Thursday, June 20, 2013

15 Years Ago He Jumped the Other Wall

1476 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 June 537
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Pope Silverius dies in Palmarola, Italy.

194 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 June 1819
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Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Germany.

130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1883
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Composer Giannotto Bastianelli is born in Florence, Italy.

126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1887
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Artist Kurt Schwitters is born in Hannover, Germany.

120 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1893
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32-year-old Presumed hatchet murderess Lizzie Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in Bedford, Massachussets, USA.

114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1899
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Hero of the French Resistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier, is born in Béziers, France.

113 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1900
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German ambassador in China Klemens August Freiherr von Ketteler is shot dead in the street by an Imperial Guards Brigade at the age of 46 in Beijing, Xizongbu Hutong, China.

104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 June 1909
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Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobarth, Tasmania.

101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 June 1912
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Anarchist feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 45 in Chicago, St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Illinois, USA.

94 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1919
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150 Die in Mayaguez theatre fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1924
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Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1925
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Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, USA.

85 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1928
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Politician Jean-Marie Le Pen is born in Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany, France.

84 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 June 1929
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Robert Warne is beaten to death by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, in Leavenworth prison, USA.

83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1930
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39-year-old Serial Killer 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 Leavenworth prison, USA.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1934
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Actor Martin Landau is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1934
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The body of Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Eberswald, Germany.

71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1942
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Beach Boy Brian Douglas Wilson is born in Hawthorne, California, USA.

71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1942
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Dr. Braunberger is presumably killed by by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, 21 rue Lesueur, France.

66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1947
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Racketeer Bugsy Benjamin Siegel has his eyes blown out and vertebrae smashed by members of the Syndicate at the age of 41 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1949
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Musician Lionel Brockman Jr Richie is born in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 June 1962
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Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Kaapstad, South Africa.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 June 1969
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Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 28 in Vienna, Austria.

41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1972
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Over 200 Die in shooting in Argentina.
It occured at the arrival of Juan Peron.

37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 June 1976
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32-year-old Girlfriend of Spree Killer Charles Starkweather, Caril Ann Fugate is paroled from Nebraska Correctional Center for Women after serving 18 years in York, Nebraska, USA.

36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1977
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22-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, tries to commit suicide by putting a hose from the exhaust into his car in Hawaï, USA.

32 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1981
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James Churchill is stabbed to death by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 38 in Rock Island, the Mississippi River banks, Illinois, USA.

25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 June 1988
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Start of the trial against 44-year-old Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, City Hall, Room 653, Pennsylvania, USA.

24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1989
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Aljoscha Makarow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Koltschugino, Wladimir, Russia.

18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1995
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Murderer Ronald Allridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1995
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Murderer John Jr. Fearance is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 1995
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Philosopher Emil Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, France.

15 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 June 1998
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Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Bavaria, Germany.

7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 June 2006
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Triple murderer Lamont Reese is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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