41st year - Nr 153 Tuesday, 2 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 153 Tuesday, 2 June 2026

2 June / Today's 27 Events:

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(+) 491 years ago He Was Beginning to See the Light Sunday 2nd of June 1535 232nd Pope Leo XI, originally Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici aka Papa Lampo is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 286 years ago Thursday 2nd of June 1740 Revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade aka Marquis de Sade is born in Hôtel de Condé, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 191 years ago Tuesday 2nd of June 1835 257th Pope Pius X, originally Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto is born in Riese, Treviso, Italy.

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(+) 186 years ago Tuesday 2nd of June 1840 Poet Thomas Hardy is born in Stinsford, Dorset, United Kingdom.

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(+) 135 years ago Tuesday 2nd of June 1891 Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi aka The Father of the Kamikaze is born in Tamba, Japan.

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(-) 122 years ago Thursday 2nd of June 1904 Black Albert Blades is lynched for stumbling into a picnic area and frightening some white girls in Osceola, Arkansas, United States.

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(+) 122 years ago Thursday 2nd of June 1904 Competition swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller, originally Peter Johann Weißmüller known for his role as Tarzan is born in Timișoara, Timiș, Romania.

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(+) 80 years ago They Better Let Him Sleep Sunday 2nd of June 1946 Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is born in Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 78 years ago Wednesday 2nd of June 1948 Nazi doctor Joachim Mrugowsky is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Kriegsverbrechergefängnis, Landsberg am Lech, Oberbayern, Germany. Along with Mrugowsky, six other Nazi doctors were executed on this day.

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(-) 78 years ago Wednesday 2nd of June 1948 SS-Gruppenführer and leader of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program Karl Brandt is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Kriegsverbrechergefängnis, Landsberg am Lech, Oberbayern, Germany. Along with Brandt, six other Nazi doctors were executed on this day.

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(+) 67 years ago Tuesday 2nd of June 1959 Musician Lydia Lunch, originally Lydia Anne Koch is born in Rochester, New York, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Tuesday 2nd of June 1959 Dagmar Klimek is thrown out of a train and then raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Heinrich Pommerenke aka The Beast of the Black Forest in Ebringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Pommerenke risked his own life by jumping after Klimek out of the riding train.

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(+) 66 years ago Thursday 2nd of June 1960 Cop killer Stephen Ray Nethery is born in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago Thursday 2nd of June 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 28 / Ornament ist ein Verbrechen' with Günter Brus in Villa Adolf Loos, Eßlergasse 9, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 59 years ago Friday 2nd of June 1967 Student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a policeman during a demonstration at the age of 27 in Krumme Strasse 66, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Ohnesorg was killed by plain-clothes police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras, who was an undercover agent of the East German secret police Stasi, during a protest meeting against a visit of the Sjah of Iran. His death would spark off the rise of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe, and its allies Bewegung 2. Juni.

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(-) 56 years ago He Hit the Bunker Tuesday 2nd of June 1970 Formula One racer Bruce Leslie McLaren crashes while testing his new McLaren M8D at the age of 33 in Goodwood Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. McLaren's Can-Am car crashed on the Lavant Straight just before Woodcote corner. The rear bodywork came adrift at speed making the loss of aerodynamic downforce destabilising the car, which spun, left the track and hit a bunker used as a flag station.

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(-) 52 years ago His Genitals Were Missing Sunday 2nd of June 1974 Malcolm Eugene Little is found tortured and killed by serial killer Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer in Long Beach, California, United States. Little was found in a ditch along Highway 86, his legs were spread apart and his genitals were missing.

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(x) 52 years ago Sunday 2nd of June 1974 36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 46. Aktion im rahmen des Pfingstfestes mit Klavierkonzert für Günter Brus (Nitsch, Rühm, Roth, Wiener) in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria. Nitsch' 46. Aktion lasted 12 hours.

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(+) 46 years ago Monday 2nd of June 1980 Mass murderer Seth Stephen Privacky is born in Muskegon, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago He Was Informed Monday 2nd of June 1980 Steven Jay Wells is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in El Segundo Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States. At Bonin's apartment Wells was bound, raped, beaten about the face and torso by Bonin and James Munro, then informed he was to be murdered before he was strangled to death with his own T-shirt.

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(-) 36 years ago Saturday 2nd of June 1990 Film and stage actor Rex Reginald Carey Harrison dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 82 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago It Was Kind of Bad Monday 2nd of June 1997 Cop killer Patrick Fitzgerald Rogers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Rogers' last meal request was for a Coke. His final words were “kind of bad, isn’t it.”

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(-) 28 years ago Tuesday 2nd of June 1998 Tina Renee Gibbs is found strangled by serial killer Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer in Buttonwillow, California, United States.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 2nd of June 2003 A seating stage in WP Zimmer, Gasstraat 90, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 18 years ago Monday 2nd of June 2008 Musician Bo Diddley, originally Ellas Otha Bates aka The Originator dies of heart failure at the age of 80 in Archer, Florida, United States.

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(-) 16 years ago Wednesday 2nd of June 2010 Spree killer Derrick Bird known for the Cumbria shootings commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 53 in Boot, Cumbria, United Kingdom. Bird shot and killed twelve people including his twin brother David and injured another 12 while driving around and shooting from his Citroen Picasso taxi cab. The dead were his 52-year-old twin brother David Bird, 60-year-old family solicitor Kevin Commons, 43-year-old fellow taxi driver Darren Rewcastle, 75-year-old Susan Hughes, 71-year-old Kenneth Fishburn, 68-year-old Jennifer Jackson, 67-year-old James Jackson, 65-year-old Isaac Di xon, 31-year-old Garry Purdham, 23-year-old James 'Jamie' Clark, 64-year-old Michael Pike and 66-year-old Jane Robinson.

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(x) 3 years ago Friday 2nd of June 2023 Over 300 die in three train collision in Bahanaga Bazar railway station, Balasore, Odisha, India. The collision involved three trains: the passenger trains 12841 Coromandel Express and 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah SF Express as well as a goods train. Over 900 people were injured.

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