32nd year - N° 265 Friday, 22 September 2017

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
32nd year - N° 265 Friday, 22 September 2017

22 September / Today's 18 Events:

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(+) 502 years ago Wednesday 22nd of September 1515 Fourth wife of Henry VIII Anna von Kleve is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 241 years ago Sunday 22nd of September 1776 America's first spy Nathan Hale is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 226 years ago He Was not Born in a Cage Thursday 22nd of September 1791 Physicist Michael Faraday is born in Newington Butts, Southwark, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 132 years ago Tuesday 22nd of September 1885 Film director Erich von Stroheim, originally Erich Oswald Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 114 years ago Tuesday 22nd of September 1903 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Heinrich Koch is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 111 years ago Saturday 22nd of September 1906 Wife of camp commandant and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch, originally Margarete Ilse Köhler aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe is born in Dresden, Sachsen, Germany.

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(x) 93 years ago Monday 22nd of September 1924 25-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is sentenced to 3 and 6 months imprisonment for larceny in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 78 years ago Friday 22nd of September 1939 Mountaineer Junko Tabei known for becoming the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest is born in Miharu, Fukushima, Japan.

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(+) 68 years ago Thursday 22nd of September 1949 Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is born in Tunis, Protectorat Français, Tunisia.

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(x) 68 years ago Thursday 22nd of September 1949 45-year-old Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer has his life sentence commuted to 85 years in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 60 years ago Sunday 22nd of September 1957 Actress and singer Zhou Xuan, originally Su Pu aka Beautiful Jade aka Golden Voice dies of encephalitis at the age of 39 in Shanghai, China. Xuan died in a mental asylum during the Anti-Rightist Movement following a nervous breakdown.

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(+) 59 years ago Monday 22nd of September 1958 Singer-songwriter and musician Joan Jett, originally Joan Marie Larkin aka Godmother of Punk is born in Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 57 years ago Thursday 22nd of September 1960 Murderer Jesse De La Rosa is born in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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(x) 33 years ago Saturday 22nd of September 1984 25-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'La Chute des Anges Rebelles' in 1693 Waversesteenweg, Oudergem, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. In an abandoned house I was laying in a room, half covered by a blanket, tied up and with my head in a metal cage. On the wall hung a work by AMVK about a kidnapped Italian boy.

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(x) 33 years ago Saturday 22nd of September 1984 57-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of Michelle Steel in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Friday 22nd of September 1989 Composer Irving Berlin, originally Israel Isidore Beilin dies of natural causes at the age of 101 in New York City, New York, United States.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 22nd of September 2005 A view behind the shopfronts from an overpass in Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(x) 10 years ago Saturday 22nd of September 2007 48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Macht Kaputt was Euch Kaputt Macht' in Z33, Zuivelmarkt 33, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium. I transported a mass of earth in plastic bags from the hole to the art venue. Dressed in a 1970's suit and wearing sunglasses, I handed out a pamphlet to members of the audience. While an extended version of 'Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht!' by Ton Steine Scherben played loud through a ghettoblaster, I poured the earth onto the floor in a defensive wall structure. Then I poured a can of petrol over my head. Mixing the petrol with earth from the hole I made small muddy projectiles which I threw at the audience.

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