41st year - Nr 154 Wednesday, 3 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 154 Wednesday, 3 June 2026

3 June / Today's 38 Events:

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(+) 162 years ago Friday 3rd of June 1864 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Ransom Eli Olds is born in Geneva, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 161 years ago Saturday 3rd of June 1865 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India George V, originally George Frederick Ernest Albert is born in Marlborough House, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 151 years ago Thursday 3rd of June 1875 Composer Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet known for Carmen dies of angina pectoris at the age of 37 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 120 years ago Sunday 3rd of June 1906 Dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, originally Freda Josephine McDonald aka The Bronze Venus or The Black Pearl is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Thursday 3rd of June 1909 German ambassador in Paris Ernst Eduard vom Rath is born in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 108 years ago Monday 3rd of June 1918 Lieutenant-colonel and pilot William Franklin Smith known for flying an airplane into the Empire State Building is born in Latham, Alabama, United States.

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(+) 104 years ago Saturday 3rd of June 1922 Film director Alain Resnais is born in Vannes, Bretagne, France.

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(-) 102 years ago War Er Ein Hungerkünstler Tuesday 3rd of June 1924 Writer Franz Kafka dies of laryngeal tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Sanatorium Hoffmann, Hauptstraße 187, Kierling, Niederösterreich, Austria. Kafka's cause of death seemed to be starvation: the condition of his throat made eating too painful for him, and since parenteral nutrition had not yet been developed, there was no way to feed him.

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(+) 101 years ago Wednesday 3rd of June 1925 Actor Tony Curtis, originally Bernard Schwartz is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 100 years ago He Howled Thursday 3rd of June 1926 Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 99 years ago Friday 3rd of June 1927 Mary Sietsema is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 98 years ago She Died a Virgin Sunday 3rd of June 1928 Grace Budd is abducted by serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac in 406 West 15th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Budd was taken to Wisteria Cottage in White Plains and murdered, cut to pieces and eaten by Fish. In November 1934 Fish sent a letter to Mrs Budd describing how he killed and ate Grace, "It took me 9 days to eat her entire body".

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(+) 98 years ago Sunday 3rd of June 1928 Minimal artist Donald Clarence Judd is born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, United States.

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(+) 76 years ago Saturday 3rd of June 1950 Vigilante Marianne Bachmeier aka The Revenge Mother is born in Sarstedt, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 76 years ago Saturday 3rd of June 1950 Musician Suzi Susan Kay Quatro is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 71 years ago Friday 3rd of June 1955 Murderess Barbara Graham, originally Barbara Elaine Ford aka Bloody Babs is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. Two of Graham's convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, were executed on the same day.

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(x) 64 years ago Sunday 3rd of June 1962 130 die in Air France Boeing 707-328 Flight 007 crash in Paris Orly Airport, Orly, Île-de-France, France. The plane ran off the end of the runway and burst into flames. Two flight attendants seated in the back of the cabin survived the crash and fire. A third flight attendant survived the disaster but later died in hospital. Andy Warhol painted his first 'disaster painting', '129 Die in Jet!' based on the 4 June 1962 cover of the New York Mirror, the day after the crash. At that time, the death count was 129.

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(x) 63 years ago Monday 3rd of June 1963 101 die in Northwest Orient Airlines Douglas DC-7C Flight 293 crash in Annette Island, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States. The wreckage of the DC-7 remained under more than 8.000 feet of water. None of the bodies of the crew or passengers were ever recovered.

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(-) 63 years ago His Brow Was Ritually Tapped Monday 3rd of June 1963 261st Pope Ioannes XXIII, originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli aka The Blessed dies of peritonitis caused by a perforated stomach at the age of 82 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. After Ioannes XXIII died his brow was ritually tapped to see if he was dead and those with him in the room said prayers.

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(x) 58 years ago Monday 3rd of June 1968 Andy Warhol, originally Andrew Warhola aka The Pope of Pop is shot by radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas in The Factory, 231 East 47th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Solanas fired three times. She missed twice, but the third shot went through Warhol's both lungs, his spleen, stomach, liver, and esophagus. She then shot art critic Mario Amaya in the hip. She tried to shoot Warhol's manager Fred Hughes in the head but her gun jammed. "I consider that a moral act. And I consider it immoral that I missed. I should have done target practice."

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(x) 57 years ago He Had His Paperwork Done Tuesday 3rd of June 1969 The house of 30-year-old Foot fetishist and serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is searched in 3123 Center Street, Salem, Oregon, United States. Amongst boxes of pornography and fetish self-portraits of Brudos, the search also revealed female breasts used as paperweights.

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(x) 53 years ago Sunday 3rd of June 1973 14 die in Tupolev Tu-144S CCCP-77102 crash in Salon du Bourget, Goussainville, Val d'Oise, France. The crash occurred in front of 250.000 people including designer Alexei Tupolev.

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(-) 52 years ago Monday 3rd of June 1974 Irish republican hunger striker Michael Gaughan, originally Micheal O Gaibhtheachain dies after a hunger strike that lasted 64 days at the age of 25 in Parkhurst Prison, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. The British Government stated that Gaughan died of pneumonia; his family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube.

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(-) 52 years ago Monday 3rd of June 1974 Marie-Dolorès Rambla is abducted and stabbed to death by child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge in Cité Sainte-Agnès, 132 Rue Albe, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 50 years ago Thursday 3rd of June 1976 Michael Bonnin 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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(-) 49 years ago Friday 3rd of June 1977 Film director Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rosselini dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 3rd of June 1979 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 65. Aktion for Pfingsfest in Schloss Prinzendorf, Schloss Straße 1, Prinzendorf an der Zaya, Niederösterreich, Austria. Nitsch' 65. Aktion for Pfingsfest lasted nine hours.

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(-) 37 years ago Saturday 3rd of June 1989 Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini dies of a heart attack at the age of 87 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Khomeini suffered five heart attacks in ten days.

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(-) 29 years ago He Was Ready Tuesday 3rd of June 1997 Murderer Kenneth Bernard Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Harris' last worde were "I am ready, Warden."

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(-) 28 years ago Wednesday 3rd of June 1998 Serial killer Douglas Edward Gretzler is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, Gretzler killed 19 people.

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(x) 28 years ago Wednesday 3rd of June 1998 101 die in Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen InterCity Express 884 train derailment in Eschede, Niedersachsen, Germany. The accident was caused by a single fatigue crack in one wheel which, when it finally failed, caused the train to derail at a switch.

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(-) 25 years ago He Was King for Three Days Sunday 3rd of June 2001 King Dipendra of Nepal, originally Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev dies of his injuries after shooting himself in the head at the age of 30 in Shree Birendra Military Hospital, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. Dipendra was proclaimed King in his hospital bed and reigned from 1 to 3 June 2001.

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(-) 25 years ago Sunday 3rd of June 2001 Actor Anthony Quinn, originally Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca dies of pneumonia and repiratory failure at the age of 86 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 3rd of June 2007 An abandoned ship in Lobroekdok, Merksem, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 17 years ago He Didn't Hop Grass Anymore Wednesday 3rd of June 2009 Actor David Carradine, originally John Arthur Carradine aka The Barefoot Legend known for his role as warrior monk Kwai Chang Caine dies of autoerotic asphyxiation at the age of 73 in Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel, 2/14 Wireless Road, Lumphini, Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand. Carradine was found in a closet in his room with a rope tied to his genitals and neck.

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(-) 15 years ago His Death Was Painless Friday 3rd of June 2011 Pathologist and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, originally Murad Jacob Kevorkian aka Doctor Death dies of cerebral thrombosis at the age of 83 in William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, United States. Kevorkian was hospitalized on 18 May 2011 with kidney problems and pneumonia. There were no artificial attempts to keep him alive and his death was painless.

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(-) 10 years ago Friday 3rd of June 2016 Boxer Muhammad Ali, originally Cassius Marcellus Clay dies of septic shock at the age of 74 in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 5 years ago Thursday 3rd of June 2021 Criminal defense attorney Francis Lee Bailey dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 88 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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