Almanac for July 26th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for July 26th: https://ko-fi.com/post/July-26th-George-Bernard-Shaws-birthday-I3I6103RSF

Artist Birthday: George Bernard Shaw

Milwaukee Leader, March 9, 1926

Bummer July 26th

July 26, 1863: Ballerina Emma Livry dies of complications of extensive burns she suffered on November 15, 1862. While rehearsing for a role in a ballet, Livry’s skirts came too near to the stage’s gaslights and caught fire. 

Fire-resistant fabrics were available to dancers of that time, but Livry, like many other dancers of the era, avoided them because of the way they discolored the fabric. She suffered burns to her legs, waist, back, arms, and shoulders. She is only 20 years old at the time of her death.

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July 26, 1952: First Lady of Argentina María Eva (Evita) Duarte de Perón dies of cervical cancer at the age of 33.

July 26, 2009: An automobile crash on the Taconic State Parkway near Mount Pleasant, New York State, kills eight people. A minivan driven by Diane Schuler, age 36, was observed driving the wrong way down the parkway. The minivan collided with an SUV, killing Schuler, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people inside the SUV. Toxicology reports showed Schuler was heavily intoxicated. Schuler’s son survived the crash, but has ongoing injuries.

July 26, 2015: Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies in a hospice care facility at the age of 22. She had been in a coma for the previous six months after being found unresponsive in her Georgia home by her fiancé, Nick Gordon. Brown was discovered face-down in her bathtub less than three years after her mother died in a bathtub at a hotel in Los Angeles. 

Eerily similar to her mother’s passing, Brown was found to have been intoxicated with alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription drugs, and other substances when she apparently drowned in her bathtub.