(-) Military leader Alexander the Great dies of a fever attack due to poisoning at the age of 33 in Babylon.
321 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 June 1692
(-) Supposed witch Bridget Bishop is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Salem, Oregon, USA.
It was the first execution in the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
194 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1819
(+) Artist Gustave Courbet is born in Ornans, France.
177 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 June 1836
(-) Physicist André-Marie Ampère dies at the age of 61 in Marseille, France.
127 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1886
(x) 40-year-old The Mad King of Bavaria, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II is officially declared incapable of executing his governmental powers due to insanity in Neuschwanstein, Germany.
117 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 June 1896
(-) Murderess of over 50 infants Amelia Elisabeth Dyer is executed by hanging at the age of 67 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 June 1910
(+) Blues music pioneer Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf, is born in White Station, Mississippi, USA.
98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1915
(+) Writer Saul Bellow originally Solomon Bellows, is born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 June 1922
(+) Actress Judy Garland originally Frances Ethel Gumm, is born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA.
90 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 June 1923
(+) Media tycoon Robert Maxwell originally Jan Ludvik Hoch aka Captain Bob, is born in Slatina-Doly, Ukraine.
87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1926
(-) Architect Antonio Gaudi dies at the age of 74 in Barcelona, Spain.
Taking a scroll in the city, he was driven over by a streetcar.
87 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1926
(-) Lilian St. Mary is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 63 in San Francisco, California, USA.
86 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 June 1927
(-) Murderer John Butchek is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Oregon, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 June 1933
(+) Attorney Francis Lee Bailey is born in Waltham, Massachussets, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 June 1941
(+) Lead Singer of the Shirelles Shirley Owens is born in Henderson, North Carolina, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 June 1944
(x) Over 700 are killed in a Nazi-massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 June 1946
(-) First Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World Jack John Arthur Johnson aka ‘Li’l Artha aka The Galveston Giant, dies in a car crash at the age of 68 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 June 1949
(-) Writer Sigrid Undset dies at the age of 67 in Lillehammer, Norway.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 June 1957
(-) Sex-Killer Clarence Gordon Van Buuren is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Praetoria Prison, South Africa.
46 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 June 1967
(-) Actor Spencer Bonaventure Tracy dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 June 1975
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for armed assault in Portland, Oregon, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 June 1980
(x) 38-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to United Airlines President Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
Wood is injured when opening the package.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 June 1980
(-) Wilhelm Deck is stabbed to death by Robert Stullgens at the age of 30 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1982
(-) Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder dies of heart failure resulting from a lethal interaction between sleeping pills and cocaine at the age of 37 in München, Bavaria, Germany.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1982
(-) Muse of Salvador Dali, Gala originally Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova, dies at the age of 87 in Port Lligat, Catalonia, Spain.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 June 1982
(-) Shirelle Addie ‘Micki’ Harris dies of a heart attack after a live show at the age of 42 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(x) 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Carl Großmann" in Antwerpen, Club Moral, Antwerp, Belgium.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 June 1984
(x) Serial Killer Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in France.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 June 1984
(-) An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.
25 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 June 1988
(-) Child molester and serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 June 1994
(-) Artist Edward Kienholz dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Hope, Idaho, USA.
He will be buried in his car, a Packard, nearby his house.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 June 1998
(x) 19-year-old Mass Murderer Sa'eed Amin Qashash kills 12 members of his family ‘because they threatened to kick him out of the house if he failed to pass his exams this year’ in Amman, Bnyat, Jordan.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 June 1998
(x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Vadim Yershov is sentenced to death for killing 19 people in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia.
12 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 June 2001
(-) Iranian Princess Leila Pahlavi commits suicide by an overdose of quinalbarbitone and cocaine at the age of 31 in London, Leonard Hotel, United Kingdom.
Suffering from anorexia nervosa, chronic low self-esteem, and severe depression, she spent much of her last year staying at the Leonard Hotel paying £450 a night for her favourite suite.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 June 2003
(-) Musician Ray Charles originally Robinson aka Brother Ray, dies of a liver disease at the age of 72 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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