Saturday, August 18, 2007

18 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


A devoted fan with a dubious t-shirt at Ruangrupa in Jakarta.

1227 (-) Mongol Ruler Ghengis Khan originally Temüüjin, dies of injuries suffered when falling off his horse at the age of 65 in Mongolia.
1276 (-) 186th Pope Adrianus V originally Ottobuono de’ Fieschi, dies at the age of 71 in Viterbo, Italy.
1503 (-) 213th Pope Alexander VI originally Rodrigo Borgia, is presumably poisoned at the age of 72 in Rome, Italy.
His stomach was swelling and became liquid while his skin was peeling off.
1559 (-) 223rd Pope Paul IV originally Giovanni Pietro Carafa, dies at the age of 83 in Rome, Italy.
1634 (-) Priest and philanderer Urbain Grandier aka The Devil of Loudun, is executed by burning at the stake.
He supposedly bewitched an entire Ursuline nun convent into debauchery.
1850 (-) Writer Honoré de Balzac dies of cold-fire at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
His face had swollen up and turned black.
1883 (+) Fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France.
1921 (-) Suspected black rapist Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging in Winston, North Carolina, USA.
1933 (+) Filmmaker Roman Polanski is born in Paris, France.
1934 (+) Attorney in the Manson Family trial Vincent Bugliosi is born in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA.
1937 (+) Actor Robert Redford is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1947 (x) 147 Die in dockyard explosion in Cadiz, Spain.
1954 (+) Actor Patrick Swayze is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
1959 (-) Serial Killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in San Quentin, California, USA.
1960 (x) The Beatles play their first concert in Hamburg, Indra Club, Germany.
1977 (x) 2 Elvis-fans are killed when an 18-year-old drunk driver crashes into the mouring crowd outside Elvis’ mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1980 (-) An unidentified man is beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 75 in California, USA.
1984 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.
1985 (x) Over 300 Die in ferry capsizing in Taiyang, China.
Everybody had moved to one side of the ship because of a fight.
1989 (-) Vietnam-hero turned murderer Herbert Richardson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer Joe Trevino is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2005 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Rader aka The BTK Killer, is sentenced to 10 life sentences, one for each "Bind, Torture, Kill" murder in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

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