Thursday, June 20, 2019

34th year - N° 171 Thursday, 20 June 2019

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34th year - N° 171 Thursday, 20 June 2019

20 June / Today's 33 Events:
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200 years ago

Sunday 20th of June 1819

Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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136 years ago

Wednesday 20th of June 1883

Composer Giannotto Bastianelli is born in Fiesole, Toscana, Italy.


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132 years ago

Monday 20th of June 1887

Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters is born in Rumannstraße 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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126 years ago

Tuesday 20th of June 1893

33-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.


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120 years ago

Tuesday 20th of June 1899

Hero of the French Résistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier is born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.


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119 years ago

Wednesday 20th of June 1900

German Diplomat Clemens August von Ketteler is shot dead in the street by Manchu Hushenying bannerman captain En Hai at the age of 47 in Xi Zong Bu Hutong, Beijing, Hebei, China.


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110 years ago

Sunday 20th of June 1909

Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.


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107 years ago

Thursday 20th of June 1912

Anarchist writer and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 46 in St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Leavitt and Thomas Streets, Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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100 years ago

Friday 20th of June 1919

150 die in Teatro Yagüez fire in Teatro Yagüez, Calle McKinley, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.


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95 years ago

Friday 20th of June 1924

Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.


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94 years ago

Saturday 20th of June 1925

Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, United States.


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91 years ago

Wednesday 20th of June 1928

Actor Martin Landau known from Mission: Impossible is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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91 years ago

Wednesday 20th of June 1928

Président d'honneur du Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen is born in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Bretagne, France.


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90 years ago

Thursday 20th of June 1929

Robert Warnke is beaten to death by serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

"I'll kill the first man that bothers me," Panzram told the warden upon entering the prison. That man happened to be prison laundry foreman Warnke.


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89 years ago

Friday 20th of June 1930

39-year-old Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.


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85 years ago

Wednesday 20th of June 1934

The body of 46-year-old First wife of Hermann Göring Carin Axelina Hulda Fock who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.


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77 years ago

Saturday 20th of June 1942

Paul Léon Braunberger is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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77 years ago He Was Made for These Times

Saturday 20th of June 1942

Musician Brian Douglas Wilson known from The Beach Boys is born in Centinela Hospital, 555 E Hardy Street, Inglewood, California, United States.


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72 years ago

Friday 20th of June 1947

Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is riddled with bullets by persons unknown at the age of 41 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel's skull blew his left eye out of its socket. Siegel was hit by several other bullets including shots through his lungs.


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57 years ago He Was Nearer My God to Thee

Wednesday 20th of June 1962

Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

Rossouw was led away to the gallows singing Nearer my God to Thee.


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50 years ago

Friday 20th of June 1969

Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is found dead under the window of his flat at the age of 29 in Werdertorgasse, Wien, Wien, Austria.

Whether Schwarzkogler's death was an accident or suicide was never established.


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43 years ago

Sunday 20th of June 1976

33-year-old Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is paroled after 17 years imprisonment in Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, York, Nebraska, United States.


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42 years ago His Double Fantasy Failed

Monday 20th of June 1977

22-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon tries to commit suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation in Kailua, Hawaii, United States.

Chapman connected a hose to his car's exhaust pipe, but the hose melted and the attempt failed.


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38 years ago

Saturday 20th of June 1981

James L. Churchill is stabbed to death by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in Rock Island, Illinois, United States.


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36 years ago

Monday 20th of June 1983

Noise music band Club Moral play their 25th concert at the Equinox Event in Musician's Co-op, Gloucester Avenue 42, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Also played: RamlehDogs Blood OrderDeath & Beauty FoundationJill WestwoodAKEPureKrank


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31 years ago

Monday 20th of June 1988

Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in City Hall, Room 653, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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30 years ago

Tuesday 20th of June 1989

Alexey Moiseev is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Kolchugino, Vladimir Oblast, Russia.

Moiseev's body was found on 6 September 1989.


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24 years ago

Tuesday 20th of June 1995

Philosopher Emil Mihai Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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24 years ago

Tuesday 20th of June 1995

Multiple murderer Ronald Keith Allridge is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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24 years ago

Tuesday 20th of June 1995

Murderer John W. Fearance is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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21 years ago He Jumped the Other Wall

Saturday 20th of June 1998

Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Oberbayern, Germany.


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13 years ago He Was a Dead Man Carried

Tuesday 20th of June 2006

Triple murderer Lamont D. Reese is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Reese had a final meal request of Beef or Chicken Fajitas w/cheese and & sour cream with jalapenos, beef and cheese enchiladas with jalapenos and salsa, bacon cheeseburger with the works & jalapenos (small combination), pizza with jalapenos & everything, chicken salad with ranch dressing & jalapenos, soft beef taco's & salsa, fried chicken with ketchup & hot sauce. Reese had to be carried to the death chamber, refusing to walk there. "I want everyone to know I did not walk to this because this is straight-up murder. I am not going to play a part in my own murder. No one should have to do that."



7 years ago The Eyes had it

Wednesday 20th of June 2012

Greenery on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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