Thursday, April 5, 2007

5 april 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A small metal drum set I made for Aarich Jespers' 30th birthday. He's a drummer in Zita Swoon and other bands.

1900 (+) Actor Spencer Tracy is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1908 (+) Conductor Herbert Von Karajan is born in Salzburg, Austria.
1908 (+) Actress Bette Davis is born in Lowell, Massachussets, USA.
1916 (+) Actor Gregory Peck is born in La Jolla, California, USA.
1920 (+) Writer Arthur Hailey is born in Luton, United Kingdom.
1926 (+) Filmmaker Roger Corman is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
1968 (x) Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ennslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein are arrested for an arson-attack, 3 days before in Berlin, Germany.
1971 (x) American Hero and Mass-murderer William Caley is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in the USA.
1975 (-) Statesman Chang Kai-Shek dies at the age of 87 in Taiwan.
1976 (-) Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes dies at the age of 70 in his private aircraft near Houston, Texas, USA.
1983 (x) 27-year-old Mass-Murderer Cevdet Yilmaz shoots 6 people because he is not accepted as a ‘Dutchman’ after his official naturalisation in Delft, ‘t Koetsiertje, the Netherlands.
1984 (-) Child-Murderer Freddie Goode is executed in the USA.
He faced the jury with the words “Having sex with children is the way it should be done”.
1989 (-) Joris Viville is raped, strangled and mutilated by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 10 in Port Grimaud, France.
1992 (x) Over 100 Die in diamond-mine cave-in in Nyeya, Sierra Leone.
1997 (-) Writer Allen Ginsberg dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in New York, New York, USA.

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