(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.
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.
209 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 June 1804
(+) Priest and botanist Stephan L. Endlicher is born in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.
125 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 June 1888
(+) Furniture Designer and Architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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.
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.
104 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 June 1909
(+) Engineer of the first British atomic bomb William George Penney is born in Gibraltar, United Kingdom.
83 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 June 1930
(+) Filmmaker Claude Chabrol is born in Paris, France.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 June 1935
(+) Minimal Composer Terry Terrence Mitchell Riley is born in Colfax, California, USA.
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.
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.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 June 1942
(+) Psychedelic Musician Arthur Brown originally Arthur Wilton, is born in Whitby, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 June 1949
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is born in Rheinberg, Germany.
63 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 June 1950
(+) Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is born in County Cork, Ireland.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 June 2002
(x) 218 Die in passenger train collision in Dodoma, Tanzania.
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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