Saturday, November 6, 2010

6 November 1999 - Charleroi, Belgium


William Shatner aka Captain James Kirk from Star Trek popping up at a conference on Media Art in Charleroi, Belgium.

1406 (-) 204th Pope Innocentus VII originally Cosimo de Migliorati, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
1692 (+) Poet Louis Racine is born in Paris, France.
1814 (+) Designer and musician Adolphe Sax is born in Dinant, Namur, Belgium.
1838 (+) Criminologist Cesare Ezechia Marco Lombroso is born in Verona, Italy.
1840 (-) Multiple Murderer Robert McConaghy is executed by hanging in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA.
When the switch was pulled, the rope broke, and while the executioner fixed a new one, McConaghy confessed to all his crimes.
1880 (+) Writer Robert Mathias Edler von Musil known for "The Man Without Qualities", is born in Klagenforth, Carinthia, Austria.
1893 (-) Composer Peter Ilyitsch Tchaikowsky dies of cholera at the age of 53 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1919 (+) Musician Ray Raymond Conniff is born in Attleboro, Massachussets, USA.
1929 (-) Murderer Rollin Davisson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Montana, USA.
1930 (-) Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli dies at the age of 66 in Bern, Switzerland.
1931 (+) Actor Mike Nichols is born in Berlin, Germany.
1946 (+) Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
His original name was Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski but his mother died soon after he was born. After spending 11 months in a hospital he was adopted.
1946 (+) Actress Sally Field is born in Pasadena, California, USA.
1955 (+) Spree Killer Alton Coleman is born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.
1956 (+) Serial Killer Marc Dutroux is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
1958 (x) 16-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, takes her first communion and receives a white prayer book from uncle Bert and auntie Kath Maybury in Leeds, United Kingdom.
Years later, a ticket found in this book will lead the police to a locker in the railwaystation, where her lover Ian Brady kept pictures and tape-recordings of their crimes.
1965 (-) Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse dies at the age of 81 in New York, New York, USA.
1967 (+) Actress Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer is born in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
1974 (-) Caswell Carr is strangled and stabbed to death by Paul Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, in Macon, Georgia, USA.
1990 (-) Swetlana Korostik is stabbed to death and her tongue and nipples bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 22 in Rostow, Russia.
1997 (-) Murderer Aaron Lee Fuller is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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