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Deaths
which occurred on a 07 June:
2003
Police officers James Crump, Arnold Strickland, and dispatcher
Ace Mealer, alone in the Fayette, Alabama, police station,
with Devin Moore, whom they were booking at 05:30 (09:30 UT) for auto theft.
Moore grabs a gun, shoots the three, flees in a police car, which he abandons
across the state line in Mississippi, where he is arrested at 09:00, 20
km east of the Alabama border.
 2003
Roosevelt Bonds, 51, beaten with a size 12 high heeled shoe by
his 100-kg ex-girlfriend Anna Rhinehart, 40, sitting on his chest, after
he punched her in the mouth knocking out her two front teeth during an argument
started when she finds him at 03:00 in a New York City restaurant.
2002 Ediborah Yap, Martin Burnham, 42, and four Abu Sayyaf bandits
who were holding them hostage, in a rescue attack by hundreds of Filipino
elite soldiers, near Siraway, Zamboanga del Norte, southern Philippines.
Among the wounded is Gracia Burnham (born 17 Jan 1959), Martin's wife, with
a gunshot wound all the way through her right thigh. The Burnhams [04
Jan 2001 photo >], New
Tribes Mission missionaries from Wichita, Kansas, in the Philippines
for ten years, were kidnapped on 27 May 2001, at the Dos Palmas Island Resort
at Honda Bay off the island of Palawan, where they were celebrating their
18th wedding anniversary. Yap, a Filipino nurse, was kidnapped days later
when the Abu Sayyaf, with the Burnhams in tow, raided a hospital in the
southern town of Lamitan to seize hospital staff and medicine to treat their
wounded. The guerrillas kidnapped 18 other persons along with the Burnhams,
including 17 Filipinos and Corona, California, resident Guillermo Sobero.
Sobero was beheaded by the guerrillas in June 2001. Some of the other hostages
were murdered too, but most were freed. By November 2001 only the Burnhams
and Yap remained hostages. The Abu
Sayyaf fighters are thought to number only 60 or so from an original
force of 1000 after a year of army offensives. The group started out fighting
to carve a Muslim state out of the southern Philippines, but it has degenerated
into a kidnap-for-ransom business.
2002 Takayuki Niimi,
32, soon after being punched in the face several times and then, when he
fell over, stabbed in the head with an umbrella by acquaintance Ryuji Sakamoto,
32, enraged by Niimi's long-time rudeness in failing to use an honorific
suffix, such as “san”, when speaking to him, in Sakuragi, Japan.
Both men were unemployed.
2002:: 67 persons on a bus
crowded with Afghan families returning home after years in Pakistani refugee
camps, which plunges into the Kabul River, near Sarobi, 25 km east of Kabul.
 2001
Royal Bengal tiger, shot at the Royal Chitaun National Park, 150
km south of Katmandu, Nepal, after killing five people between 31 May and
06 June in neighboring villages. There are some 5000 Royal Bengal tigers
in the world. India has about 3000, Bangladesh has some 300, Nepal has some
150. [click image for more on R.B. tigers >]
1999
Francisco “Paco” Stanley, 57, and Jorge Gil, gunned down
on Mexico City's beltway. Stanley era un abogado formado en la Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), la principal del país, y tenía especialidades
en sicología, mercadotecnia y publicidad Ex profesor de enseñánza secundaria,
se inició en la locución radial en 1969 y durante la década de 1980 incursionó
en la televisión para convertirse en uno de sus más populares animadores.
emisión Gil era un periodista que aparecía con Stanley en la emisión
"Una tras Otra". There would follow a protracted prosecution which would
destroy the reputation of chief prosecutor Samuel del Villar and end on
25 January 2001 with the acquittals of Stanley's on-screen sidekick, Mario
Rodriguez Bezares, and an aspiring actress on his program, Paola Durante.
Both had been charged with setting up Stanley for the streetside killing.
Also acquitted would be alleged drug lord Luis Amezcua, to whom prosecutors
claimed the slain comedian had owed money for drug buys.
1998 James
Byrd Jr., 49, Black, is chained
to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas, a crime
that shocks the world. ^top^
Three men, Lawrence Russell Brewer
Jr., 31, John William "Bill" King, 23, and Shawn Allen Berry,
23, chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him three
miles down the road. Byrd was black; his three killers -- whose guilt
was never really in doubt -- were white.
Byrd,
a black Jasper resident born on 02 May 1949, got so drunk at a party
that his friends and relatives refused to drive him home. So he walked.
When three white men, Berry, Brewer and King, offered him a ride in
Berry's primer-gray pickup, he apparently jumped right in. What happened
next is hazy, but the four men didn't go home. Instead, they started
swilling beer together and smoking cigarettes.
Eventually, some combination of Berry, Brewer and King tired of the
camaraderie and decided to chain their newfound companion by his ankles
to the back of their pickup and drag him down a county road. Finally,
Byrd's head hit a culvert and split, along with one arm, from the
rest of his body. Brewer, Berry and King unchained the body and left
it outside the gates of a local graveyard, then went their separate
ways. Byrd's buttocks and heels were ground down almost to the bone.
He was alive and probably conscious until his head hit the culvert.
His last moments couldn't have been anything short of excruciating.
Berry later said that he was a horrified bystander, not an active
participant. He said that the other men threatened him, saying "the
same thing can happen to a nigger lover."
Brewer
and King both had racist tattoos and open ties with a white supremacist
group. While they were in jail in Jasper County, Brewer sent King
a note proudly boasting that after Byrd's death, "we are bigger stars,
or should I say hero of the day, than we ever expected." King first
(25 February 1999), and then Brewer (September 1999) were tried and
sentenced to death. Berry, who did not have the same racist antecedents
as the other two, was sentenced to life in prison (parole possible
after 40 years)(18 November 1999). |
1997 Amos Tutuola, escritor nigeriano.
1989
Still a few more persons killed in the Chinese anti-democracy repression.
http://www.cnd.org/June4th/1989.06-07.hz8.html
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"Quiet Day, Only Two People Shot" -- Foreigners
Scramble to Leave China
Swept by alarms,
reverberating with the crump of distant artillery fire throughout
the night, Beijing looked scarred and battle-worn Wednesday morning
890607 as rival armies appeared to be wrestling for control of the
city.
But it seems optimism must
find some outlet in these desperate days. "We had a quiet day. Only
two people shot that I know of, at least in this neighborhood," one
man said. He was standing next to his bicycle at the intersection
of Dong Dan and Chang An Avenues.
Chang An, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, has been crunched up and deeply
furrowed by the treads of tanks, armored cars and trucks, which come
and go in thunderous convoys, heading east to the city's outskirts
at night and returning in the morning.
Thousands of soldiers, many firing long bursts wildly in the air,
moved out of Tiananmen on Wednesday morning. While the convoy rolled
east, other troops were reported approaching the city centre from
the south, giving rise to the theory that a rotation of forces was
taking place.
Many Beijing residents
say they want troops loyal to the reformists in the Communist Party
leadership to confront units which led the bloody Tiananmen assault.
Many people are leaving the city for
safer places. Long processions of people carrying cloth bags and belongings
tied up in blankets can be seen heading for the Beijing railroad station,
and train whistles blow through the gray mornings, unnaturally loud
in this unaccustomed silence.
Water supplies are beginning to fail sporadically in high buildings
in the city. Long lines are forming at the few shops and vegetable
stalls still open. Food is twice as expensive as usual.
Governments and business firms around the world scrambled Tuesday
to get foreign nationals out of China as fears grew that the country
could be plunged into civil war. Some governments chartered special
planes for a mass evacuation reminiscent of the alarm that swept the
foreign community in Iran during the 1979 Islamic revolution. At least
three special charter flights were sent to Beijing on Tuesday, and
others were expected. Most major Western countries, fearing the worst,
told their nationals to get out of China as quickly as possible. Some
big US corporations already have begun pulling their staffs out of
China. Hundreds of anxious foreigners jammed airline offices and swamped
embassy switchboards with telephone calls seeking advice. Some 2000
frantic foreigners crowded into Beijing's airport to await the first
plane out, terrified by the weekend carnage and the presence of tanks
near their apartment compounds.
In Shanghai, angry crowds set fire to a train Tuesday night after
it roared into Shanghai's rail station, killing six student protesters
manning a barricade near the tracks. Six other people were injured
by the train, which was unable to stop in time. Shanghai Radio said
that the irate crowds set fire to the train engine and that 21 railway
security officials were beaten and injured when they tried to put
out the blaze.
Thousands of Hong
Kong residents donned black armbands and observed a one-day general
strike in the British colony on Wednesday to mourn the victims of
the Beijing bloodshed.
An Italian
businessman returning to Hong Kong from the central city of Chengdu
said he saw a girl bayonetted to death on Sunday morning. The businessman,
who asked not to be identified because he might have to return to
China, said he saw from the window of his office soldiers arrive in
a truck, fire teargas and advance with fixed bayonets, shooting as
they went. "I saw with my own eyes a girl, 15 to 16 years old, with
a bayonet inside," said the businessman, holding both hands to his
stomach. He said the girl was about 20 meters away from him at the
time. The soldier then bayonetted her twice more in the chest and
left the body on the street.
A British businessman returning from the same city said: "Chengdu
is burning. It is seriously out of control." On Monday night he and
another foreigner were in the Jinjiang Hotel when it was attacked
by a mob and a small fire was started. About 45 foreigners moved to
the private quarters of the US consulate in a wing of the hotel on
the second floor. British engineer Rob Casey, 47, who also took shelter
in the consulate, said the rioters were hooligans and unemployed troublemakers,
not students. |
1983: 170 personas en un naufragio, en el Volga, al chocar
el barco en que viajaban con un puente ferroviario.
1980 Henry
Valentine Miller, US writer, born in 1891, whose autobiographical
novels had a liberating influence on mid-20th century literature.
1980 Philip Guston, Canadian US Abstract
Expressionist painter born in 1913. — MORE
ON GUSTON AT ART “4” JUNE
with links to images.
1970 Manuel Gómez-Moreno, historiador
y arqueólogo español.
1968 José Pardines Azcay, guardia
civil, en el el primer asesinato de ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), en Villabona
(Guipuzcoa).
1967 Dorothy Parker, author-critic famed
for her caustic wit, in New York.
1966 Jean
Arp, Alsacian Dadaist~Surrealist poet, artist, sculptor born
on 16 September 1886. — links
to images.
1962 Claude Piegts, vendeur, né 1934,
et sergent Albert Dovecar, né 1937, fusillés pour
participation à l'Organisation de l'Armée Secrète.
1954 Alan
Turing, English mathematician and computer science
pioneer. ^top^
Turing was born on 23 June 1954. At
age twenty-four, he suggested a theoretical calculating device that
could carry out step-by-step mathematical operations based on a program.
The "Turing Machine" became the theoretical model for work on digital
computers in the 1940s. Turing also laid the groundwork for the field
of artificial intelligence, arguing that computers would one day think
like humans. He devised a test to measure this capacity, called the
"Turing test."
Turing was arrested
for violation of British homosexuality statutes in 1952 when he reported
to the police details of a homosexual affair. He had gone to the police
because he had been threatened with blackmail. He was tried as a homosexual
on 31 March 1952, offering no defence other than that he saw no wrong
in his actions. Found guilty he was given the alternatives of prison
or oestrogen injections for a year. He accepted the latter.
Although he was completely open about his sexuality, he had a further
unhappiness which he was forbidden to talk about due to the Official
Secrets Act. The decoding operation at Bletchley Park became the basis
for the new decoding and intelligence work at GCHQ. With the cold
war this became an important operation and Turing continued to work
for GCHQ, although his Manchester colleagues were totally unaware
of this. After his conviction, his security clearance was withdrawn.
Worse than that, security officers were now extremely worried that
someone with complete knowledge of the work going on at GCHQ was now
labeled a security risk. He had many foreign colleagues, as any academic
would, but the police began to investigate his foreign visitors. A
holiday which Turing took in Greece in 1953 caused consternation among
the security officers.
Turing died
of potassium cyanide poisoning while conducting electrolysis experiments.
The cyanide was found on a half eaten apple beside him. An inquest
concluded that it was self-administered but his mother always maintained
that it was an accident. |
1942 Soldiers
killed in Japanese landing in Aleutians
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During World War II, Japanese forces capture Kiska and Attu in Alaska’s
Aleutian island chain. The Aleutians, a chain of rugged, volcanic
islands curving west from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Russia,
became part of the United States in 1867 with the purchase of Alaska
from Russia. With the outbreak of World War II, a US naval base was
established at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, but on 03 June 1942,
the base was devastated by a Japanese bombing raid. The Japanese attack
on the Aleutians was actually organized to divert US forces from the
major Japanese offensive at Midway, a far more strategic island in
the Central Pacific.
However,
US intelligence had broken the Japanese codes, and rightly recognized
the attack in the Alaskan Islands as merely a diversionary tactic.
US forces massed at Midway, where they defeated the Japanese--stopped
from even landing on the Midway Islands.
This
left the Aleutians easy prey to the Japanese, who killed 25 US soldiers
upon landing in Attu, then proceeded to relocate and intern the inhabitants,
as well as those at Kiska.
In
the spring of 1943, after one year of Japanese occupation, US forces
prepared for a counterattack from bases on Adak and Amchitka. On May
11, two US amphibious divisions stormed onto Attu. Japanese resistance
was stiff, and the island did not fall firmly into US control until
30 May. In addition to battle casualties, hundreds of US soldiers
became very ill or died from the extreme cold encountered during the
campaign.
In August, after intensive
US bombardments, the Japanese evacuated Kiska, and the liberation
the Aleutians was complete. The reconquest of the islands secured
the US northern flank in the Pacific and freed US forces to join in
Allied offensives underway elsewhere in the Pacific Ocean. |
1942 Jean Dunand, Swiss Art
Deco dsculptor, metalworker, painter, and designer born on 20 March
(May?) 1877. Not to be confused with the founder of the Red Cross, Jean-Henri
Dunant [08 May 1828 – 30 Oct 1910]. — more
with links to images.
1935 May Carey, hanged in Virginia.
1912 Albert Welti, Swiss painter and engraver born on 18
February 1862. — more
with links to images.
1909 Fritz Overbeck, German
artist born on 15 September 1869
1907 Edward
John Routh, Quebec-born (20 January 1831) English mathematician.
Author of A Treatise on Dynamics of Rigid Bodies (1860), A
Treatise on Analytic Statistics (1891), A Treatise on Dynamics
of a Particle (1898).
1866 Chief
Seattle dies near the city named for him
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Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city named for
him, Chief Seattle dies in a nearby village of his people. Born sometime
around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish
tribes who lived around the Pacific Coast bay that is today called
Puget Sound. He was the son of a Suquamish father and a Duwamish mother,
a lineage that allowed him to gain influence in both tribes. By the
early 1850s, small bands of Euro-Americans had begun establishing
villages along the banks of Puget Sound. Chief Seattle apparently
welcomed his new neighbors and seems to have treated them with kindness.
In 1853, several settlers moved to a site on Elliott Bay to establish
a permanent town--since Chief Seattle had proved so friendly and welcoming,
the settlers named their tiny new settlement in his honor. The Euro-American
settlers picked the site because of the luxuriant forest on the bluff
behind the new village. The Gold Rush in California had created a
booming market for timber, and soon most of the villagers were at
work cutting the trees and "skidding" them down a long chute to a
newly constructed sawmill. The chute became known as "skid road,"
and in time, it became the main street in Seattle, though it kept
its original name. When the Seattle business district later moved
north, the area became a haven for drunks and derelicts. Consequently,
"skid road" or "skid row" became lingo for the dilapidated area of
any town. Not all the Puget Sound Indians, however, were as friendly
toward the white settlers as Chief Seattle. War broke out in 1855,
and Indians from the White River Valley south of Seattle attacked
the village. Although he believed the whites would eventually drive
his people to extinction, Chief Seattle argued that resistance would
merely anger the settlers and hasten the Indians' demise. By 1856,
many of the hostile Indians had concluded that Chief Seattle was right
and made peace. Rather than fight, Seattle tried to learn white ways.
Jesuit missionaries introduced him to Catholicism, and he became a
devout believer. He observed morning and evening prayers throughout
the rest of his life. The people of the new city of Seattle also paid
some respect to the chief's traditional religion. The Suquamish believed
the mention of a dead man's name disturbs his eternal rest. To provide
Chief Seattle with a pre-payment for the difficulties he would face
in the afterlife, the people of Seattle levied a small tax on themselves
to use the chief's name. He died in 1866 at the approximate age of
77. |
1862 William Mumford, hanged in New Orleans for destroying
the US flag, first US citizen hanged for treason
1847 Adolph
Göpel, German mathematician born on 29 September 1812.
1843 Georges Michel, French painter born on 12 January
1763. — MORE
ON MICHEL AT ART “4” JUNE
with links to images.
Condamnés
à mort par la Révolution: ^top^
1794
(19 prairial an II):
DUSEVEL Pierre Philippe Joseph, 64 ans, né à Bouque
Maison, cultivateur à Divion, guillotiné à Arras
MARSY Jean Baptiste, 51 ans, né à Laventie, vivandier,
attaché aux armée, époux de Routier Thérèse, guillotiné à Arras
GAUCHERAN Junior, propriétaire, domicilié à Bédouin
(Vaucluse), par le tribunal criminel dudit département, comme contre-révolutionnaire.
LASSALE Joseph Augustin, ex noble, et lieutenant
de vaisseau, département des Hautes-Pyrénées, par le tribunal criminel
dudit département, comme émigré.
SEGUIN Jean, chapelier, 26 ans, né et domicilié à
Ste-Bazeille (Lot et Garonne), comme calomniateur, par la commission
militaire de Bordeaux.
Domiciliés dans le département
de la Mayenne, par le commission révolutionnaire séante à
Laval, comme brigands de la Vendée:
HAMELIN Pierre, tisserand, domicilié à Monjean —
JAMIN Etienne, tisserand, domicilié à Montigné —
ROBIN Louis, laboureur, domicilié à Montsurs
Par le tribunal révolutionnaire
de Paris:
LARGET Joseph Simon, employé à l'administration des
domaines nationaux, 31 ans, né à Orgelay (Jura), domicilié à Paris,
comme conspirateur et assassin de Jarry, et l'un des plus grand prôneurs
de la faction de la Gironde.
LECOCQ Louis, 30 ans, potier de terre, né à Balancourt
(Seine et Oise), domicilié à Paris, comme conspirateur, ayant désigné
les députés de la Montagne
comme scélérats, et dit que
Marat et Robespierre
étaient de ce nombre, que l'on était heureux d'être délivré du premier,
que c'était un coquin de moins; et en déchirant l'acte constitutionnel,
en disant : " voilà qui est bon pour allumer le feu".
LECOINTRE Pierre, volontaire au 9ème régiment d'artillerie
légère, 18 ans, né et domicilié à St Joint (Seine Inférieure), comme
conspirateur, ayant dit qu'il avait été fait prisonnier lors de la
trahison de Dumourier
avec 160 mille hommes que la République avait perdus dans cette affaire,
ajoutant que l'armée du Nord avait demandé le rétablissement de la
religion; que l'on pourrait tuer et assassiner les membres des sociétés
populaires à la tribune, et qu'il n'en serait rien du tout.
THEZUT Guillaume, 38 ans, ex-noble, né et domicilié
à Aumont (Saône et Loire), comme conspirateur ayant crié: vive le
roi, et ayant dit à deux membres du comité de surveillance de Jouy
qui étaient présents à ce propos, qu'il se f……. d'eux
DOMONT P. M. 36 ans, né à Louvancour (Somme), commis
au bureau des travaux publics, domicilié à Paris, comme complice d'un
complot qui a existé contre la liberté du Peuple au 10 août 1792.
... comme
contre-révolutionnaires:
RAYER Antoine, cultivateur, 34 ans, né aux Granges,
domicilié à Boissy (Seine et Marne), ...et complice de l’assassinat
du nommé Jarry Officier de santé à Boissy-sur-Marne.
LECINCQUE Henry, 50 ans, commis aux ventes, né à
Nancy, département de la Seine [sic], ...et comme assassin
de Jarry.
BACHELIER Pierre Louis, 44 ans, cultivateur, né à
Doux, domicilié à Boissy, canton de Rosay (Seine et Marne).
DUMONT Pierre Nicolas, commis au bureau des travaux
publics, domicilié à Paris.
...
domiciliés dans le département des Ardennes:
BOURGEOIS Jean Baptiste Antoine, 34 ans, né et domicilié
à Mézière (Meurthe), administrateur du département des Ardennes.
GROMAIRE Jean Sulpice, administrateur du département
des Ardennes, domicilié à Chery.
... et nés dans le département
des Ardennes:
LEGRAND Jean, 45 ans, né à Gounelmont, administrateur
du département des Ardennes, domicilié à Bouvesmont, ... de complicité
avec Lafayette.
LEMAIRE Jean Jacques, 66 ans, né à Ste Menehould,
cultivateur, domicilié à Champigneul, ... de complicité avec Lafayette.
BLAY Jean Baptiste, 29 ans, né à Vernancourt, administration
du département des Ardennes, domicilié à Vadelincourt, canton de Sedan.
BOUCHER Nicolas Pierre, 45 ans, notaire et administrateur
du département des Ardennes, né et domicilié à Bar-sur-Bezency canton
de Grandpré.
DESHAYES Etienne, 43 ans, procureur général du département
des Ardennes, né et domicilié à Rhetel.
DESSAULLY Henry, 43 ans, né à Bieerne ex noble, cultivateur
et membre du département , domicilié à Montlaurent.
GERARD Claude Gabriel, ex administrateur du département
des Ardennes, 34 ans, né et domicilier à Mouzou.
GERARD Claude Jean Baptiste, administrateur du département
des Ardennes, 49 ans, né à Mouzon, domicilié à Sedan.
1793:
Conducteurs d'une recrue de volontaires,
domiciliés à Limoges (Haute Vienne), par le tribunal criminel du département
de l'Yonne, comme contre-révolutionnaires.:
DUVILLARD Léonard — SAUVAGE Bernard |
1667 Thomas Dirk de Keyser, Dutch Baroque
era painter born in 1596. — MORE
ON DE KEYSER AT ART “4” JUNE
with links to images.
1631 Mumtax Mahal wife of Shah
Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1329 Robert Bruce,
53, leader of the Scots.
0555 Vigilius, Pope
|
2001
Former Argentine President arrested.
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