(+) Composer Igor Fyodorowitsch Strawinsky is born in Oraniënbaum, Lomonosov, Russia.
124 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1889
(+) Murderess Eva Coo originally Eva Curry aka Madame, is born in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.
115 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 June 1898
(+) Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher is born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
113 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 June 1900
(+) Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is born in Wegeleben, Halberstadt, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1924
(+) Serial Killer Archibald Thomson Hall aka Roy Fontaine aka The Monster Butler, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
80 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1933
(-) Raymond Caffrey is shot dead in an ambush by Charles Floyd aka Pretty Boy, at the age of 31 in Kansas City, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1939
(-) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 31 in Versailles, outside Prison Saint-Pierre, rue Georges Clémenceau, France.
It was the last public execution and the last one before the outbreak of the war.
73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1940
(x) 84-year-old Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain orders all Frenchmen to lay down their arms against Nazi Germany in Paris, France.
(+) Musician Barry Manilow originally Barry Alan Pincus, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 June 1949
(+) Musician Snakefinger originally Philip Charles Lithman, is born in London, United Kingdom.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1952
(+) Artist John Duncan is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1952
(-) Rocket propulsion researcher and Magick-pupil of Aleister Crowley John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons is blown apart by an explosion of fulminate of mercury in his garage laboratory at the age of 37 in Pasadena, California, USA.
Later he was credited with the creation of solid rocket fuel, a crater on the moon is named after him. Hearing about her son's death, Parsons' mother committed suicide.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 June 1959
(-) Elizabeth Figg aka Ann Philips, is found naked and dead by Jack the Stripper at the age of 21 in London, Thames Banks, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 June 1959
(-) Frieda Tesmer is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 24 in Rheinhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1963
(-) Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer dies of a heart attack in prison at the age of 51 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1972
(x) 107 Die in train collision in a tunnel near Soissons, France.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 June 1972
(x) 7 burglars are arrested in the Watergate-building, headquarters of the American Democratic Party in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 June 1974
(x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Gulf Oil headquarters to protest the company's actions in Angola and Vietnam in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1986
(-) Todd Stoops is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 21 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 June 1990
(-) Fashion model and designer Henry Palmira aka Pal, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 1997
(-) Kidnapper and multiple murderer Eddie J. Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 June 1999
(-) Double murderer Michael Kent Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 June 1999
(-) Murderer Joseph S. Faulder is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 2008
(-) Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 2008
(-) Double murderer Yoshio Yamasaki is executed by hanging at the age of 73 in Osaka, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 June 2008
(-) Murderer Shinji Mutsuda is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
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