Tuesday, May 15, 2007

15 may 2004 - Aachen, Germany


Curator Philippe Pirotte having a crush on an AMVK lightbox at her "How Reliable is the Brain?" exhibition in NAK, Aachen.

1905 (+) Actor Joseph Cotton is born in Petersburg, Virginia, USA.
1909 (+) Actor James Mason is born in Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
1923 (+) Photographer Richard Avedon is born in New York City, New York, USA.
1929 (x) 125 Die in Hospital fire in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1930 (+) Artist Jasper Johns is born in Augusta, Georgia, USA.
1935 (-) Artist Kasimir Malewitsch dies at the age of 57 in Leningrad, Russia.
1936 (-) Murderer Jack Sullivan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1937 (+) Musician Trini Lopez is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1967 (-) Artist Edward Hopper dies at the age of 84 in New York, New York, USA.
1972 (x) Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg’s car is bombed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Germany.
1972 (x) Governor of Alabama and President-Candidate George Wallace is shot 5 times by Would-be Assassin Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland, USA.
The assassination attempt left him paralyzed.
1980 (-) Jean Reyner is strangled and her breasts removed by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, in New York, Hotel Seville, 22 East Twenty-ninth street, New York, USA.
1981 (x) Serial Killer Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, marries the mother of his son in Coquilham, British Columbia, Canada.
1981 (-) Ulrike Hellan is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 10 in Mainz, Germany.
She survived, and Bopp was arrested later on the day.
1985 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in room 224, a computer room, of Cory Hall in Berkeley, University, California, USA.
One person is badly injured when opening the package.
1985 (-) Murderer Jesse De La Rosa is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1986 (-) Rapist and murderer Jay Pinkerton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 24 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1987 (-) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 69 in New York, New York, USA.
1993 (-) Eric Schmitt aka The Human Bomb, is shot dead by a special RAID-police-commando after hostaging a class of young children for 46 hours, having dynamite tied around his waist at the age of 42 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
1995 (-) Renee Blackwell is killed by Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, at the age of 24 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He tossed her body in a dumpster behind a McDonald's at 63rd and Ashland.
1998 (-) Musician Frank Sinatra aka The Voice, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Bruce Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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