Monday, April 16, 2007

16 april 2005 - Vladivostok, Russia


Sunset over the beach in Vladivostok.

1828 (-) Artist Francisco Goya dies of Vogt-Koyanagi-Syndrome.
This disease caused an infection of the retina with consequent blurred vision and hallucinations.
1841 (-) Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Jersey.
1867 (+) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright is born in Melville, Indiana, USA.
1869 (+) Murderess Jeanne Japy-Steinheil is born in Beaucourt, France.
1881 (-) Murderer Alan Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.
1889 (+) Actor and filmmaker Charles Chaplin is born in London, Brixton, United Kingdom.
1896 (+) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, is born in Moinesti, Romania.
1907 (-) Auguste Bavouzet is strangled by Jeanne Weber at the age of 9 in Villedieu, France.
1920 (-) Murderer Simplico Torrez is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1921 (+) Actor Peter Ustinov is born in London, United Kingdom.
1922 (+) Writer Kingsley Amis is born in the USA.
1924 (+) Composer Henry Mancini is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1926 (-) Murderer Archie Cody is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.
1936 (-) Murderess Dorothea Waddingham aka The Murderous Nurse, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, United Kingdom.
1937 (-) Wimberly Baker is shot dead by Robert Suhay at the age of 27 in Topeka, post office, Kansas, USA.
1937 (-) Murderer Fred Hart is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.
1946 (-) Automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide by hanging due to depression at the age of 62 in Slidell, Louisiana, USA.
1947 (-) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Hoss is executed by hanging in Auschwitz, Poland.
1964 (x) Astronaut Geraldine Mock is the first woman to fly around the world in a spacecraft.
1969 (-) Dawn Basom is raped, tortured and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 13 in Ann Arbor, Superior Township, Michigan, USA.
1981 (-) Colleen Daignault is abducted, tortured and murdered by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Surrey, British Columbia, USA.
1986 (-) Murderer Jeffrey Barney is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1989 (-) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, dies of aids at the age of 26 in Paris, Prison de Fresnes, France.
1990 (-) Actress Greta Garbo originally Greta Gustafsson, dies of a kidney and stomach-disease at the age of 84 in New York, New York, USA.
1990 (x) Over 100 Die in train fire in Patna, India.
1992 (-) Kristen French is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist, at the age of 16 in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.
1997 (-) Artist and writer Roland Topor dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris, France.

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