32nd year - N° 260 Sunday, 17 September 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 260 Sunday, 17 September 2017

17 September / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 94 years ago He Was Born with Pain Monday 17th of September 1923 Singer-songwriter Hank Hiram King Williams aka Luke the Drifter aka The Hillbilly Shakespeare aka The Singing Kid is born in Mount Olive, Alabama, United States. Williams was named after Hiram I of Tyre, one of the three founders of the Masons. Williams was born with spina bifida occulta, a disorder of the spinal column which gave him lifelong pain.

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(+) 92 years ago Thursday 17th of September 1925 Mass murderer John Emil List aka The Bogeyman of Westfield is born in Bay City, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Monday 17th of September 1928 Actor Roddy Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall known from Planet of the Apes is born in 204 Herne Hill Road, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 86 years ago Thursday 17th of September 1931 Actress Anne Bancroft, originally Anna Maria Louisa Italiano is born in Bronx, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago He Was Born in His Own Nest Tuesday 17th of September 1935 Writer Ken Kenneth Elton Kesey known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is born in La Junta, Colorado, United States.

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(x) 61 years ago Monday 17th of September 1956 29-year-old Serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard marries Ilona Sores in Hungary.

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(+) 58 years ago Thursday 17th of September 1959 Leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect David Koresh, originally Vernon Wayne Howell is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 56 years ago Sunday 17th of September 1961 Murderer Lonnie Wayne Pursley is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Tuesday 17th of September 1968 43-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 50 / Filmvorführung mit Pissaktion' in Kritisch Literarischer Club Bastion, Max-Eyth-Straße 57, Kirchheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Muehl created a scandal causing the club to be closed by the city administration.

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(x) 34 years ago Saturday 17th of September 1983 24-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Now I am Death the Destroyer of Worlds - 1' in Campo Santo, Antwerpse Steenweg, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. On the Campo Santo graveyard I dug a grave. After I lay down in it Ross Cannon closed it with earth. While the audience was transported with buses to the next location of the exhibition we moved the grave to the Gele Zaal in Gent.

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(x) 34 years ago Saturday 17th of September 1983 24-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Now I am Death the Destroyer of Worlds - 2' in Gele Zaal, Nonnemeersstraat 26, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. This time I lay upside down in the grave with a chain attached to my feet. I was pulled out of the grave while films and slides about Robert Oppenheimer and death were projected onto me. In a microphone I repeated: "Now I am death the destroyer of worlds". The sound of my voice was electronically distorted into an unearthly grinding and thundering by Paul Hurst.

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(-) 22 years ago Sunday 17th of September 1995 Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 14 years ago Wednesday 17th of September 2003 59-year-old Serial killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, originally Bharat Rajpurohit aka Bad Blood is recognised in a street by a journalist in Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. Sobhraj still had a warrant out for the 1975 murders of 29-year-old Connie Bronzich and 26-year-old Laurent Ormond Carrière. He was arrested two days later.

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