Sunday, April 15, 2007

15 april 2005 - Moscow, Russia


A guard in front of the Lenin Mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow at approximately se7en in the morning.

1452 (+) Artist Leonardo Da Vinci is born in Italy.
1721 (+) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, is born in United Kingdom.
1764 (-) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour dies of pneumonia at the age of 43.
1889 (-) Father Damiaan dies of leprosy at the age of 49 in Molokai, Hawaï.
1904 (+) Artist Jean Gros is born in Khorkom, Van, Turkey.
1912 (x) 1503 Die in Titanic steamer shipwreck in Newfoundland.
It collided with an iceberg.
1920 (x) The Slater and Morril Shoe Company is robbed of 16.000 $, and Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti will be arrested on vague accusations in South Braintree, Massachussets, USA.
1924 (-) Hermann Bock is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 22 in Hannover, Germany.
1925 (-) Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is executed by the Guillotine in Hannover, Celler Straße Prison, Germany.
1938 (+) Actress Claudia Cardinale is born in Italy.
1942 (-) Writer Robert Von Musil aka The Man Without Qualities, dies at the age of 62 in Genève, Switzerland.
1945 (x) The concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen is liberated in Germany.
1947 (x) Over 500 Die in Grand Camp freighter explosion in Texas City, Texas, USA.
Many people died in the subsequent fire that raged through the city.
1951 (x) Mabel Everson dies at the age of 69. On the night of the funeral, Serial Killer Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, robbed her grave and took parts of her body home to make his grisly artefacts in Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA.
1955 (-) Murderer Jackson Howard is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
1957 (x) Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries Mary Catherine Castillo in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1972 (-) IRA-Leader Joseph McCann is shot dead at the age of 25 in Ireland.
1975 (-) Melanie Coolley is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Nederland, Colorado, USA.
1980 (-) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.
1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
1984 (-) Actor and comedian Tommy Cooper has a fatal heart-attack in the midst of a live TV-show at the age of 62 in London, Her Majesty’s Theatre, United Kingdom.
1984 (x) Mass-Murderer Christopher Thomas kills 10 people, including 8 children, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1986 (-) Murderer Daniel Thompson is executed by Old Sparky in Starke State Prison, Florida, USA.
1986 (-) Writer and thief Jean Genet dies of throat-cancer at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
1988 (-) Murderer Earl Clanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1989 (x) 96 Die in soccer-riot during the game Liverpool-Nottingham Forest in Sheffield, Hillsborough Stadium, United Kingdom.
1990 (x) 87 Die in mass poisoning in Uttar Pradesh, India.
They had been eating poisoned food on the occasion of an engagement-banquet.
1997 (x) Over 250 Die in encampment fire in Mekka, Camp-Mama, Saudi Arabia.
1998 (-) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 73 in Anlow Veng, Thailand.
2001 (-) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffrey Hyman, dies of cancer at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.

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