Monday, August 20, 2007

20 august 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A sleeping dog on the pavement in Bangkok.

984 (-) 136th Pope John XIV originally Peter, dies of starvation or poison in Rome, Italy.
1823 (-) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
1833 (+) 23rd president of the USA Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio, USA.
1890 (+) Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
1900 (x) Family-murderer Franz Wallert kills his wife and his 4 children in Minnesota, USA.
1912 (-) Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth dies at the age of 83 in London, Hadley Wood, United Kingdom.
1914 (-) 257th Pope Pius X originally Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
1923 (+) Musician Jim Reeves is born in Carthage, Texas, USA.
1929 (-) Anne Goldhausen is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1937 (+) Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1937 (x) The concentration camp of Buchenwald is inaugurated by 36-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Weimar, Germany.
1940 (-) Revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is hacked to death by Jaime Ramon Mercader Del Rio Hernandes aka Frank Jacson aka Jacques Mornard at the age of 60 in Coyoacan, Mexico.
1942 (+) Musician Isaac Hayes is born in Covington, Tennessee, USA.
1946 (-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Hof, Guterbahnhof, Germany.
1948 (+) Musician Robert Plant is born in West Bromwich, United Kingdom.
1950 (+) Serial Killer William Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is born in California, USA.
1962 (-) Murderer Leeroy McGahuey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.
1962 (-) Jane Sullivan is strangled and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 67 in Boston, Dorchester, 435 Columbia Road, Massachussets, USA.
1966 (+) Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1971 (-) Linda Dudley is stabbed to death by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 23 in Bath, Avon, United Kingdom.
1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 54 in Biddeford, Maine, USA.
1980 (-) Musician Joe Dassin dies of a heart attack at the age of 41 in Tahiti.
1981 (-) IRA-member Michael Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, dies after 60 days hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the tenth and last to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
1981 (-) Christopher Williams is choked to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
1986 (-) Mass-murderer Patrick Sherril commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA.
He first shot 14 people in the post-office where he used to work.
1986 (-) Murderer Randy Woolls is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
As an experienced drug addict, he helped the executioner to find a good vein.
1993 (-) Murderer Carl Kelly is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Murderer Gary Etheridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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