Tuesday, April 3, 2007

2 april 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A performance by Bavo & Sofie in AMVK's studio in Antwerpen.

1725 (+) Sexual athlete Giovanni Jacopo Casanova is born in Venice, Italy.
1805 (+) Writer Hans Christian Andersen is born in Denmark.
1834 (+) Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, Fréderic-Auguste Bartholdi is born in France.
1840 (+) Writer Emile Zola is born in Paris, France.
1891 (+) Artist Max Ernst is born in Bruhl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1914 (+) Actor Alec Guinnes is born in London, United Kingdom.
1929 (-) Erna Pinner is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1930 (x) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, divorces his wife Estelle Wilcox after just 2 months of marriage in Waterloo, Ohio, USA.
1939 (+) Musician Marvin Gaye is born in the USA.
1946 (-) Murderer Frank Quarles is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Indiana, USA.
1947 (+) Musician Emmylou Harris is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
1968 (x) Arson-attack by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on two shopping-centers in Berlin, Germany.
1974 (-) President Georges Pompidou dies of leukemia at the age of 62 in Paris, France.
1987 (x) Serial Killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, tries to commit suicide by hanging in his prison-cell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1993 (-) Lauren Marquez is strangled and her neck broken by Joel Rifkin at the age of 28 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1997 (-) Murderer David Herman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He tried to commit suicide by slashing his throat the night before, but he was patched up and executed anyway.

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