When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: March 2007

Saturday, March 31, 2007

31 march 2004 - Brussels, Belgium

Peaches at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.

1596 (+) Philosopher René Descartes is born in France.

1916 (-) Black Jeff Brown is lynched for bumping into a white woman in Cedar Bluff, Missouri, USA.

1933 (+) Serial Killer Donald Gaskins aka Pee Wee, is born in Leo, South Carolina, USA.

1935 (+) Musician Herb Alpert is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1935 (+) Actor Richard Chamberlain is born in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1953 (x) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is arrested, posing as John Waddington in London, near Putney Bridge, United Kingdom.

1962 (-) Klaus Jung is abducted and killed by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 18 in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1969 (x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Barrotean, Mexico.

1986 (x) 166 Die in Mexicana de Aviacion Boeing 727 crash in Sierra Madre.

1998 (-) Serial Killer Daniel Remeta is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Florida, USA.

1999 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Sipho Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler, is sentenced to 506 years imprisonment in Durban, South Africa.

Friday, March 30, 2007

30 march 2002 - Borgerhout, Belgium

AMVK in her studio in Borgerhout.

1807 (-) Murderer George Allen is executed by hanging in Stafford Gaol, United Kingdom.

1844 (+) Writer Paul Verlaine is born in Metz, France.

1853 (+) Artist Vincent Van Gogh is born in Groot Zundert, the Netherlands.

1883 (-) Murderess Emeline Meaker is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, USA.

1894 (+) Engineer and designer Sergei Iljoesjin is born in Russia.

1908 (-) Murderer Chester Gillette aka An American Tragedy, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 22 in Auburn, Texas, USA.

1912 (-) Writer Karl May dies at the age of 70.

1925 (-) Philosopher Rudolf Steiner dies at the age of 64 in Dornach, Switzerland.

1930 (+) Musician Frankie Laine is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1930 (-) Sybilla Wil is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, at the age of 29 in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

1931 (+) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Sorokin is born in Bobroye, Kursk, USSR.

1937 (+) Actor Warren Beatty is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

1943 (-) Murderer William Hedden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.

1945 (+) Musician Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, United Kingdom.

1963 (x) 69-year-old Murderer Mathias Kindlinger aka The Austrian Bluebeard, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the murder of his 5 wives and girlfriends in Vienna, Austria.

1970 (x) The Manson Family members Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and leader Charles Manson are sentenced to death in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1975 (x) The entire Ruppert family are shot dead by 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Ruppert in Hamilton, 635 Minor Avenue, Ohio, USA.
The victims are 65-year-old Charity, 42-year-old Leonard, 38-year-old Alma, 17-year-old Leonard Jr., 16-year-old Michael, 15-year-old Thomas, 13-year-old Carol, 12-year-old Ann, 11-year-old David, 9-year-old Teresa and 4-year-old John.

1981 (-) Ronald Reagan is attacked by John Hinckley aka The Jodie Foster Lover Boy, in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1998 (-) Murderess Judy Buenoano is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Trinidad.

2004 (x) Murderer William Wickline is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

29 march 2002 - Brussels, Belgium

Scouting the underground of Brussels Central Station for a possible art project that never happened, nice place though.

1790 (+) 10th president of the USA John Tyler is born in Greenway, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.

1901 (-) Family-murderer Franz Wallert is executed by hanging in Gaylord, Minnesota, USA.

1912 (-) Explorer Robert Scott is lost in a snowstorm in Antarctica.

1917 (-) Murderer Leo O’Donnel is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.

1922 (+) Victim of John Reginald Christie, of 10 Rillington Place, Ruth Fuerst is born in Vienna, Austria.

1934 (+) Mass-murderer James Ruppert is born in Ohio, USA.

1939 (+) Actor Terence Hill originally Mario Girotti, is born.

1939 (+) Actor James Caan is born in New York, New York, USA.

1954 (+) Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.

1961 (-) Murderer Jack Day is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Bedford, United Kingdom.

1963 (-) Carola Hannwacker is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Germany.
Her son Helmut is also shot in the same event.

1973 (x) The last US-soldier, Max Bielke leaves the battlefield in Vietnam.

1974 (x) Start of the trial against 47-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, who is accused of strangling 15 and attacking 6 women in Katowice, Poland.

1975 (-) Keith Crotwell is poisoned and mutilated by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Long Beach Marina, California, USA.

1978 (x) Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries 21-year-old Tai-Fun Fanny Leung in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1983 (-) Jacqueline Croiset is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 20 in Amiens, France.
She survived.

1984 (-) Sheryl Bonaventura is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 18 in Grand Junction, Mesa Mall, USA.

1985 (-) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, commits suicide by a depression after being harrassed for years by the Belgian tax-services at the age of 51 in Belgium.
She committed suicide together with her friend Annie Pechler.

1990 (-) Montenesdro is attacked by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Joseph O’Dell is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
Hours before his execution he marries law-student Lori Urs. After his death his body is shipped to Palermo, Italy where he is buried as a local hero, presumed innocent.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

28 march 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

AMVK at a memorial night in Cinderella, a legendary club in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1849 (-) Priest and botanist Stephan Endlicher dies at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.
He formulated a major system of plant classification.

1868 (+) Writer Maxim Gorky is born in Nizhni (now Gorky), Novgorod, Russia.

1881 (-) Composer Modest Mussorgsky dies at the age of 43 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1920 (+) Actor Dirk Bogarde is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.

1941 (-) Writer Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom.
"I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work"

1943 (-) Composer Sergey Rachmaninov dies at the age of 70 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1958 (+) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced.

1969 (-) 34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 78 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1972 (-) Linda Ohlig is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Half Moon Bay, California, USA.

1977 (-) Sylvia Lauterbach is beaten to death by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 23 in Mainz, Germany.

1979 (x) The cooling-system of a nuclear plant fails and an explosion is prevented on the limit in Harrisburg, USA.

1980 (-) Marsha Weatter is presumably assaulted and shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 19 in Spokane, Washington, USA.

1982 (-) Composer Carl Orff dies at the age of 86.

1994 (-) Writer Eugene Ionesco dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

27 march 2005 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Easter with the Van Kerckhoven family at the Club Moral.

1827 (-) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies of a liver disease at the age of 57 in Germany.

1845 (+) Scientist William Konrad Röntgen is born in Germany.

1878 (-) Composer Dobri Voynikov dies at the age of 44 in the USSR.

1886 (+) Architect Ludwig Van Der Rohe is born in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1960 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 14-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.

1963 (+) Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is born.

1963 (-) Writer Jean Bruce aka OSS117, dies in a head-on collision of his Jaguar with a truck at 200kms per hour on the RN16 at the age of 42 in Chantilly, France.

1968 (-) The first man in space, Youri Gagarin dies in a jet crash at the age of 34 in Russia.

1969 (-) Karen Spinker is sexually assaulted, strangled and one breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.
He used the cut-off breast as a paper-weight.

1972 (-) Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher dies at the age of 74 in the Netherlands.

1977 (-) Child-murderer Al Marjek is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Damascus, Syria.

1977 (x) 582 Die in KLM Boeing 747 and Panam Boeing 747 collision in Tenerife, Spain.
Neither airline was originally due to be at the airport but both were diverted from the much bigger Las Palmas on nearby Gran Canaria island after a terrorist bomb blast near the departure lounge.

1980 (x) 123 Die in Alexander Kielland oilplatform capsizing in Ekofisk, the North Sea.

1984 (-) An unidentiefied woman is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, in Tampa, Ponderosa Street, Florida, USA.

1985 (-) Vincent Zazzara is stabbed, shot dead and mutilated by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, San Gabriel, California, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer Robert Massie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
While on parole for a murder he committed in 1965, he robbed a liquor store and shot two employees, killing one.

Monday, March 26, 2007

26 march 2004 - Gent, Belgium

Pascal Gielen eagerly signing a copy of his book "Een Omgeving voor Actuele Kunst" for Kris Motmans. I was a stakeholder and proof reader for this book and named another blog of mine after it.

1904 (-) Robber and Murderer George Collins is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Illinois, USA.
His neck doesn’t break and he’s slowly strangled to death before the eyes of the appalled executioner and jurors.

1904 (x) 5 Blacks are lynched for no apparent reason in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

1905 (-) Germaine Weber is strangled by Jeanne Weber at the age of 1 in Paris, France.

1911 (+) Writer Tennessee Williams is born in Columbus, Missouri, USA.

1913 (-) Murderer Henry Clark is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Agra, India.

1916 (-) Andrew Turner is killed by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Leavenworth Prison, USA.

1918 (-) Wachtmeester Emile Verfaille is executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.

1925 (+) Composer Pierre Boulez is born in Montbrison, France.

1931 (+) Actor Leonard Nimoy aka Mr. Spock, is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1943 (+) Sole survivor of the Richard Speck-massacre in Chicago, Corazon Amurao is born in Durangao, Batangas, the Filippines.

1944 (+) Musician Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1944 (-) Black Minister Isaac Simmons is lynched in Missouri, USA.
All his bones are broken, his tongue is cut out and he’s shot dead because he had oil-deposits under his farm.

1953 (x) 84 die and 31 are mutilated in an attack by the Terrorist Movement Mau-Mau in Kikuya, Lari, Rift Valley, Kenya.

1957 (-) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, dies at the age of 55.

1959 (-) Writer Raymond Chandler dies at the age of 70 in La Jolla, California, USA.

1959 (-) Karin Walde is raped and beaten to death by Heinrich Pommerencke at the age of 18 in Hornberg, Germany.

1965 (x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is sentenced to death in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1980 (-) Literary critic Roland Barthes dies at the age of 64 in Paris, France.

1997 (x) Police find the bodies of 39 members of the Higher Source sect, who have comitted suicide by an overdose of phenobarbital and wodka in San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA.

1999 (x) Serial Killer Fernando Hernandez Leyva aka Pancho Villa, is arrested on charges of kidnapping and assault. in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Once in custody, he confessed to killing more than 100 people.

1999 (-) Murderer James Rich is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

25 march 2006 - Berlin, Germany

An U-Bahn station in Berlin.

1762 (-) Murderer James Lowry aka The Captain, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.

1867 (+) Composer Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Italy.

1875 (+) Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA.

1881 (+) Composer Bela Bartok is born in Nagy-Szentmiklos, Hungary.

1891 (+) Writer Filip De Pillecijn is born in Hamme-aan-de-Durme, East Flanders, Belgium.

1905 (-) Murderer Lewis Lyons is executed by hanging in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1910 (-) Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.

1911 (x) 147 Die in Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire in New York, New York, USA.

1918 (+) Presumed son of Adolf Hitler, Jean-Marie Loret is born in France.

1918 (-) Composer Claude Debussy dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 55 in Paris, France.

1919 (-) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide by distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Duisburg, Germany.

1921 (+) Actress Simone Signoret is born in France.

1923 (-) Actress Sarah Bernhardt dies of gangrene at the age of 78.

1935 (x) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in New York, New York, USA.

1940 (+) Actress Anita Bryant is born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA.

1942 (+) Musician Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

1942 (-) Mme Khait is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 55 in Paris, France.

1947 (+) Musician Elton John originally Reginald Dwight, is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1947 (x) 111 Die in coal-mine explosion in Centralia, USA.

1969 (-) Maralynn Skelton is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 16 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

1975 (-) King Faisal Ibn Abd Al-Aziz is shot dead by his 28-year-old nephew Faisal Ibn Musa’id at the age of 69 in Saudi-Arabia.

1976 (-) Artist Josef Albers dies at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1983 (-) Teresa Watson aka Nicole, is hunted down and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 22 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

1984 (x) Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage, he surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police-snipers in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.

1987 (x) Serial Killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1989 (-) Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 26 in West Allis, 2357 South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.

1989 (-) Letter carrier Donald Mace walked in the post office, put a 38-caliber revolver to his head and killed himself at the age of 44 in Poway, California, USA.

1990 (x) 87 Die in Happy Land Club fire in New York, New York, USA.
The fire was deliberately started by the rejected lover of the cloakroom-attendant.

1997 (-) Murderer Pedro Medina is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.
With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke, and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room.

1999 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Charles Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

24 march 2006 - Berlin, Germany

Opferteile in the basement of Ballhaus Ost in Berlin, Germany.

809 (-) Caliph of the Abbasid empire Harun Al-Rashid dies at the age of 44.

1873 (-) Mass Murderess Mary-Ann Cotton is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Durham Prison,
She killed over 25 people, including 10 of her 11 children.

1874 (+) Magician Harry Houdini originally Erich Weiss, is born in the USA.

1887 (+) Actor, filmmaker and womanizer Roscoe Conklin ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist, is born in Smith Center, Kansas, USA.

1897 (+) Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich is born in Dobrzynica, Ukraïne, Russia.

1905 (-) Writer Jules Verne dies at the age of 77 in Paris, France.

1914 (-) Murderer William Dorr is executed by Old Sparky in Charlestown, Massachussets, USA.

1922 (-) Wife-murderer Edward Black is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Bodmin Prison, United Kingdom.

1930 (+) Actor Steve McQueen is born in the USA.

1935 (x) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, confesses to the 8-year-old murder of Bill Gaffney, of whose ears, nose and pieces of his face and belly he made into a stew in New York, New York, USA.
He also roasted the boy’s behind with strips of bacon.

1953 (-) Queen Mary of England, dies in the United Kingdom.

1953 (x) 7 female bodies are discovered behind a plastered door in the house of Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, by the new tenant, Beresford Brown in London, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Erika is attacked by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 23 in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Moersers Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

1968 (-) Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, dies at the age of 70 in Agimont, Belgium.

1969 (x) Beatle John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono organise their ‘bed-in’ in Amsterdam, Hilton Hotel, the Netherlands.

1976 (-) War leader Bernard Montgomery dies at the age of 89.

1980 (-) Revolutionary Bishop Oscar Romero is shot dead by the Right-Wing Orden whilst reading mass in San Salvador, El Salvador.

1983 (-) Liette Sauteret is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, in Amiens, France.

1984 (-) Susan Logan is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Oklahoma City, Penn Square Mall, Oklahoma, USA.

1988 (-) Richard Guerrero is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 23 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

Friday, March 23, 2007

23 march 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A self-portrait with cuts in my arms that I used for the first of the 4x4 series that sports the homepage of my website ever since 23 march 2002.

1860 (-) Poisoner Ann Bilansky is executed by hanging in Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA.
She was the first person and only woman hanged by the State of Minnesota.

1877 (-) The Mountain Meadows Massacre Perpetrator, John D. Lee is executed by the Firing Squad in Utah, USA.

1900 (+) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

1900 (-) Black Louis Rice is lynched because he testified in favor of another black man, accused of murdering a white man in Ripley, Tennessee, USA.

1906 (+) Actress Joan Crawford originally Lucille LeSueur, is born in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

1912 (+) Scientist and space-craft-engineer Wernher Von Braun is born in Wirsitz, Poland.

1937 (-) Oil-magnate John Rockefeller dies at the age of 97 in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA.

1948 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Irene Richardson is born in Leeds, United Kingdom.

1957 (+) Artist Toni Geirlandt is born in Belgium.

1962 (-) Murderer Vincent Ciucci is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

1964 (-) Actor Peter Lorre originally Laszlo Lowenstein, dies of a stroke at the age of 59 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1965 (x) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is called out as secretary-general in Bukarest, Romania.

1971 (-) Writer Simon Vestdijk dies at the age of 72 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

1976 (x) Actor Sjimotjiro Maeno crashes into the house of Lockheed-corrupter Yoshio Kodama in a self-styled kamikaze-act with his private plane in Tokio, Japan.

1977 (-) Barbara Young is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Doncaster, United Kingdom.

1978 (-) Karen Schilt is sexually tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 22 in New York, Third Avenue Hotel, New York, USA.
She was found alive in the Ledgewood Terrace Apartments parking lot.

1983 (-) The first man with an artificial heart, Barney Clark dies of general insufficiency at the age of 62 in Utah, USA.

1983 (-) Innocent Murderer Alexander Krawtschenko is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 29 in Rostow, Russia.
He was sentenced to death for the murder of 10-year-old Lenotschka Sakotnowa, who was actually killed by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper.

1984 (-) Terry Walden is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 24 in Beaumont, USA.

1985 (x) Over 400 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.

1987 (-) Agnes Adams is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1994 (x) 75 Die in Russian Airbus crash in Siberia, Russia.
The pilots had given the controls of the plane to a child for amusement.

1997 (x) In a burned-out house the bodies of 5 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning in Saint Casimir, Quebec, Canada.

1999 (x) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is sentenced to death for poisoning five Hong Kong women and stealing HK$1.2 million in Beijing, China.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

22 march 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

4 Loafs of bread waiting to be sold in an automatic vendor machine in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1813 (+) Composer Richard Wagner is born in Germany.

1832 (-) Writer Johann Von Goethe dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Germany.

1913 (+) Actor Karl Malden originally Malden Sekulovich, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1923 (+) Actor Marcel Marceau is born in Strasbourg, France.

1931 (+) Actor William Shatner aka Captain Jim Kirk, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1942 (-) Jean-Pierre Van Beveren is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 42 in Paris, France.

1963 (-) Multiple Murderer Charles Wood is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1970 (-) Kathleen Johns is attacked by Zodiac in California, USA.
She survived.

1978 (-) Jeffrey Rignall is sodomised and battered to death by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 27 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1979 (-) Sir Richard Sykes British Ambassador, is shot dead by the IRA in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

1982 (-) Jay Reynolds is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 26 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

1983 (-) Veronique Dubois is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 18 in Amiens, France.

1989 (-) Murderer Leon King is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1994 (-) Cartoonist Walter Lantz dies at the age of 93 in New York, New York, USA.

1994 (x) 75 Die in Aeroflot Airbus A310 crash in Mezjdoeretsjensk, Siberia, Russia.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

21 march 2005 - Sierre, Switzerland

Upon return from a concert with Club Moral in Bern, we spent 2 days in Sierre. On this day we got up early to climb a mountain, in full gear we crossed some snowy ridges. This is Captain Mauro in a heroïc pose. Our clumsy stumbling on the icy slopes are not documented, well eh, we have our pride too.

1685 (+) Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.

1839 (+) Composer Modest Mussorgsky is born in Karewo, Pskow, Russia.

1901 (-) Wife-murderer John Bennet is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.

1909 (+) Gangster Clyde Barker is born in Teleco, Texas, USA.

1922 (+) Filmmaker Russel Meyer aka King of the Nudies, is born in California, USA.

1933 (-) Assassin Joseph Zangara is executed by Old Sparky in Illinois, USA.

1938 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Arnett Booth is executed by hanging in the USA.

1938 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Orville Adkins is executed by hanging in the USA.

1938 (-) Kidnapper and murderer John Travis is executed by hanging in the USA.

1969 (-) Jane Mixer is shot dead by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 23 in Ann Arbor, Denton Cemetary, Michigan, USA.

1969 (-) Writer Gerhart Fritsch dies at the age of 44 in Germany.

1973 (-) Janine Ligotino is beaten and stabbed by Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, at the age of 19 in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

1973 (x) Serial Killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, picks up two teenage girls, both of whom he stabbed and strangled in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

1975 (-) Anthony Crean is stabbed to death and mutilated by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.

1982 (+) Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Joshua Denton Watson is born in Texas, USA.

1986 (x) ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by 33-year-old frustrated artist G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

20 march 2005 - Sierre, Switzerland

An abducted toy, tied to a fence in Sierre, Switzerland.

1828 (+) Writer Hendrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Vestfold, Norway.

1899 (-) Murderess Martha Place is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
She was the first woman to be executed by The Electric Chair.

1923 (-) Wilhelm Schulze is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1927 (-) Albert Snyder is murdered by Ruth Snyder aka The Granite Woman, in the USA.
She committed the crime to please her lover Judd Gray.

1929 (-) Murderer John Clark is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1933 (x) The first concentration-camp is inaugurated by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Dachau, Germany.

1940 (+) Serial Killer Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

1946 (x) 185 Die in train derailment in Aracuju, Brazil.

1957 (+) Actor Spike Lee is born in the USA.

1958 (+) Actress Holly Hunter is born in Conyers, Georgia, USA.

1969 (x) Beatle John Lennon marries artist Yoko Ono in Gibraltar, Spain.

1974 (x) 26-year-old Psychotic Ian Ball attacks Princess Anne and Mark Philips in a kidnap-attempt to gain ransom for curing his mental illness in London, United Kingdom.

1980 (-) Harry Turner is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 14 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1983 (-) Richard Wayne is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 21 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

1984 (-) Unidentified girl is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 19 in Bainbridge, Glen Oaks Motel, Georgia, USA.

1995 (x) 12 die and thousands are paralysed by a Sarin-gas-attack on one of the busiest metro-lines by Aum Shinrikyo in Tokio, Japan.

Monday, March 19, 2007

19 march 2003 - Brussels, Belgium

The "Tour of Flanders" with Minister of Social Affairs Frank Vandenbroucke, where a panel of artists and specialists explained the new system of social security for artists.

1286 (-) King of Scotland Alexander III dies at the age of 44 in Pettycur, Kinghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.
After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol, he was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone everyone advised him to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching, he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck, having been thrown off his horse.

1831 (x) Bank Robber Edward Smith and an accomplice break into the City Bank in what is thought to be the first U.S. bank robbery in New York, New York, USA.
They stole $228,000 in coin and currency, of which only $175,000 was ever recovered.

1871 (+) Lover of Crown Prince Rudolf Mary Vetsera is born in Vienna, Austria.

1871 (+) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg is born in Vienna, Austria.

1873 (+) Composer Max Reger is born in Brand, Germany.

1888 (+) Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1901 (-) George Parker is executed by hanging.

1905 (+) Nazi-architect Albert Speer is born in Germany.

1906 (+) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.

1921 (-) War-hero and homosexual wife-murderer Carl Wanderer is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1933 (+) Writer Philip Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

1936 (+) Actress Ursula Andress is born in Bern, Switzerland.

1945 (+) Serial Killer Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is born in California, USA.

1968 (-) Filmmaker Theodor Dreyer dies at the age of 79 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1971 (-) Lutgarde Van Der Wilt is raped, strangled and mutilated by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 19 in Bonheiden, Wielewaalreservaat Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.

1993 (-) Murderer Fred Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maryland, USA.

1997 (-) Artist Willem De Kooning dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 92 in Long Island, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Barbara Bourgeois is stabbed to death as second victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 58 in Paulina, Texas, USA.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

18 march 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

Photoshoot of the Club Moral band members at the Alpinenmuseum in Bern, Switzerland.

1584 (-) Iwan The Terrible dies of syphilis at the age of 54.

1789 (-) Christian Bowman is the last man to be burned on the stake in the USA.

1837 (+) 22nd and 24th president of the USA Grover Stephen Cleveland is born in Caldwell, New Jersey, USA.

1844 (+) Composer Nikolai Rimski-Korssakov is born in Tichwin, Russia.

1858 (+) Scientist and engineer Rudolf Diesel is born in Paris, France.

1883 (+) Architect of the Bauhaus Walter Gropius is born in Berlin, Germany.

1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Robert Witzel is born in Hannover, Germany.

1921 (x) Over 1000 Die in Hong Kong steamer shipwreck in Swatow, China.

1928 (-) Poet Paul Van Ostaeyen dies of tuberculosis at the age of 32 in Hove, Antwerp, Belgium.

1932 (+) Writer John Updike is born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA.

1932 (-) Mass-murderer Herman Drenth is executed by hanging in Clarksburg, USA.

1937 (x) 296 Die in School explosion in New London, Texas, USA.
In 1961, 41-year-old William Estel Benson is arrested for theft and confesses he unscrewed some gaspipes at the time.

1941 (+) Musician Wilson Pickett is born in the USA.

1946 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.

1947 (-) Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sydney Sinclair, is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1951 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.

1959 (x) Hawaï is called out as 50th of the United States in the USA.

1965 (x) 41-year-old Astronaut Alexei Leonov is the first man to walk from his Voschod Spacecraft in Space.

1980 (-) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm dies at the age of 79 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.

1982 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is committed to the Mental Health Institute in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, USA.
Posing as Richard Clark, he attempted to abduct Todd Peers.

1984 (-) Terry Ferguson is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 21 in Indian Harbour, Merrit Square Shopping Mall, Florida, USA.

1987 (-) Deborah Dudley is electrocuted by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

17 march 2005 - Lausanne, Switzerland

Mauro Pawlowski and AMVK in the restauration of the train from Lausanne to Bern where we would play with Club Moral at the Kunsthalle Bern on the occasion of the EZFK exhibition.

1834 (+) Scientist and mechanic Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler is born in Schorndorf, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.

1838 (+) Choreographer Rudolf Nureyev is born in Irkutsk, Russia.

1906 (-) Black thief William Carr lynched by hanging in Placquemine, Louisiana, USA.

1907 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Erich Devries is born in Hannover, Germany.

1919 (+) Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole is born in the USA.

1922 (-) Keimes is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1933 (-) Wife-murderer Charles Burke commits suicide by slashing his wrists in Covington, Kentucky, USA.
He was carrying the body of his wife, cut to pieces and packed in jars, in his car during a routine police-check.

1942 (+) Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is born in Chicago, Edgewater Hospital, Illinois, USA.

1960 (x) Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is arrested as ‘The Measuring Man’ in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1965 (-) Lidia N. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Bedzin, Poland.

1976 (-) Filmmaker Luchino Visconti dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.

1977 (-) Statesman Kamal Joenblatt is shot dead at the age of 59 in Lebanon.

1982 (x) Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, has his life-sentence quashed, but remains in prison awaiting a new trial in Beauvais, France.

1985 (-) Dayle Okazaki is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 34 in Los Angeles, Rosemead and Monterey Park, California, USA.

1988 (x) 136 Die in Columbian Airlines Boeing 727 explosion in Bogota, Colombia.

1995 (-) Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 61 in Wexham Park hospital, Slough, United Kingdom.

1999 (-) Serial Killer Andrew Kokoraleis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Tamms, Illinois, USA.

Friday, March 16, 2007

16 march 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town.

1751 (+) 3rd president of the USA James Madison is born in Port Conway, King George County, Virginia, USA.

1771 (+) Artist Jean Gros is born in Paris, France.

1898 (-) Artist Aubrey Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in the United Kingdom.

1911 (+) Nazi-doctor Josef Mengele aka The White Angel, is born in Günzborg, Bavaria, Germany.

1926 (+) Actor Jerry Lewis originally Joseph Levitch, is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

1930 (-) Marianna Dal S. is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1955 (-) Artist Nicolas de Staël commits suicide due to a depression at the age of 41 in Antibes, France.

1956 (-) Cop Killer Robert Carpenter is executed by Old Sparky in Joliet State Prison, Illinois, USA.

1957 (-) Artist Constantin Brancusi dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

1962 (x) 107 Die in Constellation crash in the West Pacific.

1963 (+) Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, Robert Piest is born in the USA.

1968 (x) A US military division under command of American Hero and Mass murderer William Caley massacres all the villagers in My Lai, Vietnam.

1969 (x) 154 Die in DC-9 crash in La Coriba, Venezuela.

1978 (x) Ex-prime minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Terrorist Movement Red Brigades in Rome, Italy.
His 5 body-guards are shot dead.

1984 (-) Triple murderer James Hutchins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

15 march 2005 - Horebeke, Belgium

't Ol van Pluto is a renowned jazz club in the middle of nowhere. It was the location of a rare performance by Club Moral.

45bc (-) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar is stabbed to death at the age of 56 in Rome, Italy.

1767 (+) 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson is born in New Lancaster, Waxhaws District, South Carolina, USA.

1907 (+) Actress Zarah Leander is born.

1923 (x) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is struck by a third stroke in Moscow, Russia.

1932 (-) Murderer William Laroque is executed by hanging in L’Original, Canada.

1932 (-) Murderer Emmanuel LaVictoire is executed by hanging in L’Original, Canada.

1937 (-) Writer H. P. Lovecraft dies of cancer at the age of 47 in the USA.

1957 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Burton Abbott is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 25 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1972 (-) Anarchist editor and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli dies in in the bombing of an electricity-line in Milan, Italy.

1975 (-) Billionaire Aristoteles Onassis dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in Paris, France.

1975 (-) Julie Cunningham is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 26 in Vail, Colorado, USA.

1977 (-) Jon Prestidge is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 20 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1984 (-) Colleen Orsborn is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 15 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.

1986 (x) Over 100 Die in New World Hotel collapse in Singapore.

1987 (-) Dorothy Blackburn aka Dotsie, is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 27 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

1988 (-) Murderer Willie Darden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Starke, Florida, USA.

1993 (x) 53-year-old Police-chief Mustafa Tabit is sentenced to death in Casablanca, Morocco.
He raped and tortured hundreds of women during his service.

2000 (-) Double murderer Patrick Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

2000 (-) Serial Killer Darrell Rich is executed by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

14 march 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Preparing for the openings at the Antwerp art galleries I went to the ALDI supermarket (after all they sell art), and got me a bunch of plastic bags. Shoveled some dirt from my "Diggin' for Gordon" hole in all of them and got ready to leave them unsuspiciously in the exhibitions of other artists.

1681 (+) Composer Georg Telemann is born in Magdeburg, Germany.

1879 (+) Scientist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.

1883 (-) Economist Karl Marx dies of pleurisy at the age of 63 in London, United Kingdom.

1904 (-) Psychotic Murderer Thomas Tobin is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1908 (+) Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France.

1923 (+) Photographer Diane Arbus is born in New York, New York, USA.

1932 (-) Photography pioneer George Eastman commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 77 in Rochester, New York, USA.
He left a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?"

1933 (+) Actor Michael Caine is born in London, United Kingdom.

1951 (-) Murderer Jim Patterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.

1963 (-) Murderer Manuel Silvas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1964 (-) Kitty Genovese is tortured to death outside her apartment while most of her neighbours watched without any reaction in New York, New York, USA.

1972 (x) 112 Die in Danish charter crash in Arabia.

1980 (-) Ronald Gatlin is sodomised and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Van Nuys, California, USA.

1984 (-) Murderer James Autry aka Cowboy, is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He remained conscious and in great pain for about 10 minutes.

1989 (-) Boxer David Thio dies in the ring after being punched in a coma by Terence Ali during the light-weight championship at the age of 22 in Lyon, France.

1997 (-) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman dies of a heart-attack at the age of 89 in London, United Kingdom.

2004 (-) Muslim prisoner Abd Narzullaev dies in custody under suspicious circumstances after participating in a hunger strike at the age of 44 in Uzbekistan.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

13 march 2005 - Berendrecht, Belgium

The goose hanging from the stake for a round of "gansrijden" in Berendrecht, Belgium.

1901 (-) Suspected Murderer John Henderson is lynched by burning at the stake in Corsicana, Texas, USA.

1911 (+) Scientology-leader Ron L. Hubbard is born in the USA.

1928 (x) Over 450 Die in St. Francis Dam collapse in Santa Paula, California, USA.

1938 (-) Lawyer Clarence Darrow dies at the age of 80 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1939 (+) Musician Neil Sedaka is born in New York, New York, USA.

1940 (-) Michael O’Dwyer is shot dead by Udham Singh in London, United Kingdom.

1942 (-) Hubert Tracey is shot dead by Charles Lovett at the age of 29 in Abingdon, Virginia, USA.
Lovett had just deserted with James Edward Testerman.

1958 (x) 53-year-old Murderer Nathan Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is released from prison in Illinois, USA.

1970 (-) Marie Anstey is abducted and presumably killed by Zodiac in Vallejo, Coronado Inn, California, USA.

1971 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a letter to the Los Angeles Times in Pleasanton, California, USA.

1975 (x) Start of the first trial against Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, USA.

1980 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced to death for the murder of 33 boys in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1985 (-) Murderer Stephen Morin is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He had to have probed both arms and legs with needles for 45 minutes before they found the vein.

1988 (-) Hard-core-porn actor John Holmes dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He performed in hundreds of porn-movies and had sex with an estimated 14.000 women.

1990 (-) Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commits suicide due to a depression at the age of 86 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1996 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Han Zhenying is arrested after a killing spree in which he killed 63 people in 13 provinces since he was 14 years old in Nanyang County, Hunan, China.

1996 (-) Mass Murderer Thomas Hamilton commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 15 5 and 6-year-old children and a teacher in a school at the age of 43 in Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom.
12 other children were wounded.

2002 (-) Musician Marc Moreland after complications following a liver transplant at the age of 44 in Paris, France.
He was the founder of 'Wall of Voodoo'.

Monday, March 12, 2007

12 march 2007 - Berlin, Germany

The underground bunker to provide shelter for nuclear or biological warfare, built in the seventies under a parking lot on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, Germany. The shelter could house about 3600 people for two weeks.

1507 (-) Cesare Borghia is stripped naked and left to die of thirst at the age of 31 in Italy.

1863 (+) Eccentric and writer Gabriele D’Annunzio aka The High Priest of Erotica, is born in Italy.

1889 (+) Choreographer Vaslav Nijinski is born in Kiev, Russia.

1909 (-) Murderer Thomas Meade is executed by hanging.

1914 (+) Writer John Symonds is born in Battersea, London, United Kingdom.

1922 (+) Writer Jack Kerouac is born in Lowell, Massachussets, USA.

1925 (-) Revolutionary president Sun Zhong-Shan dies at the age of 59 in Beijing, China.

1932 (-) Swedish ‘Lucifer-king’ Ivan Kreuger commits suicide by gunshots at the age of 52 in Paris, France.
He couldn't stand the loss of face after detection of fraud in his accountancy.

1940 (+) Musician Al Jarreau is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1945 (+) Serial Killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1946 (+) Actress Liza Minelli is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1955 (-) Musician Charlie Parker dies at the age of 34 in the USA.

1963 (+) Serial Killer Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, is born in Panhandle, Florida, USA.

1974 (-) Donna Manson is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 19 in Olympia, Evergreen Campus, Washington, USA.

1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, disappears after a short leave from prison in Valence, France.
He is apprehended little time later.

1982 (x) Serial Killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to die for 10 murders throughout Los Angeles County in California, USA.

1986 (-) Murderer Charles Bass is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in the USA.

1986 (-) Murderer Roger De Garmo aka Animal, is executed by Old Sparky in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1988 (x) 72 Die in stampede in a thunderstorm during a soccer-game in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

11 march 2007 - Duisburg, Germany

Crossing the Rhein on a brand new bridge in Duisburg, Germany. Welcome to Jockel country (optimized for Netscape 1.1!)

1931 (+) Business tycoon Rupert Murdoch is born in Australia.

1931 (-) Filmmaker Friedrich Murnau dies at the age of 42 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

1935 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, in West Plains, Westchester Supreme Court, New York, USA.

1942 (-) Murderer Harold Trevor is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1944 (x) Discovery of human remains from at least 20 bodies in the basement of Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, when the fire-brigade is called in because of the huge rise of black smoke coming from the chimney. in Paris, 21 Rue Le Sueur, France.

1955 (-) Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming dies of a heart-attack at the age of 74 in London, United Kingdom.

1960 (-) Murderer Robert Fenton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1963 (-) Plotter of the assassination of president De Gaulle, Jean-Marie Thiry is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 35 in Prison of Ivry, France.

1966 (x) Spiritual theorist Timothy Leary is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for the possession and transportation of marihuana in California, USA.

1969 (x) Last official execution by the Guillotine in Paris, France.

1977 (x) Filmmaker Roman Polanski is arrested and charged with furnishing Quaaludes to a minor, child-molesting, unlawful sexual intercourse, rape by the use of drugs, oral copulation and sodomy in the USA.

1978 (-) musician Claude François aka Clo-Clo, dies of electrocution in Paris, #46 Boulevard Exelmans, France.
Claude was at his Paris apartment at #46 Boulevard Exelmans, with an American girlfriend named Kathleen, and a French secretary. In the afternoon he took a shower in preparation for a trip to the recording studio. After finishing his shower, he noticed that the light bulb in the socket hanging over the shower was burned out. With his feet in the water, he reached up to change it, and was instantly electrocuted. Efforts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at 3:30pm.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

10 march 2004 - Brussels, Belgium

Mastering of the Livingstone CD by Club Moral in Brussels, Belgium.

1796 (-) Joseph Lesurques is excuted on false accusations for murdering a couple of stage-coach drivers.

1892 (+) Composer Arthur Honegger is born in Le Havre, France.

1905 (x) 1060 Die in coal-mine explosion in Courrières, France.

1919 (-) Mary Cortimiglia is beaten to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
In the same event Charles and Rosie Cortimiglia are also attacked, but survived.

1920 (+) Writer Boris Vian is born in Ville d’Avray, France.

1928 (+) Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, is born in Alton, Illinois, USA.

1931 (-) Alfred Rouse aka The Body in the Car Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Bedford, United Kingdom.

1958 (+) Actress Sharon Stone is born in the USA.

1960 (-) Auschwitz-KZ executioner Friedrich Simon commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 56 in Germany.

1967 (x) Maria De Sepulveda gives birth to 4 boys and 4 girls, who all die within 14 hours in Brazil.

1975 (-) Adele Price is stabbed to death by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.

1976 (x) 21-year-old Child-murderer Christian Ranucci is convicted to death in Bouches-sur-Rhone, France.

1980 (-) Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist, is shot dead by Jean Harris in the USA.

1981 (x) 34-year-old Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is arrested in Spokane, Washington, USA.

1985 (-) USSR-leader Konstantin Tsjernenko dies of a heart-attack in Moscow, Russia.

1989 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, falls in a coma due to aids and is put in an oxygen-tent in Paris, Hôpital de Claude Bernard, France.

1992 (-) Murderer Robyn Parks is executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma, USA.

1994 (-) Writer Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski dies of pneumonia in San Diego, California, USA.

1997 (x) 50-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is stabbed in both eyes with a felt-tipped pen by an unidentified fellow inmate in Broadmoor Hospital, United Kingdom.

1999 (x) 49-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs is sentenced to life imprisonment in Graz, Austria.

Friday, March 9, 2007

9 march 2007 - nowhere special

Nowhere is everywhere just like never is always.

1890 (+) Politician Vyacheslav Molotov is born in Kukarka, Vyatka, Russia.

1900 (-) Child Murderess Ada Williams is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.

1918 (+) Founder of the American Nazi-party George Lincoln Rockwell is born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA.

1918 (+) Writer Mickey Spillane is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1918 (-) Dramatist Frank Wedekind dies at the age of 54 in München, Germany.

1928 (-) Cop Killer John Whitfield is shot dead in an escape-attempt from the State Penitentiary in Ohio, United Kingdom.

1934 (+) The first man in space, Youri Gagarin is born in Russia.

1942 (+) Musician John Cale is born in Garnant, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom.

1943 (+) Chess-champion Bobby Fischer is born in the USA.

1946 (x) 33 Die in soccer-riot during the game Bolton Wanderers-Wolverhampton Wanderers in the United Kingdom.

1947 (-) Swindler who tried to sell the Eiffel Tower twice, Victor Lustig aka The Count, dies in Springfield, Medical Centre for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, USA.

1950 (-) Timothy Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.
He was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and child, who were actually killed by John Reginald Christie.

1963 (-) Mary Brown is beaten to death and a fork stabbed into her right breast by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 69 in Lawrence, 319 Park Avenue, Massachussets, USA.

1964 (+) Musician Pierre Jolivet aka Pacific 231, is born in France.

1966 (-) George Cornell is shot dead by Ronnie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, at the age of 38 in London, Blind Beggar Pub, Whitechapel Road, United Kingdom.

1972 (-) Douglas Owens is stabbed to death and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 8 in East Harlem, New York, USA.

1981 (-) Rapist and child-murderer Steven Judy is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 24 in Indiana, USA.

1983 (x) 46-year-old Mass-poisoner Arnfinn Nesset is arrested and charged with the murder of at least 25 patients in Trondheim, Nursing home for the Elderly, Norway.

1984 (x) Serial Killer Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, is arrested after attacking Gisela Brown, who managed to push a cigarette into his left eye in Fallingbostel, Germany.

1989 (-) SM-photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dies of aids at the age of 42 in New York, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Artist Martin Kippenberger dies of cancer at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.

2001 (-) Murderer Willie Fisher is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

8 march 2005 - Wijnegem, Belgium

A row of chairs in an abandoned castle in Wijnegem, near Antwerpen, Belgium.

1869 (-) Composer Hector Berlioz dies at the age of 66 in Paris, France.

1915 (-) Murderer Arthur Rottman aka The Ruahine Axe Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Wellington, Terrace Gaol, New Zealand.

1917 (-) Aircraft designer Graff Ferdinand Von Zeppelin dies at the age of 79 in Germany.

1924 (x) 171 Die in coal-mine explosion in Castle Gate, Utah, USA.

1930 (-) 27th president of the USA William Howard Taft dies at the age of 87 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1935 (-) Actress Lingyu Ruan commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates at the age of 24 in Shanghai, China.
Her funeral procession was reportedly three miles long, with three women committing suicide during it.

1945 (-) Gustave Hulten aka The Murderous GI, is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.

1951 (-) Murderers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers, is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing-Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1958 (-) Shirley Bridgeford is abducted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 24 in Anza-Borrega Desert State Park, California, USA.

1963 (-) Murderer Patrick McGhee is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 55 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1969 (x) Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1971 (-) Actor and filmmaker Harold Lloyd dies of cancer at the age of 77 in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1971 (-) Unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 20 in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.

1977 (-) Virginia Voskerichian is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.

1990 (-) Mario Orosco is shot dead by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.

1993 (-) Peter Walker is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 45 in London, United Kingdom.

1999 (x) Over 100 Die in ferry capsizing in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

1999 (-) BaseBall player Joe Di Maggio dies at the age of 84 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He has been Marilyn Monroe's husband for 9 months.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

7 march 2002 - Berchem, Belgium

Yasmine Kherbache at a NICC "Artist's Statute" information session at the Cultural Centre in Berchem, Belgium.

1872 (+) Artist Piet Mondriaan is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

1875 (+) Composer Maurice Ravel is born in Cibourne, France.

1878 (+) Criminologist August Vollmer is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
He was the co- inventor of the lie-detector.

1895 (-) Writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch dies at the age of 59 in Lundheim, Hesse, Germany.

1904 (+) Nazi-leader Richard Heydrich is born in Germany.

1930 (-) Double murderer Refugio Macias is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He had forced is attentions on Paula Media but was told not to bother her anymore upon which he killed both her uncles Pedro Ornelas and Julian De Luna.

1931 (-) Artist Theo Van Doesburg dies in Davos, Switzerland.

1940 (+) Student-leader Rudi Dutschke is born in Germany.

1959 (-) Gertrude Robinson is killed and raped by Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy, at the age of 72 in Southlands Beach, Bermudas.

1959 (-) Burglar and robber Lonnie Craft is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1964 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the Allen County jail in Iola, Missouri, USA.

1966 (x) 124 Die in BOAC Boeing 707 crash in Tokio, Fujijama Mountains, Japan.

1970 (+) Child of Linda Kasabian of the Manson Family, Angel Kasabian is born in a Los Angeles Prison, California, USA.

1970 (-) Judith Hakari is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac in Placer County, California, USA.

1973 (-) Luis Ortez is stabbed to death and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 9 in New York, New York, USA.

1984 (-) Melodie Gay is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 19 in Collier County, Florida, USA.

1988 (-) Actor Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine, The Dirtiest Man in the World, dies of asphyxiation at the age of 42 in Los Angeles Hotel room, California, USA.

1990 (-) Jaroslaw Makarow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Rostow, Botanic Gardens, Russia.

1991 (-) Curtis Straughter is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

1999 (-) Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dies at the age of 70 in London, St. Albans, United Kingdom.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

6 march 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The early days in my "Diggin' for Gordon" project. In the meantime I'm over 5m deep.

1475 (+) Artist Buonarotti Michelangelo is born in Italy.

1836 (-) David Crockett dies on the battlefield at the age of 50 in Alamo, USA.

1900 (-) Scientist and mechanic Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler dies at the age of 65 in Bad Cannstadt, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.

1908 (+) Actor Lou Costello originally Louis Cristillo, is born.

1927 (+) Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda is born in Suwalki, Poland.

1960 (-) Joy Mellish is attacked and raped by Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, at the age of 25 in St. Brelade, Jersey.

1968 (x) Bomb attack by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on a court of Justice in Berlin, Germany.

1970 (x) During a press conference the release of the one and only record album of Family leader Charles Manson “Lie, The Love and Terror Cult” is announced in the Spahn Ranch, California, USA.

1970 (x) 3 Wethermen are killed in a bomb-attack on a warehouse in New York, New York, USA.

1981 (-) Child-murderer Klaus Grabowski is shot dead in the court by Marianne Bachmeier, the mother of his 7-year-old victim Anna at the age of 35 in Lubeck, Germany.

1984 (x) An unidentified woman who advertised her home for sale is raped by Serial Killer Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, in Port Richey, Florida, USA.

1987 (x) 183 Die in Herald of Free Enterprise ferry shipwreck in Zeebrugge, West-Flanders, Belgium.

1994 (-) Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, dies of aids at the age of 41 in Prison, Illinois, USA.

1994 (-) Musician and politician Melina Mercouri dies in Athens, Greece.

2002 (x) Serial Killer Andras Pandy is sentenced to life in prison for killing six family members and dissolving their bodies in chemical drain cleaner in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
He killed two wives and four children and also raped two other daughters.

2002 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Agnes Pandy is sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for being an accomplice in five of her father's murders of family members in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

Monday, March 5, 2007

5 march 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A finished DVD-mastering project under the eye of the master.

1878 (+) Occult Teacher Peter Ouspensky is born in Moscow, Russia.

1908 (+) Actor Rex Harrison originally Reginald Carey, is born in Huyton, United Kingdom.

1910 (+) Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Ando is born in Kagi, Taiwan.

1912 (x) Over 500 Die in Principe de Asturias steamer shipwreck in Spain.

1922 (+) Writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is born in Bologna, Italy.

1924 (x) 73-year-old George Behr has a transplantation of testicles from a Makaki monkey in the USA.

1939 (+) Actress Samantha Eggar aka Miranda, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1945 (-) Murderess Lena Baker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1953 (-) Statesman Josef Stalin dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 73 in Moscow, Russia.

1957 (+) Musician Mark E. Smith is born in Salford, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Artist Giacomo Balla dies at the age of 86 in Rome, Italy.

1960 (+) Musician David Tibet originally David Michael Bunting, is born in United Kingdom.

1966 (x) 124 Die in BOAC Boeing 707 crash in Honsho, Japan.

1970 (-) Patricia King is presumably strangled by Zodiac in California, USA.

1973 (x) 176 Die in Iberia DC-9 and Iberia Convair collision in Nantes, France.

1975 (x) Serial Killer Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested while trying to assault policewoman Annette Jolin in Portland, Duniway Park, Oregon, USA.

1980 (-) Organiser of the Bayreuth Festspiele Winnifred Wagner dies at the age of 83 in Germany.

1982 (-) Actor John Belushi dies of a drug over-dose in the Chateau-Marmont Hotel,

1986 (x) 16-year-old Satan Worshiper and Triple Murderer Sean Sellers kills his 32-year-old mother Vonda and 43-year-old stepfather Paul Bellofatto, while they sleep in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

Sunday, March 4, 2007

4 march 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The Flowers of Romance on our roof.

1908 (x) 161 Die in school fire in Collinwood, Ohio, USA.

1918 (x) 280 Die in USS Cyclops shipwreck in Barbados.

1932 (+) Musician Myriam Makeba is born.

1944 (-) Head of Murder Incorporated Louis Buchalter aka Lepke, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 47 in the USA.
On the same occasion, his lieutenants Louis Capone and Mindy Weiss are also executed.

1948 (-) Theatre theorist Antonin Artaud dies of cancer at the age of 52 in Paris, Ivry, France.

1952 (x) 119 Die in 2-train collision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They crashed head-on into each other.

1953 (-) Composer Sergey Prokofiev dies at the age of 62 in Moscow, Russia.

1955 (-) Murderer Carl Folk is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 56 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1961 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 11-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.

1962 (x) 111 Die in DC-7 crash in the Jungle of Cameroun.

1970 (-) Jadwiga K. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Siemanowice, Poland.

1972 (-) An unidentified girl is presumably strangled by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

1982 (-) Herta Schmits is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
Stumbling naked out of the woods, she was picked up by a passing motorist and raped.

1983 (-) Edgar Underkofler is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 27 in Danville, Illinois, USA.

1984 (-) Dima Ptaschinow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Nowoschachtinsk, Russia.

1994 (x) Musician Kurt Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is found in a coma due to a suicidal cocktail of Rohypnol and champagne in his hotel room in Rome, Italy.

1994 (-) Actor John Candy dies of a heart-attack at the age of 44 in Durango, Mexico.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

3 march 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

AMVK's exhibition of "Rorty, the Headroom, 19 Philosophical Rooms" lightboxes commissioned by the Twodos at objectif_exhibitions in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1847 (+) Scientist Alexander Graham Bell is born in the USA.

1903 (-) Triple murderer Edgar Edwards is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.
“I’m looking forward to this lot.”

1910 (+) Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa is born in Tokio, Japan.

1911 (+) Actress and Sex-Queen Jean Harlow originally Harlenean Carpenter, is born in Kansas City, Montana, USA.

1953 (-) Hectorina McLennan is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 26 in London, United Kingdom.

1959 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Elena Rytka is born in the United Kingdom.
She was part of a twin with sister Rita.

1959 (-) Actor Lou Costello originally Louis Cristillo, dies at the age of 52 in the USA.

1970 (-) Cosette Ellison is presumably murdered by Zodiac in California, USA.

1972 (+) Eleventh victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Errol Lindsey is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1974 (x) 345 Die in Turkish Airlines DC10 crash in Paris, France.

1976 (-) Artist Pierre Molinier commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 75 in Bordeaux, France.
On his door he wrote in chalk the following words: "Je prends ma vie. La clef est avec le concierge".

1983 (-) Artist Georges Remi aka Hergé, dies at the age of 76 in Liège, Liège, Belgium.

1983 (-) Elisabeth Kenyon is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 23 in Miami, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA.

1983 (-) Writer Arthur Koestler commits suicide by a drug overdose at the age of 77 in London, United Kingdom.
Together with his wife Cynthia.

1987 (-) Actor Danny Kaye originally David Kaminsky, dies of internal bleeding due to yellow fever at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1992 (x) 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Kozlu, Turkey.

1993 (-) Murderer and necrophile John Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the first execution by lethal injection in Arizona.

1999 (-) Murderer Walter LaGrand is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.