Thursday, May 20, 2010

20 May 2007 - Tampere, Finland


The road to nowhere on a lake near Tampere, Finland.
1277 (-) 187th Pope John XXI originally Perdo Juliao, dies at the age of 62 in Viterbo, Italy.
He died of injuries suffered in the collapse of a roof above his bedroom 8 days earlier.
1509 (-) Explorer Christoffel Columbus dies of heart failure at the age of 58 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain.
1521 (x) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is severely injured when a French cannonball shatters his leg in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.
1799 (+) Writer Honoré de Balzac is born in Tours, France.
1851 (+) Inventor and founder of the Berliner Gramophone Company Emil Berliner is born in Hannover, Germany.
1882 (+) Writer Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Zeeland, Denmark.
1894 (-) Eugenie Delhomme is raped, strangled, her throat cut and her right breast severed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 20 in France.
1908 (+) Actor James Maitland “Jimmy” Stewart is born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA.
1915 (+) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan is born in Degania, Palestine.
1917 (x) Future 20-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, has his left foot ripped open by a German hand-grenade during a bitter fight in the Aisne, France.
1925 (+) Aircraft designer Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev is born in Moscow, Russia.
1927 (-) Murderer Charles J. Blackburn is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1940 (-) Flemish Nationalist Verdinaso Leader Joris Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken partizans at the age of 45 in Abbéville, France.
1944 (+) Musician Joe John Robert Cocker is born in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
1946 (+) Musician Cher originally Cherilyn Sarkisian, is born in El Centro, California, USA.
1952 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christian Georg Alfred Klar is born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
1965 (x) 119 Die in Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 Boeing 720-040 B crash in Caïro International Airport, Egypt.
1968 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced for sodomy and sent to the Iowa Men Reformatory in Anamosa, Iowa, USA.
1981 (-) Carmen Riviera is presumably murdered by Zodiac in Hayward, California, USA.
1992 (-) Murderer Roger Keith Coleman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Virginia, USA.
1992 (-) Murderer Jesus Romero is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1997 (-) Murderer Clarence Lackey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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