Wednesday, January 17, 2007

16 january 2004 - Gent, Belgium


AMVK interviewed by Jan Van Hove in the "HeadRoom" at the SMAK in Gent, Belgium.

1907 (x) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery in Brieg Penitentiary, Germany.
1919 (-) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt dies of a heart-attack at the age of 61 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.
1936 (-) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 66 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The first blow short-circuited because of a number of needles Fish had inserted in his scrotum during his lifetime. He was the oldest man ever to be executed in Sing Sing.
1943 (+) Artist Heinz Cibulka is born in Wien, Austria.
1944 (x) Over 500 Die in trainwreck in a tunnel in Leon, Spain.
1948 (+) Filmmaker John Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York, USA.
1957 (-) Composer Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 90 in New York, New York, USA.
1960 (-) Murderer Homer Buckley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Reidsville Prison, Georgia, USA.
1961 (-) Patrice Lumumba is assasinated while imprisoned by Joseph Kasavubu in Katanga, Belgian Congo.
1965 (-) Anna Kalinka is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 16 in Warsaw, Praga, Poland.
1969 (-) Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 21 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.
1969 (x) USSR spacecrafts Soyoez 4 and Soyoez 5 are linked in Space.
1970 (-) Régis Tall commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 17 in Lille, France.
1970 (-) Jean Way is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 23 in Canada.
1978 (-) Child-killer and would-be mass-murderer Ronald Cooper is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in South Africa.
1985 (-) Multiple Murderer Doyle Skillern is executed by lethal injection in the USA.
1988 (-) James Doxtator is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in West Allis, South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.

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