33rd year - N° 181 Saturday, 30 June 2018

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33rd year - N° 181 Saturday, 30 June 2018

30 June / Today's 14 Events:

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(-) 136 years ago Friday 30th of June 1882 Writer, lawyer and assassin Charles Julius Guiteau known for the killing of President James A. Garfield is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Guiteau notoriously danced his way to the gallows and shook hands with his executioner. On the scaffold, as a last request, he recited a poem called "I am Going to the Lordy" which he had written during his incarceration. He had originally requested an orchestra to play as he sang his poem but this request was denied.

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(+) 126 years ago Thursday 30th of June 1892 SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Ludwig Pohl is born in Ruhrort, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 125 years ago Friday 30th of June 1893 General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany Walter Ulbricht known for founding the German Democratic Republic is born in Gottschedstraße 4, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 88 years ago Monday 30th of June 1930 Murderer Frank Tauza is executed by Old Smokey at the age of 44 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 85 years ago Friday 30th of June 1933 Cop killer Derek William Bentley is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.

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(-) 82 years ago Tuesday 30th of June 1936 Double murderer Frederick Herbert Charles Field is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 67 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1951 Deranged gunman Marcus Wayne Chenault is born in Winchester, Kentucky, United States. On 30 June 1974 he killed Mrs. Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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(x) 62 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1956 128 die in Trans World Airlines Flight 2 Super Constellation and United Airlines Flight 718 DC-7 mid-air collision in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 56 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1962 Helen Blake is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 73 Newhall Street, Lynn, Massachusetts, Belgium.

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(-) 56 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1962 Nina Nichols is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 1940 Commonwealth Avenue, Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Monday 30th of June 1969 Roxie Ann Phillips is raped, beaten and strangled by serial killer John Norman Collins aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Salinas, California, United States. Phillips' body was found on 13 July in Pescadero Canyon.

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(-) 44 years ago All Christians Were His Enemies Sunday 30th of June 1974 Alberta Williams King is shot dead by deranged gunman Marcus Chenault in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Chenault shot King with two pistols as she sat at the organ of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Chenault stated that he shot King because "all Christians are my enemies" and claimed that he had decided that black ministers were a menace to black people.

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(-) 27 years ago Sunday 30th of June 1991 Matt Turner aka Donald Montrell is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 9 years ago Tuesday 30th of June 2009 152 die in Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-324 crash in Moroni, Grande Comore, Comoros. 12-year-old Bahia Bakari survived the crash with minor injuries.

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