Monday, October 8, 2012

8 October 2004 - Jacques Derrida Dies

1869 (-)  14th president of the USA Franklin Pierce dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 64 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA.

1871 (x)   Over 300 Die in the great fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1873 (+)   Gangster Kate “Ma” Barker originally Arizona Clark, is born in Ash Grove, Missouri, USA.

1881 (+)   Thief Vincenzo Peruggia is born in Dumenza, Italy.
He stole the "Mona Lisa" in 1911.

1895 (+)   President Juan Domingo Peron is born in Lobos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1912 (-)  Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McCoy aka The Two-Headed Nightingale, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 61 in Columbus County, Johns Hopkins Medical College, North Carolina, USA.

1920 (+)   Writer Frank Franklin Patrick Herbert known for “Dune”, is born in Tacoma, Washington, USA.

1948 (+)   Punk Rocker Johnny Ramone originally John William Cummings, is born in Long Island, New York, USA.

1948 (+)   Serial Killer Pedro Alonso Lopez aka The Monster of the Andes, is born in Santa Isabel, Colombia.

1949 (+)   Actress Sigourney Weaver is born in New York, New York, USA.

1952 (x)   112 Die in 3 train collision in Harrow, United Kingdom.

1952 (x)   112 Die in three train collision in London, United Kingdom.

1958 (x)  43-year-old Heart-patient Arke Larson is the first man to have a pacemaker implanted in Stockholm, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden.

1962 (x)  57-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from prison for the seventh time in Arizona, USA.
She assumed an other name and lived free for seven years.

1965 (+)   Punk Rocker C.J. Ramone originally Christopher Joseph Ward, is born in Queens, New York, USA.

1970 (x)  Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Marin County courthouse in Marin County, California, USA.
It was a retaliation for the killings of Black Activists Jonathan Jackson, William Christmas and James McClain.

1981 (x)  27-year-old Serial Killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Germany.

1981 (x)  39-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in the hall of a business classroom in Salt Lake City, University, Utah, USA.
The bomb fails to detonate.

1984 (x)  Third bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Honeywell factory, Brabant, Belgium.

1985 (x)  Sixteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Electrabel Company building, Brabant, Belgium.

1992 (-)  Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Missouri, USA.

1997 (-)  Multiple Murderer Ricky Lee Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He was sentenced to death for the murders of Steven Fefferman, 16-year-old Jeffery Davis and 27-year-old Sandra Bailey. He also confessed to the murder of 28-year-old Betty Jo Monroe and was a suspect in 8 more murder cases in North Texas.

2001 (x)   118 Die in Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines jet collision in Milan, Italy.


2004 (-)  Philosopher Jacques Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74 in Paris, France.

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