Poster in an abandoned brothel where I performed "Only the Lonely" in Antwerpen, Belgium.
1528 (+) Queen of Navarra Jeanne d’Albret is born in Paris, France.
1706 (+) Politician and inventor Benjamin Franklin is born in France.
The inventor of the lightning-conductor
1874 (-) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke, and the other one of fear, at the age of 63 in the USA.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and lifted right testicle.
1894 (x) America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Georgiana Yoke as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, USA.
1897 (+) Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is born in Auxerre, 100 Rue de Paris, Yonne, France.
1899 (+) Gangster Al Capone is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1919 (x) 460 Die in Chaonia Steamer shipwreck in the Strait of Messina.
1928 (+) Designer Vidal Sassoon is born.
1933 (+) Musician Dalida originally Yolande Christina Gigliotti, is born in Caïro, Egypt.
1947 (-) Margot M. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 20 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
1966 (x) A US-bomber with 4 Hydrogen-bombs aboard crashes into the sea in Palomares, Spain.
1975 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1977 (-) Murderer Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in State Prison, Utah, USA.
1978 (x) Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is stabbed by a white inmate in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
1981 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry capsizing in Meghna, Bangladesh.
1988 (x) 108 Die in CAAC Iljoeshin-18 crash in Chongquing, China.
2005 (-) Actress Thelma White dies of pneumonia at the age of 94 in Motion Picture and Television Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA.
She was famous for her portrayal of a hard-boiled addiction queen in the 1936 cult movie 'Reefer Madness'.
2005 (-) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies of a stroke at the age of 85 in Beijing, China.
He spent nearly 16 years under house arrest after he opposed a military intervention to end the student-led protest at Tienanmen Square.
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