3 Sad events for Friday 24 June 2016

28 events for Friday 24 June 2016

(x) 642 Years Ago Today Friday 24th of June 1374 Due to an outbreak of Johannestanz aka St. John's Dance aka Dancing Mania people start hallucinating, jumping and twitching uncontrollable until collapsing in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.




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• (-) 497 Years Ago Today Ten Was Too Much Tuesday 24th of June 1519 Duchess of Bisceglie, Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess of Salerno and femme fatale Lucrezia Borgia dies from complications after giving birth to her tenth child at the age of 39 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Borgia had a long history of complicated pregnancies and miscarriages.




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• (+) 212 Years Ago Today Sunday 24th of June 1804 Botanist, numismatist and Sinologist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher is born as Endlicher István László in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slowakia.




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• (+) 128 Years Ago Today Sunday 24th of June 1888 Furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is born in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.




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• (-) 108 Years Ago Today He Tried So Hard Wednesday 24th of June 1908 22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Stephen Cleveland dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Cleveland's last words were "I have tried so hard to do right."




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• (+) 107 Years Ago Today Thursday 24th of June 1909 Mathematician William George Penney aka The Father of the British Atomic Bomb is born in Gibraltar, Overseas Territory, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 90 Years Ago Today Thursday 24th of June 1926 58-year-old Anna Russel is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Santa Barbara, California, United States.




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• (+) 86 Years Ago Today Tuesday 24th of June 1930 Film director Claude Henri Jean Chabrol is born in Sardent, Limousin, France.




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• (+) 81 Years Ago Today Monday 24th of June 1935 Minimal composer Terry Terrence Mitchell Riley is born in Colfax, California, United States.




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• (x) 80 Years Ago Today Wednesday 24th of June 1936 28-year-old Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor is arrested at his parents' house in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.




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• (+) 75 Years Ago Today Tuesday 24th of June 1941 Mass murderer Charles Joseph Whitman aka The Man on the Tower is born in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.




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• (+) 74 Years Ago Today His Kingdom Was About to Come Wednesday 24th of June 1942 Musician Arthur Brown aka The God of Hellfire is born as Arthur Wilton Brown in Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.




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• (+) 67 Years Ago Today Friday 24th of June 1949 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is born in Rheinberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.




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• (+) 66 Years Ago Today Saturday 24th of June 1950 Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is born in County Cork, Munster, Ireland.




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• (-) 55 Years Ago Today Saturday 24th of June 1961 Yachtsman and scientific explorer George Washington Vanderbilt III known for his lavish lifestyles commits suicide by leaping from his 10th floor suite at the age of 47 in Mark Hopkins Hotel, 999 California Street, San Francisco, California, United States.




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• (x) 51 Years Ago Today Thursday 24th of June 1965 40-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 20 / Turnstunde in Nahrungsmitteln' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria.




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• (x) 50 Years Ago Today Friday 24th of June 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 2/ Die für Vernünftige Geisteskranke Nicht Ohne Bedeutung Sein Dürfte' with Günter Brus in Galerie Josef Dvorak, Lagergasse 2, Wien, Wien, Austria.




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• (x) 41 Years Ago Today Tuesday 24th of June 1975 113 die in Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727-225 Flight 66 crash in Rockaway Boulevard, Jamaica, New York, United States. There were 11 survivors.




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• (x) 40 Years Ago Today Thursday 24th of June 1976 49-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.




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• (x) 37 Years Ago Today Sunday 24th of June 1979 The Steyaert family is robbed and killed by 33-year-old Mass murderer Freddy Horion aka De Zonnebril and Roland Feneulle in Antwerpsesteenweg 860, Gent, Sint-Amandsberg, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Horion killed Roland Steyaert, his wife Leona, their daughters 13-year-old Hilde and 22-year-old Anne-Marie and her 24-year-old lover Marc.




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• (-) 29 Years Ago Today Wednesday 24th of June 1987 Murderer Elliot Rod Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. It took 35 minutes to insert a catheder into Johnson's vein.




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• (x) 23 Years Ago Today Thursday 24th of June 1993 51-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails bomb #14 to computer science professor David Gelernter in Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Gelernter suffered severe burns and shrapnel wounds, permanent damage to his right eye and loss of his right hand.




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• (-) 22 Years Ago Today Friday 24th of June 1994 B-52 pilot Arthur Holland aka Bud steers a B-52 Stratofortress beyond operational parameters resulting in a crash, killing all 4 crew members at the age of 46 in Fairchild Air Force Base, Fairchild, Washington, United States. In an investigation the USAF stated that the crash was entirely attributable to Holland's personality and behaviour.




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• (x) 21 Years Ago Today Saturday 24th of June 1995 53-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber mails copies of his 'Industrial Society and its Future' manifesto to the New York Times, the Washington Post and Penthouse from his cabin in Unabomber Cabin, Lincoln, Montana, United States. 'Industrial Society and its Future'  was published by the Washington Post on 19 September 1995.




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• (x) 21 Years Ago Today Saturday 24th of June 1995 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo are abducted by 39-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Dutroux in Rue de Fexhe, Grâce-Hollogne, Liège, Belgium. The two girls were kept in a dungeon in Dutroux' basement and died of starvation while he was in prison from later that year onwards.




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• 15 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Sunday 24th of June 2001 A party in honour of Ade Darmawan at our house in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.




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• (x) 14 Years Ago Today Monday 24th of June 2002 281 die in passenger and goods train collision in Igandu, Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania. The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.




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• (x) 11 Years Ago Today Friday 24th of June 2005 46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Le Petit Bucher de Margarete' in an exhibition by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Belfort, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. I took off my left shoe and tied small branches and straw against my leg. I lit several candles together and let the candlewax drip over the branches and my leg until a kind of shell was formed. Then I cut loose all the ropes and left the small stake behind.

3 Sad events for Friday 17 June 2016

26 events for Friday 17 June 2016

(+) 134 Years Ago Today Saturday 17th of June 1882 Composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.




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• (+) 127 Years Ago Today Monday 17th of June 1889 Murderess Eva Coo aka Madame aka The Mallet Murderess is born as Eva Curry in Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.




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• (+) 118 Years Ago Today Friday 17th of June 1898 Artist Maurits Cornelis Escher aka M. C. Escher is born in Princessehof, Grote Kerkstraat 11, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands.




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• (+) 116 Years Ago Today Sunday 17th of June 1900 Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann is born in Wegeleben, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.




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• (+) 92 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 1924 Serial killer Archibald Thomson Hall aka The Monster Butler aka Roy Fontaine is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 83 Years Ago Today Saturday 17th of June 1933 31-year-old Raymond J. Caffrey is shot dead by bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.




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• (-) 77 Years Ago Today Saturday 17th of June 1939 Kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 31 in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France. Weidmann's was the last public execution and the last one before the outbreak of the war.




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• (x) 76 Years Ago Today Monday 17th of June 1940 84-year-old General Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain orders all Frenchmen to lay down their arms against Nazi Germany in Paris, Île-de-France, France.




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• (+) 73 Years Ago Today Thursday 17th of June 1943 Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow is born as Barry Alan Pincus in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.




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• (+) 67 Years Ago Today Friday 17th of June 1949 Musician Philip Charles Lithman aka Snakefinger is born in London, Tooting, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 64 Years Ago Today He Fatally Dropped the Coffee Can Tuesday 17th of June 1952 Rocket propulsion researcher and Thelemite occultist Jack Marvel Whiteside Parsons is blown apart by an explosion of fulminate of mercury at the age of 38 in Huntingdon Memorial Hospital, 100 W California Blvd, Pasadena, California, United States. In an explosion at his home laboratory Parsons sustained mortal wounds. His right forearm was amputated, his legs and left arm were broken and a hole was torn in the right side of his face. Despite these critical injuries Parsons was found conscious by the upstairs lodgers. He was declared dead around thirty-seven minutes after the explosion. Parsons' last words were "Who will take care of me now?" When his mother Ruth was informed of the events she immediately committed suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates.




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• (+) 64 Years Ago Today He Was Not Scary Tuesday 17th of June 1952 Artist John Duncan is born in Wichita, Kansas, United States.




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• (-) 57 Years Ago Today Wednesday 17th of June 1959 25-year-old Frieda Klara Tesmer is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Graf-Spee-Brücke, Duisburg, Rheinhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.




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• (-) 57 Years Ago Today She Was Found Naked and Dead Wednesday 17th of June 1959 21-year-old Elisabeth Figg aka Ann Philips is strangled by unidentified serial killer Jack the Stripper in Dukes Meadow, Chiswick, Greater London, United Kingdom.




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• (-) 53 Years Ago Today Monday 17th of June 1963 SS Sturmbannführer and commander of Auschwitz KZ Richard Baer dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Untersuchungshaft, Hammelsgasse, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. Baer was awaiting trial in the 'Auschwitz Processe'.




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• (+) 47 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 1969 Murderer Granville Riddle is born in Oakdale, Texas, United States.




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• (x) 44 Years Ago Today Saturday 17th of June 1972 Five burglars are arrested in the headquarters of the American Democratic Party in Watergate complex, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The five burglars were Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James McCord, Eugenio Martínez and Frank Sturgis. They were charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communications.




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• (x) 42 Years Ago Today Monday 17th of June 1974 Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the Gulf Oil headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was a protest against the company's actions in Angola and Vietnam.




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• (-) 30 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 1986 21-year-old Todd Stoops is kidnapped and held tortured by serial killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Stoops' torture endured prior to his death included electric shocks via a spatula placed across his eyelid in an unsuccessful attempt to blind him. Stoops died of a combination of blood loss and infection on July 1.




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• (-) 26 Years Ago Today Sunday 17th of June 1990 Fashion model Palmira Henry aka Pal dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44 in New York City, New York, United States.




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• (-) 19 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 1997 Triple murderer Eddie James Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.




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• (-) 17 Years Ago Today Thursday 17th of June 1999 Murderer Stanley Joseph Faulder is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.




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• 17 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it Thursday 17th of June 1999 Maren Hoffmeister at the opening event of 'Dante's Inferno' in Fort Asperen, Langendijk, Asperen, Gelderland, Netherlands.




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• (-) 8 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 2008 Double murderer Yoshio Yamasaki is executed by hanging at the age of 73 in Osaka, Kinki, Japan.




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• (-) 8 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 2008 Serial killer, cannibal and necrophile Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.




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• (-) 8 Years Ago Today Tuesday 17th of June 2008 Multiple murderer Shinji Mutsuda is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.