Thursday, May 3, 2007

3 may 2005 - Vladivostok, Russia


A stuffed fox in Arseniev Historic Museum in Vladivostok.

1729 (+) Composer Florian Gassmann is born in Brüx, Bohemia, Czechoslowakia.
1898 (+) Founder of the State of Israel Golda Meir originally Golda Mabovitz or Golda Myerson, is born in Kiev, Russia.
1904 (-) Murderer Allan Mooney is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora Prison, USA.
1911 (-) Murderer Joseph Nesce is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.
1933 (+) Musician James Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, USA.
1936 (+) Musician Engelbert Humperdinck originally Arnold Dorsay, is born in Madras, India.
1937 (+) Musician Frankie Valli originally Frank Castelluccio, is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
1947 (x) Execution of the Bullies of Ravensbruck in Germany.
1948 (-) Murderer James Farran is killed by a bomb he received in the mail in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
1962 (x) 163 Die in train collision in Tokyo, Japan.
1970 (x) Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, marries Janet in Queens Village Our Lady of Lourdes Church, New York, USA.
1979 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested posing as Ron Springer for the assault of 7-year-old Thomas Morton in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1982 (x) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is released from prison after serving 17 years of a life-sentence in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.
1984 (-) Beate Koch is abducted and held imprisoned by Dr. Ulrich Kochwald at the age of 19 in Pillnach, Germany.
1985 (x) 70 Die in Aeroflot Toepolev 134 crash in Kvov, Russia.
1987 (-) Musician Dalida originally Yolande Christina Gigliotti, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 54 in Paris, France.
She left behind a suicide note that said: "Life has become unbearable ... forgive me."
1991 (-) Writer Jerzy Kosinski commits suicide by asphyxiation with a plastic bag in his bath at the age of 57 in New York, New York, USA.
His parting note read: "I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity."
1994 (-) Murderer Paul Rougeau is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1995 (-) Murderer Keith Zettlemoyer is executed by lethal injection in Pennsylvania, USA.
It was the first execution in Pennsylvania in 33 years.
1995 (-) Murderer Emmit Foster is executed by lethal injection in Missouri, USA.
1996 (-) Triple murderer Keith Williams is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
1999 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is found guilty of murdering 11 people in a 1980's sex-and-torture murder spree in Santa Ana, California, USA.
2005 (-) Murderer Lonnie Pursley is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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