41st year - Nr 175 Wednesday, 24 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 175 Wednesday, 24 June 2026

24 June / Today's 33 Events:

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(x) 652 years ago Friday 24th of June 1374 Due to an outbreak of Johannestanz aka St. John's Dance aka Dancing Mania people start hallucinating, jumping and twitching uncontrollable until collapsing in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 507 years ago Ten Was Too Much Tuesday 24th of June 1519 Duchess of Bisceglie, Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess of Salerno and femme fatale Lucrezia Borgia dies from complications after giving birth to her tenth child at the age of 39 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Borgia had a long history of complicated pregnancies and miscarriages.

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(+) 222 years ago Sunday 24th of June 1804 Botanist, numismatist and Sinologist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, originally Endlicher István László is born in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slowakia.

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(+) 138 years ago Sunday 24th of June 1888 Furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is born in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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(-) 118 years ago He Tried So Hard Wednesday 24th of June 1908 22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Stephen Cleveland dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Cleveland's last words were "I have tried so hard to do right."

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(+) 117 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1909 Mathematician William George Penney aka The Father of the British Atomic Bomb is born in Gibraltar, Overseas Territory, United Kingdom.

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(+) 109 years ago Sunday 24th of June 1917 Murderer George Edward Grammer is born in Fullerton, Maryland, United States.

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(-) 100 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1926 Anna Russel is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Santa Barbara, California, United States.

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(-) 100 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1926 Double murderess Louie Calvert, originally Louie Gomersall is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 31 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(+) 96 years ago Tuesday 24th of June 1930 Film director Claude Henri Jean Chabrol is born in Sardent, Limousin, France.

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(+) 91 years ago Monday 24th of June 1935 Minimal composer Terry Terrence Mitchell Riley is born in Colfax, California, United States.

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(x) 90 years ago Wednesday 24th of June 1936 28-year-old Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman, originally Sven Emil Sigvard Nilsson aka The Doctor is arrested at his parents' house in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

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(+) 85 years ago Tuesday 24th of June 1941 Mass murderer Charles Joseph Whitman aka The Man on the Tower is born in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.

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(+) 84 years ago His Kingdom Was About to Come Wednesday 24th of June 1942 Musician Arthur Brown, originally Arthur Wilton Brown aka The God of Hellfire is born in Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 77 years ago Friday 24th of June 1949 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is born in Rheinberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 76 years ago Saturday 24th of June 1950 Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is born in County Cork, Munster, Ireland.

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(-) 65 years ago Saturday 24th of June 1961 Yachtsman and scientific explorer George Washington Vanderbilt III known for his lavish lifestyles commits suicide by leaping from his 10th floor suite at the age of 47 in Mark Hopkins Hotel, 999 California Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 61 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1965 40-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 20 / Turnstunde in Nahrungsmitteln' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 61 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 10. Aktion in his studio in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 60 years ago Friday 24th of June 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 2/ Die für Vernünftige Geisteskranke Nicht Ohne Bedeutung Sein Dürfte' with Günter Brus in Galerie Josef Dvorak, Lagergasse 2, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 51 years ago Tuesday 24th of June 1975 113 die in Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727-225 Flight 66 crash in Rockaway Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, United States. There were 11 survivors.

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(x) 50 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1976 49-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 24th of June 1979 The Steyaert family is robbed and killed by 33-year-old Mass murderer Freddy André Horion aka De Zonnebril and Roland Feneulle in Antwerpsesteenweg 860, Sint-Amandsberg, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Horion killed Roland Steyaert, his wife Leona, their daughters 13-year-old Hilde and 22-year-old Anne-Marie and her 24-year-old lover Marc.

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(-) 39 years ago Wednesday 24th of June 1987 Murderer Elliot Rod Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. It took 35 minutes to insert a catheder into Johnson's vein.

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(x) 33 years ago Thursday 24th of June 1993 51-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails bomb #14 to computer science professor David Gelernter in Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Gelernter suffered severe burns and shrapnel wounds, permanent damage to his right eye and loss of his right hand.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 24th of June 1994 B-52 pilot Arthur Holland aka Bud steers a B-52 Stratofortress beyond operational parameters resulting in a crash, killing all 4 crew members at the age of 46 in Fairchild Air Force Base, Fairchild, Washington, United States. In an investigation the USAF stated that the crash was entirely attributable to Holland's personality and behaviour.

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(x) 31 years ago Saturday 24th of June 1995 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo are abducted by 39-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Paul Alain Dutroux in Rue de Fexhe, Grâce-Hollogne, Liège, Belgium. The two girls were kept in a dungeon in Dutroux' basement and died of starvation while he was in prison from later that year onwards.

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(x) 31 years ago Saturday 24th of June 1995 53-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails copies of his 'Industrial Society and its Future' manifesto to the New York Times, the Washington Post and Penthouse from his cabin in Unabomber Cabin, Lincoln, Montana, United States. 'Industrial Society and its Future'  was published by the Washington Post on 19 September 1995.

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(x) 28 years ago Wednesday 24th of June 1998 31-year-old Serial killer Heriberto Eddie Seda aka The New York Zodiac Killer is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in Queens, New York, New York, United States. Seda caused repeated disruptions in court, making outbursts and shouting at the judge.

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25 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 24th of June 2001 A party in honour of Ade Darmawan at our house in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 24 years ago Monday 24th of June 2002 281 die in passenger and goods train collision in Igandu, Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania. The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.

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(x) 21 years ago Friday 24th of June 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Le Petit Bucher de Margarete' in an exhibition by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Belfort, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I took off my left shoe and tied small branches and straw against my leg. I lit several candles together and let the candlewax drip over the branches and my leg until a kind of shell was formed. Then I cut loose all the ropes and left the small stake behind.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 24th of June 2024 A painted image of a German soldier with dog in the Atlantik Wall Museum in Raversijde, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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