Monday, June 18, 2012

18 June 1972 - 118 Die in British European Airways Flight 548

1806 (+)   Poet Charlotte Stieglitz is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1897 (-)  Pierre Laurent is murdered by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 13 in France.

1909 (-)  Murderer Adolf N. Nordstrom is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Oregon, USA.

1928 (-)  Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen disappears while flying on a rescue mission for crew members of the Italia aircraft at the age of 55 in Bjornoya, Norway.

1936 (-)  Writer Maxim Alexey Maksimowitsch Peshkow Gorky dies of influenza at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.
He was probably killed by kampher-injections and digitaline-strychnine-poisoning.

1942 (+)   Beatle Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1948 (+)   Double murderer John Noland is born in North Carolina, USA.

1952 (+)   Actress, filmmaker and philantropist Isabella Fiorelle Elettra Giovanna Rosselini is born in Rome, Italy.

1953 (x)   129 Die in US Air Force C-124 crash in Tokyo, Japan.

1963 (-)  Actor Pedro Gregorio Hastings Armendariz commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 51 in Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Centre, California, USA.
He learned he had terminal cancer in his hips.

1966 (-)  Peter Frase is tortured by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 14 in Langenberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He survived and led to the arrest of Bartsch.

1971 (x)  37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, suffers a mild heart attack in his prison cell in Yuba City, California, USA.



1972 (x)   118 Die in British European Airways Flight 548 Trident 1C crash due to pilot error in Staines, United Kingdom.

1978 (-)  Stephen Hicks is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Bath, 4480 West Bath Road, Ohio, USA.

1986 (-)  Murderer Kenneth Brock is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1990 (-)  Mass Murderer James Edward Pough aka Pop, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 42 in Jacksonville, 7870 Baymeadows Way, Florida, USA.
Minutes before he walked into a General Motors Acceptance Corporation car loan office to buy a new car, but decided to shoot 14 people, leaving 9 dead. The day before he shot and killed prostitute Doretta Drake and her pimp Louis Carl Bacon.

1991 (-)  Murderer Jerry Joe Bird is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1993 (x)  51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails 2 bombs, to Geneticist Charles Epstein of University of California, Sacramento, and Professor David Gelernter of Yale University, New Haven in Sacramento, California, USA.

1997 (-)  Murderer Irineo Tristan Montona is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-)  Rampage Killer Dennis Wayne Eaton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Virginia, USA.

2003 (-)  Murderer Ernest Martin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

2010 (-)  Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 49 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Three days earlier Gardner ate a final meal of steak, lobster, apple pie, vanilla ice cream and 7-Up, before beginning a 48-hour fast.

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