A publicity sign in the "Pont Marie" subway station in Paris.
1519
(x) 39-year-old Explorer
Ferdinand Magellan sets sail in the first attempt to circumnavigate the earth in
Sanlucar de Barrameda, Andalusia, Spain.
1822
(+) Inventor of the typewriter
Peter Mitterhofer is born in Partschins, Tirol, Germany.
1853
(+) 5th King of Thailand
Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.
1859
(+) Writer
Cyriel Buysse is born in Nevele, Belgium.
1863
(-) Philologist and folklorist
Jakob Grimm dies at the age of 78 in Berlin, Germany.
1913
(x) The first stone for 52-year-old Philosopher
Rudolf Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy his
Goetheaneum is laid in Dornach, Germany.
1916
(+) Enterpreneur and billionaire
Rudolf-August Oetker is born in Bielefeld, Germany.
1918
(x) 31-year-old Stigmatized Monk
Father Pio of Pietrelcina originally Francesco Forgione, has his first occurence of
stigmata while kneeling before a cross in the Chuch of the Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy.
This phenomenon continued for fifty years, until his death in 1968.
1924
(x) Germany decides to change its official writing from
Gothic to Latin. .
1925
(+) 8th King of Thailand
Rama VIII originally Ananda Mahidol aka Phra Paramenthara Maha Ananda Mahidol Phra Athama Ramathibodinthra, is born in Heidelberg, Germany.
1929
(+) Filmmaker
Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, is born in Vienna, Austria.
1932
(x) 63-year-old Indian Leader
Mahatma Ghandi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, starts
hungerstriking in prison in Poona, India.
1933
(-) Theosophist
Annie Besant dies at the age of 86 in Adyar, Tamil Hadu, India.
1933
(-) Assassin of SA-Leader
Horst Wessel Albrecht Höhler is abducted and shot to pieces by an SA commando at the age of 35 in Berlin, Germany.
1934
(+) Actress
Sophia Loren originally Sophia Scicoloni, is born in Rome, Italy.
1940
(x) The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by Commander of Breendonk-KZ
Philipp Schmitt in
Breendonk, Belgium.
1940
(-) Frau Lausche is attacked and thrown out of a train by
Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Karlshorst, Germany.
She survived.
1942
(+) Filmmaker
Robbe De Hert is born in Farnborough, United Kingdom.
1945
(-) Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer
William Seabrook aka The White Cannibal of New York, commits suicide by drug-overdose at the age of 61 in Rhinebeck, New York, USA.
1945
(-) Chief Nazi Doctor at Auschwitz KZ
Eduard Wirths commits suicide by hanging at the age of 41 in Staumühle, Germany.
1946
(x) The first
Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France.
1947
(x) 22-year-old
Timothy Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, marries Beryl Suzanna Thornley in London, Kensington Registry Office, United Kingdom.
1948
(-) Ravensbrück KZ guard
Emma Zimmer originally Mezel, is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Hameln, Germany.
She was known for her extreme sadistic behaviour.
1951
(x) Rhesus monkey
Yorick aka Albert VI, and 11 are recovered from an Aerobee missile flight in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA.
He was the first animal to survive a space flight, but died 2 hours later.
1954
(x) 32-year-old Serial Killer
Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Mainz, Germany.
1957
(-) Composer
Jean Sibelius dies at the age of 91 in Jarvenpaa, Lappi, Finland.
1959
(+) Performance artist
Danny Devos aka DDV, is born in
Vilvoorde, Brabant, Belgium.
1959
(x) 43-year-old Writer and inventor of the cut-up technique,
Brion Gysin makes his first
cut-up in Paris, Beat Hotel, France.
1959
(x) 19-year-old Assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, starts his travel to Russia when boarding the SS Marion Lykes in New Orleans, USA.
He first arrived in Le Havre, from there to London, then Helsinki where he got a 6-day-visa for the Soviet Union.
1959
(x) 43-year-old Musician
Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, breaks down on stage with internal bleedings in New York,
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, USA.
1961
(+) Consensual victim of Robert Frederick Glass
Sharon Lopatka is born in Hampstead, Maryland, USA.
1964
(+) Wong Kar-Wai star actress
Maggie Cheung is born in Hong Kong.
1965
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer
Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for burglary in Maitland, Missouri, USA.
1966
(x) The US
Surveyor 2 spacecraft is launched in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
Two days later it crashed onto the Moon surface near Copernicus Crater.
1967
(x) Filmmaker
Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, shoots his film
"16/67:20. September" aka "the legendary eating, drinking, pissing, shitting film" with Viennese Actionist
Günter Brus in Vienna, Austria.
1972
(x) 30-year-old Mass murderer
Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, has his death-sentence voided by the Supreme Court in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1972
(x) 37-year-old RAF Leader
Ulrike Meinhof is transferred from Ossendorf Prison to
Zweibrücken Prison to take part in an identification line-up in Zweibrücken, Germany.
Determined to ruin the process, she screams "Ich bin die Meinhof - mich sollt ihr identifizieren!" upon which the police instructs the 5 other women in the line-up to do the same.
1973
(-) Musician
Jim Croce dies in a plane crash at the age of 30 in Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
1974
(-) Kathy Schulz is killed by
Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 15 in Dalbo, Minnesota, USA.
1977
(x) Andrew Dupay, who delivered the mail to 24-year-old Serial Killer
David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, commits suicide by blasting a shotgun through his head in Yonkers, Lincoln Terrace, New York, USA.
He told a friend “Sometimes a mailman learns things about the people on his route he’d be better off not knowing, and he sees things he’d be better off not seeing”.
1979
(x) 58-year-old Military Ruler
Jean Bokassa his reign is overthrown in a military "Operation Barracuda" in Moyen-Congo.
It was France's 'last colonial expedition'.
1979
(-) 8th President of Czechoslowakie
Ludvik Svoboda dies at the age of 83 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.
1989
(-) Murderer
James Paster aka Skip, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1994
(-) Double Murderer
George Lott aka The Fort Worth Courthouse Gunman, is executed by lethal injection after a
last meal of french toast with syrup in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1999
(-) First Lady
Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, dies of leukemia at the age of 67 in Münster University Hospital, Germany.
2000
(-) Cosmonaut
Gherman Titov dies of a heart-attack at the age of 65 in Moscow, USSR.
He was the second person to orbit the earth.
2005
(x) An inquest in the death of 51-year-old Schizophrenic artist
Richard Sumner told that he had deliberately
handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys out of reach in Clawddnewydd, Clocaenog Forest, Wales, United Kingdom.
He had disappeared two years earlier and his skeleton was found in april.
2005
(-) Nazi Hunter
Simon Wiesenthal dies at the age of 96 in Vienna, Austria.
