30th year - N° 176 Thursday, 25 June 2015

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30th year - N° 176 Thursday, 25 June 2015

25 June / Today's 18 Events:

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(-) 248 years ago Thursday 25th of June 1767 Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies of a chest ailment at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 180 years ago Il Avait Résolu de s'en Défaire Thursday 25th of June 1835 Painter Antoine-Jean Gros commits suicide by drowning at the age of 64 in Sèvres, Île-de-France, France. A note hidden in Gros' hat read: "Las de la vie, et trahi par les dernières facultés qui la lui rendaient supportable, il avait résolu de s'en défaire."

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(+) 163 years ago Friday 25th of June 1852 Architect Antoni Gaudí, originally Antoni Gaudí i Cornet aka God's Architect is born in Reus, Catalonia, Spain.

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(+) 112 years ago He Was Not on an Animal Farm Thursday 25th of June 1903 Writer George Orwell, originally Eric Arthur Blair is born in Motihari, Bihar, India.

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(-) 92 years ago Monday 25th of June 1923 Ernst Ehrenberg is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. Ehrenberg was the son of Haarmann's neighbour.

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(+) 91 years ago Wednesday 25th of June 1924 Film director Sidney Arthur Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 25th of June 1933 American Civil Rights Movement figure James Howard Meredith known for becaming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 75 years ago Tuesday 25th of June 1940 Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by an overdose of Aspirin at the age of 72 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Stekel wanted to end the pain of his prostate and diabetic gangrene.

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(-) 73 years ago Came His Final Blackout Thursday 25th of June 1942 Serial killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 70 years ago She Was Not So Vain Monday 25th of June 1945 Singer-songwriter Carly Elisabeth Simon is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 56 years ago He Moved to the Badlands Thursday 25th of June 1959 Spree killer Charles Raymond Starkweather aka Little Red is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 21 in Nebraska State Penitentiary, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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(-) 51 years ago Thursday 25th of June 1964 Furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 25th of June 1979 Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness for the Chi-Omega murders in Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(x) 35 years ago Wednesday 25th of June 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Diagonal - 1', 'Diagonal - 2' with Ria Pacquée and 'Installation - 4' in Galerie Diagonale, Boulevard Edgar Quinet, XIVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. I was laying with my back naked in the middle of the room. Ria Pacquée spray-painted a diagonal through the space and over my back. Then she removed the paint from my back with sandpaper. On the floor I wrote: "I don't belong here".

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(-) 31 years ago Monday 25th of June 1984 Philosopher Michel Paul Foucault dies of AIDS at the age of 58 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 25 years ago Monday 25th of June 1990 Mass murderer Ronald Gene Simmons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States. Simmons killed 16 relatives over a week-long period in 1987.

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(x) 9 years ago Werd het Banket Aangebrand Sunday 25th of June 2006 Bartholomeus van der Helst's 'Schuttersmaaltijd ter viering van de Vrede van Münster' is splashed with lighter fuel and set on fire by 69-year-old Art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann in Rijksmuseum, Museumplein, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 6 years ago He Stopped Because He Had Enough Thursday 25th of June 2009 Singer-songwriter and actor Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop dies of an overdose of propofol, along with two anti-anxiety benzodiazepines: lorazepam and midazolam at the age of 51 in UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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