41st year - Nr 166 Monday, 15 June 2026

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41st year - Nr 166 Monday, 15 June 2026

15 June / Today's 26 Events:

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(+) 183 years ago Thursday 15th of June 1843 Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway.

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(-) 177 years ago Friday 15th of June 1849 11th President of the United States James Knox Polk dies of cholera at the age of 54 in Polk Place, Vine Street, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 122 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1904 1021 die in General Slocum passenger steamboat fire in East River, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 120 years ago Friday 15th of June 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Ernst Spiecker is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 120 years ago Friday 15th of June 1906 Rexist and Belgian Waffen SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle is born in Bouillon, Luxembourg, Belgium.

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(+) 112 years ago Monday 15th of June 1914 Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov is born in Stanitsa Nagutskaya, Stavropolsky Kray, Russia.

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(+) 97 years ago Saturday 15th of June 1929 Film director Herschell Gordon Lewis aka The Godfather of Gore is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 88 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1938 Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 58 in Frauenkirch-Wildboden, Graubünden, Switzerland. Kirchner was in distress after the destruction of approximately 600 of his works by the Nazis because of 'degeneration'.

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(x) 86 years ago Saturday 15th of June 1940 49-year-old Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond marries his 32-year-old secretary Anne Wilbraham in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 83 years ago Tuesday 15th of June 1943 Call girl Xaviera Hollander, originally Vera de Vries aka The Happy Hooker is born in Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Indonesia.

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(+) 83 years ago Tuesday 15th of June 1943 Singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Hallyday, originally Jean-Philippe Smet aka The French Elvis is born in Clinique Villa Marie-Louise, 3 Cité Malesherbes, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 60 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1966 Maria Gomółka is beaten to death by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland. On the same day Marchwicki also attacked Julianna Kozierska, she survived.

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(-) 59 years ago Thursday 15th of June 1967 Zofia Kawka is beaten to death by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland.

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(x) 56 years ago Monday 15th of June 1970 An unidentified woman is assaulted by 19-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Soest, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 54 years ago Thursday 15th of June 1972 38-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is arrested in Walsroder Straße 11, Langenhagen, Niedersachsen, Germany. To make sure they have captured the feared terrorist they make an X-ray of Meinhof's  head, revealing a metal clip that was left behind during a brain-operation 10 years earlier.

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(-) 53 years ago Friday 15th of June 1973 Raymond Stanley Blackburn is abducted and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States. Blackburn was buried by Eyler at Lake Sam Rayburn.

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(x) 53 years ago Friday 15th of June 1973 35-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 42. Aktion in Galleria LP 220, Via Pietro Micca 21, Torino, Piedmontese, Italy.

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(x) 52 years ago Saturday 15th of June 1974 The painting 'Adoration of the Magi' by Peter Paul Rubens is vandalised with two-foot-high letters IRA scratched on it in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago He Was Born Again in a Plastic Laundry Cart Sunday 15th of June 1975 30-year-old Leading member of the 'Manson Family' Tex Charles Watson is born again and baptized by a student chaplain in a large plastic laundry cart outside the prison chapel in Folsom State Prison, Represa, Folsom, California, United States.

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(-) 44 years ago Tuesday 15th of June 1982 Debra Smith Taylor is raped and strangled by serial killer Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler in Griswold, Connecticut, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Wednesday 15th of June 1983 Two unidentified girls are abducted and sexually assaulted by 38-year-old Serial killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Boynton Beach, Florida, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago The Worst Damage Was to the Face and Hair Saturday 15th of June 1985 Rembrandt's painting 'Danaë' is attacked by 48-year-old Art vandal Bronius Maigys in State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. Maigys went into the Hermitage and headed to the Rembrandt’s painting hall, where he asked the keeper which of Rembrandt’s paintings was considered the most valuable — she replied that it was Danae, which was not for sale at all. Then Maygis went to Danae, pulled out a knife and a can of sulfuric acid from his jacket and stabbed the picture several times with a knife, falling into the thigh and abdomen of Danae.

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(-) 32 years ago He Was Human Wednesday 15th of June 1994 Murderer David Lawson is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Lawson, strapped into a wooden chair and wearing only white boxer shorts, a diaper and socks, began yelling after his executioners placed a leather mask over his face. His words were not clear through the double-paned windows of the death chamber but he seemed to scream "I'm human! I'm human!" as the airtight door to the room was clamped shut.

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(-) 28 years ago Monday 15th of June 1998 Cop killer Johnny Dean Pyles is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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27 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 15th of June 1999 A regiment of eyes waiting to be covered in Formaldehyde for my 'Dante's Inferno' installation in Fort Asperen, Langendijk, Asperen, Gelderland, Netherlands.

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(-) 26 years ago Thursday 15th of June 2000 Murderer Paul Selso Nuncio is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Nuncio broke into 61-year-old Pauline Crownover Farris' home through the back door and beat her until she was unrecognizable, then raped her and strangled her to death. He then stole two television sets, a stereo, a VCR and some jewelry. He was arrested almost a week after the murder after selling one of the TV's.

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