Wednesday, June 12, 2013

50 Years Ago it Was Only a Pawn in Their Game

1197 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 June 816
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Pope Leo III dies at the age of 66 in Rome, Italy.

123 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 June 1890
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Artist Egon Schiele is born in Tulin-an-der-Tau, Austria.

89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 June 1924
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41st President of the USA George Herbert Walker Bush is born in Milton, Massachussets, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 June 1929
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Writer Anne Annelies Marie Frank is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

82 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 June 1931
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Triple Murderer Stephanus Louis Van Wijk is executed by hanging in Praetoria Prison, South Africa.

77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 June 1936
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Murderer Tyrie Harrell is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 June 1944
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Nazi Germany launches the first V-1 rocket towards London in Peenemunde, Germany.

65 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 June 1948
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Double Murderer David Junior Brown is born in North Carolina, USA.

50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 June 1963
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Black Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers is shot in the back by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith at the age of 37 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
De La Beckwith was only convicted of murder three decades later, on 5 February 1994.

35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 June 1978
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25-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is sentenced to 315 years imprisonment and sent to the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, New York, USA.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 June 1980
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Prime Minister Masajoshi Ohira dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Tokyo, Japan.

31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 June 1982
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Ljuba Birjuk is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 12 in Donskaja, Landstraße Nowotscherkassk-Bagajewska, Russia.

28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 June 1985
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Colonel Vicente Romero Calatayud is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 55 in Madrid, Spain.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 June 1987
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Murderer Jimmy Glass is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Louisiana, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 June 1987
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66-year-old Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa is sentenced to death in Bangui, Central Africa.

23 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 June 1990
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46-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Inge Viett is arrested in Magdeburg, Germany.

20 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 June 1993
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Emanuel Spitteri is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 42 in London, United Kingdom.

13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 June 2000
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Double Murderer Thomas Wayne Mason is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 June 2003
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Actor Gregory Eldred Peck dies of bronchopneumonia at the age of 87 in Torrance, California, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 June 2006
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Composer Györgi Sándor Ligeti dies at the age of 83 in Wien, Austria.

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