29th year - N° 161 Tuesday, 10 June 2014

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29th year - N° 161 Tuesday, 10 June 2014

10 June / Today's 19 Events:

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(-) 2337 years ago Monday 10th of June 0323bc Alexander the Great dies of a fever attack due to poisoning at the age of 33 in Mesopotamia, Babylon, Babil Governorate, Iraq.

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(-) 322 years ago Tuesday 10th of June 1692 Bridget Bishop, originally Bridget Playfer is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Bishop was accused of bewitching five young women; Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Hubbard, on the date of her examination by the authorities. It was the first execution in the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

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(+) 195 years ago Thursday 10th of June 1819 Painter Gustave Jean Désiré Courbet is born in Ornans, Doubs, France.

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(-) 178 years ago He Was Happy at Last Friday 10th of June 1836 Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies of unknown causes at the age of 61 in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On his deathbed Ampère ordered that an inscription be placed upon his tombstone: Tandem Felix (Happy at Last).

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(-) 118 years ago Wednesday 10th of June 1896 Baby farm murderess Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, originally Hobley aka The Ogress of Reading is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Dyer was tried and hanged for one murder but there is little doubt she was responsible for many more similar deaths - possibly 400 or more - over a period of perhaps 20 years.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 10th of June 1922 Actress, singer and vaudevillian Judy Garland, originally Frances Ethel Gumm is born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 88 years ago Thursday 10th of June 1926 Architect Antoni Gaudí, originally Antoni Gaudí i Cornet aka God's Architect dies of injuries suffered in a traffic accident at the age of 74 in Hospital de la Santa Creu, El Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. On 7 June 1926 Gaudí was taking his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession. While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes between Girona and Bailén streets he was struck by a passing tram and lost consciousness.

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(-) 88 years ago Thursday 10th of June 1926 Lilian St. Mary is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Saturday 10th of June 1933 Lawyer Francis Lee Bailey is born in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago She Was Still a Foolish Little Girl Tuesday 10th of June 1941 Lead singer of the Shirelles Shirley Owens is born in Henderson, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 68 years ago Monday 10th of June 1946 Boxer Jack John Arthur Johnson aka The Galveston Giant known for becoming the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion dies in a car crash at the age of 68 in U.S. Highway 1, Franklinton, North Carolina, United States. Johnson crashed into a telephone pole after racing angrily from a diner that refused to serve him.

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(-) 65 years ago Friday 10th of June 1949 Writer Sigrid Undset dies of unknown causes at the age of 67 in Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway.

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(-) 47 years ago He Left with a Loud Clump Saturday 10th of June 1967 Actor Spencer Bonaventure Tracy dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Beverly Hills, California, . Katharine Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed Tracy to the kitchen: "Just as I was about to give the door a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor - then clump - a loud clump."

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(x) 39 years ago Tuesday 10th of June 1975 25-year-old Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for armed assault in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 32 years ago Thursday 10th of June 1982 Singer Addie Harris aka Micki Harris known from The Shirelles dies of a heart attack at the age of 42 in Hyatt Regency Atlanta, 265 Peachtree Street NE, Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Harris had just finished two performances with The Shirelles at the hotel.

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(x) 31 years ago Friday 10th of June 1983 24-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Karl Großmann' in Club Moral, Kattenberg 122, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Standing on a tree stump I read confessions from multiple murderer and cannibal Karl Groβmann, then I poured blood over my head and let it run down over my body onto the tree stump.

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(-) 26 years ago Friday 10th of June 1988 Child molester and serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States. "I am a homosexual pedophile convicted of murder, and pornography was a determining factor in my downfall."

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(-) 20 years ago Friday 10th of June 1994 Installation artist Ed Edward Ralph Kienholz dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Hope, Idaho, United States. Kienholz was buried in a Kienholz installation: "His corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole."

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 10th of June 2007 Obligatorious democratorius in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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