(x) 17-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his first wife Catherine of Aragon in London, United Kingdom.
She was his brother's widow.
237 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 June 1776
(+) Romantic painter John Constable is born in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
149 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1864
(+) Composer Richard Georg Strauss is born in München, Germany.
125 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 June 1888
(+) Anarchist and supposed murderer Bartolomeo Vanzetti is born in Villafalletto, Cuneo, Italy.
115 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1898
(x) 47-year-old Inventor and founder of the Berliner Gramophone Company Emil Berliner makes the first wax-record, a precursor of the single and lp-records in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 June 1901
(x) 7 sheep are found to be horribly butchered by 29-year-old Serial Killer Ludwig Tessnow in a field in Gohren, Germany.
110 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1903
(-) King of Servia Alexander I Obrenovic is shot and stabbed to death at the age of 26 in Belgrade’s Royal Palace, Yugoslavia.
His wife and 20 members of his entourage are also killed by a mob of soldiers and civilians headed by the anti-monarchist colonel Dragutin Dimitriljevic Apis. Their bodies are thrown out of the windows.
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 June 1905
(+) Murderer Richard Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 June 1922
(+) Mass-Murderer Walter Seifert aka The New Hitler, is born in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 June 1928
(+) Queen of Belgium Fabiola originally Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón, is born in Madrid, Spain.
78 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 June 1935
(+) Actor Gene Wilder originally Jerome Silberman, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1936
(x) 30-year-old Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes hits and kills pedestrian Gabriel Meyer while driving on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He was arrested for manslaughter but released without charge.
73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 June 1940
(+) Double murderer Michael Kent Poland is born in Arizona, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 June 1945
(-) Nazi Doctor in Buchenwald and typhoid-expert Erwin Ding-Schuler commits suicide by hanging at the age of 32 in Freising, Germany.
59 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 June 1954
(-) Wife-Murderer Edward G. Grammer is executed by hanging in Maryland, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1955
(x) 82 Die in car-crash during the 24-hour race in Le Mans, France.
One of the race-cars drove into the crowd.
58 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1955
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte is sentenced to death at the age of 22 for killing his aunt in Belgium.
(-) Vietnamese Monk Bodhisattva Thich Quang Duc originally Lam Van Tuc, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 66 in Saigon, Vietnam.
It was a protest against against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem administration
49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1964
(-) Mass-Murderer Walter Seifert aka The New Hitler, commits suicide by poisoning by E605 at the age of 42 in Köln, Volkshofen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He attacked a school with a flamethrower, killing 2 teachers at the spot, 8 children died during the following days.
40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 June 1973
(-) William Lawrence is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.
Wayne Henley and David Owens joined Corll in the event.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 June 1974
(-) Georgann Hawkins is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Washington, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1977
(x) 49-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, escapes from prison in Tennessee, USA.
He is caught after 2 days.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 June 1979
(-) Actor John Wayne originally Marion Michael Morrison, dies of lung cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 June 1980
(+) Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain aka The Dingo Baby, is born in Mount Isa, Australia.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 June 1980
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is arrested whilst sodimizing 15-year-old Harold T. in his van in Hollywood, Santa Monica Boulevard, California, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1981
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Beauvais, Court d’Assizes d’Oise, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1981
(-) Renée Hartevelt is shot dead, cut to pieces and eaten as an expression of his eternal love by Isseï Sagawa aka The Loving Cannibal, at the age of 25 in Paris, Rue Erlanger 10, France.
32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1981
(x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs as 'David Mark Chapman', murderer of John Lennon in Antwerpen, Pannenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium.
31 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 June 1982
(-) Brenda Broadway is sexually assaulted and stabbed to death by Michael Sharp at the age of 31 in Kermit, Texas, USA.
14-year-old Selena Broadway was also assaulted, but managed to escape into the desert, naked and her arms tied behind her back.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1983
(x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, is arrested in Stoneburg, Texas, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 June 1985
(-) Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, dies of pneumonia after 10 years in a coma due to an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol at the age of 31 in Morris Township, New Jersey, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 June 1994
(x) 7 Die in a shootout by a 24-year-old army-officer outside a restaurant in Falun, Sweden.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 June 1997
(-) Murderer Earl Behringer is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 June 1998
(-) Double murderer Clifford Bogess is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 June 2001
(-) Patriot Movement member Timothy McVeigh aka The Oklahoma Bomber, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 June 2003
(-) Murderer Kia Levoy Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 June 2010
(-) Artist Sigmar Polke dies of cancer at the age of 69 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
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