41st year - Nr 211 Thursday, 30 July 2026

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41st year - Nr 211 Thursday, 30 July 2026

30 July / Today's 37 Events:

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(+) 208 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1818 Poet and writer Emily Jane Brontë aka Ellis Bell known for her novel Wuthering Heights is born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 173 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1853 Mass murderer Frederick Bailey Deeming aka Albert Williams aka Baron Swanston is born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 168 years ago Friday 30th of July 1858 Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 163 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1863 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford is born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 128 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1898 1st Reichskanzler of Germany Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck dies of gangrene at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(+) 128 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1898 Sculptor Henry Spencer Moore is born in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 111 years ago Friday 30th of July 1915 Lieutenant in the New York City Police Department, racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. Becker's electrocution took nine minutes, causing him intense agony, and was described for years afterward as "the clumsiest execution in the history of Sing Sing."

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(-) 106 years ago Friday 30th of July 1920 Executioner Albert Gustaf Anders Dahlman dies of complications from an accident at the age of 72 in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. After being run over by a tram Dahlman never regained health.

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(+) 100 years ago Friday 30th of July 1926 Psychic Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina, originally Ninel Mikhaylova is born in Leningrad, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(-) 89 years ago He Died a Modern Daniel in Freddie's Den Friday 30th of July 1937 Entertainer, priest and womanizer Harold Francis Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Two days earlier he was attacked by a lion during a stage act 'Daniel in a Modern Lion's Den'. Davidson gave his usual speech before entering the cage in which two lions, Freddie and Toto, were sitting quietly. Freddie became agitated and knocked Davidson over before seizing him by the neck and running with him around the cage. 16-year-old tamer Irene Somner struggled to pacify the snarling Freddie who eventually dropped the u nconscious Davidson, enabling her to drag him to safety; he was badly gashed and had suffered a broken bone in his neck.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1939 Film director Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New York, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1941 Singer-songwriter Paul Albert Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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(-) 83 years ago Friday 30th of July 1943 Abortionist Marie-Louise Giraud, originally Lempérière is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 40 in Prisons de la Roquette, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Giraud was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman axecuted in France.

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(+) 79 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1947 Actor, producer, businessman, politician and former professional bodybuilder Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger known for his role as The Terminator is born in Thal, Steiermark, Austria.

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(+) 69 years ago Tuesday 30th of July 1957 Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman David William Hilligiest is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 66 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1960 35-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Saint Helier, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 62 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1964 Multiple murderer Matthias Kindlinger aka Der Blaubart von Schrems dies of heart failure at the age of 70 in Krems an der Donau, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(-) 59 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1967 Industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1969 Unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 57 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1969 22-year-old Serial killer John Norman Collins, originally John Chapman aka The Ypsilanti Killer is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Friday 30th of July 1971 162 die in All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 58 Boeing 727-281 and Mitsubishi F-86F Sabre jet mid-air collision in Shimonagane, Shizukuishi, Iwate, Japan. Sabre jet pilot Technical Sergeant Yoshimi Ichikawa ejected before the collision and survived. Ichikawa was later tried and acquitted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

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(x) 51 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1975 62-year-old Labour union leader Jimmy James Riddle Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Machus Red Fox Restaurant, 6676 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982, on the seventh anniversary of his disappearance when he would have been aged 69.

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(-) 49 years ago Saturday 30th of July 1977 Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe in Oberhöchstadter Straße 69, Oberursel, Hessen, Germany. RAF members Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar attempted to kidnap Ponto but shot him when he resisted.

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(x) 48 years ago Sunday 30th of July 1978 29-year-old Serial killer Randy Greenawalt escapes with prison mate Gary Tison with the help of Tison's three sons in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Greenawalt and Tison went on a killing spree that claimed six lives. They ran into a police roadblock on 11 August where Greenawalt and Tison's sons were arrested. Tison fled into the desert and died of exposure.

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts his performance 'Illegal' in ICC, Meir 50, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. On 30 July 1980 I mailed out invitations to friends and acquaintances to search me in the International Cultural Centre. Then I went in hiding inside the building, without food, drink and with sleeping-tablets at hand. On 2 August 1980 I was found by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK.

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(-) 45 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1981 Louise Marie Chartrand is abducted, raped and beaten to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Mission, British Columbia, Canada.

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(-) 41 years ago Tuesday 30th of July 1985 Chief executioner André Albert Obrecht dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 40 years ago Wednesday 30th of July 1986 Pop star Wang Bei, originally Wang Shuzhen is born in Hubei, China.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 30th of July 1992 Triple murderer William Andrews aka The Hi-Fi Murderer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Friday 30th of July 1993 Murderer Danny Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Monday 30th of July 2001 34-year-old Suicide bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam marries 28-year-old Issam Goris in Mosquée Al Hidaya, Rue Jules Destrée 71, Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 30th of July 2003 A giant Buddha statue in a temple in Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple, Race Course Road, Singapore, Singapore.

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(-) 19 years ago Monday 30th of July 2007 Film director Ingmar Ernst Bergman dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Fårö, Gotland, Sweden.

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(-) 19 years ago Monday 30th of July 2007 Film director Michelangelo Antonioni dies of unknown causes at the age of 95 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 30th of July 2017 Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue on the beach in San Rocco, Mariakerke, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 30th of July 2019 Victor Vasarely's 'Hexa Grace' artwork on the rooftop in Auditorium Rainier III, Boulevard Louis II, L'Hermitage, Monaco.

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(-) 4 years ago He Met the God of Hellfire Saturday 30th of July 2022 Al-Qaeda leader and Emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is killed in a US drone attack with two Hellfire missiles at the age of 71 in Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan.

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