80 Years Ago He Grew Up to Be a Mentally Aiding Cop Killer

131 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 June 1882
(-) Assassin Charles Julius Guiteau aka The Man Who Shot President Garfield, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 June 1892
(+) Nazi Administrator of Concentration Camps Oswald Pohl is born in Duisburg-Ruhrort, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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120 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 June 1893
(+) East-German leader and builder of the Berlin Wall, Walter Ulbricht is born in Leipzig, Germany.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 June 1900
(x) Over 300 Die in pier fire in Hoboken, New York, USA.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 June 1930
(-) Murderer Frank Tauza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 June 1933
(+) Cop Killer Derek William Bentley is born in London, United Kingdom.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 June 1936
(-) Murderer Frederick Herbert Charles Field is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 June 1956
(x) 128 Die in Trans World Airlines Flight 2 Super Constellation and United Airlines Flight 718 DC-7 collision in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 June 1962
(-) Helen Blake is strangled and sexually assaulted by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 65 in Lynn, 73 Newhall Street, Massachussets, USA.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 June 1962
(-) Nina Nichols is strangled and sexually assaulted by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 65 in Lynn, 1940 Commonwealth Avenue, Massachussets, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 June 1969
(-) Roxie Phillips is beaten and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 17 in Salinas, California, USA.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 June 1971
(x) 43-year-old Georgi Dobrovolski, 38-year-old Viktor Patsajef and 37-year-old Vladislav Volokov are found dead upon returning in their Sojoez 2 after breaking the record of staying 23 days in Space.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 June 1974
(-) Mother of Martin Luther Alberta King is shot dead whilst playing the organ by Marcus Chenault at the age of 69 in Atlanta, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Georgia, USA.
Chenault shot King because "all Christians are my enemies".

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22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 June 1991
(-) Matt Turner aka Donald Montrell, is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 21 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 June 1997
(x) Mass Murderer Josh Jenkins aka The Teenage Annihilator, is sentenced to 112 years to life for killing his adoptive parents, grandparents and sister during a weekend visit to the grandparent's condominium in San Diego, California, USA.
He said he killed his family in revenge for his parents sending him to boarding school.

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9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 June 2004
(-) Murderer David Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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4 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 June 2009
(x) 152 Die in Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-324 crash in Moroni, Comoros.
12-year-old Bahia Bakari survived the crash with minor injuries.

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80 Years Ago He Didn't Heavy Weight Rape No More

1946 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 June 67
(-) First Pope Simon Peter aka Simon Cephas, is executed by crucifixion at the age of 66 in Rome, Italy.

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158 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 June 1855
(-) Murderer John Schultz is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.

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149 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 June 1864
(x) 99 Die in train disaster in St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 June 1900
(+) Writer and pilot Marie Antoine Roger De Saint-Exupéry is born in Lyon, France.

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102 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 1911
(+) Composer Bernard Herrmann is born in New York, New York, USA.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 June 1924
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, confesses to a long career of murder, butchering and selling his victims’ meat in Hannover, Germany.

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84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 June 1929
(+) Journalist Oriana Fallaci is born in Florence, Italy.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 1933
(-) Actor, filmmaker and womanizer Roscoe Conklin ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist, dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in New York, New York, USA.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 June 1934
(-) Porter Zaro Agha dies of uremia at the age of 164 in Istanbul, Turkey.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 June 1940
(-) Artist Paul Klee dies of scleroderma at the age of 60 in Muralto, Switzerland.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 June 1941
(+) Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panthers Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture, is born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 June 1956
(x) 30-year-old Actress Marilyn Monroe originally Norma Jean Mortenson Baker, marries writer Arthur Miller in California, USA.
They divorced on 20 january 1961.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 June 1959
(x) 21-year-old Mass murderer Robin Cook is arrested after trying to obtain a car by fraud in Alberta, Stettler, Canada.
When searching his house, police found the bodies of Ray Cook Senior, his second wife Daisy Mae and their children Gerald, Patrick, Christopher, Kathy and Linda in the garage.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 1967
(-) Actress Jayne Mansfield originally Vera Jane Palmer, is decapitated in a car crash at the age of 34 in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
The 1966 Buick Electra 225, which was reportedly going 80 miles per hour, crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 June 1969
(-) President of Katanga Moise Kapenda Tshombe dies of heart failure at the age of 49 in Algiers, Algeria.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 June 1973
(x) The members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion end their second hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 June 1975
(-) Musician Tim Buckley dies of a heroin and alcohol overdose at the age of 28 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 June 1993
(-) Multiple Murderer Markham Duff-Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 June 1994
(-) Serial Killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka The Pug Dumper aka The Prison Poet aka Jack the Writer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 42 in Graz, Karlau prison, Austria.
He was convicted to life-imprisonment for the murders of 9 prostitutes earlier this day.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 1995
(x) 53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a letter to Social psychology professor Tom Tyler at University of California in San Francisco, California, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 1995
(-) Actress Lana Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner dies of throat cancer at the age of 74 in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 1995
(x) 501 Die in Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul, Seocho-gu, South Korea.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 June 2000
(-) Multiple Murderer Jessy Carlos San Miguel is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 June 2003
(-) Actress Katherine Houghton Hepburn dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA.

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25 Years Ago Gaben Sie Ihr die Chance Porträts Gefangener Frauen zu Fotografieren

537 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 June 1476
(+) 223rd Pope Paul IV originally Giovanni Pietro Carafa, is born in Capriglia Irpina, Italy.

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522 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 June 1491
(+) King of England Henry VIII is born in Greenwich, Palace of Placentia, United Kingdom.

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436 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 June 1577
(+) Artist Peter Paul Rubens is born in Siegen, Germany.

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301 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 June 1712
(+) Composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born in Genève, Switzerland.

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133 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 June 1880
(x) 25-year-old Australia’s Most Famous Desperado, Edward “Ned” Kelly is captured in Glenrowan Inn, Victoria, Australia.
The other Kelly Gang members died in a shootout with the police.

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130 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 June 1883
(+) Politician and Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval is born in Châteldon, Puy-de-Dôme, France.

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122 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 June 1891
(+) Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is born in Warren, Minnesota, USA.

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112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 June 1901
(-) Murderer Frank Miller is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 June 1904
(x) Over 600 Die in Norge shipwreck in Rockall Reef, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 June 1905
(-) Murderer Henri Languille is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
Dr. Beaurieux lifted the head out of the basked and called out Henri’s name upon which the head opened its eyes.

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106 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 June 1907
(-) Murderer Holliver Megorden is executed by hanging at the age of 57 in Oregon, USA.

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99 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 June 1914
(-) Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen is shot dead by Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, at the age of 50 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
The event triggered the start of World War I.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 June 1918
(-) Harriet Lowe is attacked by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 June 1926
(+) Filmmaker Mel Brooks originally Melvin Kaminsky, is born in New York, New York, USA.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 June 1935
(+) Actor John Inman aka Mr. Humphries from “Are You Being Served?”, is born in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 June 1940
(-) Murderer Ruf Satterfield is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in North Carolina, USA.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 June 1947
(+) Black Panther Mark Clark is born in Peoria, Illinois, USA.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 June 1955
(-) Murderer Dr. Dalip Lutchmie Persap is executed by hanging in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 June 1962
(-) Mary Mullen is killed by heart-failure in the course of being assaulted by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 85 in Boston, 1435 Commonwealth Avenue, Massachussets, USA.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 June 1971
(x) 56-year-old Mafia-leader Joseph “Joe” Colombo is shot by Jerome Johnson, who was then shot dead by an unidentified man during the second Italian Unity Day rally in New York, New York, USA.
Colombo survived but lingered in a coma for seven years without regaining consciousness.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 June 1971
(-) Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, dies of heart failure in prison at the age of 63 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Austria.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 June 1973
(-) Marlys Townsend is attacked by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
She survived.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 June 1975
(-) Twilight Zone host Rod Rodman Edward Serling dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, New York, USA.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 June 1976
(+) 9/11 Terrorist Satam al-Suqami is born in Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 June 1980
(-) Roxanne Easlund is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 24 in Anchorage, Northern Lights Boulevard, Alaska, USA.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 June 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Underground Confrontation" with Ria Pacquée in Antwerpen, Metro Station Meir / ICC, Antwerp, Belgium.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 June 1981
(x) 94 Die in bomb-attack in Teheran, Iran.
Amongst the dead were 73 officials of the Islamitic Democrat Party and party-leader Ayatollah Mohammed Behesti

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29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 June 1984
(-) Jennie Vincow is raped and stabbed to death by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, Chapman Street, California, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 June 1986
(-) Valentine Gleim is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 84 in London, Stockwell Park Road, Somerville Hastings House, United Kingdom.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 June 1988
(x) 33-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Stuttgart, Germany.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 June 1994
(x) 39-year-old Cult Leader of the Aum Shinrikyo aka Aleph religious group Shoko Asahara originally Chizuo Matsumoto, releases Sarin gas in the metro station in Matsumoto, Japan.
Seven people die, 660 are injured.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 June 1995
(x) 53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails letters to the New York Times and Washington Post in San Francisco, California, USA.

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20 Years Ago He Carried a Dead Weight in the Back of His Pick-up

175 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 June 1838
(+) Weapon designer Paul von Mauser is born in Oberndorf-am-Neckar, Germany.

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169 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 June 1844
(-) Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is shot dead by an angry mob at the age of 38 in Carthage Jail, Illinois, USA.
His brother Hyrum Smith is also killed.

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144 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 June 1869
(+) Feminist and Anarchist Writer Emma Goldman is born in Kovno, Lithuania.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 June 1935
(-) Murderess Eva Coo originally Eva Curry aka Madame, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 June 1941
(+) Filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski is born in Warsaw, Poland.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 June 1949
(+) Serial Killer and writer Norio Nagayama is born in Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 June 1969
(x) 64-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is arrested after a seven-year period of escape from the Arizona State Hospital in Piedmont, California, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 June 1969
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, pleads guilty to 3 charges of first degree murder and is sentenced to 3 consecutive life-sentences in Salem, Marion County Courthouse, Oregon, USA.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 June 1971
(+) Crown Prince and mass murderer Bir Bikram Shah Dipendra is born in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 June 1985
(-) Patty Higgins is killed by throatcutting by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, Arcadia, California, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 June 1986
(-) Frederick Prentice is attacked by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 73 in South London, United Kingdom.
He survived.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 June 1993
(x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is arrested after a police-hunt because of a missing number-plate on his Mazda pick-up, in the back arresting police-officers found the body of 22-year-old Tiffany Bresciani in Long Islang, Old Country Road, New York, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 June 1993
(-) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Wolfgang Werner Grams commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 40 in Bad Kleinen, Germany.
In a shootout at the railway station he had killed special policeman Michael Newrzella.

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12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 June 2001
(-) Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon dies of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 June 2005
(x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, pleads guilty to 10 counts of murder, giving graphic account of his "Bind, Torture, Kill" crimes in court in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 June 2006
(-) Serial Killer Angel Leoncio Reyes Maturino Reséndiz aka The Railway Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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50 Years Ago He Wished He Was a Doughnut

729 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 June 1284
(x) A Pied Piper lures 120 children out of the village in Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany.
All of the children were taken to the Weser river and drowned.

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400 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1613
(-) Carpenter John Hitchen dies of spontaneous human combustion in Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom.
His body was dragged into the street and continued to burn for three days.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1892
(+) Writer Pearl S. (Sydenstricker) Comfort Buck is born in Hilsboro, West Virginia, USA.

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115 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1898
(+) Airplane designer and pioneer Wilhelm Emil Messerschmidt is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1904
(+) Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, is born in Ruzomberok, Hungary.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 June 1909
(+) Elvis Impresario Tom Thomas Andrew Parker originally Andreas Cornelis ‘Dries’ van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, is born in Breda, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands.

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96 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 1917
(x) 48-year-old Presumed murderess of President Faure Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, marries Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger in London, United Kingdom.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 1923
(+) Murderess Barbara Graham originally Barbara Eilaine Wood aka Bloody Babs, is born in Oakland, California, USA.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1925
(+) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev is born in Chelistshevo, Vologda Oblast, USSR.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 June 1926
(-) Murderess Louise Calvert is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 June 1926
(-) Anna Russel is strangled and raped by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 58 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1931
(+) Angry Young Writer Colin Henry Wilson is born in Leicester, United Kingdom.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1946
(x) 17-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested whilst prowling around Wayne Manor Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 1956
(x) The books of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich at Orgonon are destroyed by FDA officials in Rangely, Maine, USA.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1957
(-) Writer Alfred Döblin known for “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, dies of Parkinson's Disease at the age of 78 in Emmendingen, Germany.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1957
(-) Margaret Harold is raped and shot dead by Melvin Rees aka The Sex Beast, in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1957
(-) Writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for “Under the Volcano”, dies of alcohol abuse and an eventual overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 47 in Ripe, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1963
(x) 46-year-old 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin, Germany.

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49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1964
(-) Furniture Designer and Architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld dies at the age of 76 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 1968
(-) Actor and comedian Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock commits suicide by an overdose of drugs and alcohol at the age of 44 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1977
(-) Salvatore Lupo is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1977
(-) Jayne McDonald is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 16 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
She was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 1990
(-) Murderer James Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 June 1993
(x) 36-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Birgit Elisabeth Hogefeld is arrested in Bad Kleinen, Germany.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1998
(-) Multiple murderer Leopoldo Narvaiz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 2001
(-) Murderer Miguel Richardson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 June 2002
(-) Murderer Jeffery Lynn Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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110 Years Ago He Wasn't Raised on an Animal Farm

246 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1767
(-) Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Germany.

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178 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1835
(-) Artist Antoine-Jean Gros commits suicide by drowning at the age of 64 in Sèvres, France.
A note hidden in his hat read: "Las de la vie, et trahi par les dernières facultés qui la lui rendaient supportable, il avait résolu de s’en défaire."

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161 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 June 1852
(+) Architect Antonio Gaudi is born in Reus, Tarragona, Spain.

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138 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 June 1875
(-) Double Murderer Louis Wagner is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Thomaston Prison, United Kingdom.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1900
(+) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten is born in Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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110 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1903
(+) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, is born in Motihari, Bengal, India.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1923
(-) Ernst Ehrenberg is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 13 in Hannover, Neue Straße, Germany.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1924
(+) Filmmaker Sidney Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 June 1933
(+) First African American student at the University of Mississippi James H. Meredith is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1940
(-) Psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by hanging at the age of 72 in London, United Kingdom.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1941
(x) Finland declares war to the USSR in Helsinki, Finland.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1942
(-) Serial Killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1945
(+) Musician Carly Simon is born in New York, New York, USA.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 1959
(-) Spree Killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 20 in State Penitentiary, Nebraska, USA.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1963
(+) Musician George Michael originally Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou, is born in London, United Kingdom.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1979
(x) Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the Chi-Omega murders in Miami, Dade County Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Florida, USA.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Diagonal - 1", "Diagonal - 2" with Ria Pacquée and "Installation - 4" in Paris, Galerie Diagonal, France.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1984
(-) Philosopher Michel Foucault dies of AIDS at the age of 57 in Paris, France.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1985
(-) Psychotic Murderer and rapist Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 1985
(-) Murderer Charles Milton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 June 1990
(-) Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Arkansas, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 June 1993
(x) 17 Die in hospital for the mentally deranged fire in Rennes, France.
All the inmates were severely sedated and could not be awakened in time.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 June 1997
(-) Murderer William Lyle Woratzeck is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 June 2002
(-) Mass-murderer Robert Otis Coulson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 June 2006
(x) Bartholomeus van der Helst's "Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster" is splashed with lighter fuel and set on fire by 68-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.

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4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 2009
(-) Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett dies of cancer at the age of 62 in Santa Monica, Saint John's Health Center, California, USA.

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4 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 June 2009
(-) Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, dies of an overdose of propofol, along with two anti-anxiety benzodiazepines: lorazepam and midazolam at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, California, USA.

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20 Years Ago He Learned About the Threat of Technology

639 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 June 1374
(x) 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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494 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 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 eighth child at the age of 39 in Ferrara, Italy.

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209 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 June 1804
(+) Priest and botanist Stephan L. Endlicher is born in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.

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125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 June 1888
(+) Furniture Designer and Architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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119 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 June 1894
(-) Fourth President of France Sadi Marie François Carnot is stabbed to death by anarchist Santo Geronimo Caserio after delivering a speech at a public banquet at the age of 56 in Lyon, France.

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105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 June 1908
(-) 22nd and 24th president of the USA Grover Stephen Cleveland dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 June 1909
(+) Engineer of the first British atomic bomb William George Penney is born in Gibraltar, United Kingdom.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 June 1930
(+) Filmmaker Claude Chabrol is born in Paris, France.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 June 1935
(+) Minimal Composer Terry Terrence Mitchell Riley is born in Colfax, California, USA.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 June 1936
(x) 27-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, is arrested at his parents' house in Stockholm, Sweden.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 June 1941
(+) Mass murderer Charles Whitman aka The Man on the Tower, is born in Lake Worth, Florida, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 June 1942
(+) Psychedelic Musician Arthur Brown originally Arthur Wilton, is born in Whitby, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 June 1949
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is born in Rheinberg, Germany.

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63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 June 1950
(+) Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is born in County Cork, Ireland.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 June 1961
(-) Millionaire George Washington Vanderbilt III commits suicide by leaping from his 10th floor suite at the age of 47 in San Francisco, Mark Hopkins Hotel, California, USA.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 June 1975
(x) 112 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, Kennedy Airport, New York, USA.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 June 1976
(x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Minnesota, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 June 1979
(-) The Steyaert family is shot dead by Freddy Horion aka Beatle, in Gent, St. Amandsberg, East Flanders, Belgium.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 June 1987
(-) Murderer Elliott Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
It took 35 minutes to insert a catheder into his vein.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 June 1993
(x) Professor David Gelernter is badly injured when opening a package sent by 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in New Haven, Yale University, Connecticut, USA.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 June 1994
(-)46-year-old 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 Washington, Fairchild Air Force Base, District Columbia, USA.
In an investigation the USAF stated that the crash was entirely attributable to Holland's personality and behaviour.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 June 1995
(x) 53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb threat to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 June 1995
(-) Julie and Mélissa Lejeune and Russo is abducted by Marc Dutroux at the age of 8 in Grâce-Hollogne, Liège, Belgium.
They were kept in a dungeon in his basement and died of starvation while Dutroux was in prison from later that year onwards.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 June 2002
(x) 218 Die in passenger train collision in Dodoma, Tanzania.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 June 2005
(x) 45-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Le Petit Bucher de Margarete" in Brugge, Belfort, East Flanders, Belgium.

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15 Years Ago the Lord Cut His Frames

119 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 June 1894
(+) Sexuologist Alfred Charles Kinsey is born in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

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119 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 June 1894
(+) Ex-King of England Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Edward VIII aka The Duke of Windsor, is born in Richmond, White Lodge, United Kingdom.

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116 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 June 1897
(+) Organiser of the Bayreuth Festspiele Winifred Wagner originally Winifred Williams, is born in Hastings, United Kingdom.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 June 1912
(+) Mathematician and cryptographer Alan Mathison Turing aka The Father of Computer Science, is born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom.

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86 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 June 1927
(+) Filmmaker Bob Robert Louis Fosse is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 June 1940
(+) Musician Stuart ‘Stu’ Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe aka The Fifth Beatle, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 June 1959
(-) Writer, poet, musician, actor and engineer Boris Vian aka Vernon Sullivan aka Bison Ravi aka Baron Visi aka Brisavion, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 39 in Paris, Cinema Marbeuf, France.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 June 1960
(-) Rapist and murderer Willar Phillips is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 June 1961
(-) Frank Beck is assaulted by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, in Langenberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He survived.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 June 1967
(+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Oliver Lacy is born in Wisconsin, USA.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 June 1968
(x) 71 Die in stampede at the stadium-entrance for the soccer-game Boca Juniors-Estudiantes in Argentina.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 June 1968
(x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from St. Jozef reformatory and rapes an unidentified woman in Mortsel, Antwerp, Belgium.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 June 1977
(-) Child murderer Jérôme Carrein is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Douai, France.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 June 1980
(-) Crown-prince Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash at the age of 34 in India.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 June 1981
(-) Actress Zarah Leander dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74 in Stockholm, Sweden.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 June 1985
(x) 329 Die in Air India Flight 182 Boeing 747-237B "Emperor Kanishka" explosion due to a terrorist bomb aboard in Cork, Ireland.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 June 1998
(-) Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, dies of pneumonia at the age of 68 in Vienna, Austria.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 June 2006
(-) TV-series-maker Aaron Spelling dies of a stroke at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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70 Years Ago He Wasn't Diggin' Yet

198 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 1815
(x) 45-year-old War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is banned to St. Helena in France.

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110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1903
(+) Bankrobber and outlaw John Herbert Dillinger is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

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110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1903
(-) Black Child-Killer George White is lynched by burning in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1906
(+) Filmmaker Billy Wilder is born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 June 1918
(x) 86 Die in Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck in Ivanhoe, Indiana, USA.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1924
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is arrested after a minor fight with Kurt Fromm in Hannover, Hauptbahnhof, Germany.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1928
(-) Murderers Jew Har, Shew Chin, B. W. L. Sam and Gee King Long are executed by hanging at the age of 31, 24, 28 and 31 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
They were executed for the murder of Tom King in Kingman on 20 october 1926.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1930
(+) Kidnap-victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr is born in Hopewell, New Jersey, USA.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1941
(x) Nazi Germany attacks the USSR in Operation Barbarossa.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1943
(+) Artist Gordon Matta-Clark is born in New York, New York, USA.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1949
(+) Actress Meryl Mary Louise Streep is born in Summit, New Jersey, USA.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1953
(+) Musician Cyndi Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1953
(x) Start of the trial against 55-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, in London, Old Bailey, Nr 1 Court, United Kingdom.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1954
(-) Honora Parker is beaten to death by Pauline Parker aka Heavenly Creature, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
16-year-old Pauline was involved in a lesbian relationship with 15-year-old Juliet Hulme.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1955
(+) Murderer David Lawson is born in North Carolina, USA.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 1961
(+) Murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is born in Missouri, USA.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1962
(x) 113 Die in Air France Boeing 707 crash in Guadeloupe.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1965
(-) Murderer James Douglas Latham is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1965
(-) Murderer George Ronald York is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.

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46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 1967
(-) Gabrielle Puetman is assaulted by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 10 in Grafenhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1969
(-) Actress Judy Garland originally Frances Ethel Gumm, dies of an incautious self-overdosage of Seconal at the age of 47 in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1973
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Portland, Oregon, USA.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 June 1974
(-) Roger Dickinson is found mutilated and strangled by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 18 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1977
(-) Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner dies of acute pancreatitis due to alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 24 in Bay Village, Ohio, USA.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1980
(x) 48-year-old Mass Murderer Alvin King enters the First Baptist Church with an M1 carabine, an automatic rifle, two revolvers and 240 rounds of ammunition. Within seconds he shot and killed 5 people, leaving 10 more seriously wounded in Dangerfield, Texas, USA.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1981
(x) 27-year-old IRA member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1983
(-) Troy Ward is abducted, molested and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1984
(-) Filmmaker Joseph Losey dies at the age of 75 in London, United Kingdom.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 June 1985
(-) Mark Wallace is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1987
(-) Actor Fred Astaire originally Fréderic Austerlitz, dies of pneumonia at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1993
(x) Geneticist Charles Epstein is badly injured when opening a package sent by 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Tiburon, University, California, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 2000
(-) Murderer Gary Graham aka Shaka Sankofa, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 2007
(-) Arte Povera Artist Luciano Fabro dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Milan, Italy.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 2007
(x) 47-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 Lausanne, Circuit, Switzerland.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 2010
(-) Murderer David Lagrue commits suicide by an overdose of medication in Evreux, France.
On 2 January 2007 he witnessed his cellmate Nicolas Cocaign kill and partly eat another cellmate in the prison of Rouen.

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3 Years Ago He Stood Trial for Eating His Lung Instead of His Heart

1011 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 June 1002
(+) 152nd Pope Leo IX originally Bruno, is born in Egisheim, Alsace, Germany.

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636 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 June 1377
(-) King of England Edward III dies of a stroke at the age of 64 in Sheen Palace, Richmond, United Kingdom.

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486 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 June 1527
(-) Political philosopher and poet Nicolo di Bernardo del Machiavelli dies at the age of 58 in San Casciano, Italy.

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122 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1891
(+) Engineer and inventor of concrete ceilings Piero Luigi Nervi is born in Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 June 1905
(+) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre is born in Paris, France.

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105 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1908
(-) Composer Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimsky-Korsakov dies of angina pectoris at the age of 64 in Lyubensk, Russia.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 June 1935
(+) Writer Françoise Sagan originally Françoise Quoirez, is born in Cajarc, Lot, France.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 June 1944
(+) Musician Ray Raymond Douglas Davies known from The Kinks, is born in Fortis Green, United Kingdom.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 June 1946
(-) Margery Gardner is beaten to death and mutilated by Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1953
(+) Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto is born in Karachi, Pakistan.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 June 1955
(+) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kühnen is born in Bonn, Germany.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1970
(-) First President of Indonesia Achmad Sukarno originally Kusno Sosrodihardjo, dies at the age of 69 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1970
(x) German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion members Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin fly to Beirut from Berlin, Schönefeld, Germany.
From Beirut they moved on via Syria to Amman in Jordan to get a terrorist training at the "El Fatah" camp.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 June 1975
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, marries 22-year-old Mickey in Ormond Beach, Prince of Peace Catholic Church , Florida, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 June 1979
(-) Ex-Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise dies of starvation and tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Kathmandu, Shanta Bawan Hospital, Nepal.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1981
(-) Ada Court is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 June 1981
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is arrested while giving a press-conference proclaiming his innocence in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 June 1982
(x) 27-year-old Attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan, John Warnock Jr. Hinckley aka Jodie Foster’s Lover Boy, is found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 June 1990
(-) Larry Parham is attacked by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 30 in New York, Central Park, New York, USA.
He survived.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 June 1995
(-) Murderer Karl Hammond is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 June 2003
(-) Writer Leon Uris dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Long Island, New York, USA.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 June 2010
(x) Start of the trial against 39-year-old Cannibal Nicolas Cocaign for killing his 41-year-old cellmate Thierry Baudry, and eating part of his lung, which he presumed to be his heart in Rouen, France.

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15 Years Ago He Jumped the Other Wall

1476 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 June 537
(-) Pope Silverius dies in Palmarola, Italy.

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194 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 June 1819
(+) Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Germany.

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130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1883
(+) Composer Giannotto Bastianelli is born in Florence, Italy.

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126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1887
(+) Artist Kurt Schwitters is born in Hannover, Germany.

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120 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1893
(x) 32-year-old Presumed hatchet murderess Lizzie Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in Bedford, Massachussets, USA.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1899
(+) Hero of the French Resistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier, is born in Béziers, France.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1900
(-) German ambassador in China Klemens August Freiherr von Ketteler is shot dead in the street by an Imperial Guards Brigade at the age of 46 in Beijing, Xizongbu Hutong, China.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 June 1909
(+) Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobarth, Tasmania.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 June 1912
(-) Anarchist feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 45 in Chicago, St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Illinois, USA.

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94 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1919
(x) 150 Die in Mayaguez theatre fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1924
(-) Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1925
(+) Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, USA.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1928
(+) Politician Jean-Marie Le Pen is born in Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany, France.

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84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 June 1929
(-) Robert Warne is beaten to death by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, in Leavenworth prison, USA.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1930
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in Leavenworth prison, USA.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1934
(+) Actor Martin Landau is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1934
(x) The body of Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Eberswald, Germany.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1942
(+) Beach Boy Brian Douglas Wilson is born in Hawthorne, California, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1942
(-) Dr. Braunberger is presumably killed by by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, 21 rue Lesueur, France.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1947
(-) Racketeer Bugsy Benjamin Siegel has his eyes blown out and vertebrae smashed by members of the Syndicate at the age of 41 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1949
(+) Musician Lionel Brockman Jr Richie is born in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1962
(-) Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Kaapstad, South Africa.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1969
(-) Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 28 in Vienna, Austria.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1972
(x) Over 200 Die in shooting in Argentina.
It occured at the arrival of Juan Peron.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 June 1976
(x) 32-year-old Girlfriend of Spree Killer Charles Starkweather, Caril Ann Fugate is paroled from Nebraska Correctional Center for Women after serving 18 years in York, Nebraska, USA.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1977
(x) 22-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, tries to commit suicide by putting a hose from the exhaust into his car in Hawaï, USA.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1981
(-) James Churchill is stabbed to death by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 38 in Rock Island, the Mississippi River banks, Illinois, USA.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1988
(x) Start of the trial against 44-year-old Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, City Hall, Room 653, Pennsylvania, USA.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1989
(-) Aljoscha Makarow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Koltschugino, Wladimir, Russia.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1995
(-) Murderer Ronald Allridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1995
(-) Murderer John Jr. Fearance is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1995
(-) Philosopher Emil Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, France.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1998
(-) Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Bavaria, Germany.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 2006
(-) Triple murderer Lamont Reese is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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60 Years Ago Two More Electric Shocks Were Applied Before the Smoke Rose from her Head in the Chamber

390 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 June 1623
(+) Mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal is born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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314 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1699
(-) Murderess Angélique Tinquet is executed by beheading in Paris, Place de Grève, France.
The executioner, Charles Sanson, missed twice because he was so enraved by her beauty.

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122 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1891
(+) Collage artist John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, is born in Berlin, Germany.

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117 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1896
(+) Governor of East-Prussia and War criminal Erich Koch is born in Elberfeld, Germany.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 June 1906
(+) SS-Colonel and inventor of the “Black Raven” mobile gas chambers Walter Rauff is born in Köthen, Saxony, Germany.

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93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 June 1920
(+) Murderer Manuel E. Silvas is born in Arizona, USA.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 June 1926
(+) Anarchist editor and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is born in Milan, Italy.

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81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 June 1932
(+) Actress Pier Angeli originally Anna Maria Pierangeli, is born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1936
(-) Cop Killer and outlaw Arthur Gooch is executed by hanging in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
300 people watched the execution.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1936
(x) The Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army is declared unlawful in Ireland.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1936
(-) Elon Petterson is shot dead by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor, at the age of 41 in Sala, Sweden.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 June 1945
(x) 40-year-old Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is infected with malaria, the infected tissue is later removed and implanted on Dave Siegal and Johnnie Raczynski in order to find a cure. in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 June 1947
(+) Writer Salman Rushdie is born in Bombay, India.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 June 1948
(+) Singer songwriter Nick Nicholas Rodney Drake is born in Rangoon, Burma.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 June 1949
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Sigrid Sternebeck is born in Bad Pyrmont, Germany.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 June 1951
(+) al-Qaeda leader and Emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri is born in Caïro, Maadi, Egypt.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1953
(-) American Communists and Soviet spies Ethel Greenglass and Julius Rosenberg are executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 and 35 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 June 1963
(+) Murder contractor Luis Ramirez is born in Texas, USA.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1970
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is paroled from the Iowa Men’s Reformatory where he was sent on a sodomy-conviction in Anamosa, Iowa, USA.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 June 1970
(x) 31-year-old Artist Günter Brus the Viennese Actionist, performs his last aktion, "Zerreißprobe" in München, Aktionsraum 1, Germany.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 June 1971
(-) Betty Cloer is presumably beaten and shot dead by Zodiac at the age of 21 in San Francisco, California, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 June 1979
(x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "A Trip to Mexico" in Gent, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, East Flanders, Belgium.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 June 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Interruption - 2" in Paris, Galerie Diagonal, France.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 June 1982
(-) Antonella Migliorini is shot dead by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 22 in Florence, Montespertoli, Italy.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 June 1993
(-) Writer Sir William Gerald Golding known for “Lord of the Flies”, dies of heart failure at the age of 81 in Perranarworthal, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 June 1996
(-) Child Killer Daren L. Bolton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

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12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 June 2001
(-) Triple murderer Juan Raul Garza is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.

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85 Years Ago His Rescue Mission Needed a Rescue Mission

207 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 June 1806
(+) Poet Charlotte Stieglitz is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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116 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 June 1897
(-) Pierre Laurent is murdered by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 13 in France.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 June 1909
(-) Murderer Adolf N. Nordstrom is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Oregon, USA.

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85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 June 1928
(-) Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen disappears while flying on a rescue mission for crew members of the Italia aircraft at the age of 55 in Bjornoya, Norway.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 June 1936
(-) Writer Maxim Alexey Maksimowitsch Peshkow Gorky dies of influenza at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.
He was probably killed by kampher-injections and digitaline-strychnine-poisoning.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 June 1942
(+) Beatle Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 June 1948
(+) Double murderer John Noland is born in North Carolina, USA.

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61 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 June 1952
(+) Actress, filmmaker and philantropist Isabella Fiorelle Elettra Giovanna Rosselini is born in Rome, Italy.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 June 1953
(x) 129 Die in US Air Force C-124 crash in Tokyo, Japan.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 June 1963
(-) Actor Pedro Gregorio Hastings Armendariz commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 51 in Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Centre, California, USA.
He learned he had terminal cancer in his hips.

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47 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 June 1966
(-) Peter Frase is tortured by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 14 in Langenberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He survived and led to the arrest of Bartsch.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 June 1971
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, suffers a mild heart attack in his prison cell in Yuba City, California, USA.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 June 1972
(x) 118 Die in British European Airways Flight 548 Trident 1C crash due to pilot error in Staines, United Kingdom.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 June 1978
(-) Stephen Hicks is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Bath, 4480 West Bath Road, Ohio, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 June 1986
(-) Murderer Kenneth Brock is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 June 1990
(-) Mass Murderer James Edward Pough aka Pop, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 42 in Jacksonville, 7870 Baymeadows Way, Florida, USA.
Minutes before he walked into a General Motors Acceptance Corporation car loan office to buy a new car, but decided to shoot 14 people, leaving 9 dead. The day before he shot and killed prostitute Doretta Drake and her pimp Louis Carl Bacon.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 June 1991
(-) Murderer Jerry Joe Bird is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 June 1993
(x) 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails 2 bombs, to Geneticist Charles Epstein of University of California, Sacramento, and Professor David Gelernter of Yale University, New Haven in Sacramento, California, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 June 1997
(-) Murderer Irineo Tristan Montona is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 June 1998
(-) Rampage Killer Dennis Wayne Eaton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Virginia, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 June 2003
(-) Murderer Ernest Martin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 June 2010
(-) Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 49 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Three days earlier Gardner ate a final meal of steak, lobster, apple pie, vanilla ice cream and 7-Up, before beginning a 48-hour fast.

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70 Years Ago He Was Out There Sunbathing in the Nude

131 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1882
(+) Composer Igor Fyodorowitsch Strawinsky is born in Oraniënbaum, Lomonosov, Russia.

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124 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1889
(+) Murderess Eva Coo originally Eva Curry aka Madame, is born in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.

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115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 June 1898
(+) Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher is born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 June 1900
(+) Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is born in Wegeleben, Halberstadt, Germany.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1924
(+) Serial Killer Archibald Thomson Hall aka Roy Fontaine aka The Monster Butler, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1933
(-) Raymond Caffrey is shot dead in an ambush by Charles Floyd aka Pretty Boy, at the age of 31 in Kansas City, USA.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1939
(-) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 31 in Versailles, outside Prison Saint-Pierre, rue Georges Clémenceau, France.
It was the last public execution and the last one before the outbreak of the war.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1940
(x) 84-year-old Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain orders all Frenchmen to lay down their arms against Nazi Germany in Paris, France.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 June 1943
(+) Musician Barry Manilow originally Barry Alan Pincus, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 June 1949
(+) Musician Snakefinger originally Philip Charles Lithman, is born in London, United Kingdom.

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61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1952
(+) Artist John Duncan is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1952
(-) Rocket propulsion researcher and Magick-pupil of Aleister Crowley John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons is blown apart by an explosion of fulminate of mercury in his garage laboratory at the age of 37 in Pasadena, California, USA.
Later he was credited with the creation of solid rocket fuel, a crater on the moon is named after him. Hearing about her son's death, Parsons' mother committed suicide.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 June 1959
(-) Elizabeth Figg aka Ann Philips, is found naked and dead by Jack the Stripper at the age of 21 in London, Thames Banks, United Kingdom.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 June 1959
(-) Frieda Tesmer is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 24 in Rheinhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1963
(-) Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer dies of a heart attack in prison at the age of 51 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1972
(x) 107 Die in train collision in a tunnel near Soissons, France.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1972
(x) 7 burglars are arrested in the Watergate-building, headquarters of the American Democratic Party in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1974
(x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Gulf Oil headquarters to protest the company's actions in Angola and Vietnam in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1986
(-) Todd Stoops is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 21 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 June 1990
(-) Fashion model and designer Henry Palmira aka Pal, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1997
(-) Kidnapper and multiple murderer Eddie J. Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 June 1999
(-) Double murderer Michael Kent Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 June 1999
(-) Murderer Joseph S. Faulder is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 2008
(-) Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 2008
(-) Double murderer Yoshio Yamasaki is executed by hanging at the age of 73 in Osaka, Japan.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 2008
(-) Murderer Shinji Mutsuda is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

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