Thursday, August 16, 2007

16 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


Performing at the BB's Club with Henry Foundation aka Batman (photo by Indra Ameng).

1888 (+) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, is born in Tremadoc, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.
1894 (-) Murderer of president Sadi Carnot, Geronimo Caserio is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 20 in Lyon, Rhône, France.
1899 (-) Chemist and inventor Robert Bunsen dies at the age of 88 in Heidelberg, Germany.
1916 (-) Artist Umberto Boccioni is thrown from his horse during a cavalry training and trampled at the age of 33 in Verona, Sorte, Italy.
1920 (+) Writer Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski originally Heinrich Karl Bukowski, is born in Andernach, Germany.
1926 (-) Mary Nesbitt is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 52 in Oakland, California, USA.
1928 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is arrested in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1935 (-) FBI-agent Nelson Klein is shot dead by George Barret at the age of 37 in College Corner, Indiana, USA.
1945 (-) Japanese admiral Takijiro Onishi aka the Father of Kamikaze, commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 54 in Japan.
He did not use a kaishakunin (second), and died of self-inflicted injuries over a period of 15 hours.
1948 (-) Baseball player George Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.
1956 (-) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1958 (+) Musician Madonna originally Louise Ciccione, is born in Bay City, Michigan, USA.
1965 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the first floor of a building he owns, collecting $11.000 on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.
1969 (-) Jemima McDonald is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 32 in Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom, United Kingdom.
1969 (x) 34-year-old Family leader Charles Manson is arrested in a police-raid on the Spahn Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.
21 other Family members are also arrested but released after a couple of days due to a warrant misdate.
1975 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested and charged with ‘attempt to evade a police-officer’ in Salt Lake City, Granger, Utah, USA.
1977 (-) Musician Elvis Presley aka The King, dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 42 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1977 (x) Bartholomeus Bruyn’s "Portrait" is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Germany.
1987 (x) 155 Die in Northwest Airlines Flight 255 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Detroit, Romulus, Michigan, USA.
4-year-old Cecelia Marie Cichan was the sole survivor.
1998 (-) Serial Killer Abdallah Al-Hubal is shot dead by police in Sanaa, Yemen.
He engaged in a shootout, killing the police-chief and wounding three others.
2000 (-) Murderer John Satterwhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2001 (-) Double murderer Jeffrey Doughtie is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (x) 58-year-old Artist Jörg Immendorff is caught with seven prostitutes (and four more on the way) and 10 grams of cocaïne in a versace ashtrey in the luxury suite of the five star Steigenberger hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany.
He explained it as an act of "orientalism".
2003 (-) Dictator Idi Amin dies in Jeddah, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
2005 (x) 160 Die in West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Machiques, Venezuela.

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