"Dan Flavin is descending steps into Hell" in my "Diggin' for Gordon" project somewhere in Antwerpen.
1199 (-) Richard The Lionheart is fatally wounded by a crossbow-shot at the age of 42 in the United Kingdom.
1854 (+) Magician Harry Houdini originally Erich Weiss, is born in the USA.
1892 (+) Airplane designer Donald Douglas is born in the USA.
1909 (x) Explorer Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the Northpole.
1917 (x) The United States declare war to Germany.
1924 (-) Alfred Hogrefe is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.
1944 (+) Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, is born in Saigon, Vietnam.
1945 (+) Musician Bob Marley is born in Jamaica.
1945 (-) Murderer Lee Smith is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 62 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1946 (-) Murderer Patrick Carraher is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Glasgow, Barlinnie Prison, United Kingdom.
1950 (x) 108 Die in train derailment in Tangua, Brazil.
It drove off a viaduct.
1953 (x) Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, attempts to shoot Major-General Edwin Walker in the USA.
1970 (-) Murderer of his wife and daughter Sam Sheppard commits suicide by an overdose of drugs and alcohol at the age of 47 in the USA.
1970 (-) German ambassador Karl Von Spreti is murdered after being kidnapped at the age of 62 in Guatemala.
1971 (-) Composer Igor Strawinsky dies at the age of 88 in New York, New York, USA.
1973 (x) After an occupation of 37 days, Wounded Knee is taken over by United States Government Forces.
1975 (-) Denise Olverson is abducted by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 25 in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA.
She is never found again.
1976 (-) Darrel Sampson is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
1990 (x) 31-year-old P.G. attacks Rembrandt’s ‘Nightwatch’ with sulphuric acid in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.
1992 (-) SF-writer Isaac Asimov dies of heart-failure at the age of 72 in New York, New York, USA.
1992 (-) Double murderer Donald Harding is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 43 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the first execution in 29 years in Arizona, and the last one in the Gas Chamber.
1995 (-) Murderer Noble Mays is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Musician Wendy O. Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 48 in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
1999 (x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Gary Beach is arrested after the police found five decomposed bodies in his house in Kansas City, Montana, USA.
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