Saturday, June 10, 2017

32nd year - N° 161 Saturday, 10 June 2017

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32nd year - N° 161 Saturday, 10 June 2017

10 June / Today's 34 Events:
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2340 years ago

Sunday 10th of June 0323bc

Alexander the Great dies of a fever attack due to poisoning at the age of 33 in Mesopotamia, Babylon, Babil Governorate, Iraq.


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325 years ago

Tuesday 10th of June 1692

Bridget Bishop, originally Bridget Playfer is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

Bishop was accused of bewitching five young women; Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Hubbard, on the date of her examination by the authorities. It was the first execution in the Salem Witchcraft Trials.


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198 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1819

Painter Gustave Jean Désiré Courbet is born in Ornans, Doubs, France.


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181 years ago He Was Happy at Last

Friday 10th of June 1836

Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère dies of unknown causes at the age of 61 in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

On his deathbed Ampère ordered that an inscription be placed upon his tombstone: Tandem Felix (Happy at Last).


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131 years ago He Was Too Mad to Rule

Thursday 10th of June 1886

41-year-old King of Bavaria Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II aka Der Märchenkönig is officially declared incapable of executing his governmental powers due to insanity in Schloss Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, Bayern, Germany.

Ludwig II was transported to Schloss Berg on the shores of Starnberger See, south of München.


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121 years ago

Wednesday 10th of June 1896

Baby farm murderess Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, originally Hobley aka The Ogress of Reading is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Dyer was tried and hanged for one murder but there is little doubt she was responsible for many more similar deaths - possibly 400 or more - over a period of perhaps 20 years.


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107 years ago

Friday 10th of June 1910

Musician Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf is born in White Station, Mississippi, United States.


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102 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1915

Writer Saul Bellow is born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada.


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95 years ago

Saturday 10th of June 1922

Actress, singer and vaudevillian Judy Garland, originally Frances Ethel Gumm is born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States.


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94 years ago

Sunday 10th of June 1923

Media tycoon Robert Ian Maxwell, originally Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch aka Captain Bob is born in Slatinské Doly, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.


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91 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1926

Architect Antoni Gaudí, originally Antoni Gaudí i Cornet aka God's Architect dies of injuries suffered in a traffic accident at the age of 74 in Hospital de la Santa Creu, El Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

On 7 June 1926 Gaudí was taking his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession. While walking along the Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes between Girona and Bailén streets he was struck by a passing tram and lost consciousness.


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91 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1926

Lilian St. Mary is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Francisco, California, United States.


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90 years ago

Friday 10th of June 1927

Murderer John Butchek is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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84 years ago

Saturday 10th of June 1933

Lawyer Francis Lee Bailey is born in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States.


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76 years ago She Was Still a Foolish Little Girl

Tuesday 10th of June 1941

Lead singer of the Shirelles Shirley Owens is born in Henderson, North Carolina, United States.


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73 years ago

Saturday 10th of June 1944

642 inhabitants including women and children are massacred by the 2. SS-Panzer-Division 'Das Reich' under command of SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Lammerding in Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne, France.


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71 years ago

Monday 10th of June 1946

Boxer Jack John Arthur Johnson aka The Galveston Giant known for becoming the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion dies in a car crash at the age of 68 in U.S. Highway 1, Franklinton, North Carolina, United States.

Johnson crashed into a telephone pole after racing angrily from a diner that refused to serve him.


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68 years ago

Friday 10th of June 1949

Writer Sigrid Undset dies of unknown causes at the age of 67 in Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway.


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60 years ago

Monday 10th of June 1957

Murderer Clarence van Buuren is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.


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50 years ago He Left with a Loud Clump

Saturday 10th of June 1967

Actor Spencer Bonaventure Tracy dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Katharine Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed Tracy to the kitchen: "Just as I was about to give the door a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor - then clump - a loud clump."


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42 years ago

Tuesday 10th of June 1975

25-year-old Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for armed assault in Portland, Oregon, United States.


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37 years ago

Tuesday 10th of June 1980

38-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails a bomb to United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.

Wood suffered cuts and burns over most of his body and face.


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35 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1982

Wife and muse of Salvador Dalí Gala Dalí, originally Elena Ivanovna Diakonova dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in Port Lligat, Catalonia, Spain.


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35 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1982

Film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder dies of heart failure resulting from a lethal interaction between sleeping pills and cocaine at the age of 37 in München, Bayern, Germany.


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35 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 1982

Singer Addie Harris aka Micki Harris known from The Shirelles dies of a heart attack at the age of 42 in Hyatt Regency Atlanta, 265 Peachtree Street NE, Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Harris had just finished two performances with The Shirelles at the hotel.


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34 years ago

Friday 10th of June 1983

24-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Karl Großmann' in Club Moral, Kattenberg 122, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Standing on a tree stump I read confessions from multiple murderer and cannibal Karl Groβmann, then I poured blood over my head and let it run down over my body onto the tree stump.


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29 years ago

Friday 10th of June 1988

Child molester and serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, United States.

"I am a homosexual pedophile convicted of murder, and pornography was a determining factor in my downfall."


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23 years ago

Friday 10th of June 1994

Installation artist Ed Edward Ralph Kienholz dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Hope, Idaho, United States.

Kienholz was buried in a Kienholz installation: "His corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole."


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19 years ago

Wednesday 10th of June 1998

19-year-old Mass murderer Sa'eed Qashash kills 11 members of his family and a friend because they threatened to kick him out of the house if he failed to pass his Tawjihi exams in Amman, Muhafazat al-Asima, Jordan.


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19 years ago He Fainted

Wednesday 10th of June 1998

Red Army deserter and 25-year-old Serial rapist and killer Vadim Yershov is sentenced to death for robbing, raping and killing 19 people in Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsky Krai, Russia.

Yershov reportedly fainted as the sentence was pronounced.


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16 years ago

Sunday 10th of June 2001

Princess of Iran Leila Pahlavi commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal and cocaine at the age of 31 in Leonard Hotel, 11-17 Seymour Street, Marylebone, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Pahlavi was found in bed, her body emaciated by years of anorexia, bulimia, and food intolerances. Pahlavi had more than five times the lethal dose of Seconal in her system along with a nonlethal amount of cocaine. She spent much of her last year staying at the Leonard Hotel paying £450 a night for her favourite suite.


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13 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 2004

Singer-songwriter and composer Ray Charles, originally Raymond Charles Robinson aka The Genius dies of acute liver disease at the age of 74 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.



10 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 10th of June 2007

Obligatorious democratorius in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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7 years ago

Thursday 10th of June 2010

Painter Sigmar Polke dies of cancer at the age of 69 in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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