No New Tale To Tell, 28 Years On My Way To Hell

July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. On this day... 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Sarah Good, Sarah Wildes, Elizabeth Howe, Rebbecca Nourse, and Sussanah Martin are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. 1862 - Swift-Tuttle Comet is discovered by Horace Tuttle in Massachusetts. It had been independently spotted by Louis Swift in New York three days earlier. It has a 1 in 10,000 chance of colliding with Earth in the year 2126. If this occurs it will probably end civilization. 1947 - Burmese nationalist General Aung San (father of Aung San Suu Kyi) and 6 of his cabinet members were assassinated. The day of his death, 19 July, is celebrated as Martyr's Day (Azani nei) in Myanmar to this day. 1978 - And hell incarnate was thus borne. 1991 - Mike Tyson has sex with 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington in an Indianapolis hotel room for which he was later convicted of rape.