Saturday, May 5, 2007

5 may 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A huge stack of Belgian artists' art catalogues rescued from the trash at the ICC and stored in Montebellostraat in Antwerpen.

1813 (+) Philosopher and theologian Sören Kierkegaard is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1818 (+) Economist Karl Marx is born in Trier, Germany.
1821 (-) War leader Napoleon Bonaparte dies of inner bleedings at the age of 52 in St. Hélène, France.
1914 (+) Actor Tyrone Power is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
1945 (-) Commander of Dachau concentration camp Weiter commits suicide in Germany.
1960 (x) A U-2 aircraft carrying supposed Us Spy Gary Powers is shot down in Sverdlovsk, Russia.
1961 (-) Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty dies of a heart-attack at the age of 53 in Paris, France.
1963 (x) James Audett aka Blackie, is the last prisoner to step out of Alcatraz Prison before its closure in the USA.
1967 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Ernest Miller is born in Illinois, USA.
1973 (x) 250 Die in 2 riverboat collision in Dacca, Bangladesh.
1975 (x) Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 60 years imprisonment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1980 (-) Shelley Dudley aka Valorie Ann Street, is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 19 in Hasbrouck Heights, Quality Inn Motel, Room 132, New Jersey, USA.
1980 (-) Anna Bachmeier is strangled by Klaus Grabowski at the age of 7 in Germany.
He was a previously sentenced and castrated sex-offender.
1980 (-) Valerie Street is tortured to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 19 in Hasbrouck Heights Quality Inn, New York, USA.
1981 (-) IRA-member Bobby Sands dies after 66 days of hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
1981 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1982 (x) The bomb mailed to Professor Patrick Fisher by Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, explodes when opened in the Computer Science Department in Nashville, Vanderbilt University , Tennessee, USA.
One person is injured.
1997 (-) Transvestite Serial Killer Samuel Coetzee commits suicide by drug-overdose in Boksburg prison, South Africa.
He was accused of killing four men and a boy together with his ex-partner John Frank Brown. He left a note saying he no longer wanted to live.
1999 (-) Multiple murderer Robert Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
An inmate on death row already, on 4 march 1982, he doused Buster Holsinger, another death row inmate, with Vitalis and set him on fire. Holsinger died as a result of tracheobronchial burns.
1999 (-) Murderer Clydell Coleman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the motherload ! what happened to it ?

DDV said...

for quite some time we traced down all the artists involved and gave them whatever was available of their own catalogues. then we had a huge sale where we sold them for 1 euro a piece. then the whole lot went to the antwerp museum of contemporary art.