41st year - Nr 176 Thursday, 25 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 176 Thursday, 25 June 2026

25 June / Today's 33 Events:

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(-) 259 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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(-) 191 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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(+) 174 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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(-) 151 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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(-) 132 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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(+) 126 years ago Monday 25th of June 1900 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten is born in Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 123 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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(-) 103 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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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 25th of June 1924 Film director Sidney Arthur Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 93 years ago Sunday 25th of June 1933 American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becoming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 86 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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(x) 85 years ago Wednesday 25th of June 1941 The Soviet Union unleashes a major air offensive against 18 cities with 460 planes, mainly striking airfields but seriously damaging civilian targets as well in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi, Finland. As a result Finland declares war on Russia.

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(-) 84 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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(+) 81 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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(-) 67 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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(-) 66 years ago Saturday 25th of June 1960 Gerhard Habel is shot dead by serial killer Peter Hößl aka Der Wochenendmörder in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 62 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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(x) 47 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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(x) 46 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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(-) 42 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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(-) 41 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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(-) 41 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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(-) 36 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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(x) 33 years ago Friday 25th of June 1993 20 die in private psychiatric hospital fire in Clinique Saint-François-d'Assise, Haut-Carcé, Bruz, Bretagne, France. All the patients, mostly depressed young women, were severely sedated and locked up behind barred windows. 30 patients were heavily burned. The fire started when a nurse, who also died in the disaster, helped escape a patient who set fire to solitary confinement room 22 and forgot to close the door.

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(-) 29 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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27 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 25th of June 1999 AMVK at the opening of her Nursing Care, in Melancholy Stupor exhibition in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 24 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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(x) 20 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 Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann in Rijksmuseum, Museumplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 17 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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(-) 17 years ago Thursday 25th of June 2009 Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett known for her role in ‘Charlie’s Angels’ dies of anal and liver cancer at the age of 62 in Saint John's Health Center, 2121 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(-) 11 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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9 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 25th of June 2017 Holidays in the sun for a posse of goose in Raversijde, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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4 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 25th of June 2022 Display about a local boxer named Danny in Mudel, Lucien Matthyslaan 3/5, Deinze, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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