30th year - N° 157 Saturday, 6 June 2015

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30th year - N° 157 Saturday, 6 June 2015

6 June / Today's 19 Events:

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(+) 416 years ago Sunday 6th of June 1599 Painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez is born in Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain.

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(+) 260 years ago Friday 6th of June 1755 America's first spy Nathan Hale is born in Coventry, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 216 years ago Thursday 6th of June 1799 Poet and writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 147 years ago Saturday 6th of June 1868 Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott is born in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(+) 140 years ago Sunday 6th of June 1875 Writer, social critic and philanthropist Thomas Paul Mann is born in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(+) 129 years ago Sunday 6th of June 1886 Actor Tyler Brooke, originally Victor Hugo de Bierre is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Wednesday 6th of June 1917 Sex killer Neville Clevely Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo is born in Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 84 years ago Saturday 6th of June 1931 Mass murderer Richard Eugene Hickock aka In Cold Blood is born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 74 years ago Friday 6th of June 1941 Racer and automobile manufacterer Louis-Joseph Chevrolet dies of unknown causes at the age of 63 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 70 years ago Wednesday 6th of June 1945 Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is born in Kittery, Maine, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Sunday 6th of June 1948 Film pioneer Louis Jean Lumière dies of unknown causes at the age of 84 in Bandol, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 54 years ago Tuesday 6th of June 1961 Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung dies of unknown causes at the age of 86 in Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland.

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(-) 53 years ago Wednesday 6th of June 1962 Artist Yves Klein known for his International Klein Blue dies of a heart attack at the age of 34 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 34 years ago Saturday 6th of June 1981 500 to 800 die in passenger train derailment in Baghmati River, Badlaghat, Bihar, India. The train plunged into the river Bagmati while it was crossing a bridge. Probable cause of the accident was a brake failure while trying to avoid hitting a water buffalo.

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(x) 25 years ago Wednesday 6th of June 1990 39-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Susanne Albrecht is arrested in Rosenbecker Straße 3, Marzahn, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Albrecht was found living as a housewife under the name Becker. Albrecht was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment by the upper state court in Stuttgart but she was paroled in 1996.

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(x) 21 years ago Monday 6th of June 1994 160 die in China Northwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M Flight 2303 crash in Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, Xi'an, Shanxi, China.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 6th of June 2003 Leftover lonely plates after the opening of new offices in NICC, Museumstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 9 years ago Tuesday 6th of June 2006 Murderer Timothy Tyler Titsworth is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 6 years ago Saturday 6th of June 2009 50-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Yves Klein was Never in Art Ghraib' and 'A Chance Meeting of Yves Klein and Gordon Matta-Clark on the Gold Plated Corpse of James Lee Byars' at Momentum #4 Festival in Bains Connective, Berthelotstraat 34, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. I filled golden paper bags alternately with earth from my hole and 'Yves Klein' blue paint, and tied them to a piece of canvas. Then I hoisted the canvas up so the bags formed a figure. I hoisted myself up upside down and pulled at a rope until I was hanging at a distance away from the canvas, let go and swirled like a projectile against the canvas which made the bags tear and the earth and the paint were mixed and spatt ered around.

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