Tuesday, August 7, 2007

7 august 1999 - Gent, Belgium


Artist Sergio Debeukelaer at a party in Dirk Braeckman's studio in Gent.

1560 (+) Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, is born in Nyirbator, Hungary.
1867 (+) Artist Emil Nolde is born in Nolde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
1876 (+) Spy Margaretha Zelle aka Mata Hari, is born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
1888 (-) Martha Tabram aka Martha Turner, is stabbed 39 times with several knives by Jack the Ripper at the age of 35 in London, Spitalfields, George Yard Buildings, United Kingdom.
1901 (-) Black John Pennington is lynched by burning for attacking a white woman in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
1907 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Roland Hoch is born in Hannover, Germany.
1925 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, has one testicle removed for medical reasons in Minnesota, USA.
1937 (-) Harold Weber commits suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, USA.
It is the first ever suicide on the Bridge.
1947 (x) 32-year-old Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl smashes into a reef with his raft Kon-Tiki after sailing across the Pacific Ocean in 101 days in Raroia, Tuamoto Islands.
1956 (x) 1200 Die in 7 truckloads of dynamite explosion in Cali, Colombia.
1957 (-) Actor Oliver Hardy dies of a stroke at the age of 65 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1960 (+) Actor David Duchovny aka Fox Mulder, is born in New York, New York, USA.
1962 (-) Writer Filip De Pillecijn dies at the age of 71 in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
1968 (x) 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, is arrested and charged with the murder of 2 boys in Newcastle, Scotswood, United Kingdom.
1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes his second 3-page letter to the Vallejo Times-Herald newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.
1969 (x) Darcie, the wife of 30-year-old Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is charged with first degree murder as an accomplice of her husband in Salem, Oregon, USA.
She will stand trial but found not guilty.
1972 (-) Actor and murderer Tom Neal dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1972 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Vancouver, Washington, USA.
1984 (-) Ljudmila Alexejewa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 17 in Rostow, Woroscilow-bridge, Russia.
1989 (-) Jean-Joseph Clement is beaten to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, in France.
1995 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, is sentenced to death after confessing on television to the kidnap, rape and murder of nine girls and women in Teheran, Iran.
1998 (x) 230 Die in bomb-attack in Nairobi, American embassy, Kenia.
2002 (-) Double murderer Richard Kutzner is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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