Saturday, June 1, 2013

60 Years Ago the Son of Sam was Just a Little Brat

217 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 June 1796
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Tennessee becomes the 16th of the United States in Tennessee, USA.

212 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 1801
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Mormon prophet Brigam Young aka The American Moses, is born in Whitingham, Vermont, USA.

168 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 June 1845
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254th Pope Gregorius XVI originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro, dies at the age of 79 in Rome, Italy.

156 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 1857
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"Les Fleurs du Mal" by 36-year-old Writer Charles Pierre Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, is first published in Paris, France.
The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire for insult to public decency.

145 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 1868
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15th president of the USA James Buchanan dies at the age of 77 in Lancaster, Wheatland, Pennsylvania, USA.

127 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 June 1886
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Multiple poisoness Daisy Louisa De Melker Originally Daisy Hancorn-Smith, is born in Seven Fountains, Cape Province, South Africa.

105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 1908
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Alphonse Steinheil is murdered by Jeanne Steinheil-Japy in France.

94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 June 1919
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The body of 48-year-old Founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg is found in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, Germany.
She had been shot dead six months earlier.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 June 1926
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Actress Marilyn Monroe originally Norma Jean Mortenson Baker, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 June 1926
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Minnie May is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 53 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 June 1927
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Presumed hatchet murderess Lizzie Andrew Borden dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in Fall River, Massachussets, USA.

79 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 June 1934
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Musician Pat charles Eugene Boone is born in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 June 1937
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FBI-agent Truett Rowe is murdered by George Osborne at the age of 33 in Gallup, New Mexico, USA.

74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 June 1939
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99 Die in Thetis Submarine shipwreck in the Irish Sea.

60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 1953
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Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is born in the Bronx, New York, USA.
His was adopted by a jewish family a few days after birth, his original name would have been Richard Falco.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 June 1956
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236 Die in coal-mine explosion in Kyusho, Japan.

54 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 1959
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Rapist and murderer John Frazier is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 June 1960
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Younger sister of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, Paula Hitler dies at the age of 64 in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 June 1965
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24-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, is arrested after robbing a handbag and killing Hermann Thieme in Nürnberg, Kaufhaus Brenninkmeyer, Bavaria, Germany.

41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 June 1972
(x) Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe
and Holger Meins, members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion are arrested in Frankfurt-am-Main, Hofeckweg, Germany.
In the siege and shootout, Baader is shot in the leg.

39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 June 1974
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Brenda Ball is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 22 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 June 1978
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An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 20 in Birmingham, Handsworth, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 June 1980
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Ed Healy is handcuffed and severely beaten up by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
He survived.

28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 June 1985
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Mabel Bell is attacked by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, Monrovia, California, USA.
Florence Lang survived.

24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 June 1989
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63-year-old Mass murderer John Emil List is arrested for the murders of his mother, wife and three children 18 years earlier in Midlothian, Virginia, USA.
He had been living under a new identity all the time.

18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 June 1995
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Murderer Fletcher Mann is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 June 1999
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Murderer William Little is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 June 2001
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After indulging in a drinking binge, 29-year-old Crown Prince and mass murderer Bir Bikram Shah Dipendra kills his father King Birendra, his mother, brother, sister and five other family members before shooting himself in the head in Kathmandu, Narayanhity Royal Palace, Nepal.
He was in a coma for three days and was proclaimed King in his hospital bed.

6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 June 2007
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79-year-old Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is released from prison after serving eight of his 10 to 25 sentence in Michigan, USA.

5 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 June 2008
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Fashion designer Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent dies of brain cancer at the age of 71 in Paris, France.

4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 June 2009
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228 Die in Air France Flight 447 Airbus A330-200 crash in the Atlantic Ocean.

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