Sunday, May 6, 2007

6 may 2002 - Lyon, France


My bruised shoulder from a performance in Brussels when arriving in Lyon for another performance festival.

1678 (-) Composer Joseph De La Barre dies at the age of 44 in France.
1838 (+) Composer Alfred Pease is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1856 (+) Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud is born in Freiberg, Moravia, Hungary.
1862 (-) Writer and pacifist Henry Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Concord, Massachussets, USA.
He said never to have found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
1880 (+) Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is born in Aschaffenberg, Germany.
1895 (+) Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Valentino is born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy.
1902 (+) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, is born in Saarbrücken, Germany.
1910 (-) King Edward VII dies at the age of 68 in London, United Kingdom.
1915 (+) Actor and filmmaker Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
1932 (-) Paul Doumer is shot dead by Paul Gorgoelov at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
Gorgoelov was a self-proclaimed Russian Fascist.
1937 (x) 36 Die in Hindenburgh crash in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
1943 (+) Terrorist Andreas Baader is born in München, Germany.
1953 (+) British Prime Minister Tony Blair is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1960 (x) Assassin of Bolshevik Revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Jacques Mornard is released from prison in Mexico.
1963 (-) Beverly Samans is stabbed to death by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 23 in Boston, Cambridge, 4 University Road, Massachussets, USA.
1966 (x) Serial Killer Ian Brady aka The Moors Murderer, and Myra Hindley are sentenced to 3 and 2 respectively concurrent terms of life-imprisonment in London, United Kingdom.
1972 (x) 115 Die in Alitalia DC-8 crash in Palermo, Italy.
1985 (x) Fifteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, State Police Building, Brabant, Belgium.
It was a revenge because the State Police failed to warn 2 firemen who got killed in a previous attack.
1986 (-) Charles Quarrel is presumably murdered by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 73 in London, Southwark, King James Street, United Kingdom.
1992 (-) Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, dies at the age of 90 in Paris, Avenue Montaigne, France.
1998 (-) Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is executed at the age of 39 in Xinjiang, China.
He was found guilty of killing 14 people.
2003 (-) Murderer Roger Vaughn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

that bruise looks like an imprint ???