29th year - N° 163 Thursday, 12 June 2014

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29th year - N° 163 Thursday, 12 June 2014

12 June / Today's 7 Events:

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(-) 1198 years ago Sunday 12th of June 0816 96th Pope Leo III dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 124 years ago Thursday 12th of June 1890 Artist Egon Schiele is born in Tulln an der Donau, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(x) 94 years ago Saturday 12th of June 1920 54-year-old Surgeon and grafting pioneer Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff performs the first official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human in 2 Rue d'Auteuil, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. The monkey gland would be cut in pieces of about two centimeters long by a half centimeter wide and a few millimeters deep. The surgeon would then introduce two grafts in the scrotum, which he fixed with stitches taken off after eight days. Among forty men operated on during the 1920's-30's at the Villa Molière in Auteil, at a nursing home, Ambroise Paré in Neuilly, and the Rue Montaigne nursing home were nine employees, seven doctors, four engineers, four men of letters, three architects, three manufacturers, two attorneys, two university professors, one man of private means, one agronomist, one painter, and one worker. Nine were between the ages of 20 and 40, eighteen were between 41 and 60 and seventeen were between 61 and 80.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 12th of June 1978 25-year-old Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz, originally Richard David Falco aka Son of Sam is sentenced to 315 years imprisonment and sent to the Attica Correctional Facility in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 27 years ago He Didn't Catch no Fish Friday 12th of June 1987 Double murderer Jimmy L. Glass is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, United States. Glass' last words at execution were "I'd rather be fishing".

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(-) 8 years ago Monday 12th of June 2006 Composer György Sándor Ligeti dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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6 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 12th of June 2008 My 'Manson Family' installation hacking away in Verbeke Foundation, Westakker, Kemzeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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