Wednesday 29th of June 0067

First Pope Petrus I is executed by crucifixion with his head downwards at the age of 66 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Petrus was crucified with his head downwards, as he himself had desired to suffer.

Friday 29th of June 1855

Multiple murderer John Henry Schultz is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Galveston, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 29th of June 1864

99 die in Grand Trunk train plunge into a river in Belœil Bridge, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.

Train conductor Thomas Finn and engineer William Burnie failed to acknowledge a stop signal and the train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River.

Saturday 29th of June 1895

Assassin Paul Gorguloff known for shooting French President Paul Doumer is born as Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov in Labinskaya, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

Friday 29th of June 1900

Aristocrat, writer, poet and aviation pioneer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is born as Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger in Rue de Saint-Exupéry, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Thursday 29th of June 1911

Composer Bernard Herrmann is born as Max Herman in New York City, New York, United States.

Sunday 29th of June 1924

45-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf confesses to a long career of murder, butchering and selling his victims’ meat in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Saturday 29th of June 1929

Journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

Thursday 29th of June 1933

Actor Roscoe Conkling 'Fatty' Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in New York City, New York, United States.

The night before Arbuckle went out with friends to celebrate his first wedding anniversary where he reportedly said: "This is the best day of my life." He suffered a heart attack later that night and died in his sleep.

Friday 29th of June 1934

Zaro Ağa aka The Longest Living Human Ever dies of natural causes at the age of 157 in Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey.

Saturday 29th of June 1940

Artist Paul Klee dies of scleroderma at the age of 61 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.

Sunday 29th of June 1941

Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture is born in Port-of-Spain, Metropolitan Area, Trinidad.

Wednesday 29th of June 1955

Victim of Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury Janine M. Ligotino is born in Clintondale, New York, United States.

Friday 29th of June 1956

30-year-old Actress Marilyn Monroe marries writer Arthur Miller in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States.

Monroe and Miller divorced on 20 January 1961.

Thursday 29th of June 1967

Actress Jayne Mansfield aka The Working Man's Monroe dies in a car crash at the age of 34 in Rigolets Bridge, U.S. Highway 90, Slidell, Louisiana, United States.

Mansfield, her 40-year-old lover Sam Brody, their 20-year-old driver Ronnie Harrison, and three of her children - 8-year-old Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay, 6-year-old Zoltán Anthony Hargitay and 3-year-old Mariska Magdalena Hargitay were heading for New Orleans where she was scheduled to appear for an early-morning television interview. The 1966 Buick Electra 225, which was reportedly going 80 miles per hour, crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The three adults in the front seat were killed instantly; the children in the rear survived with minor injuries.

Friday 29th of June 1973

All members of Left-wing militant group the Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe end their second hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.

Sunday 29th of June 1975

Musician Tim Timothy Charles Buckley dies of a heroin and alcohol overdose at the age of 28 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Tuesday 29th of June 1993

Multiple murderer Markham Duff-Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Duff-Smith's last words were "I am the low sinner of all sinners."

Wednesday 29th of June 1994

Serial killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 44 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the murders of 9 prostitutes earlier that day.

Thursday 29th of June 1995

502 die in Sampoong Department Store collapse in Sampoong Department Store, Seoul, Seocho-gu, Seoul National Capital Area, South Korea.

Thursday 29th of June 1995

Actress Lana Turner dies of throat cancer at the age of 74 in 2170 Century Park East, Los Angeles, Century City, California, United States.

Thursday 29th of June 2000

Mass murderer Jessy Carlos San Miguel aka The Taco Bell Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

19-year-old San Miguel and 17-year-old Jerome Green killed 28-yearold manager Michael Phelan, 16-year-old pregnant waitress Theresa Fraga, her 23-year-old cousin Frank Fraga and 35-year-old Son Nyugen during the robbery of a Taco Bell restaurant in Irving on 26 January 1991. Green was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment.

Sunday 29th of June 2003

Actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn dies of a tumour at the age of 96 in Fenwick, Connecticut, United States.

Sunday 29th of June 2003

A concert by Dez Mona in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 29th of June 2022

Medieval flowers on our terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.