32nd year - N° 170 Monday, 19 June 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 170 Monday, 19 June 2017

19 June / Today's 19 Events:

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(+) 394 years ago He Was a Pocket Calculator Monday 19th of June 1623 Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher Blaise Pascal is born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France.

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(+) 126 years ago Friday 19th of June 1891 Collage artist John Heartfield, originally Helmut Herzfeld is born in Schmargendorf, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 111 years ago Tuesday 19th of June 1906 SS Standartenführer Walter Rauff known for inventing the ‘Black Raven’ mobile gas chambers is born in Köthen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 96 years ago Sunday 19th of June 1921 Mass murderer Willi Walter Seifert aka Der Neue Hitler is born in Bickendorf, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 91 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1926 Anarchist publisher and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 85 years ago Sunday 19th of June 1932 Actress Pier Angeli, originally Anna Maria Pierangeli is born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

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(x) 72 years ago Tuesday 19th of June 1945 41-year-old Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer is infected with malaria, the infected tissue is later removed and implanted on Dave Siegal and Johnnie Raczynski in order to find a cure in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Thursday 19th of June 1947 Writer Salman Ahmed Rushdie known for The Satanic Verses is born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.

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(+) 66 years ago Tuesday 19th of June 1951 Al-Qaeda leader and Emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is born in Maadi, Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

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(-) 64 years ago Friday 19th of June 1953 American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 35 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

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(-) 64 years ago Two More Electric Shocks Were Applied Friday 19th of June 1953 American Communist and wife of Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg Ethel Greenglass is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 34 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. After the normal course of three electric shocks attendants removed the strapping and other equipment only to have doctors determine that Mrs. Rosenberg had not yet died. Two more electric shocks were applied and at conclusion eyewitnesses, including Bob Considine, reported that smoke rose from Rosenberg's head in the chamber.

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(x) 58 years ago Friday 19th of June 1959 22-year-old Serial killer Heinrich Max Pommerenke aka The Beast of the Black Forest is arrested in Bahnhofsvorplatz, Hornberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Pommerenke was recognised in a tailorshop where he left behind a suitcase full of pornography and a sawn-off shotgun.

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(x) 47 years ago Friday 19th of June 1970 28-year-old Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is paroled from the Iowa Men's Reformatory where he was sent on a sodomy-conviction in Anamosa, Iowa, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Friday 19th of June 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Günter Brus performs his last Aktion, 'Zerreißprobe' in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 38 years ago Tuesday 19th of June 1979 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Mexico' in Koninklijke Akademie voor Schone Kunsten, Berouw, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 'Mexico' was a small part of a botanic garden, planted with cactuses, surrounded by water. I tried to crawl through a plastic tube through the water, but the pressure of the water was too heavy and it didn't work.

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(x) 37 years ago Thursday 19th of June 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Death-Interruption - 2' in Galerie Diagonale, Boulevard Edgar Quinet, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. I was laying on a piece of wood with my arms spread. Between my throat and the door a stick with a sharp knife was jammed.

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(-) 35 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1982 Antonella Migliorini is shot dead by unidentified serial killer Il Mostro di Firenze in Strada Provinciale Virginio Nuova, Montespertoli, Toscana, Italy. In the same event Migliorini's 22-year-old lover Paolo Mainardi is also shot dead in the backseat of their Fiat 147.

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(-) 24 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1993 Writer William Gerald Golding known for Lord of the Flies dies of heart failure at the age of 82 in Tullimaar House, Perranarworthal, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 19th of June 2004 Performing 'He Who Has No Heart Will Have No Heartaches' in Factor 44, Bleekhofstraat 44, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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