Tuesday, January 5, 2010

5 January 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand



Waiting for the bus in Bangkok, Thailand.
1876 (+) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1895 (x) 35-year-old French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in Paris, France.
He was sent to Devil's Island off French Guiana.
1910 (-) Murderer Jose Lopez is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1914 (+) Artist Nicolas de Staël is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1914 (+) Actor George Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, is born in Woolstock, Iowa, USA.
1924 (-) An unidentified boy is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.
1932 (+) First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, is born in Siberia, USSR.
1933 (+) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte is born in Sosoye, Belgium.
1945 (-) Murderer John Ransom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1945 (-) Murderer Robert Folkes is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in Oregon, USA.
1946 (+) Actress Diane Keaton originally Diane Hall, is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.
1952 (-) Murderer James Lanmore is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
1979 (-) Musician Charles Mingus dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 56 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
1990 (x) Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren and 7 of his followers are arrested on suspicion of ritual murder in Missouri, USA.
1993 (-) Child-rapist and murderer Westley Dodd is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.
2005 (-) Manager of 'The Doors' Daniel Danny Sugarman dies of lung cancer at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
2007 (-) Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Ando dies of heart failure at the age of 96 in Osaka, Japan.

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