Tuesday, January 19, 2010

19 January 2005 - Bern, Switzerland


A sudden burst of snow covered the city in white overnight in Bern, Switzerland.
1809 (+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
1839 (+) Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, France.
1866 (-) Murderess Martha Grinder aka The American Borgia, is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
1866 (-) Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
1870 (-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Paris, Roquette Prison, France.
1916 (+) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin is born in London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
1921 (+) Writer Patricia Highsmith originally Mary Patricia Plangman, is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
1925 (+) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, is born in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum, Cambodja.
1933 (-) Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1935 (+) Actress Tippi Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA.
1938 (+) Musician Phil Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1943 (+) Musician Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.
1946 (+) Singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.
1947 (x) 392 Die in Himera Ocean liner hitting a forgotten WWII mine in Athens, Greece.
1954 (+) Photographer Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.
1958 (-) Marion Bartlett is shot, stabbed and choked to death by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 57 in Lincoln, 924 Belmont Avenue, Nebraska, USA.
1962 (x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1969 (-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation in Lille, France.
1973 (+) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, is born in Lyon, France.
1981 (-) Mass Murderer Alvin King commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Dangerfield, town jail, Texas, USA.
He used strips torn from his towel to make the hanging rope.
1982 (-) Leader of the 'Rote Kapelle' spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77 in Jerusalem, Israël.
1998 (-) Musician Carl Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.
He suffered 3 heart-attacks in less than 2 months.
2006 (-) Musician Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.
2007 (-) Singer-songwiter Denny Doherty dies at the age of 66 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
He was a founding member of the 'Mamas and the Papas'.

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