198 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 1815
(x) 45-year-old War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is banned to St. Helena in France.
110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1903
(+) Bankrobber and outlaw John Herbert Dillinger is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1903
(-) Black Child-Killer George White is lynched by burning in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1906
(+) Filmmaker Billy Wilder is born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria.
95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 June 1918
(x) 86 Die in Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck in Ivanhoe, Indiana, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1924
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is arrested after a minor fight with Kurt Fromm in Hannover, Hauptbahnhof, Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1928
(-) Murderers Jew Har, Shew Chin, B. W. L. Sam and Gee King Long are executed by hanging at the age of 31, 24, 28 and 31 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
They were executed for the murder of Tom King in Kingman on 20 october 1926.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1930
(+) Kidnap-victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr is born in Hopewell, New Jersey, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1941
(x) Nazi Germany attacks the USSR in Operation Barbarossa.
70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1943
(+) Artist Gordon Matta-Clark is born in New York, New York, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1949
(+) Actress Meryl Mary Louise Streep is born in Summit, New Jersey, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1953
(+) Musician Cyndi Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1953
(x) Start of the trial against 55-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, in London, Old Bailey, Nr 1 Court, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1954
(-) Honora Parker is beaten to death by Pauline Parker aka Heavenly Creature, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
16-year-old Pauline was involved in a lesbian relationship with 15-year-old Juliet Hulme.
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1955
(+) Murderer David Lawson is born in North Carolina, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 1961
(+) Murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is born in Missouri, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1962
(x) 113 Die in Air France Boeing 707 crash in Guadeloupe.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1965
(-) Murderer James Douglas Latham is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1965
(-) Murderer George Ronald York is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 1967
(-) Gabrielle Puetman is assaulted by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 10 in Grafenhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1969
(-) Actress Judy Garland originally Frances Ethel Gumm, dies of an incautious self-overdosage of Seconal at the age of 47 in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1973
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Portland, Oregon, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 June 1974
(-) Roger Dickinson is found mutilated and strangled by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 18 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1977
(-) Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner dies of acute pancreatitis due to alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 24 in Bay Village, Ohio, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 June 1980
(x) 48-year-old Mass Murderer Alvin King enters the First Baptist Church with an M1 carabine, an automatic rifle, two revolvers and 240 rounds of ammunition. Within seconds he shot and killed 5 people, leaving 10 more seriously wounded in Dangerfield, Texas, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1981
(x) 27-year-old IRA member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 June 1983
(-) Troy Ward is abducted, molested and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 1984
(-) Filmmaker Joseph Losey dies at the age of 75 in London, United Kingdom.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 June 1985
(-) Mark Wallace is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 June 1987
(-) Actor Fred Astaire originally Fréderic Austerlitz, dies of pneumonia at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 1993
(x) Geneticist Charles Epstein is badly injured when opening a package sent by 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Tiburon, University, California, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 June 2000
(-) Murderer Gary Graham aka Shaka Sankofa, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 2007
(-) Arte Povera Artist Luciano Fabro dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Milan, Italy.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 June 2007
(x) 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "La Rencontre Fortuite sur une Œuvre de Donald Judd d'une Montagne de Sable et d'un Lac" in Lausanne, Circuit, Switzerland.
3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 June 2010
(-) Murderer David Lagrue commits suicide by an overdose of medication in Evreux, France.
On 2 January 2007 he witnessed his cellmate Nicolas Cocaign kill and partly eat another cellmate in the prison of Rouen.
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