(x) Port Royal disappears into the sea in just three minutes in Jamaïca.
235 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 June 1778
(+) Men’s fashion pioneer Beau George Bryan Brummel is born in London, United Kingdom.
165 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 June 1848
(+) Artist Paul Gauguin is born in Paris, France.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 June 1904
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Sonnenfeld is born in Hannover, Germany.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 June 1917
(+) Actor Dean Martin originally Dino Crocetti aka The King of Cool, is born in Steubenville, Ohio, USA.
79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 June 1934
(+) Murderer Robert Dwight Fenton is born in Arizona, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 June 1937
(-) Actress and Sex-Queen Jean Harlow aka The Blonde Bombshell, dies of uremic poisoning due to abortion complications at the age of 26 in Hollywood, California, USA.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 June 1940
(+) Musician Tom Jones originally Thomas Woodward, is born in Pontypridd, Trefforest, 57 Kingsland Terrace, Wales, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 June 1946
(+) Murderer Jimmie Wayne Jeffers is born in Arizona, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 June 1951
(-) Nazi Administrator of Concentration Camps Oswald Pohl is executed by hanging at the age of 58 in Landsberg-am-Lech, Germany.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 June 1954
(-) Mathematician and cryptographer Alan Mathison Turing aka The Father of Computer Science, commits suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide at the age of 41 in Hollymeade, Wilmslow, United Kingdom.
In 1952, Turing was convicted of acts of gross indecency after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo hormone therapy. The Apple logo is an homage to him.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 June 1957
(+) Murderer Kermit Smith is born in North Carolina, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 June 1958
(+) Musician Prince originally Prince Rogers Nelson, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 June 1965
(x) 108 Die in natural gas explosion in Kakanj, Yugoslavia.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 June 1965
(+) Artist Damien Hirst is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 June 1966
(-) Artist Jean / Hans Arp dies at the age of 78 in Basel, Switzerland.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 June 1967
(x) 22-year-old Frances Shea, bride of 33-year-old Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, commits suicide by barbiturate-overdose in London, United Kingdom.
45 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 June 1968
(-) Leader of the Revolutionary Euskadi ta Askatasuna Txabi Etxebarrieta aka Xabier Etxebarrieta Ortiz, becomes the first ETA member killed in action by the Guardia Civil at the age of 23 in Tolosa, Spain.
(x) Viennese Aktionists Gunter Brüs, Otto Mühl, Peter Weibel and Oswald Wiener perform "Kunst und Revolution" in Vienna, Hochschule, Austria.
Several of them are arrested and charged with obscenity.
41 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 June 1972
(x) 31-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Gudrun Ensslin is arrested in Hamburg, Jungfernstieg, Germany.
A sales clerk had noticed her concealed guns in the clothing boutique "Linette".
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 June 1977
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, opens a window of the Law Library, drops 30 feet and escapes in Aspen, Colorado, USA.
He will be recaptured 8 days later.
33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 June 1980
(-) Writer Henry Valentine Miller dies at the age of 88 in Pacific Palisades, 444 Ocampo Drive, California, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 June 1985
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Berlin, Germany.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 June 1989
(x) 168 Die in Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crash in Paramaribo Airport, Suriname.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 June 1993
(-) Andrew Collier is strangled by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.
His pet cat is also strangled.
12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 June 2001
(-) Falun Gong member Li Yinping dies of severe torture by police officers in Sunji, China.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 June 2005
(-) Murderer Alexander Rey Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 June 2006
(-) al-Qaeda Leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi originally Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh aka the Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers, is killed in a bomb attack by US troops at the age of 39 in Baquba, Iraq.
4 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 June 2009
(-) Musician Hugh Colin Hopper dies of leukaemia at the age of 64 in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
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