35th year - N° 173 Sunday, 21 June 2020

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
35th year - N° 173 Sunday, 21 June 2020

21 June / Today's 23 Events:

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(+) 1018 years ago Monday 21st of June 1002 152nd Pope Leo IX, originally Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg is born in Eguisheim, Alsace, France.

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(-) 643 years ago Saturday 21st of June 1377 King of England Edward III dies of a stroke at the age of 65 in Sheen Palace, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 493 years ago Tuesday 21st of June 1527 Political philosopher and poet Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli aka The Prince dies of unknown causes at the age of 58 in Sant'Andrea in Percussina, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 129 years ago Sunday 21st of June 1891 Structural engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete is born in Sondrio, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 115 years ago Wednesday 21st of June 1905 Writer, philosopher, political activist and critic Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 112 years ago Sunday 21st of June 1908 Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov dies of angina pectoris at the age of 64 in Luga, Pskov Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 85 years ago Friday 21st of June 1935 Writer Françoise Sagan, originally Françoise Quoirez is born in Cajarc, Midi-Pyrénées, France.

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(+) 76 years ago Wednesday 21st of June 1944 Musician Ray Raymond Douglas Davies known from The Kinks is born in 6 Denmark Terrace, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 74 years ago Friday 21st of June 1946 Margery Aimee Brownell Gardner, originally Margery Wheat is tortured and suffocated by sex killer Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo in Pembridge Court Hotel, 34 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. There were 17 lash marks on Gardner's body, her nipples had been savagely bitten, and an instrument had been inserted into her vagina.

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(+) 71 years ago Tuesday 21st of June 1949 Member of the 'Manson Family' Linda Kasabian, originally Linda Darlene Drouin is born in Biddeford, Maine, United States.

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(+) 67 years ago Sunday 21st of June 1953 Benazir Bhutto is born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

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(+) 65 years ago Tuesday 21st of June 1955 German neo-Nazi leader Michael Aloysius Alfons Kühnen is born in Beuel, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 50 years ago Sunday 21st of June 1970 Members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin fly to Beirut in Flughafen Berlin Schönefeld, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. From Beirut they moved on via Syria to Amman in Jordan to get a terrorist training at an 'El Fatah' camp.

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(x) 45 years ago Saturday 21st of June 1975 24-year-old Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano, originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury marries 22-year-old hairdresser Mickey Michalina Gionfriddo in Prince of Peace Catholic Church, 600 S Nova Rd, Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Thursday 21st of June 1979 Musician, poet and occultist Angus MacLise known from The Velvet Underground dies of starvation and pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.

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(x) 39 years ago Sunday 21st of June 1981 23-year-old Serial killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer is arrested while giving a press-conference proclaiming his innocence in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Sunday 21st of June 1981 Ada Anita Court is abducted and hammered to death by serial killer Clifford Olson aka The Vancouver Butcher in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

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(x) 38 years ago Monday 21st of June 1982 27-year-old Would-be assassin John Warnock Hinckley known for his obsession with Jodie Foster is found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago Thursday 21st of June 1990 Larry Parham is attacked by serial killer Heriberto Seda aka The New York Zodiac Killer in Central Park, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Parham was shot in the chest. The bullet missed his aorta and exited his body through his right armpit.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 21st of June 1995 Murderer Karl Hammond is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 17 years ago Saturday 21st of June 2003 Writer Leon Marcus Uris dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Shelter Island, New York, United States.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 21st of June 2007 Neon lights on a restaurant in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(x) 10 years ago Monday 21st of June 2010 Start of the trial against 39-year-old Murderer and cannibal Nicolas Cocaign aka Le Cannibale de Rouen for killing his 41-year-old cellmate Thierry Baudry in 2007 and eating part of his lung which he presumed to be his heart in Rouen, Haute-Normendie, France.

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