38th year - N° 180 Thursday, 29 June 2023

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38th year - N° 180 Thursday, 29 June 2023

29 June / Today's 24 Events:

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(-) 1956 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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(-) 168 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) 159 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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(+) 128 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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(+) 123 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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(+) 112 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) 99 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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(+) 94 years ago Saturday 29th of June 1929 Journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(-) 90 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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(-) 89 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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(-) 83 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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(+) 82 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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(+) 68 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) 67 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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(-) 56 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) 50 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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(-) 48 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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(-) 30 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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(-) 29 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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(-) 28 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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(x) 28 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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(-) 23 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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20 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 29th of June 2003 A concert by Dez Mona in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 20 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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