40th year - N° 152 Sunday, 1 June 2025

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40th year - N° 152 Sunday, 1 June 2025

1 June / Today's 38 Events:

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(x) 229 years ago Wednesday 1st of June 1796 Tennessee is admitted as 16th of the United States in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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(+) 224 years ago Monday 1st of June 1801 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham Young is born in Whitingham, Vermont, United States.

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(-) 202 years ago Sunday 1st of June 1823 Paul Thomas Zimmermann is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Zimmerman was Gottfried's fiancé.

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(-) 180 years ago the Holy Fire Got Him Sunday 1st of June 1845 254th Pope Gregorius XVI, originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro dies of facial erysipelas at the age of 80 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 168 years ago Monday 1st of June 1857 'Les Fleurs du Mal' by 36-year-old Poet and art critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire known for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ is first published in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire for insult to public decency.

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(-) 157 years ago Monday 1st of June 1868 15th President of the United States James Buchanan dies of respiratory failure at the age of 77 in Wheatland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 139 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1886 Trained nurse and triple murderess Daisy de Melker, originally Daisy Louisa Hancorn-Smith is born in Seven Fountains, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

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(x) 106 years ago Sunday 1st of June 1919 The body of 48-year-old Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg aka Rote Rosa is found floating in Landwehrkanal, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Luxemburg had been shot dead by the by the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision on 15 January 1915.

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(+) 99 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1926 Actress Marilyn Monroe, originally Norma Jeane Mortenson is born in Los Angeles County Hospital, 1200 N State Street, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 99 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1926 Minnie May is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Wednesday 1st of June 1927 Serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard is born in Csap, Podkarpatská, Czechoslovakia.

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(-) 98 years ago Wednesday 1st of June 1927 Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Thursday 1st of June 1933 Murderer Willie Jasper Darden is born in Greene County, North Carolina, United States.

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(+) 91 years ago Friday 1st of June 1934 Singer and actor Pat Charles Eugene Boone is born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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(-) 88 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1937 Truett Eugene Rowe is shot dead by cop killer George Osborne in Gallup, New Mexico, United States.

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(x) 86 years ago Thursday 1st of June 1939 99 die in HMS Thetis (N25) submarine sinking in Liverpool Bay, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(+) 82 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1943 Self-styled Nazi and mass murderer Fred Frederick Cowan is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Monday 1st of June 1953 Cop killer Philip Ray Workman is born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Monday 1st of June 1953 Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz, originally Richard David Falco aka Son of Sam is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 66 years ago Monday 1st of June 1959 Murderer John Frazier is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States.

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(-) 65 years ago Wednesday 1st of June 1960 Younger sister of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler Paula Hitler aka Paula Wolf dies of unknown causes at the age of 64 in Berchtesgaden, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 63 years ago Friday 1st of June 1962 37-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Die Blutorgel' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria. It was a joint Aktion by Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Adolf Frohner that lasted four days. A manifest 'Die Blutorgel' was published on the same occasion.

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(x) 60 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1965 25-year-old Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder is arrested after robbing a handbag in Kaufhaus Brenninkmeyer and killing Hermann Thieme on the run in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 54 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1971 46-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion' in Sinkkasten, Brönnerstraße 5-9, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 53 years ago Thursday 1st of June 1972 Members of Left-wing militant group the Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins are arrested after a shootout with the police in Hofeckweg 2-4, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. During the siege Baader is shot in the leg.

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(-) 51 years ago Saturday 1st of June 1974 Brenda Carol Ball is abducted and killed by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Flame Tavern, 12803 S. Ambaum Blvd., Burien, Seattle, Washington, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1976 26-year-old Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper is sentenced to life imprisonment for two murders in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

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(x) 45 years ago Sunday 1st of June 1980 Ed Healy is attacked by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Healy was handcuffed for sex, then beaten for an hour and threatened with a shotgun by Eyler.

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(x) 40 years ago Saturday 1st of June 1985 Noise music band Club Moral play their 45th concert at the New International festival in The Old Ambulance Station, 306 Old Kent Road, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 36 years ago Thursday 1st of June 1989 64-year-old Mass murderer John Emil List aka The Bogeyman of Westfield is arrested for the murders of his mother, wife and three children on 9 November 1971 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. List's neighbor viewed the America's Most Wanted broadcast on the case, recognized the profile and alerted authorities. All the time List had been working as an accountant under the name Robert Peter 'Bob' Clark in Midlothian, Virginia.

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(-) 30 years ago Thursday 1st of June 1995 Double murderer Fletcher Thomas Mann is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago He Was Hazed Sunday 1st of June 1997 Mass murderer Artur Vaganov known for the Sida shooting commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 22 in Sida, Abkhazia, Georgia. Vaganov shot and killed 10 sleeping comrades and wounded three others before turning his gun on himself. The dead were First Lieutenant Sergei Gavrilov, Junior Sergeant Alexander Medvedev, Junior Sergeant Dmitry Stepanov, Junior Sergeant Alexey Yurchkov, Private Alexander Lukyanenko, Private Oleg Mednikov, Private Askar Nauruzbaev, Private Andrei Semenikhin, Private Sergei Shcherbakov and Private Regel Subeev.

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(-) 26 years ago Tuesday 1st of June 1999 Murderer and necrophiliac William Hamilton Little is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 24 years ago Friday 1st of June 2001 After indulging in a drinking binge, 30-year-old King Dipendra of Nepal, originally Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev kills his father King Birendra, his mother Queen Aishwarya, his brother Prince Nirajan, Princess Shruti, Prince Dhirendra, Princess Shanti, Princess Sharada, Kumar Khadga and Princess Jayanti, before shooting himself in the head in Narayanhity Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. Dipendra was in a coma for three days and was proclaimed King in his hospital bed. He died on 4 June 2001.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 1st of June 2003 Colourful landscape design in Hof ter Saksen, Beveren, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 18 years ago Friday 1st of June 2007 79-year-old Pathologist and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, originally Murad Jacob Kevorkian aka Doctor Death is released from prison after serving eight of his 10 to 25 years sentence from 1999 in Coldwater, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 17 years ago Sunday 1st of June 2008 Fashion designer Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent dies of brain cancer at the age of 72 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 16 years ago Monday 1st of June 2009 228 die in Air France Airbus A330-203 Flight 447 crash in the North Atlantic Ocean. The wreckage was located nearly two years after the accident.

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