41st year - Nr 164 Saturday, 13 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 164 Saturday, 13 June 2026

13 June / Today's 25 Events:

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(-) 165 years ago Thursday 13th of June 1861 Would-be assassin Richard Lawrence known for attempting to shoot President Andrew Jackson dies of unknown causes at the age of 61 in St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. On 30 january 1835 Lawrence drew his pistol at President Andrew Jackson but his pistol - as well as a second one - misfired.

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(+) 161 years ago Tuesday 13th of June 1865 Poet William Butler Yeats aka W. B. Yeats is born in Sandymount, Leinster, Ireland.

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(-) 140 years ago He Was Floating Sunday 13th of June 1886 King of Bavaria Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II aka Der Märchenkönig dies of drowning at the age of 41 in Starnberger See, Berg, Bayern, Germany. Ludwig II took a walk with Professor Bernhard von Gudden, several hours later their bodies were found floating dead in the lake.

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(+) 116 years ago Monday 13th of June 1910 Moralist campaigner Mary Constance Whitehouse, originally Constance Mary Hutcheson is born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 91 years ago Thursday 13th of June 1935 Artist Javacheff Vladimirov Christo, originally Hristo Yavashev is born in Gabrovo, Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

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(x) 84 years ago Saturday 13th of June 1942 14-year-old Serial killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More is arrested after committing over 50 thrill-burglaries in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Heirens was sent to the Gibault Correctional School for Catholic Boys.

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(+) 83 years ago Sunday 13th of June 1943 Actor Malcolm McDowell, originally Malcolm John Taylor is born in Horsforth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 77 years ago Monday 13th of June 1949 Founder and main organizer of the Paris-Dakar rally Thierry Sabine is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 57 years ago Friday 13th of June 1969 Founder of the Five-Percent Nation Clarence 13X, originally Clarence Edward Smith aka The Father is assassinated by three unidentified assailants at the age of 41 in Harlem, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 50 years ago Sunday 13th of June 1976 William Billy Carrol is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Monday 13th of June 1983 32-year-old Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano, originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury is sentenced to death for two murders in 251 N Ridgewood Ave, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Monday 13th of June 1983 Cindy Paulson is held captive, tortured, raped and sexually assaulted by serial killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Paulson saw a chance to escape when Hansen was busy loading his airplane's cockpit.

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(-) 42 years ago Wednesday 13th of June 1984 Wendy Lynn Baribeault is abducted, raped and strangled by serial killer Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler in Lisbon, Connecticut, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago The Bomb Did not Explode Thursday 13th of June 1985 43-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails Bomb #9 to the Auburn Fabrication Division of the Boeing Company in Auburn, Washington in Oakland, California, United States. The bomb was not addressed to anyone so it sat for a while in the mail room. It was eventually partially opened by mail room employees who discovered the enclosed device. The bomb did not explode.

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(x) 41 years ago He Was Protesting Environmental Pollution Thursday 13th of June 1985 The painting 'King Philip IV of Spain' by Peter Paul Rubens is destroyed by arson in Kunsthaus Zürich, Heimplatz 1, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. The fire reduced the work to ashes, leaving only its Baroque frame. An unidentified man was arrested and said his reason for destroying this priceless work was to protest environmental pollution.

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(-) 40 years ago Friday 13th of June 1986 Musician and bandleader Benny Benjamin David Goodman aka The King of Swing dies of a heart attack at the age of 77 in Manhattan House, 200 East 66th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 13th of June 1986 27-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Ik Daag U Uit' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK at the Anti-Chambres exhibition in Fabriek voor Entartete Kunst, Drongensesteenweg 281, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I was locked in an iron cage. While AMVK read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the cage by a rope. The sound of the iron cage dragging across the floor was electronically amplified.

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(x) 31 years ago Tuesday 13th of June 1995 Tenth bomb attack by 46-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Fuchs' bomb injured politician Thomas Rother.

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(-) 29 years ago He Leaned His Head Down a Little Bit Friday 13th of June 1997 Murderer Michael Eugene Elkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Broad River Correctional Institution, Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Because Elkins' body had become swollen from liver and spleen problems it took nearly an hour to find a suitable vein for the insertion of the catheter. Elkins tried to assist the executioners asking "Should I lean my head down a little bit?" as they probed for a vein. After numerous failures a usable vein was finally found in Elkins' neck.

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(x) 28 years ago Saturday 13th of June 1998 64-year-old Family leader Charles Milles Manson, originally no name Maddox known for conspiracy to murder Sharon Tate is transferred back after serving time in Pelican Bay State Prison for peddling drugs to fellow inmates in Corcoran State Prison, Corcoran, California, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago He Got Out of There Wednesday 13th of June 2001 Triple murderer John Leslie Wheat is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. At his execution Wheat uttered a Vietnamese word that prison officials said means "let's get out of here."

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 13th of June 2002 A forbidden photo during the trial of an artist against a Museum for Contemporary Art in Assisenhof, Britselei 55-57, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 13th of June 2002 Murderer Daniel Earl Reneau is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 23 years ago Friday 13th of June 2003 Triple murderer Joseph L. Trueblood is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Indiana State Prison, 1 Park Row, Michigan City, Indiana, United States.

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(-) 9 years ago Tuesday 13th of June 2017 Actress, artist, model and muse of the Rolling Stones Anita Pallenberg dies of complications from hepatitis C at the age of 75 in Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

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41st year - Nr 163 Friday, 12 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 163 Friday, 12 June 2026

12 June / Today's 25 Events:

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(-) 1210 years ago Sunday 12th of June 0816 96th Pope Leo III dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 145 years ago Sunday 12th of June 1881 Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 145 years ago Sunday 12th of June 1881 Daniel Stott is poisoned by serial killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist in Garden Prairie, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 136 years ago Thursday 12th of June 1890 Artist Egon Schiele is born in Tulln an der Donau, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(x) 106 years ago Saturday 12th of June 1920 54-year-old Surgeon and grafting pioneer Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff performs the first official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human in 2 Rue d'Auteuil, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. The monkey gland would be cut in pieces of about two centimeters long by a half centimeter wide and a few millimeters deep. The surgeon would then introduce two grafts in the scrotum, which he fixed with stitches taken off after eight days. Among forty men operated on during the 1920's-30's at the Villa Molière in Auteil, at a nursing home, Ambroise Paré in Neuilly, and the Rue Montaigne nursing home were nine employees, seven doctors, four engineers, four men of letters, three architects, three manufacturers, two attorneys, two university profess ors, one man of private means, one agronomist, one painter, and one worker. Nine were between the ages of 20 and 40, eighteen were between 41 and 60 and seventeen were between 61 and 80.

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(+) 102 years ago Thursday 12th of June 1924 41st President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush is born in 173 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 97 years ago Wednesday 12th of June 1929 Diarist Anne Annelies Marie Frank is born in Klinik Maingau vom Roten Kreuz, Scheffelstraße 2–14, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(-) 90 years ago Friday 12th of June 1936 Murderer Tyrie Harrell is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Holman Correctional Facility, Ross Road, Atmore, Alabama, United States.

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(-) 63 years ago Wednesday 12th of June 1963 African American civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers is shot in the back by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith at the age of 38 in 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, Jackson, Mississippi, United States. De La Beckwith was only convicted of murder three decades later, on 5 February 1994. He died at age 80 in prison on 21 January 2001.

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(x) 61 years ago Saturday 12th of June 1965 27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 9. Aktion in his studio and in the fields of Stammersdorf and Schottergrube in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 53 years ago Tuesday 12th of June 1973 Murderer Willie Marcel Shannon is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 48 years ago Monday 12th of June 1978 25-year-old Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz, originally Richard David Falco aka Son of Sam is sentenced to 315 years imprisonment and sent to the Attica Correctional Facility in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 44 years ago Saturday 12th of June 1982 Lyubov Biryuk is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Nowotscherkassk-Bagajewska road, Donskaya, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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(x) 39 years ago Friday 12th of June 1987 66-year-old Self-proclaimed Emperor of Central Africa Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death in Palais de Justice, Rue de Normandie, Bangui, Ombella-M'Poko, Central African Republic. Bokassa was found guilty of all but the cannibalism charges.

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(-) 39 years ago He Didn't Catch no Fish Friday 12th of June 1987 Double murderer Jimmy L. Glass is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, United States. Glass' last words at execution were "I'd rather be fishing".

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(x) 39 years ago Friday 12th of June 1987 Noise music band Club Moral play their 73rd concert in Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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(x) 36 years ago Tuesday 12th of June 1990 46-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Inge Viett is arrested as she walked towards the elevator in the entrance hall of the apartment block in which she lived in Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Viett was sentenced to thirteen years in jail.

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(-) 33 years ago He Would Probably Not Kill Again Saturday 12th of June 1993 Emanuel Spitteri is tortured and strangled by serial killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Slayer in Catford, London, South London, United Kingdom. After carrying out his post-murder ritual of cleaning and clearing the scene Ireland set fire to the flat and left. He rang the police later to tell them to look for a body at the scene of a fire and added that he would probably not kill again.

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(-) 31 years ago Monday 12th of June 1995 Millicent 'Peanut' Jones is found strangled by serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago The Stuff Had a Bad Taste to it Monday 12th of June 2000 Double murderer Thomas Wayne Mason is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. As the drugs began taking effect Mason blurted out "This stuff has a bad taste to it."

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(-) 20 years ago Monday 12th of June 2006 Composer György Sándor Ligeti dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 12th of June 2008 My 'Manson Family' installation hacking away in Verbeke Foundation, Westakker, Kemzeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 10 years ago He Was the Shooter Sunday 12th of June 2016 Mass murderer Omar Mir Seddique Mateen known for the Orlando nightclub shooting is shot dead after a three-hour standoff with police officers at the age of 30 in Pulse Nightclub, 1912 S. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida, United States. In three hours time Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded another 58 with a SIG Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle and a 9mm Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol during a 'Latin Night'. At 2:45 a.m., Mateen called News 13 of Orlando and said "I'm the shooter. It's me. I am the shooter." He then said he was carrying out the shooting on the behalf of ISIS and began speaking rapidly in Arabic.

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(-) 6 years ago They Told Laura He Died Friday 12th of June 2020 Pop singer Ricky Valance, originally David Spencer known for his hit single ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’ dies of unknown causes at the age of 84 in Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. His agent said Valance had been diagnosed with dementia and had been in hospital since before the start of lockdown.

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(x) 1 years ago Thursday 12th of June 2025 294 die in Air India Flight 171 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash and explosion in B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. One person survived.

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