Friday, July 19, 2013

120 Years Ago He Was Devoid of Grandfatherly Gentleness

639 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 July 1374
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Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, dies at the age of 70 in Arqua, Italy.

321 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 July 1692
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5 people are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, United States.

199 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 July 1814
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Firearms inventor Samuel Colt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

179 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 July 1834
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Artist Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.

153 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 July 1860
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Presumed hatchet murderess Lizzie Andrew Borden is born in Massachusetts, United States.

120 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 July 1893
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Futurist writer Vladimir Vladimirowitsch Mayakovski is born in Bagdadi, Georgia, Russia.

119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 July 1894
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Flemish Nationalist Verdinaso Leader Joris Van Severen is born in Wakken, Belgium.

115 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 July 1898
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Philosopher Herbert Marcuse is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

113 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 July 1900
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Nazi Sculptor Arno Breker is born in Elberfeld, Germany.

78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 July 1935
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Murderer Yick Hong is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, United States.

64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 July 1949
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Start of the trial against 40-year-old Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, in Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 July 1958
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Artist, activist and organisation pioneer Franz Ferdinand Feigl is born in Wilhelmsburg, Austria.

53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 July 1960
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225 Die in hospital fire in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 July 1966
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Bankrobber Emil Decebal Mătăsăreanu is born in North Hollywood, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, California, United States.

46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 July 1967
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82 Die in Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and Cessna 310 collision in Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 July 1969
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 10-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey.

44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 July 1969
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The First Western Female Suicide Bomber Muriel Degauque aka Maryam, is born in Charleroi, Belgium.

37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 July 1976
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Max Jensen is shot dead by Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, in Orem, Utah, United States.

34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 July 1979
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19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Candy, for You" in Brussels, Muntplein, Brussels, Belgium.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 July 1982
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Gerda Oppelmeier is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 17 in Bremen, Germany.

29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 July 1984
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37-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, and another deathrow inmate are caught in an attempt to break out of Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida, United States.

29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 July 1984
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Anna Ischutina is stabbed to death and her nipples and vagina cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 20 in Schachty, a wood near the Kirpitschnaja-station, Russia.

28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 July 1985
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268 Die in Dam collapse in Val di Stava, Italy.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 July 1989
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112 Die in United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City, Iowa, United States.
184 people survived.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 July 1989
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Sylvie Rossi is stabbed to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 30 in France.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 July 1991
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Joseph Bradehoft is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 25 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, United States.

18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 July 1995
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44-year-old Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is found guilty of 12 murders in Riverside, California, United States.

14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 July 1999
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32-year-old Serial Killer Todd A. Reed aka The Forest Park Killer, is arrested on aggravated murder charges in the killing of three women in Portland, Oregon, United States.

7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 July 2006
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Murderer Mauriceo Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.

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