30th year - N° 173 Monday, 22 June 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 173 Monday, 22 June 2015

22 June / Today's 22 Events:

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(+) 115 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1900 Wife of Rudolf Hess Ilse Pröhl is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 112 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1903 Bank robber John Herbert Dillinger is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 100 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1915 Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 97 years ago Saturday 22nd of June 1918 104 die in Hammond Circus Train collision in Ivanhoe Interlocking, Gary, Indiana, United States. Locomotive engineer Alonzo Sargent fell asleep and ran the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train into the rear of a slower circus train.

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(x) 91 years ago Sunday 22nd of June 1924 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is arrested after a minor fight with Kurt Fromm in Hauptbahnhof, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. Haarmann's apartment was searched and the walls were found to be heavily bloodstained. He tried to explain this as a by-product of his illegal trade as a butcher.

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(+) 85 years ago Sunday 22nd of June 1930 Kidnap victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. is born in Mercer County, Hopewell Township, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1943 Artist Gordon Matta-Clark, originally Gordon Roberto Echaurren Matta is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 66 years ago Wednesday 22nd of June 1949 Actress Meryl Mary Louise Streep is born in Summit, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 62 years ago She Just Wanted to Have Fun Monday 22nd of June 1953 Singer-songwriter Cyndi Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is born in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1953 Start of the trial against 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 61 years ago Tuesday 22nd of June 1954 Honorah Mary Rieper is beaten to death by murderess Pauline Parker aka Heavenly Creature in Victoria Park, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Parker was involved in a lesbian relationship with 15-year-old Juliet Hulme. It is believed that the two girls killed Rieper because Hulme and her father were leaving shortly for South Africa and though Parker wanted to accompany them, her mother forbade it.

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(x) 53 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1962 113 die in Air France Boeing 707-328 Flight 117 crash in Deshayes, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France.

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(x) 48 years ago Thursday 22nd of June 1967 Gabrielle Puetman is attacked by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Grafenhausen, Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. She survived.

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(-) 46 years ago She Just Plain Wore Out Sunday 22nd of June 1969 Actress, singer and vaudevillian Judy Garland, originally Frances Ethel Gumm dies of an incautious self-overdose of Seconal at the age of 47 in 4 Cadogan Lane, Chelsea, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1973 23-year-old Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 38 years ago Life Stinked Wednesday 22nd of June 1977 Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner dies of acute pancreatitis due to alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 25 in 26628 Wolf Road, Bay Village, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 34 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1981 27-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Michael James 'Mickey' Devine, originally Micheal O Duibhinn starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 31 years ago Friday 22nd of June 1984 Film director Joseph Walton Losey dies of unknown causes at the age of 75 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 28 years ago Monday 22nd of June 1987 Stage dancer, singer and actor Fred Astaire, originally Frederick Austerlitz dies of pneumonia at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 8 years ago Friday 22nd of June 2007 48-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 Circuit, 9 Avenue de Montchoisi, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. I took a suitcase with some 20kgs of earth on the plane to Genève and the train to Lausanne. In the gallery I made an installation which related to the work of minimal artist Donald Judd. Instead of perspex and aluminium shapes I used 3 old drawers that I found at a garbage dump. I filled 2 buckets with water of Lac Leman. I stepped into the bottom drawer of my Donald Judd piece and proceeded to open the suitcase. I grabbed some of the earth inside and put it in the drawer above my head . Then I took some water from a bucket and poured it in the top drawer.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 22nd of June 2007 Remains of my performance 'La Rencontre Fortuite sur une Œuvre de Donald Judd d'une Montagne de Sable et d'un Lac' in Circuit, 9 Avenue de Montchoisi, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(-) 8 years ago Friday 22nd of June 2007 Arte Povera artist Luciano Fabro dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy.

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