-
(+)
152 Years Ago Today
Friday 3rd of June 1864
Automobile manufacturing pioneer Ransom Eli Olds is born in Geneva, Ohio, United States. -
(+)
151 Years Ago Today
Saturday 3rd of June 1865
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India George V is born as George Frederick Ernest Albert in Marlborough House, London, Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
(-)
141 Years Ago Today
Thursday 3rd of June 1875
Composer Georges Alexandre César Léopold Bizet known for Carmen dies of angina pectoris at the age of 37 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
(+)
110 Years Ago Today
Sunday 3rd of June 1906
Dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker aka The Bronze Venus or The Black Pearl is born as Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. -
(+)
107 Years Ago Today
Thursday 3rd of June 1909
German ambassador in Paris Ernst Eduard vom Rath is born in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. -
(+)
94 Years Ago Today
Saturday 3rd of June 1922
Film director Alain Resnais is born in Vannes, Bretagne, France. -
(-)
92 Years Ago Today War Er Ein Hungerkünstler
Tuesday 3rd of June 1924
Writer Franz Kafka dies of laryngeal tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Sanatorium Hoffmann, Hauptstraße 187, Kierling, Niederösterreich, Austria.
Kafka's cause of death seemed to be starvation: the condition of his throat made eating too painful for him, and since parenteral nutrition had not yet been developed, there was no way to feed him. -
(+)
91 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 3rd of June 1925
Actor Tony Curtis is born as Bernard Schwartz in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States. -
(+)
90 Years Ago Today He Howled
Thursday 3rd of June 1926
Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. -
(-)
89 Years Ago Today
Friday 3rd of June 1927
27-year-old Mary Sietsema is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Chicago, Illinois, United States. -
(-)
88 Years Ago Today She Died a Virgin
Sunday 3rd of June 1928
10-year-old Grace Budd is abducted by serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac in 406 West 15th Street, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.
Budd was taken to Wisteria Cottage in White Plains and murdered, cut to pieces and eaten by Fish. In November 1934 Fish sent a letter to Mrs Budd describing how he killed and ate Grace, "It took me 9 days to eat her entire body". -
(+)
88 Years Ago Today
Sunday 3rd of June 1928
Minimal artist Donald Clarence Judd is born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, United States. -
(+)
66 Years Ago Today
Saturday 3rd of June 1950
Musician Suzi Susan Kay Quatro is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. -
(-)
61 Years Ago Today
Friday 3rd of June 1955
Murderess Barbara Graham aka Bloody Babs is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.
Two of Graham's convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, were executed on the same day. -
(-)
53 Years Ago Today His Brow Was Ritually Tapped
Monday 3rd of June 1963
261st Pope Ioannes XXIII aka The Blessed dies of peritonitis caused by a perforated stomach at the age of 82 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
After Ioannes XXIII died his brow was ritually tapped to see if he was dead and those with him in the room said prayers. -
(x)
48 Years Ago Today
Monday 3rd of June 1968
40-year-old Andy Warhol aka The Pope of Pop is shot by radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas in The Factory, 231 East 47th Street, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.
Solanas fired three times. She missed twice, but the third shot went through Warhol's both lungs, his spleen, stomach, liver, and esophagus. She then shot art critic Mario Amaya in the hip. She tried to shoot Warhol's manager Fred Hughes in the head but her gun jammed. "I consider that a moral act. And I consider it immoral that I missed. I should have done target practice." -
(x)
47 Years Ago Today He Had His Paperwork Done
Tuesday 3rd of June 1969
The house of 30-year-old Serial killer Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer is searched in 3123 Center Street, Salem, Oregon, United States.
Amongst boxes of pornography and fetish self-portraits of Brudos, the search also revealed female breasts used as paperweights. -
(-)
42 Years Ago Today
Monday 3rd of June 1974
8-year-old Marie-Dolorès Rambla is abducted and stabbed to death by child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge in Cité Sainte-Agnès, 132 Rue Albe, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. -
(-)
42 Years Ago Today
Monday 3rd of June 1974
Irish republican hunger striker Michael Gaughan dies after a hunger strike that lasted 64 days at the age of 25 in Parkhurst Prison, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
The British Government stated that Gaughan died of pneumonia; his family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube. -
(-)
40 Years Ago Today
Thursday 3rd of June 1976
17-year-old Michael Bonnin is strangled by serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown in 8213 West Summerdale Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. -
(-)
39 Years Ago Today
Friday 3rd of June 1977
Film director Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rosselini dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. -
(-)
27 Years Ago Today
Saturday 3rd of June 1989
Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini dies of a heart attack at the age of 87 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Khomeini suffered five heart attacks in ten days. -
(-)
19 Years Ago Today He Was Ready
Tuesday 3rd of June 1997
Murderer Kenneth Bernard Harris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Harris' last worde were "I am ready, Warden." -
(-)
18 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 3rd of June 1998
Serial killer Douglas Edward Gretzler is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.
Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, Gretzler killed 19 people. -
(-)
15 Years Ago Today
Sunday 3rd of June 2001
Actor Anthony Quinn dies of pneumonia and repiratory failure at the age of 86 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. -
(-)
15 Years Ago Today He Was King for Three Days
Sunday 3rd of June 2001
King Dipendra of Nepal dies of his injuries after shooting himself in the head at the age of 30 in Shree Birendra Military Hospital, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.
Dipendra was proclaimed King in his hospital bed and reigned from 1 to 3 June 2001. -
9 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Sunday 3rd of June 2007
An abandoned ship in Lobroekdok, Antwerpen, Merksem, Antwerpen, Belgium. -
(-)
7 Years Ago Today He Didn't Hop Grass Anymore
Wednesday 3rd of June 2009
Actor David Carradine aka The Barefoot Legend known for his role as warrior monk Kwai Chang Caine dies of autoerotic asphyxiation at the age of 73 in Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Hotel, 2/14 Wireless Road, Bangkok, Lumphini, Central Thailand, Thailand.
Carradine was found in a closet in his room with a rope tied to his genitals and neck.
Wednesday 1 June 2016
32 events for Friday 3 June 2016
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
No comments :
Post a Comment