(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.
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.
121 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1892
(+) Writer Pearl S. (Sydenstricker) Comfort Buck is born in Hilsboro, West Virginia, USA.
115 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1898
(+) Airplane designer and pioneer Wilhelm Emil Messerschmidt is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 June 1904
(+) Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, is born in Ruzomberok, Hungary.
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.
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.
90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 1923
(+) Murderess Barbara Graham originally Barbara Eilaine Wood aka Bloody Babs, is born in Oakland, California, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1925
(+) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev is born in Chelistshevo, Vologda Oblast, USSR.
87 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 June 1926
(-) Murderess Louise Calvert is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
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.
82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1931
(+) Angry Young Writer Colin Henry Wilson is born in Leicester, United Kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(x) 46-year-old 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin, Germany.
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.
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.
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.
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.
23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 1990
(-) Murderer James Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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.
15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 June 1998
(-) Multiple murderer Leopoldo Narvaiz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 June 2001
(-) Murderer Miguel Richardson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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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