Saturday, June 16, 2007

16 june 1999 - Asperen, Netherlands


Building up "Dante's Inferno" in Fort Asperen, I had a lot of help from Hasje Boeyen. One night we went to some guy living in the Dutch hinterland and left there late at night. Hasje drove his van backwards over a stretch of dike while I followed straight ahead. All of a sudden, very calm and slowly Hasje's van steered of the dike and tumbled sideways. It took two heavy tractors to pull out the van the next day. Hasje died a couple of years ago, just like that.

1890 (+) Actor Stan Laurel originally Arthur Stanley Jefferson, is born in Ulverston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
1896 (+) Automobile manufacterer Jean Peugeot is born in France.
1913 (x) The first ‘Apartheid’-law is voted, stating that certain lands can only be owned by whites, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1920 (x) Black rapists Elmer Jackson, Isaac McGhie and Nate Green are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
1923 (-) An unidentified man is murdered ‘for the fun it gave me’ by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, in Kingston, New York, USA.
1925 (+) Viennese Aktionist Otto Mühl is born in Grodnau, Burgenland, Austria.
1937 (+) Actor Erich Segal is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1959 (-) Actor George Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 45 in Benedict Canyon, California, USA.
1963 (x) 26-year-old Astronaut Valentina Tereshkova happens to be the first woman in space in a Vostok-6.
She spent three days in space, which was more than the combined time of all american astronauts in space.
1964 (-) Keith Bennet is kidnapped and murdered by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 12 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1976 (x) Over 600 Die in race-riot in Soweto, South Africa.
1976 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, has a gallstone removed by Dr. Kirk in Willesden General Hospital, United Kingdom.
1977 (-) Scientist and space-craft-engineer Wernher Von Braun dies at the age of 65 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
1978 (-) Carol Reeves is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in France.
1987 (-) Policeman and murderer Jimmy Wingo is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 35 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.
1997 (-) Serial Killer Gerd Wenzinger commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Salvador, Baha, Brazil.
He was facing charges of killing 13 prostitutes in Berlin and Stuttgart, and sexually torturing many more in Germany and Brazil.
1997 (-) Murderer David Stoker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1999 (-) Musician David Sutch aka Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 58 in London, United Kingdom.

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