41st year - Nr 171 Saturday, 20 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 171 Saturday, 20 June 2026

20 June / Today's 37 Events:

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(+) 207 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1819 Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 173 years ago Monday 20th of June 1853 Victim of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin Gustave Kinck is born in Tourcoing, Hauts de France, France.

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(+) 143 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1883 Composer Giannotto Bastianelli is born in Fiesole, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 139 years ago Monday 20th of June 1887 Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters is born in Rumannstraße 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 133 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1893 33-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 127 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1899 Hero of the French Résistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier is born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(-) 126 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1900 German Diplomat Clemens August von Ketteler is shot dead in the street by Manchu Hushenying bannerman captain En Hai at the age of 47 in Xi Zong Bu Hutong, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(+) 120 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1906 Kidnapper and murderer Thomas Harold Thurmond is born in Lodi, California, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1909 Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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(-) 114 years ago Thursday 20th of June 1912 Anarchist writer and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 46 in St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Leavitt and Thomas Streets, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 107 years ago Friday 20th of June 1919 150 die in Teatro Yagüez fire in Teatro Yagüez, Calle McKinley, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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(-) 102 years ago Friday 20th of June 1924 Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 101 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1925 Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1928 Actor Martin Landau known from Mission: Impossible is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1928 Président d'honneur du Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen is born in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Bretagne, France.

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(-) 97 years ago Thursday 20th of June 1929 Robert Warnke is beaten to death by serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. "I'll kill the first man that bothers me," Panzram told the warden upon entering the prison. That man happened to be prison laundry foreman Warnke.

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(x) 96 years ago Friday 20th of June 1930 39-year-old Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 92 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1934 The body of 46-year-old First wife of Hermann Göring Carin Axelina Hulda Fock who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(+) 84 years ago He Was Made for These Times Saturday 20th of June 1942 Musician Brian Douglas Wilson known from The Beach Boys is born in Centinela Hospital, 555 E Hardy Street, Inglewood, California, United States.

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(-) 84 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1942 Paul Léon Braunberger is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 79 years ago Friday 20th of June 1947 Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is riddled with bullets by persons unknown at the age of 41 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel's skull blew his left eye out of its socket. Siegel was hit by several other bullets including shots through his lungs.

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(-) 64 years ago He Was Nearer My God to Thee Wednesday 20th of June 1962 Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Rossouw was led away to the gallows singing Nearer my God to Thee.

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(-) 57 years ago Friday 20th of June 1969 Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is found dead under the window of his flat at the age of 29 in Werdertorgasse, Wien, Wien, Austria. Whether Schwarzkogler's death was an accident or suicide was never established.

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(x) 50 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1976 33-year-old Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is paroled after 17 years imprisonment in Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, York, Nebraska, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago His Double Fantasy Failed Monday 20th of June 1977 22-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon tries to commit suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation in Kailua, Hawaii, United States. Chapman connected a hose to his car's exhaust pipe, but the hose melted and the attempt failed.

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(-) 45 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1981 James L. Churchill is stabbed to death by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in Rock Island, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Monday 20th of June 1983 Noise music band Club Moral play their 25th concert at the Equinox Event in Musician's Co-op, Gloucester Avenue 42, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Also played: Ramleh, Dogs Blood Order, Death & Beauty Foundation, Jill Westwood, AKE, Pure, Krank

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(x) 38 years ago Monday 20th of June 1988 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in City Hall, Room 653, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 37 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1989 Alexey Moiseev is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Kolchugino, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. Moiseev's body was found on 6 September 1989.

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(-) 31 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Multiple murderer Ronald Keith Allridge is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 31 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Murderer John W. Fearance is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 31 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Philosopher Emil Mihai Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 28 years ago He Jumped the Other Wall Saturday 20th of June 1998 Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Oberbayern, Germany.

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(-) 20 years ago He Was a Dead Man Carried Tuesday 20th of June 2006 Triple murderer Lamont D. Reese is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Reese had a final meal request of Beef or Chicken Fajitas w/cheese and & sour cream with jalapenos, beef and cheese enchiladas with jalapenos and salsa, bacon cheeseburger with the works & jalapenos (small combination), pizza with jalapenos & everything, chicken salad with ranch dressing & jalapenos, soft beef taco's & salsa, fried chicken with ketchup & hot sauce. Reese had to be carried to the death chamber, refusing to walk there. "I want everyone to know I did not walk to this because this is straight-up murder. I am not going to play a part in my own murder. No one should have to do that."

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(x) 15 years ago Monday 20th of June 2011 55-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Birgit Elisabeth Hogefeld is released from prison in Strafgefängnis Frankfurt-Preungesheim, Preungesheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. Hogefeld spent 18 years in prison for killing a US soldier and bombing a US airbase in Frankfurt. Hogefeld was the last imprisoned of the RAF members.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 20th of June 2012 Greenery on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 2 years ago Thursday 20th of June 2024 Actor Donald McNichol Sutherland dies of a long illness at the age of 89 in Miami, Florida, United States.

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41st year - Nr 170 Friday, 19 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 170 Friday, 19 June 2026

19 June / Today's 30 Events:

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(+) 403 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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(-) 327 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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(+) 135 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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(+) 130 years ago Friday 19th of June 1896 Gauleiter in East Prussia Erich Koch is born in Elberfeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 120 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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(+) 105 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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(+) 100 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1926 Anarchist publisher and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 96 years ago She Was not Under the Influence Yet Thursday 19th of June 1930 Actress Gena Virginia Cathryn Rowlands known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes is born in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 19th of June 1932 Actress Pier Angeli, originally Anna Maria Pierangeli is born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

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(-) 90 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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(-) 90 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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(x) 81 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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(+) 79 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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(+) 77 years ago Sunday 19th of June 1949 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Sigrid Sternebeck is born in Bad Pyrmont, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 75 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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(-) 73 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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(-) 73 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) 67 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) 56 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) 56 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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(-) 55 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1971 Betty Elizabeth Marie Cloer is beaten, raped and shot dead by unidentified serial killer the Zodiac Killer 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) 47 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) 46 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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(-) 44 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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(-) 40 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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(-) 35 years ago Wednesday 19th of June 1991 Shannon Exley is strangled with her bra by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in 1020 S. Fickett Street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Saturday 19th of June 1993 Writer William Gerald Golding known for his novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ dies of heart failure at the age of 82 in Tullimaar House, Perranarworthal, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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(-) 30 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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(-) 25 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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13 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 19th of June 2013 Some sheep seeking shelter under a weeping willow in Hoboken, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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