Tuesday, July 31, 2007

31 july 2003 - Singapore


The Policemen of the Hell in a Chinese temple in Singapore. These two statues stood in the oldest temple in Singapore for years, until it was 'redecorated' into Disney-style. The statues are made of wood, have real hair and people used to offer them money, or smear opium on their beard to bribe them and get less beating when they would go to hell. Now they stand in some small shrine where taking pictures is not allowed.

1556 (-) Jezuït Ignatius De Loyola dies of chronic stomach ailments at the age of 64 in Rome, Italy.
1831 (+) Theosophist Madame Blavatsky originally Helene Petrovna Hahn, is born in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine.
1886 (-) Composer Franz Liszt dies of pneumonia at the age of 74 in Bayreuth, Austria.
1901 (+) Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Dubuffet is born in Le Havre, France.
1914 (-) Socialist leader Jean Jaurès is shot dead by extremist Robert Villain at the age of 54 in Paris, Montmartre, café Le Croissant, France.
1914 (+) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, is born in Courbevoie, France.
1943 (-) Murderess Marie Louise Giraud is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
She was convicted of performing 26 illegal abortions and the last woman executed in France.
1944 (+) Actress Geraldine Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1944 (-) Writer and pilot Marie Antoine De Saint-Exupéry is lost without a trace at the age of 44 in Corsica, France.
1949 (-) Laura Showalter is bludgeoned to death by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 57 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
1966 (-) Mrs Whitman is stabbed to death by Charles Whitman aka The Man on the Tower, in Austin, Texas, USA.
1968 (-) Brian Howe is mutilated and strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 3 in Newcastle, Tin Lizzie wasteland, United Kingdom.
1969 (-) Gary Hinman is stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 34 in California, USA.
1973 (x) 89 Die in Delta Air Lines jetliner crash in Boston, Logan Airport, Massachussets, USA.
1975 (-) John Butkovitch is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
1977 (-) Stacy Moskowitz is shot by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
In the same evenet Robert Violante was also shot, he survived but remained blind.
1979 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is sentenced to death in Miami, Florida, USA.
1981 (x) 32-year-old Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Spokane, Washington, USA.
1982 (x) 44 yougsters Die in autobus collision and fire in Beaune, France.
1992 (x) 113 Die in Thai Airways International Airbus 310-300 crash in Ghyangphedi, Nepal.
1993 (-) King of Belgium Boudewijn I originally Boudewijn Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, dies of heart-failure at the age of 62 in Motril, Villa Astrid, Andalusia, Spain.

Monday, July 30, 2007

30 july 2003 - Singapore


A Buddha statue in a temple in Singapore.

1818 (+) Writer Emily Bronte is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1858 (-) Murderer James Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New York, USA.
1863 (+) Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
1898 (+) Artist Henry Moore is born in Castleford, Yorks, United Kingdom.
1915 (-) Racketeer and murderer Charles Becker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in New York, Sing Sing prison, New York, USA.
1929 (-) Emma Gross is strangled by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 35 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1937 (-) Womanizer and reverend Harold Davidson aka The Prostitutes’ Padre, dies of a broken neck at the age of 62 in Skegness, Cottage Hospital, United Kingdom.
He was attacked by a lion while acting as a modern ‘Daniël in the Lion’s Den’ two days before.
1939 (+) Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich is born in Kingston, New Jersey, USA.
1941 (+) Musician Paul Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1947 (+) Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is born in Graz, Austria.
1960 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 8-year-old boy in La Blinerie, Jersey.
1967 (-) Industrialist Alfried Krupp dies of a heart-attack at the age of 60 in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes a 3-part cipher and letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and Vallejo Times-Herald newspapers in California, USA.
1969 (x) Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1971 (x) 22-year-old Sergeant Josjima Itsjikawa kills 162 people by hitting an All Nippon Boeing 727 with his Sabre Jet in Morioka, Japan.
He escaped by using his ejector-seat.
1975 (x) 62-year-old Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is abducted from a parking lot and never seen again in Bloomfield Hills, Machus Red Fox restaurant, Michigan, USA.
1977 (-) Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is shot dead by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 53 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
The action was taken by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Susanne Albrecht.
1978 (x) 29-year-old Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt and Gary Tison escape from prison with the help of Tison's three sons and go on a killing spree that left six dead in Arizona, USA.
1981 (-) Louise Chartrand is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 17 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada.
1985 (-) Minister of science, technology and energy, Damrong Lathapipat commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 52 in Thailand.
1993 (-) Murderer Danny Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

29 july 2002 - Sooden, Germany


A weird mushroom in the forests around Sooden. This image was used for the cover of Carl Cryplant's Sex Music Vol 2.

1099 (-) 159th Pope Urbanus II originally Otho of Lagery aka The Blessed, dies at the age of 57 in Rome, Italy.
1644 (-) 235th Pope Urbanus VIII originally Maffeo Barberini, dies at the age of 76 in Rome, Italy.
1856 (-) Composer Robert Schumann dies of heart-failure at the age of 46 in Endenich, Germany.
1879 (-) Murderess Kate Webster aka Catherine Lawler, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1883 (+) Fascist leader Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce, is born in Forli, Predappio, Italy.
1890 (-) Artist Vincent Van Gogh commits suicide by a shot in the stomach at the age of 37 in France.
1900 (-) King Umberto I is shot dead by American anarchist Gaetano Bresci at the age of 56 in Monza, Italy.
1901 (-) Murderer George Middleton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Clinton Prison, New York, USA.
He needs 4 blows in 12 minutes time.
1905 (+) Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is born in Jönköping, Sweden.
1905 (+) Actress Thelma Todd is born in Lawrence, Massachussets, USA.
1914 (+) Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich is born in Torino, Italy.
1923 (+) Sound pioneer Jim Marshall aka The Father of Loud, is born in United Kingdom.
1924 (+) Murder victim Elisabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
1929 (+) Sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard is born in Reims, France.
1938 (-) Mary Carpenter dies of spontaneous human combustion in Norfolk, United Kingdom.
She was holidaying on a cabin cruiser on the Norfolk Broads.
1950 (-) Murderer Angel Serna is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1974 (-) Musician Cass Elliot originally Ellen Naomi Cohen, dies of heart failure at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.
There is an urban legend that she choked to death in a ham sandwich.
1976 (-) Donna Lauria is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, at the age of 18 in the Bronx, New York, USA.
In the same event 19-year-old Jody Valenti is also shot, but he survived.
1978 (x) 25-year-old Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is sentenced to 315 years imprisonment and sent to the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, New York, USA.
1979 (-) Philosopher Herbert Marcuse dies at the age of 81 in Sternberg, Germany.
1981 (x) 20-year-old Princess Diana Spencer aka Lady Di, marries Prince Charles in London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) Michelle Steele is abducted, raped and asphyxiated by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 11 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
1983 (-) Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Un Chien Andalou, dies at the age of 83 in Mexico City, Mexico.
1983 (-) Actor David Niven dies of Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 73 in Chateu d'Oex, Switzerland.
1984 (-) Pia Rontini is shot dead and mutilated by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 18 in Florence, Vicchio, Italy.
Her left breast and pubis had been removed.
1987 (-) Wanja Bilowetzki is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 12 in Saporosje, Ukraïne, Russia.
1990 (-) Viktor Petrow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Rostow, Botanic Garden, Russia.
1993 (x) 73-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is ruled innocent of being a Nazi camp-commander of Treblinka by the High Court in Israël.
1997 (-) Murderer Bobby West is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1999 (-) Mass murderer Mark Barton commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He shot nine people and wounded another thirteen in Piedmont Avenue business district after murdering his wife and two children.
2000 (-) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte dies of a stroke at the age of 67 in Jamioulx, Charleroi, Belgium.
He killed 7 people, was sentenced to death twice and sentenced to a mental hospital for life three times.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

28 july 2006 - Berlin, Germany


The grave of Christa "Nico" Päffgen on the "Selbstmörderfriedhof" in the midst of Grunewald-Forst in Berlin.

1332 (x) 13-year-old King Jean II aka le Bon, marries 17-year-old Bonne of Luxemburg in France.
1540 (x) 49-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fifth wife Katherine Howard in Oatlands Palace, Surrey, United Kingdom.
He divorced his previous wife less than 20 days earlier.
1540 (-) Statesman Thomas Cromwell is executed by beheading at the age of 55 in London, England.
After the execution his head was boiled and placed on a spike of London Bridge.
1741 (-) Composer Antonio Vivaldi dies of internal fire or asthma at the age of 54 in Venice, Italy.
1750 (-) Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of a fever-attack at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Germany.
1794 (-) Leader of the French Revolution Maximilian Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Place de la Concorde, France.
1865 (-) Multiple murderer Dr. Edward Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
It was the last public hanging in Scotland, for which about 100.000 people showed up.
1887 (+) Artist Marcel Duchamp is born in Blainville-Crevon, France.
1902 (+) Philosopher Karl Popper is born in Vienna, Austria.
1911 (-) Murderer Alejandro Gallego is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1929 (+) Jacqueline Onassis aka Jackie Kennedy aka Jackie O., is born in Southhampton, New York, USA.
1945 (x) 14 die when the Old John Feather Merchant, a US B-25 bomber, flewn by 27-year-old lieutenant-colonel William Franklin Smith Jr crashes into the Empire State building in New York, New York, USA.
1948 (+) Actress Sally Struthers is born in Portland, Oregon, USA.
1948 (x) Over 200 Die in IG Farben Works explosion in Ludwigshaven, Germany.
1966 (x) 63-year-old Marie Couderc commits suicide by a shot through the head in a house previously owned by 97-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Montford l’Amaury, France.
1967 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Germany.
1974 (-) Joey Kallinger is drowned by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of him, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.
1975 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is sentenced to death in Katowice, Poland.
1976 (-) Child murderer Christian Ranucci is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 22 in Marseille, Baumettes Prison, France.
1982 (-) Kerry Heiss is abducted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 10 in St. Joseph, East Hills shopping centre, Missouri, USA.
She escaped.
1986 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is arrested in London, Southwark, Keyworth House, United Kingdom.
1998 (-) Maria Goetz is strangled by Richard Arinaitwe in Kampala, Uganda.
2005 (-) Murderer David Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, July 27, 2007

27 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


A Malay man making his pick on a well stocked stall of spicy peppers at Chow Kit market in Kuala Lumpur.

1768 (+) Murderess of Jean-Paul Marat, Charlotte Corday is born in Normandy, France.
1820 (-) Murderer Stephen Sullivan is executed by hanging in Scotland, United Kingdom.
1899 (-) Cannibal Adolph Luetgert aka The Sausage King, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 53 in Joliet Prison, Illinois, USA.
1903 (-) Black murderess Jennie Steers is lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
1907 (x) Serial Killer Jeanne Weber is released from prison in France.
1907 (+) Actor Ross Alexander originally Ross Smith, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1917 (+) Actor André Bourvil originally Robert Raimbourg, is born in Prétot-Vicqemare, France.
1920 (-) Murderer Andrew Goslett is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in London, Pentonville Prison, England.
1944 (x) Majdanek-KZ is liberated by the Russian army in Poland.
1946 (-) Writer Gertrude Stein dies of cancer at the age of 72 in Paris, France.
1955 (x) 58 Die in Israelian Jet crash.
The plane was shot down the the Bulgarian army.
1964 (x) 94 Die in train derailment in Oporto, Portugal.
1970 (-) Prime minister Antonio Salazar dies at the age of 81 in Lisbon, Portugal.
As a matter of fact he had been dismissed after a stroke already for 2 years without knowing it himself.
1971 (+) Double murderer Shannon Thomas is born in Texas, USA.
1977 (x) 617 Die in KLM and PanAm Boeing 747 collision in Tenerife, Spain.
1977 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested after abducting and strangling an unidentified 13-year-old boy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1977 (-) Virginia Piper is kidnapped by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Orona, Minnesota, USA.
1980 (-) Sjah Mohammed Pahlevi dies of lymph-cancer at the age of 60 in Caïro, Egypt.
1982 (-) Stephanie Richie is abducted by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 19 in St. Joseph, Downtown shopping mall, Missouri, USA.
But she escaped.
1984 (-) Actor James Mason dies at the age of 75 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
1988 (x) Killer Groupie Veronica Compton aka Ver Lyn, escapes from prison in Washington, USA.
2002 (x) 84 Die in Sukhoi SU-27 crash during an air show in Lviv, Ukraine.
2003 (-) Actor and musician Bob Hope dies at the age of 100 in Toluca Lake, California, USA.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

26 july 2006 - Berlin, Germany


A display of hands in the Medizinmuseum in Berlin.

1471 (-) 211th Pope Paul II originally Pietro Barbo, dies at the age of 54 in Rome, Italy.
1856 (+) Writer George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1875 (+) Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung is born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Germany.
1894 (+) Writer Aldous Huxley is born in Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom.
1896 (+) Actor Charles Butterworth is born in South Bend, Indiana, USA.
1928 (+) Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is born in the Bronx, New York, USA.
1943 (+) Rolling Stone Mick Jagger is born in Dartford, United Kingdom.
1952 (-) Activist Eva Peron aka Evita, dies of cancer at the age of 33 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1952 (-) Joseph Brock is shot dead by Gerhard Puff at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.
1959 (-) Manuela Knodt is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 16 in Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1960 (-) Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 23 in Paris, Prison de la Sante, France.
1965 (-) Eleonora G. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 38 in Lagisza, Poland.
1971 (-) Photographer Diane Arbus commits suicide by slashing her wrists at the age of 48 in New York, Greenwich Village, New York, USA.
1972 (-) Lynn Derrick is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
1974 (-) Alice Curtis is robbed and choked to death by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, at the age of 65 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
1984 (-) Serial Killer Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 77 in Madison, Mendota Mental Health Institute, Wisconsin, USA.
2000 (-) Double Murderer Orien Joiner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2000 (-) Murderer Juan Soria is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

25 july 2002 - Kassel, Germany


The entrance gate of the town cinema where they had a good match between cheap Caïpirinha's and weird multi-media projections during Dokumenta in Kassel.

1492 (-) 213th Pope Innocentus VIII originally Giovanni Battista Cybo, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.
On his deathbed he was given three blood transfusions from young boys, who also died.
1797 (x) 38-year-old Admiral Horatio Nelson loses his arm in the battle during a failed siege and conquest of Santa Cruz in Tenerife, Spain.
1894 (+) Assassin Gavrilo Princip is born in Obljaj, Yugoslavia.
1905 (+) Writer Elias Canetti is born in Rutschuk, Bulgaria.
1909 (x) 37-year-old Aircraft pioneer Louis Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France to Dover in United Kingdom.
1926 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is elected as mayor in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France.
1934 (-) Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is shot dead by an SS-commando in an attempted Coup d'Etat to take over Austria at the age of 41 in Vienna, Austria.
1934 (+) Jazz composer Don Ellis is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He composed the soundtrack for the movie "The Deadly Tower", about Charles Whitman.
1941 (-) Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnellbahn Mörder, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 28 in Berlin-Plötzensee, Germany.
1941 (+) Black Emmett Till aka Bobo, is born in Webb, Mississippi, USA.
1952 (+) Murderer Harold McQueen is born in Kentucky, USA.
1959 (+) Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is born in Zhytomyr, Ukraïne, Russia.
1961 (-) Murderer Samuel McLaughlin is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Belfast, Ireland.
1967 (x) 134 Die in US Forrestal aircraft carrier fire in Vietnam.
1969 (-) Artist Otto Dix dies at the age of 77 in Singen, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
1973 (-) Charles Cobble is tortured, strangled and shot dead by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, Texas, USA.
1975 (+) The first test-tube baby Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham General Hospital, United Kingdom.
1975 (-) The oldest surviving Algonquin Indian, Paul Caesar dies at the age of 112 in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada.
1981 (-) Sigrun is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1982 (-) Debra Bonner is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 23 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1982 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.
1986 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, is sentenced to death for the Simms murder in Hillsborough County, Florida, USA.
2000 (x) 117 Die in Air France Flight 4590 Concorde crash in Gonesse, France.
2003 (-) Filmmaker John Schlesinger dies at the age of 77 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
He had been on a life-support system after a stroke in december 2000.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

24 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


When I left for Kuala Lumpur and said there still was quite some jungle in Malaysia, AMVK told me I should at least walk over one of those jungle rope bridges. Here's the proof I did.

1735 (-) Murderess Patience Boston is executed by hanging in Falmouth, Maine, USA.
1802 (+) Writer Alexandre Dumas originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, is born in Villers-Cotterêts, France.
1862 (-) 8th president of the USA Martin Van Buren dies of bronchial asthma and heart failure at the age of 79 in Kinderhook, New York, USA.
1864 (+) Dramatist Frank Wedekind is born in Hannover, Germany.
1897 (+) Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, USA.
1909 (+) Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, is born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1914 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.
1915 (x) 812 Die in Eastland excursion steamer shipwreck in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1915 (x) 845 Die in S. S. Eastland capsizing in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1944 (+) Terrorist Jan-Carl Raspe is born in Berlin, Germany.
1974 (-) TV-reporter Chris Churbuck finishes reading the news and shoots herself in the head in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA.
1976 (-) Gangster John Salanitro dies of a heart-attack at the age of 44 in the USA.
1980 (-) Actor Peter Sellers aka Pink Panther, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 54 in London, Dorchester Hotel, United Kingdom.
1985 (x) 81 Die in DC-6 crash in Colombia.
1991 (-) Murderer Albert Clozza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, USA.
1991 (-) Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Miami, Florida, USA.
2003 (-) Triple murderer Allen Janecka is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, July 23, 2007

23 july 2006 - Berlin, Germany


The wound in my chest after the impromptu performance "He just wanted to play in his bath tube and put a finger in his ass" at Vilma Gold Gallery in Berlin.

1649 (+) 243rd Pope Clementius XI originally Giovanni Francesco Albani, is born in Urbino, Italy.
1757 (-) Composer Domenico Scarlatti dies at the age of 71 in Madrid, Spain.
1875 (-) Inventor Isaac Singer dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Pittstown, New York, USA.
1888 (+) Writer Raymond Chandler is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1892 (+) Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, is born in Ejersa Goro, Harar, Ethiopia.
1900 (-) Black Elijah Clark is lynched on the spot where he just raped 13-year-old Susan Priest in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
1905 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinrich Struß is born in Egestorf, Germany.
1928 (+) Writer Hubert Selby is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1937 (-) Jean De Koven is killed by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Paris, France.
1942 (+) Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is born in Manchester, Gorton, United Kingdom.
1943 (-) Archibald Brown is blown to pieces by Eric Brown at the age of 47 in London, United Kingdom.
Eric places a Hawkins No 75 Grenade mine under Archibald’s wheelchair.
1948 (-) Filmmaker David Wark Griffith dies at the age of 73 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1951 (-) Marshall Philippe Pétain dies at the age of 95 in a prison on Ile d’Yeu, France.
1954 (+) Stripper, performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle originally Ellen F. Steinberg, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1957 (+) Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh is born in The Hague, the Netherlands.
1958 (-) Ruth Mercado is abducted, assaulted and garotted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 24 in Los Angeles, West Pico Boulevard, California, USA.
1966 (-) Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift dies of a heart-attack due to an alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 45 in New York City, New York, USA.
1968 (-) Norma Vaillancourt is strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 21 in Montreal, Canada.
1969 (-) Karen Beineman is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 18 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1973 (+) White House intern Monica Lewinsky aka The Woman With Whom President Bill Clinton Did Not Have Sexual Relations, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1975 (x) 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Ruppert has a review of his trial, his 11 life terms for shooting his entire family are reduced to 2 in Ohio, USA.
1975 (-) Renée McGowan is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Bradford, United Kingdom.
1979 (-) Writer Joseph Kessel dies at the age of 81 in Avernes, Val d'Oise, France.
1981 (-) Raymond King is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 15 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
1997 (-) Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Since killing Fashion designer Gianni Versace, he had been hunted down by the FBI.
2003 (-) Murderer Cedric Ransom is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

22 july 2006 - Berlin, Germany


The grave of Revolutionary Leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof (October 7, 1934 - May 9, 1976) at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirchhof in Mariëndorf, Berlin.

1676 (-) 239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, dies of gout at the age of 86 in Rome, Italy.
1882 (+) Artist Edward Hopper is born in Hyack, New York, USA.
1889 (+) Filmmaker James Whale is born in Dudley, United Kingdom.
1898 (+) Artist Alexander Calder is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1933 (x) Airplane pioneer Wiley Post is the first man to fly around the world from New York to Moscow and Alaska in an airplane.
1934 (-) Bankrobber and outlaw John Dillinger is supposedly shot dead by Melvin Purvis at the age of 31 in Chicago, outside the Biograph Theatre, Illinois, USA.
Rumours are that the dead man was John Lawrence, a stand in for the left-without-a-trace Dillinger.
1936 (x) A decapitated body is found as third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Clinton Road, Ohio, USA.
1939 (+) Actor Terence Stamp is born in Stepney, United Kingdom.
1946 (x) 90 Die in King David Hotel bomb-attack in Jerusalem, Palestina.
The attack was claimed by the Zionist militiant orgaisation Irgun.
1962 (+) Music producer Steve Albini is born in Pasadena, California, USA.
1964 (-) Danuta Maciejowicz is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Olsztyn, Poland.
1964 (-) Elly Hager-Segov is strangled and her throat cut by Hans Van Zon in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1965 (-) Jadwiga Z. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Sosnowiec-Sroda, Poland.
1973 (x) 78 Die in Panam Boeing 707 crash in Tahiti.
1973 (-) Nancy Feusi is presumably killed by Zodiac in California, USA.
1973 (+) Cop Killer Ronald Howard is born in Texas, USA.
1986 (-) Florence Tisdall is strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 80 in London, Putney, Ranelagh Gardens Mansions, United Kingdom.
1991 (-) Tracy Edwards is abducted by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
He manages to escape and alert the police. Upon a thorough search of Dahmer’s apartment reveals various plastic bags filled with meat, 3 male torsos, severed hands, 11 heads and skulls, a human heart, male genital organs and various internal organs.
1991 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is arrested in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1995 (x) Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, in Teheran, Iran.
1998 (x) Serial Killer Heriberto Seda aka The NY Zodiac Killer, is sentenced to 83 1/3 years to life in prison for killing three people and attempting to kill a fourth in New York, Queens, New York, USA.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

21 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Two man waiting for a burst of tropical rain to stop in Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur. I used this and another photo from a couple of days ago in my "Flying Fox" piece.

1414 (+) 212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, is born in Celle Ligure, Italy.
1831 (x) 40-year-old King Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is inaugurated as first King of the Belgians in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
1873 (x) 25-year-old Outlaw Jesse James performs the first train robbery in Adair, Iowa, USA.
1898 (+) Writer Ernest Hemingway is born in Chicago, Oak Park, Illinois, USA.
1904 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.
1911 (+) Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan is born in Edmonton, Alta, Canada.
1926 (+) Filmmaker Norman Jewison is born in Toronto, Canada.
1928 (x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for grand larceny in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1929 (-) Maria Maas is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 25 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1941 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnellbahn Mörder, is sentenced to death in Berlin, Germany.
1944 (-) Graff Claus von Stauffenberg is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Berlin, Germany.
1948 (+) Musician Cat Stevens originally Steven Demetre Georgiou now Yusuf Islam, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1948 (-) Artist Arshile Gorky originally Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 44 in Sherman, Connecticut, USA.
He had undergone a cancer operation and was involved in a car crash in which he broke his neck. His wife left him and several of his works of art were destroyed in a fire.
1969 (x) 38-year-old Astronaut Neil Armstrong aka The First Man to Walk on the Moon, makes his first "giant step for mankind".
1972 (x) 11 Die and over 130 are wounded in 26 simultaneous IRA bomb-attacks on this "Bloody Friday" in Belfast, Ireland.
1973 (-) Weirdo Albert Brust commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
In his house the police found a wide variety of pornography and torture-devices, as well as the walled-in body of 16-year-old Mark Matson.
1975 (-) Ann Arceneaux is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, at the age of 16 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA.
1976 (-) British ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs is blown up by an IRA bomb at the age of 54 in Dublin, Ireland.
1976 (x) 35-year-old Murderer Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is arrested in Utah, USA.
1979 (-) Eddy Smith is killed by Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, at the age of 14 in Atlanta, USA.
1999 (-) Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong is executed by a shot in the head at the age of 37 in Bejing, China.

Friday, July 20, 2007

20 july 2001 - Malmédy, Belgium


The grave of Meriora Gillibrand aka Monsieur Hawarden in Ligneuville near Malmédy. His/her life story is told by Belgian writer Filip De Pillecijn and made into a cult-movie by Harry Kümel.

356bc (+) Military leader Alexander the Great is born in Pella, Macedonia, Greece.

985 (-) AntiPope Bonifacius VII originally Franco Ferrucci, dies in Rome, Italy.
1304 (+) Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, is born in Arezzo, Italy.
1822 (+) Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel is born in Heinzendorf, Moravia, Czechoslowakia.
1895 (+) Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy is born in Borsod, Hungary.
1903 (-) 255th Pope Leo XIII originally Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaelle Luigi Pecci, dies at the age of 93 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
He was the oldest Pope ever.
1919 (+) Explorer Sir Edmund Hillary is born in Tuakau, New Zealand.
1923 (-) Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa originally Doroteo Arango Arambula, is shot to pieces at the age of 45 in Parral, Mexico.
1932 (+) Video Artist Nam June Paik is born in Seoul, Korea.
1934 (-) Murderer Alfred Bayly is executed by hanging in Auckland, New Zealand.
1934 (x) The SS is settled as official NAZI-organisation by Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany.
1937 (-) Scientist Guglielmo Marconi dies of overwork at the age of 63 in Rome, Italy.
1938 (+) Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1938 (+) Actress Diana Rigg is born in Doncaster, United Kingdom.
1944 (x) Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, 36-year-old Graff Claus von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in Berlin, Germany.
1944 (+) Triple Murderer Allen Davis aka Tiny, is born in Florida, USA.
1945 (-) Poet Paul Valéry dies at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
1946 (+) Serial Killer Leonard Lake aka The Eye of Evil, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1947 (+) Musician Carlos Santana is born in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico.
1964 (x) 43-year-old Artist Joseph Beuys is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during a performance on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Aachen, Germany.
1969 (x) Apollo 11 lands on the Moon .
1970 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1973 (-) Actor, filmmaker and King of Kung Fu Bruce Lee Siu Loong originally Lee Yuen Kam, aka The Little Dragon, dies of swelling of the brain due to an allergy at the age of 32 in Hong Kong.
1974 (x) Mass Murderess Shirley Curry kills all her children, their father, her former sister-in-law and injures her former brother-in-law in Lowell, Arkansas, USA.
1976 (x) The Viking I lands on Mars .
1982 (x) 11 Soldiers die in two bomb attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army in London, Hyde Park and Regents Park, United Kingdom.
1984 (x) Serial Killer Alton Coleman and his accomplice Debra Brown are arrested in Ohio, USA.
1985 (-) Maxson Kneiding is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, USA.
1985 (-) Chainarong Khovananth is raped and shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, USA.
Somkid survived.
1986 (-) William Downs is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 74 in London, Stockwell, Overton Road Estate, United Kingdom.
2006 (-) Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

19 july 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium


Empty after dinner situation in Antwerpen.

1374 (-) Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism, dies at the age of 70 in Arqua, Italy.
1814 (+) Firearms inventor Samuel Colt is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
1834 (+) Artist Edgar Degas is born in Paris, France.
1860 (+) Murderess Lizzie Borden is born in Massachussets, USA.
1893 (+) Futurist writer Vladimir Mayakovski is born in Bagdadi, Georgia, Russia.
1898 (+) Philosopher Herbert Marcuse is born in Berlin, Germany.
1935 (-) Murderer Yick Hong is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.
1949 (x) Start of the trial against 40-year-old Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, in Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.
1960 (x) 225 Die in hospital fire in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
1967 (x) 82 Die in Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and Cessna 310 collision in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA.
1969 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 10-year-old girl in Trinity, Jersey.
1982 (-) Gerda Oppelmeier is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 17 in Bremen, Germany.
1984 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, and another deathrow inmate are caught in an attempt to break out of Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida, USA.
1984 (-) Anna Ischutina is stabbed to death and her nipples and vagina cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 20 in Schachty, a wood near the Kirpitschnaja-station, Russia.
1985 (x) 268 Die in Dam collapse in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 (x) 112 Die in United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City, Iowa, USA.
184 people survived.
1989 (-) Sylvie Rossi is stabbed to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 30 in France.
1991 (-) Joseph Bradehoft is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 25 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
1995 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer William Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is convicted to death for 12 murders in California, USA.
1999 (x) Serial Killer Todd Reed aka The Forest Park Killer, is arrested on aggravated murder charges in the killing of three women in Portland, Oregon, USA.
2006 (-) Murderer Mauriceo Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

18 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Colourful flower vendors outside Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Jalan Tun H.S. Lee in Kuala Lumpur.

64 (x) Eruption of The Great Fire in Rome, Circus Maximus, Italy.
Four districts are completely destroyed and seven severely damaged.
1610 (-) Artist Michelangelo Caravaggio dies of a fever-attack at the age of 38 in Port d’Ercole, Tuscany, Italy.
1817 (-) Writer Jane Austen dies of tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
1871 (+) Artist Giacomo Balla is born in Torino, Italy.
1895 (+) Gangster George R Kelley aka Machine Gun Kelly, is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1909 (+) Soviet leader Andrei Gromyko is born in Starye Gromyki, Russia.
1918 (+) Political activist Nelson Mandela is born in Mvezo, Mthatha, South Africa.
1921 (+) Astronaut John Glenn is born in Cambridge, Ohio, USA.
1922 (-) Henry McMahon is beaten to death with a rock by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, at the age of 12 in Salem, Massachussets, USA.
1925 (x) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler publishes part I of "Mein Kampf" in München, Germany.
1929 (+) Musician Jalacy Hawkins aka Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1935 (+) Artist Ben Vautier is born in Naples, Italy.
1937 (+) Writer Hunter Thompson aka the creator of Gonzo journalism, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1951 (-) Rape-murderer Harold Lantz is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1954 (-) Gangster George R Kelley aka Machine Gun Kelly, dies at the age of 59 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
1969 (-) Mary Kopechne drowned at the age of 28 in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachussets, USA.
After a party for the "Boiler Room Girls", Senator Edward Kennedy drove her home but his 1967 Oldsmobile Belmont 88 car ended up Poucha Pound; Kennedy managed to escape, Kopechne didn't.
1981 (-) Police inspector Jacques Massie and his family are executed by a terrorist commando in Auriol, France.
1981 (-) Richard Adam is stabbed in the heart by Jack Henry Abbott from The Belly of the Beast, at the age of 22 in New York, Bini Bon Diner Club, New York, USA.
Abbott had been paroled due to his litterary talent.
1984 (-) Mass Murderer James Huberty aka Hunting Humans, is shot dead by he police at the age of 41 in San Diego, San Ysidro, California, USA.
He killed 21 and injured 15 people in a 77min shooting rage in a McDonalds’ restaurant.
1988 (-) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, dies of trombosis at the age of 48 in Ibiza, Spain.
1989 (-) Actress Rebecca Schaeffer is shot dead by 19-year-old stalker Robert John Bardo at the age of 21 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1990 (-) Murderer Mikel Derrick is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1994 (x) 85 Die in Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina building bomb-attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996 (-) Murderer Tommie Smith is executed by lethal injection in Indiana, USA.
The executioner could not find a vein in Smith's arm and had to insert an angio-catheter into his heart, a procedure that took 35 minutes. According to authorities, Smith remained conscious during that procedure.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

17 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


A scene with worms in Kuala Lumpur's Butterfly Park.

1793 (-) Murderess of Jean-Paul Marat Charlotte Corday is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 24 in Paris, France.
1816 (x) The French passenger vessel "Medusa" is wrecked off the coast in Senegal.
1889 (+) Writer Erle Stanley Gardner is born in Malden, Massachussets, USA.
1899 (+) Actor James Cagney is born in New York, New York, USA.
1901 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Friedel Rothe is born in Hannover, Germany.
1928 (-) General Alvaro Obregon is shot dead by 26-year-old José De Leon Toral at the age of 48 in San Angel, Mexico.
He was just elected for a second term as president.
1934 (+) Actor Donald Sutherland is born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.
1942 (-) Greta Kneller is presumably killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.
1944 (x) 322 Die in ammunition-stock explosion in Port Chicago, California, USA.
1945 (+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan, The Want-Ad Killer, Eileen Marie Hunley is born in Minnesota, USA.
1946 (-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Walkenried, Germany.
1947 (x) 630 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bombay, India.
1955 (x) Filmmaker ‘Walt’ Disney opens the first Disneyland attraction park in Anaheim, California, USA.
1958 (-) King Feisal II and his entire family are assassinated during a military coup in Bagdad, Royal Palace, Iraq.
1958 (+) Filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai is born in Shanghai, China.
1959 (-) Musician Billie Holiday originally Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in New York, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, USA.
She died under police guard on charges of possession of drugs.
1968 (+) Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is born in China.
1973 (-) Homer Garcia is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.
1975 (x) Apollo and Soyoez join in Space.
1977 (x) The villa of War-criminal and art-collector Pieter Menten is burned to the ground by persons unknown in Blaricum, the Netherlands.
1981 (x) 114 Die in Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway collapse in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1996 (-) War-criminal Paul Touvier dies of prostate cancer at the age of 81 in Paris, prison-hospital of Fresnes, France.
1996 (x) 230 Die in TWA flight 800 Boeing 747 explosion in Long Island, New York, USA.
2003 (x) After spending 38 years behind bars 62-year-old Serial Killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, appeals for a release from prison in Regensburg, Germany.
It is denied.
2006 (-) Writer Mickey Spillane dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 88 in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA.

Monday, July 16, 2007

16 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


A shop with winter clothing in Kuala Lumpur where the temperature almost never goes below 30°.

1557 (-) Fourth wife of Henry VIII Anne of Cleves dies at the age of 41 in London, United Kingdom.
She was the last of Henry's six wives to die.
1907 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Leonardo Gebbia is executed by hanging in Hahnville, Louisiana, USA.
1911 (+) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, is born in Independance, Montana, USA.
1918 (-) Tsar Nikolaus II and his family are executed by rifle-fire and bajonet-stabbing in Jkaterinaburg, Russia.
1929 (+) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is born in Mound City, Missouri, USA.
1933 (-) Black James Sanders is lynched for writing obscene letters to a white girl in Bolton, Missouri, USA.
1936 (-) Murderess Mary Creighton is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1936 (-) Murderer Everett Applegate is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1941 (+) Musician Desmond Dekker originally Dacres, is born in Kingston, St. Andrew, Jamaïca.
1942 (-) Kurt Kneller is presumably killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, rue Lesueur, France.
1945 (x) First plutonium test bomb explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
1966 (x) 24-year-old Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, tries to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1974 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is arrested and charged with a sex-assault in Hermies, France.
1981 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Richard Clark while abducting 11-year-old Todd Peers in Bettendorf, Iowa, USA.
1982 (-) Actor Patrick Dewaere commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in a hotel in Paris, France.
1985 (-) Writer Heinrich Böll dies at the age of 67 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1989 (-) Conductor Herbert Von Karajan dies at the age of 81 in Salzburg, Austria.
2004 (x) Over 90 children Die in private school fire in Kumbakonam, India.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

15 july 2003 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


A "Keluang Kecil", "Pteropus Hypoumelanux", "Lesser Flying Fox" or "Pteropus Mahaganus" in the National Museum of Kuala Lumpur.

1881 (-) Willem De Hees is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg in the Netherlands.
1904 (-) Writer Anton Chekhov dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Badenweiler, Germany.
1924 (-) Francis McDonnel is sexually assaulted and strangled by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 7 in Staten Island, Charlton’s Woods, New York, USA.
1929 (-) Writer Hugo Von Hoffmansthal dies of a stroke at the age of 55 in Vienna, Rodaun, Austria.
1930 (+) Philiosopher Jacques Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism, is born in El-Biar, Algeria.
1936 (-) Husband Murderess Charlotte Bryant is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Exeter Prison, United Kingdom.
1945 (-) Lloyd Gomez is briefly abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, in Boulder, Sunshine Canyon, Colorado, USA.
He tied her up, they spent the night together in his car, and he let her go the next day. He was identified almost instantly.
1946 (+) Musician Linda Ronstadt is born in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
1953 (-) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1956 (+) Punk Rocker Marky Ramone originally Marc Steven Bell, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1957 (x) 58 Die in KLM Super Constellation crash in Biak, New Guinea.
1957 (+) Musician Ian Curtis from the Joy Division, is born in Manchester, Old Trafford Memorial Hospital, United Kingdom.
1969 (x) The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, burglarize government headquarters and steal a number of official documents in München, Bavaria, Germany.
1971 (-) RAF member Petra Schelm is shot dead by the police in a road-block at the age of 20 in Hamburg, Germany.
1971 (+) Murderer Ponchai Wilkerson is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
1973 (-) Caroline Davis is presumably strychnine-poisoned by Zodiac at the age of 15 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
1974 (-) Television reporter Christine Chubbuck commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 29 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
She was doing a live newscast during her Suncoast Digest show and said "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide" and shot herself behind the left ear.
1979 (x) 130 whales commit suicide by hitting the coast in Newfoundland.
1991 (-) Oliver Lacy is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
Earlier that day Dahmer was fired from his job at the Ambrosia Chocolate Co. for chronic absenteism.
1997 (-) Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead as fifth victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho at the age of 50 in Miami, Southern Beach, Ocean Drive, Florida, USA.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

14 july 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium


The inside of a hot air balloon, assisting my friend Frank with some rides in the Antwerpen area.

1606 (+) Artist Rembrandt Van Rijn is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1789 (x) The storming of the Bastille to release 7 prisoners marks the beginning of the French Revolution in Paris, France.
Ten days earlier the Marquis de Sade had been transferred from the Bastille to an asylum in Charenton.
1817 (-) Writer Germaine de Staël originally Germaine Necker aka Madame, dies at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
1862 (+) Artist Gustav Klimt is born in Vienna, Baumgarten, Austria.
1868 (+) Writer, traveler and political analyst Gertrude Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, is born in Washington Hall, Durham, United Kingdom.
1881 (-) Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is shot dead by Pat Garret at the age of 21 in Fort Summer, New Mexico, USA.
1903 (-) Womanizer and murderer Samuel Dougal is executed by hanging in Chelmsford Prison, United Kingdom.
1903 (-) Black rapist Ed Claus is lynched by hanging in Eastman, Georgia, USA.
1904 (+) Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer is born in Rapzymin, Poland.
1912 (+) Musician Woody Guthrie is born in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA.
1913 (+) 38th president of the USA Gerald Ford is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1914 (-) Black thief James Bailey is lynched by hanging for stealing 3 mules in Lake Cormorant, Missouri, USA.
1918 (+) Filmmaker Ingmar Bergmann is born in Uppsala, Sweden.
1919 (+) Actor Lino Ventura is born in Parma, Italy.
1926 (+) Actor Harry Dean Stanton is born in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA.
1933 (x) Every millionaire in the city is placed under 24-hour surveillance because of a kidnap-epidemic throughout the nation in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1933 (-) Murderer Albert Fuller is executed by hanging in California, USA.
1957 (x) 270 Die in USSR Eshghabad shipwreck in the Caspian Sea.
1960 (x) 83-year-old Presumed murderer of the Drummond family, Gaston Domenici is released from Prison de Baumettes in Marseille, France.
1964 (-) Mary Fleming aka Mary Turner, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 30 in London, United Kingdom.
1966 (x) 21-year-old Gloria Davy, 20-year-old Pamela Wilkening, 20-year-old Mary Ann Jordan, 21-year-old Suzanne Farris, 24-year-old Nina Schmale, 23-year-old Valentina Pasion, 22-year-old Marlita Gargullo and 20-year-old Patricia Matusek, 7 nurses, are raped and killed by 24-year-old Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, in Chicago, South Community Hospital, Illinois, USA.
Corazon Amurao hid under a bed and escaped tha massacre, she identified Speck due to the “Born to Raise Hell” tattoo on his forearm.
1966 (x) 225 Die in mental hospital fire in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
1970 (x) Cannibal Dean Baker is arrested carrying in his pocket the fingers of a man he killed, cut out the heart and ate it in Yellowstone Park, California, USA.
1974 (-) Janice Ott is strangled and bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Lake Sammanish, Washington, USA.
1975 (x) 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Ruppert is sentenced to 11 life-sentences for the murders of 11 members of his family in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
1981 (-) Jennifer Daniels is smothered by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, in Perry, Florida, USA.
1988 (-) Jewgeni Muratow is stabbed to death and his tongue bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.
1989 (-) Mentally deranged murderer Horace Dunkins is executed by Old Sparky in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
The first blow just rendered him unconscious, the second one was administered only 9 minutes later due to a lack of power, he was pronounced dead 19 minutes after the first jolt.
1991 (-) Barbara Jacobs is found strangled by Joel Rifkin at the age of 32 in New York, Hudson River near West Tenth Street, New York, USA.
1999 (-) Mass Murderer Cyrano Marks commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 39 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
He first killed his girlfriend, four of her five children, and her sister.

Friday, July 13, 2007

13 july 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium


The mark of my microphone cut into my eyebrow as a leftover of a rather good performance with Club Moral at the Club Zero in Aachen.

-100 (+) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar is born in Rome, Italy.

939 (-) 126th Pope Leo VII dies in Rome, Italy.
1527 (+) Astronomer and occultist John Dee is born in London, England.
1590 (+) 239th Pope Clementius X originally Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, is born in Rome, Italy.
1793 (-) Activist in the French Revolution Jean-Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bath by 24-year-old Charlotte Corday at the age of 50 in Paris, France.
He spent most of the time of his last three years in his bath due to dermatitis herpetiformes.
1796 (x) First public execution by the Guillotine in Brussels, Grand Place, Brabant, Belgium.
1807 (-) Murderer Richard Faulkner is executed by hanging at the age of 15 in Norfolk, Whittlesea, United Kingdom.
1912 (-) Beatrice Mundy aka Bessie, is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, at the age of 33 in Weymouth, Herne Bay, United Kingdom.
1934 (-) Murderer George Shaughnessy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1944 (+) Inventor Erno Rubik is born in Budapest, Hungary.
1946 (+) Actor Cheech Marin from Cheech and Chong, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1949 (x) 259th Pope Pius XII originally Eugenio Maria Pacelli, declares all catholic communists excommunicated in Rome, Italy.
1951 (-) Composer Arnold Schoenberg dies of heart failure at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He had spent the whole day in bed suffering from triskaidekaphobia.
1954 (-) Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, dies of embolism at the age of 47 in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.
She attempted suicide a couple of times, but no official autopsy was done. The last words in her diary were "I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return".
1955 (-) Murderess Ruth Ellis is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
She was the last woman executed in the UK.
1961 (x) 81 Die in CSA Airlines Iljoesjin-18 crash in Casablanca, Morocco.
1964 (x) 20 die after eating poisoned ‘Kolyva’ bread at a funeral in Stylia, Greece.
1967 (-) Cyclist Tom Simpson drops dead due to the lethal combination of drugs, exhaustion and heat in the Tour de France cyclist rally at the age of 29 in Mont Ventoux, Vaucluse, France.
1973 (-) Nancy Gidley is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
1976 (-) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, is shot dead and his house burned down by a terrorist group known as ‘Les Vengeurs’ at the age of 61 in Traves, Haute Saone, France.
1981 (-) IRA-member Martin Hurson originally Mairtin O hUrsain, dies of dehydration after 46 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the sixth to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
1981 (-) Judy Kozma is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 14 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
1984 (-) Marlene Walters is beaten to death by Alton Coleman at the age of 44 in Norwood, Ohio, USA.
Her husband Harry Walters, was beaten into a coma that left him with permanent brain damage.
1986 (-) Writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
1986 (-) Designer of coke-bottles and greyhound-buses, Raymond Loewy dies at the age of 92 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
1998 (-) Rapist and murderer Thomas Thompson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
1999 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Angel Reséndiz aka The Railway Killer, turns himself in to Immigration and Naturalization Services officials in El Paso, Texas, USA.
He was being hunted down by the FBI for over a month.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

12 july 2003 - Hong Kong


I walked about 15kms of the Hong Kong Trail in just one afternoon, starting off from The Peak via the Pokfulam Water Reservoir and Chi Fu Fa Yuen to Aberdeen, then took a bus back to my lodgings at Wang Fat Apartments in Wan Chai.

1536 (-) Humanist Desiderius Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, dies at the age of 69 in Basel, Switzerland.
1543 (x) 52-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his sixth wife Catherine Parr in Hampton Court Palace, United Kingdom.
1817 (+) Writer and pacifist Henry Thoreau is born in Concord, Massachussets, USA.
1854 (+) Photography pioneer George Eastman is born in Waterville, New York, USA.
1880 (+) Filmmaker Tod Browning is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
1882 (-) Composer Alfred Pease dies at the age of 44 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
1884 (+) Artist Amadeo Modigliani is born in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy.
1904 (+) Poet Pablo Neruda originally Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, is born in Parral, Chili.
1918 (x) Over 500 Die in Kawachi destroyer explosion in Tokyo Bay, Japan.
1926 (-) Writer, traveler and political analyst Gertrude Bell aka The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 58 in Baghdad, Iraq.
1935 (-) French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus dies at the age of 75 in Mulhouse, Alsace, France.
1937 (+) Actor Bill Cosby is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1951 (+) Actress Cheryl Ladd originally Cheryl Stoppelmoor, is born in Huron, South Dakota, USA.
1958 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks and rapes an unidentified 31-year-old woman in La Rozelle, Jersey.
1963 (-) Pauline Reade is abducted and her head smashed with a shovel by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 16 in Gorton, United Kingdom.
On 2 july 1987, Ian Brady will return to the Moors where he pinpoints her grave.
1969 (-) Maria Hettgen is throttled and raped by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 61 in Essen, Werden, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1971 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Corona is arrested and charged with the murders of 25 migrant farm workers in Yuba City, California, USA.
1979 (-) Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is shot dead while eating spaghetti in an Italian restaurant at the age of 69 in New York, New York, USA.
1979 (x) Over 80 Die in Corona de Aragon hotel fire in Zaragossa, Spain.
1986 (-) Test-pilot Ross Mulhare crashes with a top-secret F-19 Stealth Fighter plane in the Mojave Desert, California, USA.
1986 (-) Trevor Thomas is strangled in his bath by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 75 in London, Clapham, Jefferys Road, Barton Court, United Kingdom.
1989 (x) Spree Killer Christian Dornier shoots 14 people, including his mother and sister, to death in Luxiol, France.
He is found badly injured in a head-on car collision.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

11 july 2003 - Hong Kong


A Halo-Pelvic Distraction Apparatus on display in the Hong Kong Medical Museum. I managed to buy an incredibly cheap flight to Hong Kong a couple of weeks before due to the mortality rate of SARS suddenly boosting to alarming numbers.

1767 (+) 5th president of the USA John Quincy Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachussets, USA.
As son of the 2nd president of the USA, John Adams.
1920 (+) Actor Yul Brynner is born in Vladivostok, Russia.
1929 (-) Maria Witt is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1937 (-) Composer George Gershwin dies of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1958 (-) Serial Killer Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape, is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Glasgow, Barlinnie Prison, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1966 (-) Poet Delmore Schwartz aka The European Son, dies of insanity at the age of 52 in Emerson, New Jersey, USA.
1973 (x) 122 Die in Brazilian Varig Boeing 707 crash in Orly, France.
12 people survived the crash.
1978 (x) Over 250 Die in Los Alfaques camping fire in San Carlo de la Rapita, Tarragona, Spain.
1979 (x) The space station Skylab returns to earth near Perth in Australia.
It had been in space for 6 years.
1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, is released from prison in Valence, France.
1983 (x) 119 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Cuenca, Ecuador.
1989 (-) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Olivier dies of cancer at the age of 82 in Steyning, Sussex, United Kingdom.
1991 (x) 261 Die in Canadian Nationair DC 8 crash in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The plane carried pilgrims on their way to the Hajj and made an emergency landing.
1997 (x) 91 Die in Royal Jomtien Hotel fire in Pattaya, Thailand.
17-year-old kitchen helper Khayan Kasien confessed to causing a gas leak that sparked the blaze. He said that he removed a hose from a kitchen gas cylinder without turning the valve off beforehand.
2001 (-) Double Murderer James Wilkens is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2001 (-) Musician Herman Brood commits suicide by jumping off the roof of the Hilton Hotel at the age of 54 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2006 (-) Double murderer Derrick O’Brien is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

10 july 2004 - Aachen, Germany


The audience warming up for our "How Reliable is the Brain?" gig as Club Moral (AMVK, DDV & Mauro) in Club Zero in Aachen.

138 (-) Roman Emperor Publius Hadrianus dies at the age of 62 in Balae, Italy.
1584 (-) Prince and Count of Nassau Willem Van Oranje aka Willem De Zwijger, is assassinated by Bathasar Gérard at the age of 51 in Delft, the Netherlands.
It was the first assassination by use of a handgun.
1856 (x) Engineer Nikola Tesla aka The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century is born in Smiljan, Austria.
1871 (+) Writer Marcel Proust is born in Paris, Auteuil, France.
1888 (+) Artist Giorgio De Chirico is born in Volos, Greece.
1895 (+) Composer Carl Orff is born in München, Germany.
1919 (-) Murderer Henry Perry is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.
1925 (x) 31-year-old Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, decides to keep silent for the rest of his life.
He communicated with an alphabet board until his death in in 1969.
1936 (-) Murderer John Ransom is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1947 (+) Musician Arlo Guthrie is born in New York, New York, USA.
1962 (-) Writer and philosopher Georges Bataille dies at the age of 64 in Paris, France.
1962 (x) The Telstar satellite is shot into space in Houston, Cape Canaveral, Texas, USA.
1967 (-) Mary Fleszar is sexually assaulted, stabbed to death and her hands and feet cut off by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1970 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, marries 18-year-old Caryn in Silver Springs, Maryland, USA.
1971 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is arrested in St. Helier, Jersey.
1973 (x) 16-year-old Playboy John Paul Getty III is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1976 (x) Due to an explosion in the ICMESA-factory, a highly poisonous cloud of Dioxine TCDD escapes in Seveso, Italy.
1977 (-) Maureen Long is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Bradford, Bowling Black Lane, United Kingdom.
She survived.
1979 (x) Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is attacked with a razor, almost cutting his throat, by an unidentified fellow-inmate in New York, Attica Prison, New York, USA.
1982 (-) Elsbet Warnecke is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
1986 (-) Miss Hungary Csilla Molnar commits suicide by an overdose of Lidocaine sleeping-pills at the age of 17 in Fonyod, Lake Balaton, Hungary.
1992 (-) British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint dies at the age of 87 in Southport, United Kingdom.
1997 (x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, marries his long time sweetheart Clara Neal in the visiting room in Fallsburg, Sullivan Correctional Institute, New York, USA.
According to the institution's policy, the newlyweds will be able to enjoy conjugal visits. Shawcross used Neal's car to pick up, have sex with, and then kill his victims.

Monday, July 9, 2007

9 july 1999 - Antwerpen, Belgium


Lonely intercontinental leftovers at some party in Appelstraat, Antwerpen.

1540 (x) 49-year-old King of England Henry VIII divorces his fourth wife Anne of Cleves in London, United Kingdom.
Henry claimed she was so unattractive he could barely sleep with her. They had been married for 6 months only.
1918 (x) Over 100 Die in train N°1 and N°4 collision in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
171 more were injured in what was to be "The Great Train Wreck of 1918".
1937 (+) Artist David Hockney is born in Bradford, United Kingdom.
1947 (+) Sportsman and presumable murderer O. J. Simpson is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
1952 (x) 160 Die in train derailment in Rzepin, Poland.
1956 (+) Actor Tom Hanks is born in Oakland, California, USA.
1965 (+) Artist Jason Rhoades is born in Newcastle, California, USA.
1982 (x) Homeless punk Michael Fagan breaks into the bedroom of Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London, United Kingdom.
1982 (x) 146 Die in Pan Am American Flight 759 crash in Kenner, Louisiana, USA.
1985 (-) Murderer Henry Porter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1986 (-) Siemens chairman Karl-Heinz Beckurts and his driver Eckhard Groppler die in a bomb-attack by the Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Mara Cagol at the age of 56 in Straßlach, Germany.
1986 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is convicted to death in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2003 (-) Triple murderer Christopher Sr. Black is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2006 (x) 122 Die in Sibir Airlines Airbus A-310 crash off the runway in Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia.
Some 80 people survived.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

8 july 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A room in the abandoned Lockmaster's House near the Royers-lock in Antwerpen. The building has since been converted in an Artist in Residence facility. Yesterday they had an open-air festival where Club Moral performed "Hail to Thee Black Prince".

1099 (x) 15.000 starving Christian soldiers march around the city as instructed by Desiderius in the first Crusade in Jerusalem, Israël.
They had been "crusading" for four years.
1153 (-) Pope Eugene III originally Bernardo del Paganelli di Montemagno, dies in Tivoli, Italy.
1621 (+) Poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine is born in Château-Thierry, Champagne, France.
1623 (-) Pope Gregorius XV originally Alessandro Ludovisi, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
1806 (x) Captain James Purrinton hacks to death his wife and seven of his eight children after meditating on his bible, then he slits his own throat in Augusta, Old Belgrade Road, Maine, USA.
1822 (-) Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is lost at sea on his boat "Don Juan", presumably drowned between Livorno and Lerici at the age of 29 in Italy.
Some say he was depressed and wanted to die. His body washed ashore several days later, and was cremated on the beach, on this occasion his heart was stolen by Edward Trelawny and from then on kept by Mary Shelley for the rest of her life.
1838 (+) Aircraft designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin is born in Konstanz, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
1839 (+) Philantropist and industrialist John Rockefeller is born in Richford, New York, USA.
1867 (+) Artist Käthe Kollwitz is born in Kaliningrad, Russia.
1885 (+) Designer and film director Paul Leni aka The Forgotten Master, is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
1904 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Willi Senger is born in Hannover, Germany.
1908 (+) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Rockefeller is born in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA.
1921 (-) Irene Little is slashed to death by Harold Jones at the age of 11 in Abertillery, United Kingdom.
15-year-old Jones had a "desire to kill".
1924 (x) 23-year-old Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans is arrested in Hannover, Germany.
1934 (+) Actor Martin “Marty” Feldman is born in London, United Kingdom.
He suffered from Graves Disease, causing his bulging eyes.
1939 (-) Sexuologist Henry Havelock Ellis dies at the age of 80 in Washbrook, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
He suffered from impotence until the age of 60 when he got aroused from seeing a woman urinate.
1946 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is arrested in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
1961 (x) 227 Die in Save shipwreck in Mozambique.
1967 (-) Actress Vivien Leigh originally Vivien Hartley, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 53 in London, United Kingdom.
1970 (+) Musician Beck originally Bek David Campbell, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1978 (x) 51-year-old Filmmaker Kenneth Anger originally Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer, is mugged in the doorway of his building in New York, 354 East Ninety-first street, Apartment 9, New York, USA.
He was knocked out for about 1 1/2 hour and stitched up in Metropolitan Hospital.
1981 (-) IRA-member Joe McDonnel originally Seosamh Mac Domhnaill, dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 29 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
1986 (-) William Carmen is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 82 in London, Islington, Clephane Road, Sybil Thorndike House, United Kingdom.
1987 (-) Murderer John Thompson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1988 (x) Over 100 Die in train derailment in Trivandrum, India.
It drove off a viaduct.
1990 (-) Unidentified boy is attacked by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
1999 (-) Triple Murderer Allen Davis aka Tiny, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 55 in Starke, Florida, USA.
He suffered a nosebleed, burns to his head, leg and groin during the last execution by use of the Electric Chair in Florida.
2003 (x) 117 Die in Sudan Airways Flight 39 Boeing 737-200 crash in Port-Sudan, Sudan.
The only survivor is a 2-year-old child.