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31st year - N° 172 Monday, 20 June 2016
20 June / Today's 22 Events:
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197 years ago
Sunday 20th of June 1819
Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
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129 years ago
Monday 20th of June 1887
Dada artist Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters is born in Rumannstraße 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
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123 years ago
Tuesday 20th of June 1893
33-year-old Presumed axe murderess Lizzie Lizbeth Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
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117 years ago
Tuesday 20th of June 1899
Hero of the French Résistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier is born in Béziers, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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107 years ago
Sunday 20th of June 1909
Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
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104 years ago
Thursday 20th of June 1912
Anarchist writer and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 46 in St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Leavitt and Thomas Streets, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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97 years ago
Friday 20th of June 1919
150 die in Teatro Yagüez fire in Teatro Yagüez, Calle McKinley, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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91 years ago
Saturday 20th of June 1925
Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, United States.
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88 years ago
Wednesday 20th of June 1928
Actor Martin Landau known from Mission: Impossible is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.
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87 years ago
Thursday 20th of June 1929
Robert Warnke is beaten to death by serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.
"I'll kill the first man that bothers me," Panzram told the warden upon entering the prison. That man happened to be prison laundry foreman Warnke.
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86 years ago
Friday 20th of June 1930
39-year-old Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in United States Penitentiary, Metropolitan Avenue, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.
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82 years ago
Wednesday 20th of June 1934
The body of 46-year-old First wife of Hermann Göring Carin Axelina Hulda Fock who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.
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74 years ago
Saturday 20th of June 1942
Paul Léon Braunberger is murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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74 years ago He Was Made for These Times
Saturday 20th of June 1942
Musician Brian Douglas Wilson known from The Beach Boys is born in Centinela Hospital, 555 E Hardy Street, Inglewood, California, United States.
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69 years ago
Friday 20th of June 1947
Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is riddled with bullets by persons unknown at the age of 41 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel's skull blew his left eye out of its socket. Siegel was hit by several other bullets including shots through his lungs.
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47 years ago
Friday 20th of June 1969
Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is found dead under the window of his flat at the age of 29 in Werdertorgasse, Wien, Wien, Austria.
Whether Schwarzkogler's death was an accident or suicide was never established.
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40 years ago
Sunday 20th of June 1976
33-year-old Accomplice of spree killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red Caril Ann Fugate is paroled after 17 years imprisonment in Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, York, Nebraska, United States.
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39 years ago His Double Fantasy Failed
Monday 20th of June 1977
22-year-old Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon tries to commit suicide by carbon monoxide asphyxiation in Kailua, Hawaii, United States.
Chapman connected a hose to his car's exhaust pipe, but the hose melted and the attempt failed.
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28 years ago
Monday 20th of June 1988
Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in City Hall, Room 653, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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21 years ago
Tuesday 20th of June 1995
Philosopher Emil Mihai Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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18 years ago He Jumped the Other Wall
Saturday 20th of June 1998
Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Oberbayern, Germany.
4 years ago The Eyes had it
Wednesday 20th of June 2012
Greenery on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.