Monday, October 11, 2010

11 October 2005 - Shanghai, China


The knees of a mummy in the Museum of Natural History in Shanghai, China.

1492 (x) 41-year-old Explorer Christoffel Columbus lands on the Bahamas and calls it San Salvador.
1872 (+) Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison is born in Blackheath, United Kingdom.
1885 (+) Writer François Charles Mauriac is born in Bordeaux, France.
1896 (-) Composer Anton Bruckner dies at the age of 72 in Vienna, Austria.
1921 (-) Black Wylie McNeely is lynched by burning for insulting a white woman in Leesburg, Texas, USA.
1925 (+) Writer Elmore Leonard is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
1925 (-) FBI-agent Edwin Shanahan is gunned down by Martin Durkin at the age of 31 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1929 (-) Elisabeth Dorrier is bludgeoned to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 22 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1934 (-) Tilda Blomqvist is killed in an arsoned housefire by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor, in Västerfärnebo, Sweden.
1940 (-) Ingeborg Gotz is attacked by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Germany.
She survived.
1942 (+) Mass Murderer James Oliver Huberty aka Hunting Humans, is born in Canton, Ohio, USA.
1954 (+) Manager of ‘The Doors’ Daniel Danny Sugarman is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1963 (-) Artist, writer and filmmaker Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Milly-la-Forêt, France.
1963 (-) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, dies of internal bleeding at the age of 47 in France.
1966 (-) Jolanta G. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 18 in Bedzin, Poland.
1969 (-) Paul Stine is shot dead as eighth victim by Zodiac at the age of 29 in San Francisco, California, USA.
1976 (-) Monika Pfeiffer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 18 in Mainz, Germany.
1979 (-) Yvonne Mysliniec is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Ilkley, United Kingdom.
She survived.
1980 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.
1985 (x) 26-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Lips of Osiris Ani" with AMVK at the Animal-Végétal exhibition in Brussels, Atelier 340, Brabant, Belgium.
1998 (x) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is canonized by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

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