33rd year - N° 170 Tuesday, 19 June 2018

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
33rd year - N° 170 Tuesday, 19 June 2018

19 June / Today's 26 Events:

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(+) 395 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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(-) 319 years ago It Took Him Three Blows Friday 19th of June 1699 Murderess Angélique Nicole Tiquet, originally Nicole Carlier is executed by beheading at the age of 42 in Place de Grève, IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. The executioner, Charles Sanson de Longval, missed twice because he was so enraved by Tiquet's beauty.

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(+) 127 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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(+) 112 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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(+) 97 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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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1926 Anarchist publisher and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 86 years ago Sunday 19th of June 1932 Actress Pier Angeli, originally Anna Maria Pierangeli is born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

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(-) 82 years ago Friday 19th of June 1936 Kidnapper Arthur Gooch is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. Gooch was the first and only person hanged for a non-murdering kidnapping under the Lindbergh Law. Oklahoma's executioner Richard Earnest Owen was an old hand with his state's electric chair, but the federal execution method was hanging, which Owen had never before performed (and never would again). Gooch took 15 minutes to strangle at the end of the rope for an audience of about 300.

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(-) 82 years ago Friday 19th of June 1936 Elon Pettersson is robbed and shot dead by serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor in Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

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(x) 73 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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(+) 71 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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(+) 67 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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(-) 65 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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(-) 65 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) 59 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) 48 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) 48 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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(-) 47 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1971 Betty Elizabeth Marie Cloer is beaten, raped and shot dead by unidentified serial killer Zodiac in Placerville, California, United States. In 2003 DNA investigation pinned the murder to Philip Albert Thompson, already imprisoned for another murder. In 2008 64-year-old Thompson was convicted of first degree murder.

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(x) 39 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) 38 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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(-) 36 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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(-) 32 years ago Thursday 19th of June 1986 Murderer Albert Kenneth Brock is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 25 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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(-) 22 years ago Wednesday 19th of June 1996 Child killer Daren Lee Bolton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Bolton's last meal request was for lasagna, cheesecake and Pepsi.

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(-) 17 years ago Tuesday 19th of June 2001 Triple murderer Juan Raul Garza is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.

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14 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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