34th year - N° 166 Saturday, 15 June 2019

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
34th year - N° 166 Saturday, 15 June 2019

15 June / Today's 17 Events:

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(+) 176 years ago Thursday 15th of June 1843 Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway.

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(x) 115 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1904 1021 die in General Slocum passenger steamboat fire in East River, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 113 years ago Friday 15th of June 1906 Rexist and Belgian Waffen SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle is born in Bouillon, Luxembourg, Belgium.

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(+) 113 years ago Friday 15th of June 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Ernst Spiecker is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 105 years ago Monday 15th of June 1914 Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov is born in Stanitsa Nagutskaya, Stavropolsky Kray, Russia.

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(+) 90 years ago Saturday 15th of June 1929 Film director Herschell Gordon Lewis aka The Godfather of Gore is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 81 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1938 Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 58 in Frauenkirch-Wildboden, Graubünden, Switzerland. Kirchner was in distress after the destruction of approximately 600 of his works by the Nazis because of 'degeneration'.

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(x) 79 years ago Saturday 15th of June 1940 49-year-old Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond marries his 32-year-old secretary Anne Wilbraham in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 76 years ago Tuesday 15th of June 1943 Singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Hallyday, originally Jean-Philippe Smet aka The French Elvis is born in Clinique Villa Marie-Louise, 3 Cité Malesherbes, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 76 years ago Tuesday 15th of June 1943 Call girl Xaviera Hollander, originally Vera de Vries aka The Happy Hooker is born in Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia.

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(-) 53 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1966 Maria Gomółka is beaten to death by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland. On the same day Marchwicki also attacked Julianna Kozierska, she survived.

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(-) 52 years ago Thursday 15th of June 1967 Zofia Kawka is beaten to death by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(x) 49 years ago Monday 15th of June 1970 An unidentified woman is assaulted by 19-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Soest, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 15th of June 1972 38-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is arrested in Walsroder Straße 11, Langenhagen, Niedersachsen, Germany. To make sure they have captured the feared terrorist they make an X-ray of Meinhof's  head, revealing a metal clip that was left behind during a brain-operation 10 years earlier.

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(-) 46 years ago Friday 15th of June 1973 Raymond Stanley Blackburn is abducted and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States. Blackburn was buried by Eyler at Lake Sam Rayburn.

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(x) 44 years ago Sunday 15th of June 1975 30-year-old Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Tex Charles Watson is born again and baptized by a student chaplain in a large plastic laundry cart outside the prison chapel in Folsom State Prison, Represa, Folsom, California, United States.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 15th of June 1999 A regiment of eyes waiting to be covered in Formaldehyde for my 'Dante's Inferno' installation in Fort Asperen, Langendijk, Asperen, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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