36th year - N° 181 Wednesday, 30 June 2021

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36th year - N° 181 Wednesday, 30 June 2021

30 June / Today's 20 Events:

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(+) 194 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1827 Victim of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin Hortense Kinck, originally Hortense Juliette Roussel is born in Tourcoing, Hauts de France, France.

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(-) 139 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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(+) 129 years ago Thursday 30th of June 1892 SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Ludwig Pohl is born in Ruhrort, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 128 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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(x) 121 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1900 326 die in Norddeutscher Lloyd Docks fire in Hoboken Docks, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. The fire began when cotton bales stored on NDL's southernmost wharf caught fire, and winds carried the flames to nearby barrels of volatile liquids, such as turpentine and oil, which exploded in rapid succession.

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(-) 91 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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(+) 88 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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(-) 85 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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(+) 70 years ago Saturday 30th of June 1951 Deranged gunman Marcus Wayne Chenault is born in Winchester, Kentucky, United States. On 30 June 1974 Chenault killed Mrs. Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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(x) 65 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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(-) 59 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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(-) 59 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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(-) 52 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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(x) 50 years ago They Died in Space Wednesday 30th of June 1971 43-year-old commander Georgy Dobrovolsky, 38-year-old test engineer Viktor Patsayev and 37-year-old flight engineer Vladislav Volkov are found dead upon returning in their Soyuz 11 after breaking the record of staying in space for 23 days in Shalginskiy, Zhanaarka, Kazakhstan. The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans known to have died in space.

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(-) 47 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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(-) 30 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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(x) 24 years ago He Took Her to Buy an Axe Monday 30th of June 1997 17-year-old Mass murderer Joshua Jenkins aka The Teenage Annihilator is sentenced to 112 years to life for killing his adoptive parents George and Alene, grandparents William and Evelyn Grossman and 10-year-old sister Megan on 2/3 February 1996 during a visit to the grandparent's condominium in San Diego, California, United States. After an argument with his mother about sending him to a boarding school Jenkins bludgeoned his parents and grandparents to death with a hammer. Inexplicably, somehow he kept Megan from discovering the carnage. The next morning Jenkins took her with him to buy an axe w hich he used to kill her once they returned to the condo.

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(-) 17 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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(x) 12 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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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 30th of June 2014 Douglas Park in the remains of my exhibition 'Picnic at Hanssenspark' in Cultuurcentrum De Bond, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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36th year - N° 180 Tuesday, 29 June 2021

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36th year - N° 180 Tuesday, 29 June 2021

29 June / Today's 24 Events:

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(-) 1954 years ago His Desire Was Fulfilled Wednesday 29th of June 0067 First Pope Petrus I, originally Shimon Petrus Cephas is executed by crucifixion with his head downwards at the age of 66 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Petrus was crucified with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer.

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(-) 166 years ago Friday 29th of June 1855 Multiple murderer John Henry Schultz is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Galveston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 157 years ago Wednesday 29th of June 1864 99 die in Grand Trunk train plunge into a river in Belœil Bridge, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Train conductor Thomas Finn and engineer William Burnie failed to acknowledge a stop signal and the train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River.

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(+) 126 years ago Saturday 29th of June 1895 Assassin Paul Gorguloff, originally Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov known for shooting French President Paul Doumer is born in Labinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

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(+) 121 years ago Le Prince Était Petit Friday 29th of June 1900 Aristocrat, writer, poet and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, originally Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger is born in Rue de Saint-Exupéry, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 110 years ago Thursday 29th of June 1911 Composer Bernard Herrmann, originally Max Herman is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 97 years ago Sunday 29th of June 1924 45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf confesses to a long career of murder, butchering and selling his victims' meat in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 92 years ago Saturday 29th of June 1929 Journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(-) 88 years ago Thursday 29th of June 1933 Actor Roscoe Conkling 'Fatty' Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in New York City, New York, United States. The night before Arbuckle went out with friends to celebrate his first wedding anniversary where he reportedly said: "This is the best day of my life." He suffered a heart attack later that night and died in his sleep.

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(-) 87 years ago Friday 29th of June 1934 Zaro Ağa aka The Longest Living Human Ever dies of natural causes at the age of 157 in Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey.

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(-) 81 years ago Saturday 29th of June 1940 Artist Paul Klee dies of scleroderma at the age of 61 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.

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(+) 80 years ago Sunday 29th of June 1941 Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture is born in Port-of-Spain, Metropolitan Area, Trinidad.

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(+) 66 years ago Wednesday 29th of June 1955 Victim of Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury Janine M. Ligotino is born in Clintondale, New York, United States.

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(x) 65 years ago Friday 29th of June 1956 30-year-old Actress Marilyn Monroe, originally Norma Jeane Mortenson marries writer Arthur Miller in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States. Monroe and Miller divorced on 20 January 1961.

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(-) 54 years ago Thursday 29th of June 1967 Actress Jayne Mansfield, originally Vera Jayne Palmer aka The Working Man's Monroe dies in a car crash at the age of 34 in Rigolets Bridge, U.S. Highway 90, Slidell, Louisiana, United States. Mansfield, her 40-year-old lover Sam Brody, their 20-year-old driver Ronnie Harrison, and three of her children - 8-year-old Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay, 6-year-old Zoltán Anthony Hargitay and 3-year-old Mariska Magdalena Hargitay were heading for New Orleans where she was scheduled to appear for an early-morning television interview. The 1966 Buick Electra 225, which was reportedly going 80 miles per hour, crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The three adults in the front seat were killed instantly; the children in the rear survived with minor injuries.

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(x) 48 years ago Friday 29th of June 1973 All members of Left-wing militant group the Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe end their second hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.

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(-) 46 years ago Sunday 29th of June 1975 Musician Tim Timothy Charles Buckley dies of a heroin and alcohol overdose at the age of 28 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago He Was the Low Sinner of All Sinners Tuesday 29th of June 1993 Multiple murderer Markham Duff-Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Duff-Smith's last words were "I am the low sinner of all sinners."

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(-) 27 years ago Wednesday 29th of June 1994 Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 44 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the murders of 9 prostitutes earlier that day.

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(x) 26 years ago Thursday 29th of June 1995 502 die in Sampoong Department Store collapse in Sampoong Department Store, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea.

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(-) 26 years ago Thursday 29th of June 1995 Actress Lana Turner, originally Julia Jean Turner dies of throat cancer at the age of 74 in 2170 Century Park East, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 21 years ago Thursday 29th of June 2000 Mass murderer Jessy Carlos San Miguel aka The Taco Bell Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. 19-year-old San Miguel and 17-year-old Jerome Green killed 28-yearold manager Michael Phelan, 16-year-old pregnant waitress Theresa Fraga, her 23-year-old cousin Frank Fraga and 35-year-old Son Nyugen during the robbery of a Taco Bell restaurant in Irving on 26 January 1991. Green was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 29th of June 2003 A concert by Dez Mona in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 18 years ago Sunday 29th of June 2003 Actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn dies of a tumour at the age of 96 in Fenwick, Connecticut, United States.

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36th year - N° 179 Monday, 28 June 2021

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36th year - N° 179 Monday, 28 June 2021

28 June / Today's 37 Events:

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(+) 545 years ago Wednesday 28th of June 1476 223rd Pope Paulus IV, originally Gian Pietro Carafa is born in Capriglia Irpina, Campania, Italy.

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(+) 530 years ago Sunday 28th of June 1491 King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor is born in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 444 years ago Tuesday 28th of June 1577 Painter Peter Paul Rubens is born in Siegen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 309 years ago Tuesday 28th of June 1712 Philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born in 40 Grand-Rue, Genève, Romandie, Switzerland.

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(-) 206 years ago Wednesday 28th of June 1815       Johann Timm is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Timm was Gottfried's father.

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(x) 141 years ago He Was Done Monday 28th of June 1880 26-year-old Bushranger, outlaw and gang leader Ned Edward Kelly is captured in a shootout with 30 policemen in Glenrowan Inn, Glenrowan, Victoria, Australia. Kelly was shot in the left foot, left leg, right hand, left arm and twice in the region of the groin, although no bullet had penetrated his armour. Several members of the Kelly gang were shot dead, committed suicide or died in the building as Superintendent Sadleir decided to set fire to the hotel with permission from the Chief Secretary.

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(+) 138 years ago Thursday 28th of June 1883 French politician and collaborator Pierre Jean Marie Laval is born in Châteldon, Auvergne, France.

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(+) 130 years ago Came the Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance Sunday 28th of June 1891 Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder is born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 120 years ago Friday 28th of June 1901 Cop killer Frank Miller is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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(-) 120 years ago Friday 28th of June 1901 Murderer Alonzo Williams is executed by hanging in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Williams killed a fellow inmate in Pratt Mines.

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(x) 117 years ago Tuesday 28th of June 1904 635 die in SS Norge shipwreck in Helen's Reef, Rockall, Scotland, United Kingdom. A group of 26 survivors were found by the Grimsby trawler Sylvia. 32 more were picked up by the British steamer Cervonax and 70, including Captain Gundal, by the German steamer Energie. Some of the 160 survivors spent up to eight days in open lifeboats before rescue.

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(-) 116 years ago The Head Opened Its Eyes Wednesday 28th of June 1905 Murderer Henri Languille is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Dr. Beaurieux lifted the head out of the basked and called out Languille's name upon which the head opened its eyes.

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(-) 114 years ago Friday 28th of June 1907 Murderer Holliver Megorden is executed by hanging at the age of 57 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 107 years ago A Teenager Changed the World Sunday 28th of June 1914 Franz Ferdinand, originally Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen is assassinated by assassin Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World in Latin Bridge, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary. The event triggered the start of World War I.

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(+) 95 years ago Monday 28th of June 1926 Film director, actor and comedian Mel Brooks, originally Melvin James Kaminsky is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago He Was Free Friday 28th of June 1935 Actor John Frederick Inman aka Mr. Humphries known from Are You Being Served? is born in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 74 years ago Saturday 28th of June 1947 Black Panther Mark Clark is born in Peoria, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 66 years ago He Assisted at the Post-mortem Tuesday 28th of June 1955 Doctor and murderer Dalip Singh is executed by hanging in Royal Jail, 103A Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain, Metropolitan Area, Trinidad. Singh assisted at the post-mortem on a woman but failed to tell the authorities that the corpse was that of his own German-born wife Inge and that he had murdered her himself on 6 April 1954.

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(x) 62 years ago Sunday 28th of June 1959 Police discover the bodies of 53-year-old Raymond Cook, his 37-year-old wife Daisy Mae shot in the head and their children 9-year-old Gerald, 8-year-old Patrick, 7-year-old Christopher, 5-year-old Kathy, and 3-year-old Linda Mae bludgeoned to death in the grease pit of their garage by 22-year-old Mass murderer Robert Raymond Cook in 52 Street, Stettler, Alberta, Canada. Cook had been arrested in Stettler a day earlier after he had traded the family's 1958 Chevrolet station wagon for a 1959 Impala convertible.

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(-) 59 years ago Thursday 28th of June 1962 Mary Mullen is killed by heart failure in the course of being strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 1435 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 59 years ago Thursday 28th of June 1962 37-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Fest des Psycho–physischen Naturalismus' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 59 years ago Thursday 28th of June 1962 Serial killer Daniel Joseph Blank aka The Parish River Killer is born in Paulina, Louisiana, United States.

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(x) 50 years ago Monday 28th of June 1971 Before thousands of stunned spectators and amid heavy police security, 48-year-old Mobster and crime boss Joseph Anthony 'Joe' Colombo is shot three times in the head and neck by black street hustler Jerome Johnson in Columbus Circle, New York City, New York, United States. Colombo remained paralyzed for the next seven years. In 1975 a court-ordered examination showed that Colombo could move his thumb and forefinger on his right hand. In 1976 there were reports that he could recognize people and utter several words. Colombo died of cardiac arrest on 22 May 1978.

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(-) 50 years ago Monday 28th of June 1971 SS commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps Franz Paul Stangl aka Der Weiße Tod dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 48 years ago Thursday 28th of June 1973 Marlys Townsend is attacked by serial killer Harvey Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. After being clubbed Townsend woke in Carignan's car. He tried to force her to perform a sex act on him but she was able to escape by jumping out of the speeding car.

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(-) 46 years ago He Traveled to Another Dimension Saturday 28th of June 1975 Screenwriter, television producer and narrator Rod Rodman Edward Serling known from The Twilight Zone dies of a heart attack at the age of 51 in Strong Memorial Hospital, 125 Lattimore Rd, Rochester, New York, United States. Serling had a 10-hour-long open heart surgery carried out on 26 June 1975.

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(+) 45 years ago Monday 28th of June 1976 9/11 terrorist Satam Muhammed Abdel Rahman al-Suqami is born in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia.

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(x) 41 years ago Saturday 28th of June 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Underground Confrontation' with Ria Pacquée in Meir Metro Station, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Ria Pacquée stood on the lower metro-platform. A drop of water was falling on her head continuously. I was laying on the floor on the upper platform and hit the floor with my forehead. I imagined the rhythm of the falling drop.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 28th of June 1980 Roxanne Easlund is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Easlund's body was never found.

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(x) 40 years ago He Disguised as a Sound Engineer Sunday 28th of June 1981 73 die in bomb attack in Islamic Republic Party Headquarters, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. The bomb killed the chief justice and party secretary Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, four cabinet ministers, twenty-seven members of the Majlis, including Mohammad Montazeri and several other government officials. The bomber was identified as a young student and Mujahedin operative by the name of Mohammad Reza Kolahi who had secured a job in the building disguised as a sound engineer.

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(-) 37 years ago Thursday 28th of June 1984 Jennie Vincow is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in Chapman Street, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago Saturday 28th of June 1986 Valentine Gleim is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Somerville Hastings House, Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. In the same event 94-year-old Zbigniew Stabrawa was also assaulted and strangled.

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(x) 33 years ago Tuesday 28th of June 1988 34-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 28 years ago Monday 28th of June 1993 34-year-old Serial killer Joel David Rifkin aka The Long Island Ripper is arrested after a police-hunt because of a missing number-plate on his Mazda pick-up in Southern State Parkway, Mineola, New York, United States. A high-speed chase ended in Mineola when he crashed into a utility pole directly in front of the courthouse where Rifkin eventually stood trial. Troopers detected a foul odor from the back of the truck. It came from the corpse of 22-year-old prostitute and dancer Tiffany Bresciani, the girlfriend of Dave Rubinstein aka Dave Insurgent, a member of the 1980s punk band Reagan Youth), Rifkin's final victim.

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(x) 26 years ago Wednesday 28th of June 1995 53-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails letters to the New York Times and Washington Post in San Francisco, California, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 28th of June 2002 Intergalactic composition on the windowsill in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 9 years ago Thursday 28th of June 2012 53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Acid Motorcycle Angst in Another Dimension' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in De Player, Hillelaan 49d, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. A music performance of Club Moral with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven whereby I was hanging from my feet for 45 minutes and hit the back of my head on the wooden floor for 15 minutes.

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