Friday, June 30, 2017

32nd year - N° 181 Friday, 30 June 2017

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32nd year - N° 181 Friday, 30 June 2017

30 June / Today's 8 Events:
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125 years ago

Thursday 30th of June 1892

SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Ludwig Pohl is born in Ruhrort, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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124 years ago

Friday 30th of June 1893

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany Walter Ulbricht known for founding the German Democratic Republic is born in Gottschedstraße 4, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.


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84 years ago

Friday 30th of June 1933

Cop killer Derek William Bentley is born in Bristol, South West England, United Kingdom.


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66 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1951

Deranged gunman Marcus Wayne Chenault is born in Winchester, Kentucky, United States.

On 30 June 1974 he killed Mrs. Alberta Williams King, the mother of Dr. Martin Luther King.


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55 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1962

Helen Blake is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 73 Newhall Street, Lynn, Massachusetts, Belgium.


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55 years ago

Saturday 30th of June 1962

Nina Nichols is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 1940 Commonwealth Avenue, Lynn, Massachusetts, United States.


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26 years ago

Sunday 30th of June 1991

Matt Turner aka Donald Montrell is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.


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8 years ago

Tuesday 30th of June 2009

152 die in Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-324 crash in Moroni, Grande Comore, Comoros.

12-year-old Bahia Bakari survived the crash with minor injuries.


Thursday, June 29, 2017

32nd year - N° 180 Thursday, 29 June 2017

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32nd year - N° 180 Thursday, 29 June 2017

29 June / Today's 20 Events:
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1950 years ago His Desire Was Fulfilled

Wednesday 29th of June 0067

First Pope Petrus I, originally Shimon Petrus Cephas is executed by crucifixion with his head downwards at the age of 66 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Petrus was crucified with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer.


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153 years ago

Wednesday 29th of June 1864

99 die in Grand Trunk train plunge into a river in Belœil Bridge, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.

Train conductor Thomas Finn and engineer William Burnie failed to acknowledge a stop signal and the train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River.


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117 years ago Le Prince Était Petit

Friday 29th of June 1900

Aristocrat, writer, poet and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, originally Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger is born in Rue de Saint-Exupéry, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.


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106 years ago

Thursday 29th of June 1911

Composer Bernard Herrmann, originally Max Herman is born in New York City, New York, United States.


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93 years ago

Sunday 29th of June 1924

45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf confesses to a long career of murder, butchering and selling his victims' meat in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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88 years ago

Saturday 29th of June 1929

Journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.


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84 years ago

Thursday 29th of June 1933

Actor Roscoe Conkling 'Fatty' Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in New York City, New York, United States.

The night before Arbuckle went out with friends to celebrate his first wedding anniversary where he reportedly said: "This is the best day of my life." He suffered a heart attack later that night and died in his sleep.


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83 years ago

Friday 29th of June 1934

Zaro Ağa aka The Longest Living Human Ever dies of natural causes at the age of 157 in Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey.


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77 years ago

Saturday 29th of June 1940

Artist Paul Klee dies of scleroderma at the age of 61 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.


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76 years ago

Sunday 29th of June 1941

Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture is born in Port-of-Spain, Metropolitan Area, Trinidad.


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61 years ago

Friday 29th of June 1956

30-year-old Actress Marilyn Monroe, originally Norma Jeane Mortenson marries writer Arthur Miller in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States.

Monroe and Miller divorced on 20 January 1961.


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50 years ago

Thursday 29th of June 1967

Actress Jayne Mansfield, originally Vera Jayne Palmer aka The Working Man's Monroe dies in a car crash at the age of 34 in Rigolets Bridge, U.S. Highway 90, Slidell, Louisiana, United States.

Mansfield, her 40-year-old lover Sam Brody, their 20-year-old driver Ronnie Harrison, and three of her children - 8-year-old Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay, 6-year-old Zoltán Anthony Hargitay and 3-year-old Mariska Magdalena Hargitay were heading for New Orleans where she was scheduled to appear for an early-morning television interview. The 1966 Buick Electra 225, which was reportedly going 80 miles per hour, crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The three adults in the front seat were killed instantly; the children in the rear survived with minor injuries.


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44 years ago

Friday 29th of June 1973

All members of Left-wing militant group the Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe end their second hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.


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42 years ago

Sunday 29th of June 1975

Musician Tim Timothy Charles Buckley dies of a heroin and alcohol overdose at the age of 28 in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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24 years ago He Was the Low Sinner of All Sinners

Tuesday 29th of June 1993

Multiple murderer Markham Duff-Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Duff-Smith's last words were "I am the low sinner of all sinners."


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23 years ago

Wednesday 29th of June 1994

Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 44 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the murders of 9 prostitutes earlier that day.


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22 years ago

Thursday 29th of June 1995

502 die in Sampoong Department Store collapse in Sampoong Department Store, Seocho-gu, Seoel, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea.


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22 years ago

Thursday 29th of June 1995

Actress Lana Turner, originally Julia Jean Turner dies of throat cancer at the age of 74 in 2170 Century Park East, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States.



14 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 29th of June 2003

A concert by Dez Mona in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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14 years ago

Sunday 29th of June 2003

Actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn dies of a tumour at the age of 96 in Fenwick, Connecticut, United States.


Wednesday, June 28, 2017

32nd year - N° 179 Wednesday, 28 June 2017

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32nd year - N° 179 Wednesday, 28 June 2017

28 June / Today's 21 Events:
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541 years ago

Wednesday 28th of June 1476

223rd Pope Paulus IV, originally Gian Pietro Carafa is born in Capriglia Irpina, Campania, Italy.


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526 years ago

Sunday 28th of June 1491

King of England Henry VIII of England, originally Henry Tudor is born in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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440 years ago

Tuesday 28th of June 1577

Painter Peter Paul Rubens is born in Siegen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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305 years ago

Tuesday 28th of June 1712

Philosopher, writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born in 40 Grand-Rue, Genève, Romandie, Switzerland.


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126 years ago Came the Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance

Sunday 28th of June 1891

Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder is born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, United States.


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112 years ago The Head Opened Its Eyes

Wednesday 28th of June 1905

Murderer Henri Languille is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Dr. Beaurieux lifted the head out of the basked and called out Languille's name upon which the head opened its eyes.


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91 years ago

Monday 28th of June 1926

Film director, actor and comedian Mel Brooks, originally Melvin James Kaminsky is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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82 years ago He Was Free

Friday 28th of June 1935

Actor John Frederick Inman aka Mr. Humphries known from Are You Being Served? is born in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.


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70 years ago

Saturday 28th of June 1947

Black Panther Mark Clark is born in Peoria, Illinois, United States.


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58 years ago

Sunday 28th of June 1959

Police discover the bodies of 53-year-old Raymond Cook, his 37-year-old wife Daisy Mae shot in the head and their children 9-year-old Gerald, 8-year-old Patrick, 7-year-old Christopher, 5-year-old Kathy, and 3-year-old Linda Mae bludgeoned to death in the grease pit of their garage by 22-year-old Mass murderer Robert Raymond Cook in 52 Street, Stettler, Alberta, Canada.

Cook had been arrested in Stettler a day earlier after he had traded the family's 1958 Chevrolet station wagon for a 1959 Impala convertible.


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55 years ago

Thursday 28th of June 1962

Mary Mullen is killed by heart failure in the course of being strangled by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 1435 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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55 years ago

Thursday 28th of June 1962

37-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Fest des Psycho–physischen Naturalismus' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.


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46 years ago

Monday 28th of June 1971

SS commandant of the Sobibór and Treblinka extermination camps Franz Paul Stangl aka Der Weiße Tod dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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42 years ago He Traveled to Another Dimension

Saturday 28th of June 1975

Screenwriter, television producer and narrator Rod Rodman Edward Serling known from The Twilight Zone dies of a heart attack at the age of 51 in Strong Memorial Hospital, 125 Lattimore Rd, Rochester, New York, United States.

Serling had a 10-hour-long open heart surgery carried out on 26 June 1975.


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41 years ago

Monday 28th of June 1976

9/11 terrorist Satam Muhammed Abdel Rahman al-Suqami is born in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia.


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37 years ago

Saturday 28th of June 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Underground Confrontation' with Ria Pacquée in Meir Metro Station, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Ria Pacquée stood on the lower metro-platform. A drop of water was falling on her head continuously. I was laying on the floor on the upper platform and hit the floor with my forehead. I imagined the rhythm of the falling drop.


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33 years ago

Thursday 28th of June 1984

Jennie Vincow is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in Chapman Street, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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31 years ago

Saturday 28th of June 1986

Valentine Gleim is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Somerville Hastings House, Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

In the same event 94-year-old Zbigniew Stabrawa was also assaulted and strangled.


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24 years ago

Monday 28th of June 1993

34-year-old Serial killer Joel David Rifkin aka The Long Island Ripper is arrested after a police-hunt because of a missing number-plate on his Mazda pick-up in Southern State Parkway, Mineola, New York, United States.

A high-speed chase ended in Mineola when he crashed into a utility pole directly in front of the courthouse where Rifkin eventually stood trial. Troopers detected a foul odor from the back of the truck. It came from the corpse of 22-year-old prostitute and dancer Tiffany Bresciani, the girlfriend of Dave Rubinstein aka Dave Insurgent, a member of the 1980s punk band Reagan Youth), Rifkin's final victim.



15 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 28th of June 2002

Intergalactic composition on the windowsill in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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5 years ago

Thursday 28th of June 2012

53-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Acid Motorcycle Angst in Another Dimension' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in De Player, Hillelaan 49d, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

A music performance of Club Moral with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven whereby I was hanging from my feet for 45 minutes and hit the back of my head on the wooden floor for 15 minutes.


Tuesday, June 27, 2017

32nd year - N° 178 Tuesday, 27 June 2017

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32nd year - N° 178 Tuesday, 27 June 2017

27 June / Today's 13 Events:
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179 years ago

Wednesday 27th of June 1838

Weapon designer Paul Mauser is born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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148 years ago

Sunday 27th of June 1869

Anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman is born in Kovno, Trakai Voivodeship, Lithuania.


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99 years ago

Thursday 27th of June 1918

Louis Besumer is attacked by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in corner of Dorgenois and Laharpe Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Besumer was in bed with his mistress Harriet Lowe, who died on 5 August 1918, just two days after doctors performed surgery in an effort to repair her partially paralyzed face. Besumer was charged with murder while Lowe was in the hospital and stated that it was Besumer who had attacked her. He served nine months in prison before being acquitted on 1 May 1919 after a ten minute jury deliberation.


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82 years ago

Thursday 27th of June 1935

Murderess Eva Coo, originally Eva Curry aka Madame aka The Mallet Murderess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.


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76 years ago

Friday 27th of June 1941

Film director Krzysztof Kieślowski is born in Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.


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68 years ago

Monday 27th of June 1949

Spree killer and writer Norio Nagayama is born in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan.


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48 years ago

Friday 27th of June 1969

30-year-old Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer pleads guilty to 3 charges of first degree murder and is sentenced to 3 consecutive life-sentences in Salem, Oregon, United States.


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46 years ago

Sunday 27th of June 1971

King Dipendra of Nepal, originally Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is born in Narayanhity Royal Palace, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.


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32 years ago

Thursday 27th of June 1985

Patty Elaine Higgins is throatcut by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in 665 W. Naomi, Arcadia, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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31 years ago

Friday 27th of June 1986

Frederick Prentice is attacked by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in Cedars Rd, Clapham, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Prentice was awoken by sounds of someone entering his bedroom. Prentice switched on the light and told the intruder to get out. He was then attacked and was being strangled when he freed one hand and pressed the alarm at the side of his bed. Erskine ran off.


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16 years ago He Didn't Like it Hot

Wednesday 27th of June 2001

Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon dies of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, United States.


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11 years ago The Devil Ruled His Life

Tuesday 27th of June 2006

Serial killer Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, originally Ángel Leoncio Reyes Recendis aka The Railroad Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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1 years ago The Future Wasn't Shocked

Monday 27th of June 2016

Writer and futurist Alvin Toffler dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, United States.