41st year - Nr 173 Monday, 22 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 173 Monday, 22 June 2026

22 June / Today's 41 Events:

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(x) 211 years ago Thursday 22nd of June 1815 46-year-old War leader Napoléon Bonaparte, originally Napoleone di Buonaparte abdicates in favour of his son Napoleon II in Palais du Luxembourg, 15 rue de Vaugirard, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 126 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1900 Wife of Rudolf Hess Ilse Pröhl is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 123 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1903 Presumed murderer George C. White is lynched by a mob of 2000 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The lynch mob forced their way through steel doors into White’s prison cell, took him to a field near the scene of the crime, lit a pyre of straw and fence posts smashed into kindling, coiled ropes around the man and threw him into the fire. White twice freed himself only to be thrown back into the flames as thousands of all ages watched and some cheered.

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(+) 123 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1903 Bank robber John Herbert Dillinger is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 120 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1906 Filmmaker Billy Samuel Wilder is born in Sucha Beskidzka, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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(x) 111 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1915 Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 108 years ago He Had Slept Little if at All Saturday 22nd of June 1918 104 die in Hammond Circus Train collision in Ivanhoe Interlocking, Gary, Indiana, United States. Locomotive engineer Alonzo Sargent fell asleep and ran the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train into the rear of a slower circus train.

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(x) 102 years ago Sunday 22nd of June 1924 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is arrested after a minor fight with Kurt Fromm in Hauptbahnhof, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. Haarmann's apartment was searched and the walls were found to be heavily bloodstained. He tried to explain this as a by-product of his illegal trade as a butcher.

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(-) 98 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1928 Murderer B. W. Sam is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 98 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1928 Murderer Gee King Long is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 98 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1928 Murderer Jew Har is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 98 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1928 Murderer Shew Chin is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 96 years ago Sunday 22nd of June 1930 Kidnap victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. is born in Mercer County, Hopewell Township, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 84 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1942 Spree killer George Emil Banks is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1943 Artist Gordon Matta-Clark, originally Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Wednesday 22nd of June 1949 Actress Meryl Mary Louise Streep is born in Summit, New Jersey, United States.

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(x) 73 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1953 Start of the trial against 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 73 years ago She Just Wanted to Have Fun Monday 22nd of June 1953 Singer-songwriter Cyndi Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is born in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 72 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1954 Honorah Mary Rieper is beaten to death by murderess Pauline Parker aka Heavenly Creature in Victoria Park, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Parker was involved in a lesbian relationship with 15-year-old Juliet Hulme. It is believed that the two girls killed Rieper because Hulme and her father were leaving shortly for South Africa and though Parker wanted to accompany them, her mother forbade it.

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(x) 64 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1962 113 die in Air France Boeing 707-328 Flight 117 crash in Deshayes, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France.

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(-) 61 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1965 Spree killer George Ronald York is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 61 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1965 Spree killer James Douglas Latham is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 59 years ago Thursday 22nd of June 1967 Gabrielle Puetman is attacked by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Grafenhausen, Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Puetman survived.

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(-) 57 years ago She Just Plain Wore Out Sunday 22nd of June 1969 Actress, singer and vaudevillian Judy Garland, originally Frances Ethel Gumm dies of an incautious self-overdose of Seconal at the age of 47 in 4 Cadogan Lane, Chelsea, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 53 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1973 23-year-old Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 52 years ago Saturday 22nd of June 1974 Roger Edward Dickerson is found mutilated and strangled by serial killer Randy Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer in Laguna Beach, California, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Life Stinked Wednesday 22nd of June 1977 Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner dies of acute pancreatitis due to alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 25 in 26628 Wolf Road, Bay Village, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 49 years ago Wednesday 22nd of June 1977 Victim of Arthur Gary Bishop aka The Mormon Murderer Troy Edward Ward is born in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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(x) 46 years ago it was War Sunday 22nd of June 1980 45-year-old Mass murderer Alvin Lee King III aka The Daingerfield Church Shooter shoots 15 members of the church who had declined his request to appear as character witnesses in a trial in which he was charged with raping his daughter in First Baptist Church, 202 West W M Watson Boulevard, Daingerfield, Texas, United States. King kicked open the doors of the Baptist church, shouted ''This is war" and sprayed the congregation with gunfire killing 50-year-old Gene Gandy, 7-year-old Mary Regina Linam, 53-year-old James Y. McDaniel, 78-year-old Thelma Richardson and 49-year-old Kenneth Truitt.

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(x) 45 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1981 27-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Michael James 'Mickey' Devine, originally Micheal O Duibhinn starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 44 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1982 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs at a - ∆ t event in Stollwerck, DreiKönigenstraße 23, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 43 years ago Wednesday 22nd of June 1983 Troy Edward Ward is abducted and killed by child molester and serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop aka The Mormon Murderer in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1984 Film director Joseph Walton Losey dies of unknown causes at the age of 75 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 22nd of June 1985 Mark Wallace is abducted, tortured and killed by serial killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher in 4315 Charlotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 39 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1987 Stage dancer, singer and actor Fred Astaire, originally Frederick Austerlitz dies of pneumonia at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 33 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1993 51-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails bomb #13 to geneticist Charles Epstein in Tiburon, California, United States. Epstein suffers severe damage to both eardrums with partial hearing loss and loss of three fingers.

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(-) 26 years ago He Was Extracted Thursday 22nd of June 2000 Murderer Shaka Sankofa, originally Gary Lee Graham is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. A Cell Extraction Team was dispatched to force Sankofa towards the death chamber where it took five jail guards to strap him to the gurney.

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(x) 20 years ago Thursday 22nd of June 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Discovery of James Lee Byars' Tomb' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. While looking for places to get rid of the earth from my hole I accidently found the empty tomb of James Lee Byars. I filled it completely with earth so it was kept secret.

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(x) 19 years ago Friday 22nd of June 2007 48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'La Rencontre Fortuite sur une Œuvre de Donald Judd d'une Montagne de Sable et d'un Lac' in Circuit, 9 Avenue de Montchoisi, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. I took a suitcase with some 20kgs of earth on the plane to Genève and the train to Lausanne. In the gallery I made an installation which related to the work of minimal artist Donald Judd. Instead of perspex and aluminium shapes I used 3 old drawers that I found at a garbage dump. I filled 2 buckets with water of Lac Leman. I stepped into the bottom drawer of my Donald Judd piece and proceeded to open the suitcase. I grabbed some of the earth inside and put it in the drawer above my head. Then I took some water from a bucket and poured it in the top drawer.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 22nd of June 2007 Remains of my performance 'La Rencontre Fortuite sur une Œuvre de Donald Judd d'une Montagne de Sable et d'un Lac' in Circuit, 9 Avenue de Montchoisi, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(-) 19 years ago Friday 22nd of June 2007 Arte Povera artist Luciano Fabro dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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