Monday, January 18, 2010

18 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


An abandoned LandRover in Taling Chan where I performed 'Pain', my first work for the 'Alter Ego' exhibition at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
1574 (-) Hermit and cannibalistic murderer Gilles Garnier aka The Werewolf of Dole, is executed by burning at the stake in Dole, France.
He stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12.
1803 (-) Wife- and child-murderer George Forster is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
Shortly after the execution his body was taken to a nearby house where it was used in an experiment by Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini. "On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion."
1878 (x) 32-year-old Cannibal Adolph Luetgert aka The Sausage King, marries 31-year-old Louisa Bicknese in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1890 (-) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I dies at the age of 44 in Aosta, Italy.
1892 (+) Actor Oliver Hardy is born in Harlem, Georgia, USA.
1904 (+) Actor Cary Grant originally Alexander Archibald Leach, is born in Bristol, Horfield, 15 Hughenden Road, United Kingdom.
1909 (-) Charlie Von Dahmer is shot dead by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Juneau, Alaska, USA.
1913 (+) Actor and comedian Danny Kaye originally David Daniel Kaminsky, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1925 (+) Philosopher Gilles Deleuze is born in Paris, France.
1929 (x) 4 policemen are killed by 33-year-old Anarchist and Mass Cop Killer IJe Wijkstra in Groningen, Doezum, the Netherlands.
1932 (+) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Wilson is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.
1936 (-) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at the age of 70 in London, United Kingdom.
1946 (-) Murderer Joseph Wessel is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.
1952 (+) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is born in Gopinatham, Karnataka, India.
1955 (+) Actor Kevin Costner is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1977 (x) 90 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Sydney, Australia.
1981 (-) Shari Hull is shot dead after being sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 20 in Salem, TransAmerica Title Building, Oregon, USA.
1982 (x) 4 US stunt-pilots crash with their Thunderbird Jets in the Nevada Desert, USA.
1984 (+) Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, is born in Seoul, South Korea.
1987 (-) Jacquelin Askins is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, at the age of 18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
She survived.
2000 (-) Murderer Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He kidnapped and brutally killed Cecile Ham, wife of Bill Ham, manager and image-maker of ZZ Top in 1991.
2001 (-) Murderer Alvin Goodwin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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