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.

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.

Sunday 24th of June 1804

Botanist, numismatist and Sinologist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher is born as Endlicher István László in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slowakia.

Sunday 24th of June 1888

Furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is born in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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."

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.

Sunday 24th of June 1917

Murderer George Edward Grammer is born in Fullerton, Maryland, United States.

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.

Thursday 24th of June 1926

Double murderess Louie Calvert is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 31 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 24th of June 1930

Film director Claude Henri Jean Chabrol is born in Sardent, Limousin, France.

Monday 24th of June 1935

Minimal composer Terry Terrence Mitchell Riley is born in Colfax, California, United States.

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.

Tuesday 24th of June 1941

Mass murderer Charles Joseph Whitman aka The Man on the Tower is born in Lake Worth, Florida, United States.

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.

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.

Saturday 24th of June 1950

Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is born in County Cork, Munster, Ireland.

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.

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.

Thursday 24th of June 1965

27-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 10. Aktion in his studio in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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.

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.

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.

Sunday 24th of June 1979

The Steyaert family is robbed and killed by 33-year-old Mass murderer Freddy André 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Paul Alain 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.

Wednesday 24th of June 1998

31-year-old Serial killer Heriberto Eddie Seda aka The New York Zodiac Killer is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in New York, Queens, New York, United States.

Seda caused repeated disruptions in court, making outbursts and shouting at the judge.

Sunday 24th of June 2001

A party in honour of Ade Darmawan at our house in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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.

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.

Monday 24th of June 2024

A painted image of a German soldier with dog in the Atlantik Wall Museum in Oostende, Raversijde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.