Thursday, January 11, 2007

11 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand


Students from Silpakorn University performing "Blindman" during my Performance Workshop in Bangkok, Singapore. "Blindman" is based on a performance by Gerrit Dekker.

1872 (+) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1923 (x) French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr-area upto Bochum as a repercussion for damages suffered during WWI in Germany.
1927 (+) Choreographer Maurice Béjart is born in Marseille, France.
1928 (-) Writer Thomas Hardy dies of a cold-inflammation at the age of 88 in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.
1936 (+) Artist Eva Hesse is born in Hamburg, Germany.
1938 (x) Writer Samuel Beckett is stabbed and wounded by a pimp in Paris, France.
1950 (x) Start of the trial against Timothy Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, who was charged with the murder of his wife and baby daughter, who were actually killed by John Christie, in London, Old Bailey N°1 Court, United Kingdom.
1953 (x) First Bomb explosion by George Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York’s Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, USA.
1955 (-) Murderer Eugene Monahan is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.
1957 (-) Matricider Jack Graham is executed by the Gas Chamber in Colorado, USA.
1957 (-) Murderer Otto Loel is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.
1959 (-) Carrol Jackson is killed and raped by Melvin Rees in Apple Grove, Virginia, USA.
He also forced her husband and two children in the trunk of a car, and killed them later.
1966 (-) Artist Alberto Giacometti dies at the age of 65 in Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland.
1979 (-) Diane Wilder is strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellington, Bayside Drive, Washington, USA.
1982 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1983 (-) USSR-leader Nikolay Podgorny dies at the age of 80 in Moscow, Russia.

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