Tuesday, October 2, 2012

2 October 1974 - Marcel Duchamp Dies

1847 (+)   Reichspresident Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg is born in Posen, Germany.

1869 (+)   Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, is born in Porbandar, India.

1890 (+)   Actor and filmmaker Groucho Julius Henry Marx is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1900 (+)   Actor Bud William Alexander Abbott is born in Ashbury Park, New Jersey, USA.

1904 (+)   Writer Graham Henry Greene is born in Berkhamstead, Herts, United Kingdom.

1914 (+)   Rocket propulsion researcher and Magick-pupil of Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast, John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons is born in California, USA.

1930 (-)  Child Killer Gordon Stewart Northcott is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in San Quentin, California, USA.

1935 (-)  Murderer Roland H. Cochrane aka Charles A. Stevens, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1942 (x)   330 Die in Curaçao and Queen Mary collision in the United Kingdom.

1945 (+)   Musician Don McLean is born in New Rochelle, New York, USA.

1947 (-)  Occult Teacher Peter Demianovitsch Ouspensky dies at the age of 69 in Virginia Water, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1949 (+)   Musician Richard Hell originally Richard Meyers, is born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

1963 (x)  17-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is sentenced to three years on parole for burglary in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


1968 (-)  Artist Marcel Duchamp dies at the age of 81 in Neuilly, France.

1971 (x)   63 Die in sabotaged BEA Vanguard crash in Aarsele, Belgium.

1972 (x)   100 Die in Iljoesjin 62 crash in the Black Sea.

1974 (-)  Nancy Wilcox is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 16 in Salt Lake City, Holladay, Utah, USA.

1974 (x)  Gudrun Ensslin and Holger Meins of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, are being force fed in their third hungerstrike in Stammheim and Wittlich prisons in Germany.
Their mouths are opened with pry-bars while feeding tubes are forced down their throats.

1984 (x)  Second bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Hocké MAN Electronics, Brabant, Belgium.

1985 (-)  Actor Rock Hudson originally Roy Scherer, dies of AIDS at the age of 59 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

1987 (-)  Susan Hellams is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, in Richmond, 514 West Thirty-first street, Virginia, USA.

1990 (x)   120 Die in hi-jacked Boeing 737-247 explosion in Guangzhou, China.

1992 (-)  Mary Katherine is strangled by Joel Rifkin at the age of 30 in New York, near Twelfth Street and Second Avenue, New York, USA.

1999 (-)  Writer Heinz Gunther Konsalik dies at the age of 78 in Salzburg, Austria.

2006 (-)  Mass Murderer Charles Carl Roberts aka The Amish School Shooter, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 32 in Bart Township, West Nickel Mines School, Pennsylvania, USA.
First he shot five Amish girls in the school.

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