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.
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