A local bus in an outskirt district of Jakarta. This image would have sported the back of an exclusive Club Moral in Jakarta cd which never came out.
1863 (-) Artist Eugène Delacroix dies at the age of 65 in Paris, Île-de France, France.
1899 (+) Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1902 (+) Scientist and engineer Felix Wankel is born in Lahr, Germany.
1907 (+) Industrialist Alfried Krupp is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1907 (-) Murderer Richard Brinkley is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1910 (-) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, dies at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.
1912 (-) Composer Jules Massenet dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
1913 (x) 40-year-old Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte poses as a nephew of the Sultan and is crowned as King in Durres, Albania.
During his 5-day "reign" he enjoyed the Sultan's harem and declared war to Montenegro.
1913 (+) President and archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III originally Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, is born in Panagia, Cyprus.
1915 (-) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.
1924 (x) 51-year-old Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, shoots his lover Theresa Mors and several bystanders in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1926 (+) Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is born in Biran, Cuba.
1929 (+) Serial Killer Raymond Leslie Morris aka The Cannock Chase Murderer, is born in Walsall, United Kingdom.
1937 (-) Murderer Burt Anderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 53 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1937 (-) Murderer Ernest Patton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1946 (-) Writer Herbert George Wells dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in London, United Kingdom.
1958 (-) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte dies at the age of 85 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
1961 (x) USSR and DDR military forces start building the Wall in Berlin, Germany.
1964 (-) Murderer Gwynne Evans originally John Robson Walby aka Ginger, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1964 (-) Murderer Peter Allen is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1969 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, has a bucket of water slammed into his head by an unidentified fellow-inmate in State penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
1972 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Hani Hanjour is born in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.
1973 (x) 85 Die in Caravelle explosion in La Coruna, Spain.
1982 (+) Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) Oleg Poshidajew is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Krasnodar Beach, Russia.
1993 (x) Over 100 Die in Royal Plaza Hotel collapse in Naakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
1996 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux, and his accomplices Michelle Martin and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of abduction in Marcinelle, Belgium.
A search of his house fails to discover 2 abducted girls in his basement.
1997 (-) Serial Killer Ali Reza Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Teheran, Shahrak Rah-Ahan, Iran.
He killed 9 girls and women between 10 and 47 years old in 4 months. He was first flogged by relatives of the victims, and then hanged from a mobile crane on the public square where he picked up most of his victims, before a crowd of 20.000.
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