Sunday, June 3, 2007

3 june 2007 - Merksem, Belgium


Noman's land under a bridge over the Albert canal in Merksem where love is kinda creepy with a crazy little boy.

1847 (+) Scientist Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1875 (-) Composer Georges Bizet dies at the age of 36 in Paris, France.
1906 (+) Musician Josephine Baker is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1922 (+) Filmmaker Alain Resnais is born in Vannes, Morbihan, France.
1924 (-) Writer Franz Kafka dies of a pulmonary catarrh at the age of 40 in Vienna, Kierling Sanatorium, Austria.
1925 (+) Actor Tony Curtis originally Bernard Schwartz, is born in New York, New York, USA.
1926 (+) Writer Allen Ginsberg is born in Newark, Paterson, New Jersey, USA.
1927 (-) Mary Sietsema is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 27 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1928 (-) Grace Budd is abducted by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 10 in New York, Manhattan, 406 West 15th Street, New York, USA.
She was taken to Wisteria Cottage, White Plains and murdered, cut to pieces and eaten by Fish.
1955 (-) Murderess Barbara Graham originally Barbara Eilaine Wood, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin, California, USA.
Two accomplices joined her in death.
1962 (x) 130 Die in Air France Boeing 707 crash in Paris, France.
1963 (-) 260th Pope John XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
1963 (x) 101 Die in DC-7 crash in Alaska, USA.
1969 (x) The house of Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is searched in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.
Amongst boxes of pornography the search also reveals female breasts used as paperweights.
1973 (x) During an air-show in France, a Tupoleff-144 crashes, killing 15. Responsability for the crash is claimed by an organisation aiming for the release from Spandau-prison of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess .
1974 (-) IRA-member Michael Gaughan originally Micheal O Gaibhtheachain, dies after hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
The British Government stated that he died of pneumonia; Gaughan's family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube.
1976 (-) Michael Bonnin is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
1977 (-) Filmmaker Roberto Rosselini dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Rome, Italy.
1997 (-) Murderer Kenneth Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Serial Killer Douglas Gretzler is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, he killed 19 people.
1998 (x) 100 Die in Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen InterCity Express 884 train derailment in Eschede, Germany.
2001 (-) Actor Anthony Quinn dies of pneumonia and repiratory failure at the age of 86 in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

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