Wednesday, May 19, 2010

19 May 2001 - Gent, Belgium


Pressure valves in an old power plant in Gent, Belgium.
1296 (-) 192nd Pope Celestinus V originally Pietro di Murrone, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
1536 (-) Second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn is executed by beheading in London, White Tower, United Kingdom.
She had been charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1870 (+) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1872 (-) Schoolmaster Johan Hendrik Van Dale dies of smallpocks at the age of 46 in the Netherlands.
He compiled the New Dutch Language Wordbook.
1881 (+) Architect of modern Turkey Kemal Mustafa Ataturk is born in Salonika, Greece.
1890 (+) Leader of the Viet Minh Independence Movement Ho Chi Minh originally Nguyen Sinh Cung, is born in Hoang Tru Village, Nghe An Province, Vietnam.
1916 (-) Murderer Francisco Rodriguez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
1918 (-) Artist Ferdinand Hodler dies at the age of 65 in Bern, Switzerland.
1925 (+) Revolutionary leader Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1928 (x) 195 Die in coal-mine explosion in Mather, USA.
1928 (+) Architect of the Red Khmer Communist Party Pol Pot originally Saloth Sar, is born in Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thum, French Indochina.
1933 (-) Murderer Luke Nichols is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.
1933 (+) Murderer Claude Buffet is born in Reims, France.
1935 (-) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, dies due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days earlier at the age of 46 in Bovington, Dorset, United Kingdom.
1945 (+) Musician Pete Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is born in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom.
1948 (+) Musician Grace Jones originally Grace Mendoza, is born in Spanishtown, Jamaica.
1951 (+) Punk Rocker Joey Ramone originally Jeffry Ross Hyman, is born in Queens, New York, USA.
1954 (-) Composer Charles Edward Ives dies at the age of 79 in West Riding, Connecticut, USA.
1969 (+) Filmmaker and founder of Dogme 95 Thomas Vinterberg is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1971 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
1971 (x) A male corpse is found on the ranch of 37-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona in Yuba City, California, USA.
In the next days a total of 24 bodies was excavated.
1972 (x) The Axel-Springer building is bombed by the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion in Hamburg, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, Germany.
The 2 Juni Commando claims responsability for the attack.
1975 (x) Supposed Murderer Patrick Paddy Connolly Meehan is granted a Royal Pardon and released from prison in Peterhead, United Kingdom.
1981 (-) Sandra Wolfsteiner is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 16 in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
1987 (-) Science fiction writer Alice Bradley Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr., commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 71 in McLean, Virginia, USA.
She killed her sick and blind 84-year-old husband first.
1994 (-) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis originally Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie, dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.
1994 (-) Cyclist Luis Jesús Ocaña commits suicide by a gunshot at the age of 48 in Nogaro, Gers, France.
1997 (-) Triple Murderer Richard Drinkard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Murderer Pedro Cruz Muniz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2005 (-) Murderer Richard Cartwright is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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