41st year - Nr 165 Sunday, 14 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 165 Sunday, 14 June 2026

14 June / Today's 30 Events:

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(-) 677 years ago Saturday 14th of June 1349 Anti-king Günther XXI von Schwarzburg dies of bubonic plague at the age of 45 in Johanniterkloster, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(-) 529 years ago Monday 14th of June 1497 2nd Duke of Gandia Giovanni Borgia, originally Juan de Borja y Cattanei is presumably stabbed to death by his brother Cesare at the age of 22 in Piazza della Giudecca, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(-) 170 years ago They Hanged Her Saintly Billy Saturday 14th of June 1856 Serial poisoner William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Stafford Goal, Gaol Road, Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Some 30.000 people were present to see Palmer's hanging in public by George Smith.

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(+) 162 years ago Tuesday 14th of June 1864 Psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer is born in Marktbreit, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 119 years ago Friday 14th of June 1907 Architect and engineer William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper dies of unknown causes at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 105 years ago Tuesday 14th of June 1921 52-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is moved from Prison de la Sante to await trial in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France. It was Landru's last ride through the streets of Paris.

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(-) 103 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1923 Prime Minister of Bulgaria Aleksandar Stamboliyski is tortured and executed by members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization after a coup d'état at the age of 44 in Slavovitsa, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. Stamboliyski's hand that signed the Treaty of Niš was cut off. His head was sent to Sofia in a box of biscuits.

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(-) 102 years ago Saturday 14th of June 1924 Erich de Vries is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 98 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1928 Political activist and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, originally Emmeline Goulden dies of deteriorating health at the age of 70 in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 98 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1928 Marxist revolutionary, guerrilla leader and military theorist Ernesto Che Guevara is born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.

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(x) 95 years ago Sunday 14th of June 1931 459 die in Saint-Philibert excursion steamer shipwreck in Pointe Saint-Gildas, Préfailles, Pays de la Loire, France. There were 8 survivors.

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(+) 93 years ago Wednesday 14th of June 1933 Writer Jerzy Kosiński, originally Józef Lewinkopf is born in Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland.

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(+) 81 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1945 Artist Jörg Immendorff is born in Bleckede, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 80 years ago Friday 14th of June 1946 Actor Charles Butterworth commits suicide by a car crash at the age of 50 in Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Sunday 14th of June 1953 Musician David Lynn Thomas known from the Post-Punk group Pere Ubu is born in Miami, Florida, United States.

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(+) 65 years ago Wednesday 14th of June 1961 Musician Boy George, originally George Alan O'Dowd is born in Barnehurst Hospital, Bexley, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 64 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1962 Anna Elza Lejins Slesers is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 77 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Monday 14th of June 1976 Start of the trial against 40-year-old Multiple murderer Donald Neilson, originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther for the kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle in Crown Court, St Aldates, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 46 years ago Saturday 14th of June 1980 Regina Barthel is stabbed to death by serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder in Dietzenbach, Hessen, Germany.

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(-) 40 years ago Saturday 14th of June 1986 Ludmilla Liberman is tortured and killed by serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune in 61 Avenue General Leclerc, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 38 years ago Tuesday 14th of June 1988 Murderer Edward Robert 'Eddie' Byrne is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, United States. Byrne killed 25-year-old service station cashier Roberta Johnson with a hammer during a robbery on 14 August 1984. "I don't know exactly what it is that I can say to y'all. I was planning to rob this woman all along. It was all set up. There were no flaws that I could see. I just attempted to knock her unconscious. It didn't work. She didn't become unconscious. I just kept hitting her until she did."

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(x) 37 years ago She Was Slap Happy Wednesday 14th of June 1989 72-year-old Actress Zsa Zsa Gábor aka Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt is arrested for slapping motorcycle police agent Paul Kramer in the face when he stopped her for a traffic violation at 8551 Olympic Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, United States. Gabor was later sentenced to 72 hours in jail.

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(x) 36 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1990 38-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Werner Bernhard Lotze is arrested along with Christine Dümlein in Senftenberg, Brandenburg, Germany. On 31 January 1991 Lotze was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for murder, attempted murder, bank robbery and a bomb attack.

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(-) 36 years ago Thursday 14th of June 1990 Edward Eddie Smith aka The Sheik 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. Dahmer acidified Smith's skeleton; his skull was destroyed unintentionally when placed in the oven in an effort to remove moisture.

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(-) 32 years ago Tuesday 14th of June 1994 Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago It Was Going to Be Alright Wednesday 14th of June 2000 Murderer John Albert Burks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Burks' last words were "And it's going to be alright. That's it and it's time to roll up out of here. It's going down, let's get it over with. That's it.”

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(-) 25 years ago Thursday 14th of June 2001 Murderer Jay D. Scott is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 23 years ago Saturday 14th of June 2003 Noise music band Club Moral play their 94th concert on the occasion of the release of their 'Cerebrale Pathologie' 10" record in Crazy Cabaret, Schepenenvijverstraat 2, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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23 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 14th of June 2003 Audience lining up to see Club Moral perform live at the presentation of a 10" vinyl release in Crazy Cabaret, Schepenenvijverstraat 2, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago Thursday 14th of June 2007 9th President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 89 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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