41st year - Nr 181 Tuesday, 30 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 181 Tuesday, 30 June 2026

30 June / Today's 23 Events:

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(+) 199 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1827 Victim of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin Hortense Kinck, originally Hortense Juliette Roussel is born in Tourcoing, Hauts de France, France.

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(-) 144 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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(+) 134 years ago Thursday 30th of June 1892 SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Ludwig Pohl is born in Ruhrort, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 133 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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(x) 126 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1900 326 die in Norddeutscher Lloyd Docks fire in Hoboken Docks, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. The fire began when cotton bales stored on NDL’s southernmost wharf caught fire, and winds carried the flames to nearby barrels of volatile liquids, such as turpentine and oil, which exploded in rapid succession.

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(-) 96 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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(+) 93 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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(-) 90 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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(+) 75 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1951 Deranged gunman Marcus Wayne Chenault is born in Winchester, Kentucky, United States. On 30 June 1974 Chenault killed Mrs. Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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(x) 70 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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(-) 64 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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(-) 64 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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(x) 60 years ago He Could Do Nothing but Crouch Down Thursday 30th of June 1966 After a fire at the home of one of his bosses, the bodies of the executive, his wife, and two children were found all stabbed to death, presumed by 30-year-old Boxer and presumed mass murderer Iwao Hakamada in Yūtō, Shizuoka, Japan. Hakamada was interrogated and in August 1966 he was arrested based on his confession and a tiny amount of blood and gasoline found on a pair of pajamas he owned. According to his lawyers, Hakamada was interrogated a total of 264 hours for as many as 16 hours a session over 23 days to obtain the confession. They added that he was denied water or toilet breaks during the interrogation. "I could do nothing but crouch down on the floor trying to keep from defe cating," Hakamada later told his sister.

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(-) 57 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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(x) 55 years ago They Died in Space Wednesday 30th of June 1971 43-year-old commander Georgy Dobrovolsky, 38-year-old test engineer Viktor Patsayev and 37-year-old flight engineer Vladislav Volkov are found dead upon returning in their Soyuz 11 after breaking the record of staying in space for 23 days in Shalginskiy, Zhanaarka, Kazakhstan. The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans known to have died in space.

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(-) 52 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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(-) 35 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) 29 years ago He Took Her to Buy an Axe Monday 30th of June 1997 17-year-old Mass murderer Joshua Jenkins aka The Teenage Annihilator is sentenced to 112 years to life for killing his adoptive parents George and Alene, grandparents William and Evelyn Grossman and 10-year-old sister Megan on 2/3 February 1996 during a visit to the grandparent's condominium in San Diego, California, United States. After an argument with his mother about sending him to a boarding school Jenkins bludgeoned his parents and grandparents to death with a hammer. Inexplicably, somehow he kept Megan from discovering the carnage. The next morning Jenkins took her with him to buy an axe w hich he used to kill her once they returned to the condo.

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(-) 22 years ago He Rolled Wednesday 30th of June 2004 Murderer David Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Harris' last words were: "Sir, in honor of a true American hero: Let's roll."

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(x) 17 years ago Tuesday 30th of June 2009 13-year-old Plane crash survivor Bahia Bakari became the sole survivor of the Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-324 crash in Moroni, Grande Comore, Comoros. Bakari was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for thirteen hours. 152 people died in the crash.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 30th of June 2014 Douglas Park in the remains of my exhibition 'Picnic at Hanssenspark' in Cultuurcentrum De Bond, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 5 years ago Wednesday 30th of June 2021 Triple murderer John William Hummel is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Hummel stabbed his 34-year-old pregnant wife Joy to death, beat his five-year-old daughter Jodi and his 57-year-old father in law Clyde Bedford to death with a baseball bat in 2009. He then set their home on fire in Kennedale, Fort Worth.

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(-) 3 years ago Friday 30th of June 2023 Electronic music pioneer Monte Cazazza dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 69 in San Francisco, California, United States.

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