Saturday, November 20, 2010

20 November 2008 - Nürnberg, Germany


Surveillance cameras on the corner of the building where Rote Armee Fraktion member Elisabeth Von Dyck was shot in the back and killed by a police sniper on 4 May 1979 in Nürnberg, Germany.

1752 (+) Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.
1761 (+) 253rd Pope Pius VIII originally Francesco Xaverio Cappeliari, is born in Cingoli, Italy.
1855 (-) John Cook is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.
1877 (-) Double Murderer Henry March is executed by hanging in Norwich, United Kingdom.
1885 (-) Murderer Thomas J. Cluverius is executed by hanging in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
1889 (+) Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble is born in Marshfield, Missouri, USA.
1894 (-) Louise Marcel is murdered as third victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 13 in France.
1902 (+) Commander of Breendonk-KZ Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is born in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany.
1903 (-) Murderer Tom Horn is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.
1910 (-) Writer Leonid Lev Nikolayewitsch Tolstoy dies of a lung infection combined with and exausting fit of hiccuping at the age of 82 in Astapovo, Russia.
1924 (+) Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is born in Merthyr Vale, Wales, United Kingdom.
1925 (+) Politician Robert F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachussets, USA.
1931 (+) Founding member of The Process Church of the Final Judgment Mary Anne MacLean DeGrimston is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1934 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, is sentenced to death in Vienna, Austria.
1936 (-) Founder of the Fascist Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Saenz De Heredia is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 33 in Alicante, Spain.
1936 (+) Arte Povera Artist Luciano Fabro is born in Torino, Italy.
1956 (+) Actress Bo Derek originally Derek Harris, is born in Long Beach, California, USA.
1956 (+) Spree Killer David Malcolm Gray is born in Dunedin, New Zealand.
1959 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.
1960 (x) 37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer stabs his 37-year-old wife Adele with a penknife in the abdomen and back at a party in their apartment in New York, 250 West 94th Street, New York, USA.
1964 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested on charges of burglary in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1968 (-) Jan Whitney is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 23 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.
1974 (x) 59 Die in Lufthansa Boeing 747 crash in Nairobi.
1975 (-) Caudillo of Spain Francisco Y Bahamonde Franco dies at the age of 83 in Madrid, Spain.
1978 (-) Artist Giorgio De Chirico dies at the age of 90 in Rome, Italy.
1978 (-) Mary Gallagher is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 17 in Springburn, United Kingdom.
1990 (x) 54-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is arrested in Rostow, Russia.
1991 (x) 140 Die in sailboat shipwreck in Cuba.
1993 (x) 123 Die in Aviolimpex Yak 42D crash in Ohrid, Macedonia.
There was one survivor.
1997 (x) Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor, Michael Howard, that 55-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, would serve her life sentence, or tariff, in full and die in jail, in London, United Kingdom.
Hindley requested a judicial review of her sentence.
1998 (-) Double murderer John Noland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
2002 (-) Triple murderer William Wesley Chappell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Double murderer Robert Lloyd Henry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2006 (-) Filmmaker Robert Altman dies of leukemia at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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