(+) Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, Goyathlay Geronimo aka The One Who Yawns, is born in Gila River, New Mexico, USA.
130 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 June 1883
(x) 183 children Die in Victoria Hall stampede in Sunderland, Toward Road, United Kingdom.
Worried about missing out on treats, many of the estimated 1.100 children in the gallery stampeded toward the staircase leading downstairs.
123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 June 1890
(+) Actor Stan Laurel originally Arthur Stanley Jefferson, is born in Ulverston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
117 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 June 1896
(+) Automobile manufacterer Jean Peugeot is born in France.
109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 June 1904
(x) 22-year-old Writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce has the first date with his future wife Nora Barnacle in Dublin, Ireland.
In his epic novel "Ulysses" all the events happen on this day, named 'Bloomsday' 50 years after its publication.
100 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 June 1913
(x) The first ‘Apartheid’-law is voted, stating that certain lands can only be owned by whites, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1920
(x) Black rapists Elmer Jackson, Isaac McGhie and Nate Green are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1920
(+) Journalist John Howard Griffin known for “Black Like Me”, is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
(-) An unidentified man is murdered ‘for the fun it gave me’ by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, in Kingston, New York, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 June 1925
(+) Viennese Aktionist Otto Mühl is born in Grodnau, Burgenland, Austria.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 June 1935
(+) Pop Artist Jim Dine is born in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1937
(+) Actor Erich Wolf Segal is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 June 1959
(-) Actor George Bessolo Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 45 in Benedict Canyon, California, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 June 1963
(x) 26-year-old Astronaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova happens to be the first woman in space in a Vostok-6.
She spent three days in space, which was more than the combined time of all american astronauts in space.
49 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 June 1964
(-) Keith Bennet is kidnapped and murdered by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 12 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1971
(+) Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, is born in New York City, New York, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1976
(x) Over 600 Die in race-riot in Soweto, South Africa.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1976
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, has a gallstone removed by Dr. Kirk in Willesden General Hospital, United Kingdom.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 June 1977
(-) Scientist astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr Von Braun dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 June 1978
(-) Carol Reeves is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in France.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 June 1987
(-) Policeman and murderer Jimmy Wingo is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 35 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 June 1990
(-) Sadist Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Iowa, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 June 1997
(-) Serial Killer Gerd Wenzinger commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Salvador, Baha, Brazil.
He was facing charges of killing 13 prostitutes in Berlin and Stuttgart, and sexually torturing many more in Germany and Brazil.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 June 1997
(-) Murderer David Stoker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 June 1999
(-) Musician David Edward Sutch aka Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 58 in London, United Kingdom.
7 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 June 2006
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Alexander Pichushkin aka The Bitsevsky Maniac, is arrested in Moscow, Russia.
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