Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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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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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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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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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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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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.



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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