grunewald-Forst, Jagen 135, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 16 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 2010 Mass murderer Kazuo Shinozawa is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. Shinozawa burned six women to death in a jewellery shop robbery in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Province in 2000.

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(-) 16 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 2010 Double murderer Hidenori Ogata is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(x) 16 years ago Wednesday 28th of July 2010 152 die in Airblue Airbus A321-231 Flight 202 crash in Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 28th of July 2019 A colourful bistro set in Saint-Tropez, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 3 years ago Friday 28th of July 2023 Drug trafficker Saridewi Binte Djamani is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Changi Prison, Singapore, Singapore. Djamani was sentenced to death in 2018 for smuggling 30.72g of diamorphine on 17 June 2016.

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