Friday, June 14, 2013

90 Years Ago the Box of Biscuits Held a Surprise

664 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 June 1349
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Anti-King Günther Von Schwarzburg dies at the age of 44 in Burg Greifenstein, Bad Blankenburg, Thüringen, Germany.

516 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 June 1497
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Second Duke of Gandia Juan Borgia is presumably stabbed to death by his brother at the age of 23 in Rome, Piazza della Giudecca, Italy.

157 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 June 1856
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Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Stafford Gaol, United Kingdom.
Some 30.000 people watched the execution.

149 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 June 1864
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Neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer is born in Marktbreit, Bavaria, Germany.

106 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 June 1907
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Architect William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper, dies at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 1923
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Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is tortured and executed by the army after a coup d'état at the age of 44 in Slavovitsa, Bulgaria.
His head was sent to Sofia in a box of biscuits.

89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 June 1924
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Erich Devries is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

85 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 1928
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Revolutionary leader Ernesto De La Serna aka Che Guevara, is born in Rosario, Argentina.

82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 June 1931
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450 Die in St. Philibert excursion steamer shipwreck in St. Nazaire, France.

80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 June 1933
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Writer Jerzy Kosinski is born in Lodz, Poland.

68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 1945
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Artist Jörg Immendorff is born in Bleckede, Germany.

67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 June 1946
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Actor Charles Butterworth commits suicide by a car crash at the age of 49 in California, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 June 1961
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Musician Boy George originally George Alan O’Dowd, is born in London, United Kingdom.

51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 1962
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Anna Slesers is sexually assaulted and strangled by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 55 in Boston, 77 Gainsborough Street, Massachussets, USA.

37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 June 1976
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Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Oxford, United Kingdom.

33 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 June 1980
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Regina Barthel is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 14 in Dietzenbach, Heusenstamm Wald, Germany.

31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 June 1982
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Argentina capitulates to the United Kingdom in the Falklands-War.

27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 June 1986
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Ludmilla Liberman is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 86 in Paris 14th, 61 Avenue General Leclerc, France.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 June 1989
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Edward Smith aka The Sheik, is drugged, strangled, violated and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 26 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 June 1989
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72-year-old Actress and Beauty Queen Zsa Zsa Gabor aka Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt, is arrested for slapping a motorcycle police agent in the face in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
She will be sentenced to 72 hours in jail.

23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 1990
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38-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Werner Lotze is arrested in Senftenberg, Germany.

23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 1990
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41-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christine Dümlein is arrested in Senftenberg, Germany.

22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 June 1991
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Leslie Mahaffy is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, at the age of 16 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.

19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 June 1994
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Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 June 2000
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Murderer John Albert Burks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 2001
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Murderer Jay D. Scott is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 June 2007
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Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 88 in Vienna, Austria.

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