Monday, June 25, 2018

33rd year - N° 176 Monday, 25 June 2018

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33rd year - N° 176 Monday, 25 June 2018

25 June / Today's 25 Events:
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251 years ago

Thursday 25th of June 1767

Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies of a chest ailment at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.


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183 years ago Il Avait Résolu de s'en Défaire

Thursday 25th of June 1835

Painter Antoine-Jean Gros commits suicide by drowning at the age of 64 in Sèvres, Île-de-France, France.

A note hidden in Gros' hat read: "Las de la vie, et trahi par les dernières facultés qui la lui rendaient supportable, il avait résolu de s'en défaire."


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166 years ago

Friday 25th of June 1852

Architect Antoni Gaudí, originally Antoni Gaudí i Cornet aka God's Architect is born in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.


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143 years ago

Friday 25th of June 1875

Double murderer Louis H. F. Wagner aka The Smuttynose Axe Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Maine State Prison, Thomaston, Maine, United States.


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124 years ago

Monday 25th of June 1894

Sadi Marie François Carnot is stabbed to death by anarchist and assassin Sante Geronimo Caserio in Parc de la Tête d'or, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.


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115 years ago He Was Not on an Animal Farm

Thursday 25th of June 1903

Writer George Orwell, originally Eric Arthur Blair is born in Motihari, Bihar, India.


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95 years ago

Monday 25th of June 1923

Ernst Ehrenberg is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Ehrenberg was the son of Haarmann's neighbour.


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94 years ago

Wednesday 25th of June 1924

Film director Sidney Arthur Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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85 years ago

Sunday 25th of June 1933

American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becaming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.


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78 years ago

Tuesday 25th of June 1940

Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by an overdose of Aspirin at the age of 72 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Stekel wanted to end the pain of his prostate and diabetic gangrene.


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76 years ago Came His Final Blackout

Thursday 25th of June 1942

Serial killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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73 years ago She Was Not So Vain

Monday 25th of June 1945

Singer-songwriter Carly Elisabeth Simon is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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59 years ago He Moved to the Badlands

Thursday 25th of June 1959

Spree killer Charles Raymond Starkweather aka Little Red is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 21 in Nebraska State Penitentiary, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.


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54 years ago

Thursday 25th of June 1964

Furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.


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39 years ago

Monday 25th of June 1979

Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness for the Chi-Omega murders in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.


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38 years ago

Wednesday 25th of June 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Diagonal - 1', 'Diagonal - 2' with Ria Pacquée and 'Installation - 4' in Galerie Diagonale, Boulevard Edgar Quinet, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

I was laying with my back naked in the middle of the room. Ria Pacquée spray-painted a diagonal through the space and over my back. Then she removed the paint from my back with sandpaper. On the floor I wrote: "I don't belong here".


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34 years ago

Monday 25th of June 1984

Philosopher Michel Paul Foucault dies of AIDS at the age of 58 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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33 years ago

Tuesday 25th of June 1985

Psychotic murderer Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia State Penitentiary, Richmond, Virginia, United States.


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33 years ago

Tuesday 25th of June 1985

Murderer Charles Milton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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28 years ago

Monday 25th of June 1990

Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States.

Simmons killed 16 relatives over a week-long period in 1987.


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21 years ago

Wednesday 25th of June 1997

Murderer William Lyle Woratzeck is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.


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16 years ago

Tuesday 25th of June 2002

Mass murderer Robert Otis Coulson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Coulson killed five members of his family in Houston on 13 November 1992 and set the house on fire.


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12 years ago Werd het Banket Aangebrand

Sunday 25th of June 2006

Bartholomeus van der Helst's 'Schuttersmaaltijd ter viering van de Vrede van Münster' is splashed with lighter fuel and set on fire by 69-year-old Art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann in Rijksmuseum, Museumplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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9 years ago He Stopped Because He Had Enough

Thursday 25th of June 2009

Singer-songwriter and actor Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop dies of an overdose of propofol, along with two anti-anxiety benzodiazepines: lorazepam and midazolam at the age of 51 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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3 years ago

Thursday 25th of June 2015

Actor Patrick Daniel Macnee aka John Steed known from The Avengers dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, United States.


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