29th year - N° 171 Friday, 20 June 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 171 Friday, 20 June 2014

20 June / Today's 21 Events:

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(+) 195 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1819 Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 127 years ago Monday 20th of June 1887 Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters is born in Rumannstraße 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 121 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1893 33-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1899 Hero of the French Résistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier is born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(+) 105 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1909 Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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(-) 102 years ago Thursday 20th of June 1912 Anarchist writer and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 46 in St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Leavitt and Thomas Streets, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 95 years ago Friday 20th of June 1919 150 die in Teatro Yagüez fire in Teatro Yagüez, Calle McKinley, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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(+) 89 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1925 Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1928 Actor Martin Landau known from Mission: Impossible is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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(-) 85 years ago Thursday 20th of June 1929 Robert Warnke is beaten to death by serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. "I'll kill the first man that bothers me," Panzram told the warden upon entering the prison. That man happened to be prison laundry foreman Warnke.

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(x) 84 years ago Friday 20th of June 1930 39-year-old Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 72 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1942 Paul Léon Braunberger is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 72 years ago He Was Made for These Times Saturday 20th of June 1942 Musician Brian Douglas Wilson known from The Beach Boys is born in Centinela Hospital, 555 E Hardy Street, Inglewood, California, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Friday 20th of June 1947 Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is riddled with bullets by persons unknown at the age of 41 in Beverly Hills, California, . Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel's skull blew his left eye out of its socket. Siegel was hit by several other bullets including shots through his lungs.

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(-) 45 years ago Friday 20th of June 1969 Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is found dead under the window of his flat at the age of 29 in Werdertorgasse, Wien, Wien, Austria. Whether Schwarzkogler's death was an accident or suicide was never established.

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(x) 38 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1976 33-year-old Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is paroled after 17 years imprisonment in Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, York, Nebraska, United States.

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(x) 37 years ago His Double Fantasy Failed Monday 20th of June 1977 22-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon tries to commit suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation in Kailua, Hawaii, United States. Chapman connected a hose to his car's exhaust pipe, but the hose melted and the attempt failed.

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(x) 26 years ago Monday 20th of June 1988 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in City Hall, Room 653, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 19 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Philosopher Emil Mihai Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 16 years ago He Jumped the Other Wall Saturday 20th of June 1998 Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Oberbayern, Germany.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 20th of June 2012 Greenery on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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