40th year - N° 171 Friday, 20 June 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
40th year - N° 171 Friday, 20 June 2025

20 June / Today's 37 Events:

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(+) 206 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1819 Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 172 years ago Monday 20th of June 1853 Victim of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin Gustave Kinck is born in Tourcoing, Hauts de France, France.

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(+) 142 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1883 Composer Giannotto Bastianelli is born in Fiesole, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 138 years ago Monday 20th of June 1887 Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters is born in Rumannstraße 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 132 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1893 33-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 126 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1899 Hero of the French Résistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier is born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(-) 125 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1900 German Diplomat Clemens August von Ketteler is shot dead in the street by Manchu Hushenying bannerman captain En Hai at the age of 47 in Xi Zong Bu Hutong, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(+) 119 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1906 Kidnapper and murderer Thomas Harold Thurmond is born in Lodi, California, United States.

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(+) 116 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1909 Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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(-) 113 years ago Thursday 20th of June 1912 Anarchist writer and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 46 in St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Leavitt and Thomas Streets, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 106 years ago Friday 20th of June 1919 150 die in Teatro Yagüez fire in Teatro Yagüez, Calle McKinley, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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(-) 101 years ago Friday 20th of June 1924 Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 100 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1925 Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1928 Actor Martin Landau known from Mission: Impossible is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1928 Président d'honneur du Front National Jean-Marie Le Pen is born in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Bretagne, France.

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(-) 96 years ago Thursday 20th of June 1929 Robert Warnke is beaten to death by serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. "I'll kill the first man that bothers me," Panzram told the warden upon entering the prison. That man happened to be prison laundry foreman Warnke.

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(x) 95 years ago Friday 20th of June 1930 39-year-old Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 91 years ago Wednesday 20th of June 1934 The body of 46-year-old First wife of Hermann Göring Carin Axelina Hulda Fock who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(+) 83 years ago He Was Made for These Times Saturday 20th of June 1942 Musician Brian Douglas Wilson known from The Beach Boys is born in Centinela Hospital, 555 E Hardy Street, Inglewood, California, United States.

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(-) 83 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1942 Paul Léon Braunberger is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 78 years ago Friday 20th of June 1947 Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is riddled with bullets by persons unknown at the age of 41 in Beverly Hills, California, United States. Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel's skull blew his left eye out of its socket. Siegel was hit by several other bullets including shots through his lungs.

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(-) 63 years ago He Was Nearer My God to Thee Wednesday 20th of June 1962 Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Rossouw was led away to the gallows singing Nearer my God to Thee.

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(-) 56 years ago Friday 20th of June 1969 Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is found dead under the window of his flat at the age of 29 in Werdertorgasse, Wien, Wien, Austria. Whether Schwarzkogler's death was an accident or suicide was never established.

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(x) 49 years ago Sunday 20th of June 1976 33-year-old Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is paroled after 17 years imprisonment in Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, York, Nebraska, United States.

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(x) 48 years ago His Double Fantasy Failed Monday 20th of June 1977 22-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon tries to commit suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation in Kailua, Hawaii, United States. Chapman connected a hose to his car's exhaust pipe, but the hose melted and the attempt failed.

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(-) 44 years ago Saturday 20th of June 1981 James L. Churchill is stabbed to death by serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate in Rock Island, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago Monday 20th of June 1983 Noise music band Club Moral play their 25th concert at the Equinox Event in Musician's Co-op, Gloucester Avenue 42, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Also played: Ramleh, Dogs Blood Order, Death & Beauty Foundation, Jill Westwood, AKE, Pure, Krank

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(x) 37 years ago Monday 20th of June 1988 Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in City Hall, Room 653, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 36 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1989 Alexey Moiseev is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Kolchugino, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. Moiseev's body was found on 6 September 1989.

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(-) 30 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Multiple murderer Ronald Keith Allridge is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Murderer John W. Fearance is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago Tuesday 20th of June 1995 Philosopher Emil Mihai Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 27 years ago He Jumped the Other Wall Saturday 20th of June 1998 Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Oberbayern, Germany.

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(-) 19 years ago He Was a Dead Man Carried Tuesday 20th of June 2006 Triple murderer Lamont D. Reese is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Reese had a final meal request of Beef or Chicken Fajitas w/cheese and & sour cream with jalapenos, beef and cheese enchiladas with jalapenos and salsa, bacon cheeseburger with the works & jalapenos (small combination), pizza with jalapenos & everything, chicken salad with ranch dressing & jalapenos, soft beef taco's & salsa, fried chicken with ketchup & hot sauce. Reese had to be carried to the death chamber, refusing to walk there. "I want everyone to know I did not walk to this because this is straight-up murder. I am not going to play a part in my own murder. No one should have to do that."

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(x) 14 years ago Monday 20th of June 2011 55-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Birgit Elisabeth Hogefeld is released from prison in Strafgefängnis Frankfurt-Preungesheim, Preungesheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. Hogefeld spent 18 years in prison for killing a US soldier and bombing a US airbase in Frankfurt. Hogefeld was the last imprisoned of the RAF members.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 20th of June 2012 Greenery on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 1 years ago Thursday 20th of June 2024 Actor Donald McNichol Sutherland dies of a long illness at the age of 89 in Miami, Florida, United States.

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