Sunday, June 30, 2019

34th year - N° 181 Sunday, 30 June 2019

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34th year - N° 181 Sunday, 30 June 2019

30 June / Today's 15 Events:
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137 years ago

Friday 30th of June 1882

Writer, lawyer and assassin Charles Julius Guiteau known for the killing of President James A. Garfield is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Guiteau notoriously danced his way to the gallows and shook hands with his executioner. On the scaffold, as a last request, he recited a poem called "I am Going to the Lordy" which he had written during his incarceration. He had originally requested an orchestra to play as he sang his poem but this request was denied.


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127 years ago

Thursday 30th of June 1892

SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Ludwig Pohl is born in Ruhrort, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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126 years ago

Friday 30th of June 1893

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany Walter Ulbricht known for founding the German Democratic Republic is born in Gottschedstraße 4, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.


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89 years ago

Monday 30th of June 1930

Murderer Frank Tauza is executed by Old Smokey at the age of 44 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States.


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86 years ago

Friday 30th of June 1933

Cop killer Derek William Bentley is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.


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83 years ago

Tuesday 30th of June 1936

Double murderer Frederick Herbert Charles Field is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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68 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1951

Deranged gunman Marcus Wayne Chenault is born in Winchester, Kentucky, United States.

On 30 June 1974 he killed Mrs. Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King.


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63 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1956

128 die in Trans World Airlines Flight 2 Super Constellation and United Airlines Flight 718 DC-7 mid-air collision in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States.


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57 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1962

Nina Nichols is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 1940 Commonwealth Avenue, Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.


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57 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1962

Helen Blake is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 73 Newhall Street, Lynn, Massachusetts, Belgium.


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50 years ago

Monday 30th of June 1969

Roxie Ann Phillips is raped, beaten and strangled by serial killer John Norman Collins aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Salinas, California, United States.

Phillips' body was found on 13 July in Pescadero Canyon.


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45 years ago All Christians Were His Enemies

Sunday 30th of June 1974

Alberta Williams King is shot dead by deranged gunman Marcus Chenault in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Chenault shot King with two pistols as she sat at the organ of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Chenault stated that he shot King because "all Christians are my enemies" and claimed that he had decided that black ministers were a menace to black people.


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28 years ago

Sunday 30th of June 1991

Matt Turner aka Donald Montrell is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.


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15 years ago He Rolled

Wednesday 30th of June 2004

Murderer David Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Harris' last words were: "Sir, in honor of a true American hero: Let's roll."


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10 years ago

Tuesday 30th of June 2009

152 die in Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-324 crash in Moroni, Grande Comore, Comoros.

12-year-old Bahia Bakari survived the crash with minor injuries.


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