(+) Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway.
164 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 June 1849
(-) 11th president of the USA James Knox Polk dies of cholera at the age of 53 in Nashville, Polk Place, Tennessee, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 June 1904
(x) Over 1000 Die in General Slocum steamer fire in Manhattan, East River, New York, USA.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 June 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Ernst Spiecker is born in Hannover, Germany.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 June 1906
(+) Rexist and Belgian SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Degrelle is born in Bouillon, Belgium.
99 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 June 1914
(+) Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov is born in Stavropol, Russia.
84 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 June 1929
(+) Filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis aka The Godfather of Gore, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
75 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 June 1938
(-) Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner commits suicide due to distress after the destruction of approximately 600 of his works by the Nazis because of 'degeneration' at the age of 58 in Davos, Switzerland.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 June 1940
(x) 49-year-old Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond marries his secretary Anne Wilbraham in London, United Kingdom.
70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 June 1943
(+) Musician Johnny Hallyday originally Jean-Philippe Smet, is born in Paris, Cité Malesherbes, France.
(+) Writer, call girl and madam Xaviera Hollander aka The Happy Hooker originally Vera de Vries, is born in Soerabaja, Indonesia.
47 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 June 1966
(-) Maria G. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 55 in Zagorze, Poland.
She survived.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 June 1967
(-) Zofia K. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 40 in Grodziec, Poland.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 June 1970
(-) Unidentified woman is assaulted by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 22 in Soest, Jakob Notenwal, Germany.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 June 1972
(x) 37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is arrested in Hannover, Langenhagen, Walsroder Strasse, Germany.
To make sure they have captured the feared terrorist they make an X-ray of her head, revealing a metal clip that was left behind during a brain-operation 10 years earlier.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 June 1973
(-) Raymond Blackburn is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 20 in Houston, Pasadena, Texas, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 June 1974
(-) Unidentified boy is abducted and sexually assaulted by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 15 in Limoges, France.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 June 1974
(x) Peter Paul Rubens' "Anbetung der Weisen" is carved with the IRA initials by persons unknown in Cambridge, King's College Chapel, United Kingdom.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 June 1975
(x) 28-year-old Manson Family member Tex Charles Denton Watson is born again and baptized by a student chaplain in a large plastic laundry cart outside the prison chapel in Folsom Prison, California, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 June 1982
(-) Debra Smith Taylor is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 23 in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 June 1983
(-) 2 unidentified girls is abducted and sexually assaulted by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, in Boynton City, Beach Park, Florida, USA.
28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 June 1985
(x) Artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn 's "Danaë" is attacked with sulfuric acid and a knife by an unidentified man later judged insane in St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum, Russia.
23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 June 1990
(x) 43-year-old SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ralf Baptist Friedrich is arrested in Schwedt/Oder, Germany.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 June 1994
(-) Murderer David Lawson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in North Carolina, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 June 1996
(-) Musician Ella Jane Fitzgerald aka The First Lady of Song, dies of diabetes at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 June 1998
(-) Murderer Johnny Pyles is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 June 2000
(-) Murderer Paul Selso Nuncio is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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