Tuesday, January 9, 2007

8 january 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A water pump on a bridge near my house in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

1601 (+) Moralist, philosopher and Jesuit Baltasar Gracian y Morales is born in Belmonte de Calatayud, Aragon, Spain.
1642 (-) Scientist Galileo Galilei dies at the age of 68 in Italy.
1896 (-) Writer Paul Verlaine dies of a kidney and stomach-disease at the age of 51 in France.
1904 (+) Nazi-doctor Karl Brandt is born in Mulhouse, France.
1926 (-) Murderer William Lawrence is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1935 (+) Musician Elvis Presley aka The King, is born in East Tupelo, Missouri, USA.
1937 (+) Musician Shirley Bassey is born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
1937 (-) Murderer Frank Duarte is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer Grady Cole is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer J. Levice is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer Charles Sanders is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 21 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1947 (+) Musician and actor David Bowie originally David Robert Jones, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1947 (+) Serial Killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is born in California, USA.
1948 (-) Artist Kurt Schwitters dies at the age of 60 in Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom.
1958 (+) Musician Marc Moreland is born in California, USA.
He was the founder of 'Wall of Voodoo'.
1962 (x) 92 Die in two-train-collision in Harmelen, the Netherlands.
1973 (-) Cynthia Schall is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Freedom, California, USA.
He hid the body and went back the next day to have sex with it and cut off the head.
1974 (-) Josette Routier is shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-sur-Oise, 19 rue du Docteur Roux, France.
1975 (-) Maria Fasching is stabbed to death by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 22 in Leonia, New Jersey, USA.

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