When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?

3 February 1989 - John Nicholas Cassavetes Dies

2012-02-03T01:31:00.002+01:00

1468 (-) Printer Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg dies at the age of 70 in Mainz, Germany.

1809 (+) Composer Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn is born in Hamburg, Germany.

1859 (+) Airplane engineer Hugo Junkers is born in Rheydt, Germany.

1874 (+) Writer Gertrude Stein is born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

1887 (+) Writer Georg Trakl is born in Salzburg, Austria.

1889 (+) Filmmaker Theodor Carl Dreyer is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1889 (-) Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Starr, dies of shotgun wounds to the back and neck and in the shoulder and face at the age of 41 in Eufaula, Oklahoma, USA.
She was ambushed by an unknown assailant on the way home from a friend.

1903 (-) Child Murderess Annie Walters aka The Finchley Baby Farmer, is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.

1904 (+) Gangster Charles Arthur Floyd aka Pretty Boy, is born in Adairsville, Georgia, USA.

1909 (+) Philosopher Simone Weil is born in Paris, France.

1911 (x) Mass-poisoner John James Hutchinson serves poison at his parents’ 25th wedding anniversary, killing his father and 2 other relatives in Dalkeith, United Kingdom.

1927 (+) Filmmaker Kenneth Anger originally Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1929 (-) Hypnotist and murderer Joseph Clarke is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1929 (-) Apollonia Kuhn is attacked with scissors by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.

1929 (+) Revolutionary priest Camilo Torres Restrepo is born in Bogota, Colombia.

1935 (-) Airplane engineer Hugo Junkers dies at the age of 76 in Gauting, Germany.

1957 (+) Musician Steven Peter Stapleton aka Nurse With Wound, is born in London, Finchley, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Musician Buddy Holly dies in a ‘Beechcraft Bonanza’ airplane crash at the age of 21 in Mason, Iowa, USA.
The whole ‘Big Bopper Band’ is wiped out.

1958 (-) Musician Ritchie Valens originally Richard Steven Valenzuela known from La Bamba, dies in a ‘Beechcraft Bonanza’ airplane crash at the age of 16 in Mason, Iowa, USA.

1967 (-) Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Coburg, Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia.

1971 (-) Unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.

1975 (-) Musician Umm Kulthum aka The Nightingale of the Nile, dies at the age of 70 in Caïro, Egypt.

1980 (-) Charles Miranda is sodomised and garotted with his shirt by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 15 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

1980 (-) James McCabe is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 12 in Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA.

1981 (-) Marie Sloane is sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 46 in Redding, Burger Express, California, USA.

1981 (-) Donna Lee Eckard is sexually assaulted and shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 37 in Mountain Gate, Holiday Road, California, USA.

1985 (-) Scientist Frank Oppenheimer dies of lung cancer at the age of 72 in Sausalito, California, USA.

1989 (-) Filmmaker John Nicholas Cassavetes dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1993 (-) Composer Karel Goeyvaerts dies at the age of 69 in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1998 (-) Multiple Murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
She was the first woman to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War.

1998 (-) Loretta Daniels is asphyxiated by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 38 in Springfield, State Street near Mason Square Post Office, Massachussets, USA.

2003 (x) 62-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is arrested on suspicion of murder when the body of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson is found at his mansion in Alhambra, California, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer John Glenn Roe is executed by lethal injection in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, USA.

2010 (x) 12 Die in IRA incendiary bomb attack in Belfast, La Mon Restaurant, Ireland.

2 February 1969 - Boris Karloff originally William Henry Pratt Dies

2012-02-02T01:18:00.002+01:00

1691 (-) 241st Pope Alexander VIII originally Pietro Ottoboni, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.

1730 (-) 245th Pope Benedictus XIII originally Pietro Francesco Orsini, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.

1740 (-) 246th Pope Clementius XII originally Lorenzo Corsini, dies at the age of 87 in Rome, Italy.

1859 (+) Sexuologist Henry Havelock Ellis is born in Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1882 (+) Writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1907 (-) Scientist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev dies of influenza at the age of 73 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1913 (+) Wife of Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Henriette “Henny” von Schirach originally Henriette Hoffmann, is born in München, Schwabing, Germany.

1924 (-) Willi Senger is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 19 in Hannover, Germany.

1933 (-) Geneviève Lancelin is scratched, knifed and hammered to death by Lea and Christine Papin aka The Diabolical Sisters, at the age of 25 in Le Mans, France.

1946 (-) Murderer Andrew W. Dennis is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 46 in Oregon, USA.

1947 (+) Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett is born in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.

1949 (+) Serial Rapist Frederick ‘Kevin’ Coe aka The Spokane Rapist, is born in Spokane, Washington, USA.

1952 (x) 47-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes for the fifth time, but is recaptured 5 days later in State Hospital, Arizona, USA.

1964 (-) Hannah Tailford is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper in London, United Kingdom.

1969 (-) Actor Boris Karloff originally William Henry Pratt, dies of a bad cold at the age of 81 in Midhurst, United Kingdom.

1970 (-) Philosopher Bertrand Arthur William Russel dies at the age of 97 in Penryhndeudraeth, Gwynned, United Kingdom.

1972 (x) Boatbuilder Irwin Beelitz is the first deadly victim in a Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, bomb-attack by the Movement 2nd June against a British Yachting Club in Berlin, Gatow, Germany.

1975 (x) The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, end their third hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.
Holger Meins had already died in the course.

1979 (-) Sex Pistol Sid Vicious originally Simon John Ritchie, dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21 in New York, New York, USA.
"We made a death pact, and I have to accomplish my part of the deal. Please bury me next to my baby. Please bury me with my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye. With love, Sid."

1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "B" in Antwerpen, Ruimte Z, Antwerp, Belgium.

1981 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Salem al-Hazmi is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

1994 (-) Murderer Harold Barnard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1995 (-) Actor Donald Pleasance dies of heart failure at the age of 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

1996 (-) Actor Gene Eugene Curran Kelly dies of a stroke at the age of 83 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1998 (x) 104 Die in Cebu Pacific Flight 387 DC-9-32 crash into a mountain in Cagayan de Oro, the Philippines.

1 February 2002 - Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef Dies

2012-02-01T01:51:00.002+01:00

1851 (-) Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley dies of a brain tumour at the age of 53 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.

1872 (+) Mass murderer Andrew Kehoe is born in Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.

1874 (+) Writer Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal is born in Vienna, Austria.

1895 (+) Filmmaker John Ford is born in Cape Elisabeth, Maine, USA.

1901 (+) Actor Clark William Gable is born in Cadiz, Ohio, USA.

1908 (x) King Carlos I and his son Prince Luis are shot dead by revolutionary republicans Alfredo Costa and Manual Buiça in Lissabon, Portugal.
The assassins were shot by the King's bodyguards.

1922 (-) William Taylor is shot dead by Charlotte Minter at the age of 45 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1929 (-) Murderer Tom Dreher is executed by hanging in Louisiana, USA.

1929 (-) Murderess Ada Lebout is executed by hanging in Louisiana, USA.

1931 (+) First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is born in Sverdlovsk, Russia.

1933 (+) Notorious call-girl Rosemarie Nitribitt is born in Mendig, Rheinland, Germany.

1935 (-) Double murderer Kenneth Neu aka ‘Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Hang’, is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1937 (+) Musician Don Donald Isaac Everly is born in Brownie, Kentucky, USA.

1939 (+) musician Claude François aka Clo-Clo, is born in Ismaïlia, Egypt.

1944 (-) Artist Piet Mondriaan dies of pneumonia at the age of 71 in New York, New York, USA.

1945 (x) Over 100 Die in train collision in Cazadero, Mexico.

1959 (-) August Horry is shot dead by Penny Bjorkland in San Francisco hills, California, USA.
"Just to see if I could do it and not worry about it."

1963 (x) 95 Die in Viscount and Air Force plane collision in Ankara, Turkey.

1966 (-) Actor and filmmaker Buster Joseph Francis Keaton dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

1967 (x) Serial Killer Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, is arrested in Katowice, Poland.

1968 (+) Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

1974 (x) 188 Die in 25-story Joelma Bank building fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1974 (x) 44-year-old The Great Train Robber Ronald “Ronnie” Arthur Biggs is arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1974 (-) Brenda Merchant is presumably stabbed to death by Zodiac in Marysville, California, USA.

1974 (-) Lynda Healy is bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 21 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1978 (x) 44-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, skips bail and flees the country after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old in California, USA.

1979 (x) 24-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is released from prison in California, USA.

1981 (-) Airplane designer Donald Wills Douglas dies at the age of 88 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
His ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

1984 (-) Willi Fleischer is his skull crushed in by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 42 in Suechteln, Germany.

1985 (-) Industrial Ernst Zimmerman is shot dead by Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 55 in München, Germany.
The assassination was carried out in the name of Patsy O'Hara.

1991 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is sentenced to 10 consecutive terms of 25 years to life in Rochester, New York, USA.

1994 (x) Over 100 Die in ferry collison with trailer in Yangtse River, China.

2002 (-) Actress and musician Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef dies of cancer at the age of 76 in Berlin, Germany.

2004 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Yang Xinhai is sentenced to death for the murder of at least 67 people in the past 3 years in Hehan, China.
The trial lasted less than an hour.

2007 (-) Filmmaker Carlo Ponti dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 94 in Geneve, Switzerland.

2008 (-) Murderer Masahiko Matsubara is executed by hanging at the age of 63 in Osaka, Japan.

2008 (-) Murderer Takashi Mochida is executed by hanging at the age of 65 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2008 (-) Murderer Keishi Nago is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Fukuoka, Japan.

2010 (x) 119 Die in Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crash in Khorramabad Airport, Iran.

31 January 1969 - Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani Dies

2012-01-31T01:06:00.001+01:00

1606 (-) Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

1797 (+) Composer Franz Peter Schubert is born in Vienna, Lichtenthal, Austria.

1921 (+) Tenor and actor Mario Lanza originally Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1923 (+) Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.

1939 (+) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is born in Webster, South Dakota, USA.

1941 (+) Founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is born in Ventersdorp, South Africa.

1949 (+) Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, is born in Cuhahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.

1954 (-) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor window of his flat at the age of 63 in New York, New York, USA.
He was lonely and depressed over the FM patent dispute.

1955 (-) Founder of the WMCA John Raleigh Mott dies at the age of 89 in Cornell, New York, USA.

1956 (+) Sex Pistol John Joseph Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Jack Larber dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 72 in San Francisco, Laguna Honda Home, California, USA.

1964 (x) Serial Killer Wladimir Ionesyan aka Iwan The Axeman, is sentenced to death for five murders in Armenia, Russia.

1967 (-) Bozena Raczkiewicz is knifed and mutilated to death with a broken bottle by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 18 in Lodz, Poland.

1969 (-) Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, dies of intense muscular spasms at the age of 74 in Meherazad, India.

1974 (-) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn originally Szmuel Gelbfisz, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1974 (x) 92 Die in Pan Am Airliner crash in Pago Pago, Samoa.

1978 (-) Elena Rytka is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 18 in Huddersfield, Great Northern Street, United Kingdom.

1979 (x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is released from the Norfolk Regional Center after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

1986 (-) Virginie Labrette is tortured to death by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 76 in Paris 12th, 25 rue de Wattignies, France.

1995 (-) Murderer Willie Ray Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1996 (x) 86 Die in an explosives-filled truck crash in Colombo, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
At least 1400 people are injured.

2000 (x) 88 Die in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 MD-83 crash into the Pacific Ocean in Point Mugu, California, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Randall Wayne Sr. Hafdahl aka Jack Douglas Cone, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Double murderer Jaime Jr. Elizalde is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2009 (x) 113 Die in an oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenya.

30 January 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi is Shot Dead

2012-01-30T01:50:00.001+01:00

1835 (x) 67-year-old 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory, escapes the first ever assassination-attempt on a president when Richard Lawrence’s 2 pistols both misfire in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1849 (+) President of France Félix Faure is born in Paris, France.

1882 (+) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in Hyde Park, New York, USA.

1889 (-) Juliette Deitsch is murdered in a magickal sex-rite by Etienne Deschamps at the age of 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1889 (-) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge, Austria.
He probably killed his lover, 17-year-old baroness Mary Vetsera, first and then took his own life. There is no question that the depression-prone Rudolf and Mary had a suicide-pact.

1896 (x) Presentation of the first motion picture, "A Passion Play" by Rich Hollaman in Hollywood, Eden Musée, California, USA.

1915 (+) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , is born in Berlin, Germany.

1927 (+) Prime-minister Olof Palme is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1930 (+) Actor Gene Eugene Allen Hackman is born in San Bernardino, California, USA.

1930 (+) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is born in Germany.

1930 (+) Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon, Samuel Joseph Byck is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1933 (x) 43-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is appointed as ReichsKanssler in Berlin, Germany.

1937 (+) Actress Vanessa Redgrave is born in London, United Kingdom.

1945 (x) Cabatuan-KZ is liberated by the American Armed Forces in Japan.

1947 (+) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott is born in London, Manor Park, East Ham Hospital, Essex, United Kingdom.

1948 (-) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1948 (-) Mahatma Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, is shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse at the age of 78 in Delhi, Berli House, India.

1951 (+) Musician Phil Collins is born in London, United Kingdom.

1951 (-) Automobile designer and engineer Ferdinand Porsche dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Stuttgart, Germany.

1953 (-) Murderer Albert W. M. Kames is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

1969 (x) The Beatles play their last public concert, on the roof of Apple Records in London, United Kingdom.
The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

1971 (-) Donald Edward is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, Mangum, Texas, USA.

1972 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is arrested and charged with child-abuse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1972 (x) 13 Die in the Bloody Sunday events in Londonderry, Ireland.

1977 (-) Christine Feund is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.

1980 (-) Mary Maher is stabbed and choked by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Daytona, Florida, USA.

1985 (-) Rapist and murderer James David Raulerson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Florida, USA.

1993 (x) Over 140 Die in train derailment in Darajani, Kenya.

1994 (-) Writer Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle known for “Planet of the Apes”, dies at the age of 82 in Paris, France.

1996 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, butchers a family of four in Ukraïne, Russia.

1998 (-) Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in North Carolina, USA.

2002 (-) Double murderer Windell Broussard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Granville Riddgle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Triple murderer Christopher Swift is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

29 January 1980 - Jimmy James Francis Durante Dies

2012-01-29T01:36:00.001+01:00

1763 (-) Poet Louis Racine dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.

1843 (+) 25th president of the USA William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, USA.

1845 (x) 36-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe 's poem "The Raven" is first published in the Evening Mirror in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was paid $9 for its publication.

1860 (+) Writer Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia.

1880 (+) Filmmaker W.C. Fields is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1904 (-) Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.

1905 (+) Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York, New York, USA.

1905 (+) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is born in Oxford, Indiana, USA.

1906 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is brought to trial for the strangling of 2 children, but found not guilty in Paris, France.

1924 (+) Composer Luigi Nono is born in Venice, Italy.

1930 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Fr for attempted fraud in Sens, Tribunal de Première Instance, France.

1939 (+) Feminist writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1940 (x) Over 200 Die in train collision in Osaka, Japan.

1941 (-) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 69 in Athens, Greece.

1942 (+) Musician and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, France.

1945 (+) Actor Tom Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1954 (+) TV-host Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.

1958 (-) Edith Middleton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Merle Collison is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 37 in Douglas, Wyoming, USA.
Minutes later Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Fugate are arrested.

1959 (-) Patricia Vinico Berkman is stabbed to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 33 in Perth, Australia.

1971 (x) A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 19-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.

1973 (x) 34-year-old Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Italy.

1974 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.

1979 (x) 16-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school because she didn't like mondays in San Diego, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
She killed the principal and the janitor and wounded 9 children.

1980 (-) Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Schnozzola, dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1985 (-) Millionaire Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 46 in Germany.
He imprisoned and sexually tortured his maid for a period of 466 days.

1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is sentenced to 40 years in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

2001 (-) Murderer Alexander Caruthers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Musician and founder of The Beatles Eric Ronald Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

2005 (-) Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies at the age of 75 in Reno, Nevada, USA .
She was the only women on Nevada's Death Row.

2006 (-) Video Artist Nam June Paik dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Miami, Florida, USA.

28 January 1976 - Marcel Broodthaers Dies

2012-01-28T01:10:00.001+01:00

1547 (-) King of England Henry VIII dies of diabetes at the age of 55 in Whitehall, United Kingdom.

1621 (-) 233rd Pope Paulus V originally Camillo Borghese, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.

1706 (+) Printer and typographer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

1768 (-) Composer John Wainwright dies at the age of 44 in Cheshire, United Kingdom.

1788 (+) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1802 (-) Murderer Joseph Wall Esq. is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.

1829 (-) Serial Killer William Burke aka The Bodysnatcher, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
A huge crowd showed up to see him hang.

1841 (+) Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.

1855 (+) Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs I is born in Rochester, New York, USA.

1887 (x) 26-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Myrta Z. Belknap as Henry Howard Holmes in Colorado, USA.

1887 (+) Composer Arthur Rubinstein is born in Lodz, Poland.

1890 (+) Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1912 (+) Artist Jackson Paul Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, USA.

1914 (+) Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

1924 (+) Artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1929 (+) Artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1936 (+) Actor Alan Alda is born in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.

1936 (-) Richard Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer, is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie Day at the age of 30 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.

1939 (-) Writer William Butler Yeats dies at the age of 73 in Menton, Hôtel Idéal Séjour, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

1945 (+) Musician Robert Wyatt-Ellidge is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

1948 (x) Over 250 Die in Joo Maru freighter collision in Japan.
It collided with an abandoned mine.

1948 (-) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Krakow, Poland.

1949 (-) Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.

1953 (-) Cop Killer Derek William Bentley is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Lauer and 46-year-old Clara Ward are shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 47 in Lincoln, 2843 24th Street, Nebraska, USA.

1965 (+) Fifth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Sears is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1974 (x) 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by the Black Zebra Killers while 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down in San Francisco, California, USA.

1976 (-) Artist Marcel Broodthaers dies at the age of 52 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1978 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is arrested in Sacramento, California, USA.
Assorted human and animal organs are found in his refrigerator.

1986 (x) US-astronauts 49-year-old Michael Smith, 36-year-old Judith Resnik, 35-year-old Ronald McNair, 39-year-old Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old Francis Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger Spacecraft, just 1min 12 sec after take-off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

1996 (-) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York, New York, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Billy Frank Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in Paris XIV, France.
She played a violent murderess in the movie "Baise-Moi".

2010 (-) Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.
He spent 30 years in prison for the murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.

27 January 1967 - Three Apollo 1 Astronauts Die

2012-01-27T01:55:00.001+01:00

1596 (-) Sea Captain, slaver and pirate Sir Francis Drake aka El Draque, dies of dysentery at the age of 56 in Portobelo, Colón, Panama.

1756 (+) Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

1832 (+) Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

1836 (+) Writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch is born in Lemberg, Austria.

1874 (+) Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Greene Elliott is born in Hamlin, New York, USA.

1892 (+) Composer Mitya Stillman is born in Russia.

1901 (-) Composer Giuseppe Verdi dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Milan, Italy.

1906 (+) Actress Starr Wyman Faithfull aka The Drowned Girl, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1928 (-) Murderer Daniel Driscoll is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.

1928 (-) Murderer Edward Rowlands is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.

1944 (+) Musician Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, United Kingdom.

1945 (x) Auschwitz-KZ is liberated by the Russian army in Poland.

1949 (x) Over 600 Die in Taiping steamer collision with collier in China.

1958 (-) August Meyer is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 70 in Bennet, Meyer Farm, Nebraska, USA.

1958 (-) Robert Jensen is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 17 in Bennet, Schoolhouse, Nebraska, USA.

1963 (-) John Sturkey is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 19 in Perth, Cottelsoe and Nedlands, Australia.
Nicholas August, Roweena Reeves and Brian Weir are also shot and woonded in separate events on the same night.

1967 (x) US-astronauts 40-year-old Gus Grisson, 33-year-old Edward H. White and 31-year-old Roger B. Chaffee are burned alive in their Apollo/Saturn 204 in John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.
They were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission.

1972 (-) Musician Mahalia Jackson dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA.

1977 (-) Lawrence Merrick is shot dead by persons unknown in Los Angeles, the Merrick Studio Academy of Dramatic Arts, California, USA.
He was working on a documentary about Charles Manson.

1977 (x) 27-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison in Germany.

1978 (-) Evelyn Miroth is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 38 in Sacramento, Merrywood Drive 3207, California, USA.
In the same event he also killed 6-year-old Jason Miroth and 22-months-old David Ferreira. He then took the baby’s body home, decapitated it and ate parts of its brains before dumping it in a cardboard box.

1981 (x) 443 Die in Tamponas 2 Ocean Liner fire in the Java Sea.

1982 (-) An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Lucas & Toole aka The Hand of Death, in Plainview, Texas, USA.

1983 (-) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Nantes, France.

1984 (x) 25-year-old Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, suffers second and third degree burns on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium, California, USA.

1992 (-) Wife of Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Henriette “Henny” von Schirach originally Henriette Hoffmann, dies at the age of 79 in München, Germany.

2000 (-) Double murderer James Walter Moreland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (x) Start of the trial against Murderer Robert Frederick Glass for the consensual murder of Sharon Lopatka in North Carolina, USA.
He had fulfilled her wish to be tortured and strangled to death.

2008 (-) Second President of Indonesia Hadji Muhammad Suharto dies of a sepsis infection and haemoglobin drop at the age of 86 in Jakarta, Pertamina hospital, Indonesia.

2009 (-) Writer John Updike dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.

2010 (-) Writer Jerome David Salinger dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Comish, New Hampshire, USA.

26 January 1932 - William Jr. Wrigley Dies

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1340 (x) 27-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France.

1826 (-) Artist Théodore Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 34 in Paris, France.

1880 (+) General Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

1918 (+) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is born in Scornicesti, Romania.

1925 (+) Actor Paul Leonard Newman is born in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA.

1928 (+) Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, is born in Paris, France.

1932 (-) Chewing gum industrialist William Jr. Wrigley dies at the age of 70 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1938 (x) The dismembered body of 41-year-old Florence Polillo is found, she’s the third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, 2315 East 20th Street, Ohio, USA.

1944 (+) Political Activist Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

1947 (+) Actor Patrick Dewaere is born in Saint-Brieuc, France.

1948 (x) 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery, presumably by 55-year-old Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, in Tokio, Imperial Bank, Japan.
He posed as a health officer, and ordered16 employees to drink some 'dysentery medicine, what was actually potassium cyanide.

1955 (+) Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

1958 (+) Murderer John Hardy Rose is born in North Carolina, USA.

1958 (x) 167 Die in Nankai Maru capsizing in Awaji Island, Japan.

1962 (-) Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Napoli, Capodicine Airport, Italy.
He was meeting a scriptwriter who was about to write his life as a film.

1963 (x) 15-year-old Douglas Godfrey shoots his mother in a self-created ‘sniper’ attack in Bloomfield township, Michigan, USA.

1965 (x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1965 (x) Hindi becomes the official language in India.

1966 (x) The Beaumont Children 9-year-old Jane Nartare, 7-year-old Arnna Kathleen and 4-year-old Grant Ellis collectively disappear in Adelaide, Gleneig Beach, South Australia, Australia.
It remains Australia's most infamous cold case.

1968 (x) 69 Die in Dakar submarine wrecking in the Mediterranean Sea.

1968 (-) Linda Slawson is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1971 (x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is found guilty of the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1974 (x) The RAF aka Rote Armee Fraktion - Aufbauorganisation calls itself the successor of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe in Germany.

1979 (-) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1983 (-) Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 20 in London, United Kingdom.

1991 (x) 31-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Did Dillinger Die Right There and Then?" in Leuven, Galerie Transit, Brabant, Belgium.

1996 (-) Child rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Martin S. Vega is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt dies at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2008 (-) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 49 in Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center , California, USA.

25 January 2010 - Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh is Executed

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1533 (x) 41-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his second wife Anne Boleyn in London, United Kingdom.

1874 (+) Writer William Somerset Maugham is born in Paris, France.

1882 (+) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf is born in London, United Kingdom.

1904 (x) 179 Die in coal-mine explosion in Cheswick, United Kingdom.

1913 (+) Composer Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland.

1917 (+) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine is born in Moscow, Russia.

1923 (+) Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), is born in Dodge Center, Minnesota, USA.

1942 (x) Thailand declares war to the USA and United Kingdom .

1943 (-) Actor Spencer Charters commits suicide by coal-monoxide poisoning combined with sleeping tablets at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1943 (+) Filmmaker Tobe Hooper known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, is born in Austin, Texas, USA.

1944 (+) Model, actress and fashion designer Anita Pallenberg is born in Rome, Italy.

1947 (-) Gangster Al Alphonse Capone dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 48 in Palm Island, Florida, USA.

1950 (+) Child murderer Melvin Wayne White is born in Texas, USA.

1965 (-) Persian prime minister Ali Mansoer dies due to injuries suffered in an assault on January 21st in Iran.

1973 (-) James Ralph, 21-year-old Joan, 9-year-old David Hughes, 4-year-old Damon Francis Gianera are shot dead by Herbert Mullin in Santa Cruz West Side, Happy Valley, California, USA.

1975 (x) Over 100 Die in Passenger Ferry shipwreck in Dacca, India.

1979 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 76 in Hutton-Le-Hole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1983 (x) 69-year-old Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is arrested and expelled to France in La Paz, Bolivia.

1984 (x) 508 Die in oil-pipeline explosion in Cubato, Brazil.

1985 (-) General René Audran is shot dead by Action Directe in Paris, France.

1990 (-) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

1996 (-) Double murderer Billy Bailey is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.
He was the last man to be hanged in the USA. For his last meal he had a well-done steak, a baked potato with sour cream and butter, buttered rolls, peas and vanilla ice cream.

2000 (-) Murderer Glen Charles McGinnis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer Troy Albert Kunkle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (x) 258 Die in Mandher Devi temple stampede in Mandhradevi, India.

2006 (-) Triple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Pornographic actress Anna Malle originally Hotop, dies in a car crash, not wearing a seat belt at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

2010 (-) War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is executed by hanging at the age of 68 in Iraq.

24 January 1989 - Ted Theodore Robert Bundy is Executed

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41 (-) Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is assassinated by his Praetorian Guards at the age of 28 in Rome, Italy.

76 (+) Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus is born in Rome, Italy.

1705 (+) Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, is born in Andria, Italy.

1846 (-) Murderess Elisabeth Van Valkenburgh is executed by hanging in Fulton, New York, USA.

1920 (-) Artist Amadeo Clemente Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 35 in Paris, France.

1921 (-) Eventual Murderer Morris Stein aka Stinie Morrison, dies of hungerstriking in claiming his innocence in a murder trial in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

1940 (+) Performance artist Vito Acconci is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1943 (+) Actress Sharon Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1944 (+) Countertenor Klaus Nomi originally Klaus Sperber, is born in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

1948 (-) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Kraków, Poland.

1949 (+) Actor John Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1952 (+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Siegfried Hausner is born in Selb, Germany.

1961 (+) Actress Natassja Kinski is born in Berlin, Germany.

1961 (x) A B-52 Stratofortress bomber carrying two 24-megaton H-bombs breaks up in mid-air in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA.
One weapon nearly detonates; its uranium core is still lost.

1965 (-) Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.

1966 (+) Seventeenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Joseph Bradehoft is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1966 (x) 117 Die in Air India Boeing 707 crash in Mont Blanc region, France.

1978 (-) Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser dies at the age of 66 in Linz am Rhein, Germany.

1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.

1985 (x) 70-year-old Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is released from prison in Italy.

1986 (-) Founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Lafayette Ronald Hubbard dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA.

1989 (-) Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 42 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.

1989 (x) Raphael’s ‘La Madonna di Foligno’ is attacked with a fire-bomb by an unidentified wheelchair-patient in Rome, Vatican Museum, Italy.

1991 (-) Pascale Escarfail is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.

1992 (-) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Arkansas, USA.
It took medical staff more than 50 minutes to find a suitable vein in Rector's arm. Witnesses were not permitted to view this scene, but reported hearing Rector's loud moans throughout the process. During the ordeal, Rector (who suffered serious brain damage from a lobotomy) tried to help the medical personal find a vein.

1995 (-) Murderer Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He is one of only a few white criminals to have been executed for murdering a black victim.

1995 (-) Murderer Clifton Russell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer Billy George Jr. Hughes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

23 January 1931 - Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova Dies

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1783 (+) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, is born in Grenoble, France.

1803 (-) Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness dies at the age of 77 in Beaumont, Kildare, Ireland.

1832 (+) Artist Edouard Manet is born in Paris, 5 Rue des Petits-Augustins, France.

1898 (+) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein is born in Riga, Latvia, Russia.

1912 (x) Blacks Belle Hathaway, John Moore, Eugene Hamming and Dusty Cruthfield are lynched by hanging and riddled with gunfire by some 100 white men in Hamilton, Georgia, USA.

1923 (x) The furniture, including the stove, of 53-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sold at a public auction in Versailles, France.

1928 (+) Actress Jeanne Moreau is born in Paris, France.

1931 (-) Ballerina Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova known for The Dying Swan, dies of pleurisy at the age of 48 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

1932 (+) Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.

1944 (-) Artist Edvard Munch dies at the age of 80 in Ekerly, Norway.

1947 (-) Artist Pierre Bonnard dies at the age of 80 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

1948 (-) Murderer Wardell H. Henderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

1969 (-) Therèse Adam is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 49 in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue de Frères Péraux, France.

1973 (-) Alexandros Onassis dies in a plane-crash at the age of 24 in Athens, Ellinikon International Airport, Greece.

1975 (x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Department of Defense offices in Oakland, California, USA.

1976 (-) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin dies of natural causes at the age of 44 in the USSR.

1978 (-) Theresa Wallin is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 22 in Sacramento, Tioga Way 2630, California, USA.

1986 (-) Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys dies of heart-failure at the age of 64 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1989 (x) Over 150 Die in Sol de Oro goldmine explosion in Ica, Peru.

1989 (-) Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.

1997 (-) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request was a cheeseburger, fries and coffee with milk. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine," were his last words.

1997 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper, is found guilty of raping and murdering three prostitutes and cutting them up with a chain saw in Athens, Greece.
He is sentenced to 13 life sentences.

2002 (-) Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu dies at the age of 71 in Paris, France.

2004 (-) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in West Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Chateau Marmont, California, USA.

2005 (-) TV-host Johnny Carson dies of emphysema at the age of 79 in Malibu, California, USA.

22 January 1987 - Budd Dwyer Commits Suicide

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1849 (+) Writer August Johann Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1869 (+) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russia.

1875 (+) Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, USA.

1879 (+) Artist Francis Picabia is born in Feydieu, Gironde, France.

1892 (+) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault is born in Paris, France.

1901 (-) Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 81 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Her death marks the end of the Victorian Age.

1922 (-) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.

1925 (-) Murderer Nichol Ferranti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1930 (-) Nora Lake dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 42 in Kerhonkson, New York, USA.

1931 (+) Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is born in Anolaima, Colombia.

1931 (+) Musician Sam Cooke is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.

1934 (+) Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1936 (+) Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is born in Haynau, Silesia, Germany.

1937 (+) Writer Joseph Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1940 (+) Actor John Hurt is born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.

1940 (+) Shirelle Addie ‘Micki’ Harris is born in Passiac, New Jersey, USA.

1946 (+) Impresario and band manager Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren is born in London, Stoke Newington, United Kingdom.

1957 (x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.
He was charged with planting over 30 bombs.

1960 (x) The first atomic bomb-test by France.

1960 (+) INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1963 (-) Notorious bandit and murderer Teofilo Rojas aka Sparks, dies in mysterious circumstances.
He was credited with 592 up to 3500 murders.

1969 (x) USSR-astronauts Sjalatov, Jelisejev, Kroenov and Volynov, who have just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are attacked by an unidentified young man during an official parade in Moscow, Russia.

1973 (-) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

1973 (x) 176 pilgrims Die in Boeing 707 crash in Kano Airport, Nigeria.

1980 (x) 58-year-old Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is arrested by the KGB and expelled to Gorki in Russia.

1983 (x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald and Dherran Fitzgerald are arrested in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.

1987 (-) Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol in front of cameras at a news conference at the age of 47 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback.

1994 (-) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas dies of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Universal City, California, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Robert Andrew Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2008 (-) Actor Heath Andrew Ledger dies of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 28 in New York City, New York, USA.

21 January 1938 - Georges Meliès Dies

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1793 (-) King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Paris, France.

1842 (+) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer is born in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

1855 (+) Inventor and designer John Moses Browning is born in Ogden, Utah, USA.

1896 (+) Younger sister of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, Paula Hitler is born in Hafeld, Austria.

1899 (+) General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is born in Randalstown, Ireland.

1905 (+) Fashion designer Christian Dior is born in Granville, France.

1921 (+) Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh is born in East Camden, New Jersey, USA.

1922 (+) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas is born in Garden City, New York, USA.

1924 (-) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin dies of sclerosis of the cerebral arteries at the age of 53 in Gorky, Russia.

1925 (+) Actor Benny Hill is born in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

1931 (-) Film star Alma Rubens commits suicide by a drug-overdose after being arrested for smuggling drugs in Hollywood, California, USA.

1938 (+) Disc Jockey Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1938 (-) Film pioneer Georges Meliès dies at the age of 76 in Paris, France.

1941 (+) Musician Plàcido Domingo is born in Madrid, Spain.

1944 (+) Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, is born in Oscoda, Michigan, USA.

1950 (-) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.

1950 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Silke Maier-Witt is born in Nagold, Germany.

1952 (+) Multiple Murderer Raymond Lee Stewart is born in Burlington, North Carolina, USA.

1953 (+) Triple murderer Pierre Dale Selby aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is born in Trinidad.

1959 (-) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1960 (x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Coalbrook, South Africa.
Many were trapped underground due to a cave-in.

1961 (-) Writer Blaise Cendrars originally Frédéric Louis Sauser, dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Paris, France.

1963 (x) 37-year-old Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany is sentenced to life-imprisonment for soaking his wife in nitric acid in San José, California, USA.

1965 (-) Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 27 in Antwerpen, Gloriantlaan, Antwerp, Belgium.

1968 (x) A US B52-bomber with 4 nuclear bombs aboard crashes in Thule, Greenland.

1978 (-) Yvonne Pearson is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 22 in the United Kingdom.

1980 (x) Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.

1985 (x) 71 Die in L118 Elektra crash in Reno, USA.

1997 (-) Elvis Impresario Tom Thomas Andrew Parker originally Andreas Cornelis ‘Dries’ van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

1998 (-) Double Murderer Jose Jesus Ceja is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
His last meal request were two chili beef burritos, two cans of Coke Classic and a slice of cherry pie.

1998 (-) Murderer Lloyd Wayne Hampton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.

2000 (-) Multiple murderer Larry Keith Robison is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, dies of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81 in Bel Air, California, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Kevin Lee Zimmerman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

20 January 1984 - Johnny Johann Peter Weismuller Dies

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1774 (-) Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of an accident at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.

1775 (+) Physicist André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, St. Nizier, France.

1896 (+) Comedian and actor George Burns is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1910 (+) Writer and naturalist Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria.

1913 (-) Axe-murderer John Schild is executed by hanging in Berks City, Pennsylvania, USA.

1920 (+) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy.

1930 (+) Astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.

1936 (-) King of England George V originally George Frederick Ernest Albert, dies of a cold at the age of 70 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
Physician Lord Dawson of Penn, hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine.

1939 (-) Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in Salem State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
It was the first execution in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.

1946 (+) Filmmaker David Keith Lynch is born in Missoula, Montana, USA.

1959 (+) Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1960 (x) 51-year-old Richard Bugdalle aka The Bully of Sachsenhausen, is convicted to 16 terms of life imprisonment in München, Germany.

1965 (-) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

1968 (x) 34-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.

1969 (+) Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is born in Kaposvar, Hungary.

1975 (-) Emily Jackson is hammered and stabbed 52 times with a Phillips screwdriver by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 42 in Leeds, Manor Street, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1982 (x) Officially 66 (but rumoured 340) Die in soccer riot during the game Spartak Moscow-Haarlem in Russia.

1984 (-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller originally Johann Peter Weißmüller aka Tarzan, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 79 in Acapulco, in a mental hospital, Mexico.

1985 (x) An unidentified member of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.

1987 (-) Murderer Ramon Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is arrested on a charge of burglary in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

1992 (x) 87 Die in Air Inter Light 148 Airbus A-300 crash in Strasbourg, France.

1993 (-) Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, dies of appendiceal cancer at the age of 63 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.

1997 (-) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.

1999 (-) Double Murderer Mark Arlo Sheppard is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer David Hicks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

19 January 1998 - Carl Lee Perkins Dies

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1809 (+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1839 (+) Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, France.

1866 (-) Murderess Martha Grinder aka The American Borgia, is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1866 (-) Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

1870 (-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Paris, Roquette Prison, France.

1879 (+) Writer and revolutionary terrorist Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkov, Russia.

1916 (+) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin is born in London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

1921 (+) Writer Patricia Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

1922 (+) Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwozdziec, Poland.

1933 (-) Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1935 (+) Actress Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA.

1938 (+) Musician Phil Philip Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1943 (+) Musician Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.

1946 (+) Singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Rebecca Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.

1947 (x) 392 Die in Himera Ocean liner hitting a forgotten WWII mine in Athens, Greece.

1954 (+) Photographer Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.

1958 (-) Marion Bartlett is shot, stabbed and choked to death by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 57 in Lincoln, 924 Belmont Avenue, Nebraska, USA.

1962 (x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1970 (-) Régis Tall commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 17 in Lille, Lycée Gaston Berger, France.

1970 (-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 18 in Lille, Lycée Faidherbe, France.

1973 (+) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, is born in Lyon, France.

1981 (-) Mass Murderer Alvin King commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Dangerfield, town jail, Texas, USA.
He used strips torn from his towel to make the hanging rope.

1981 (-) Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a window at the age of 22 in New York, New York, USA.

1982 (-) Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77 in Jerusalem, Israël.

1998 (-) Musician Carl Lee Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.
He suffered 3 heart-attacks in less than 2 months.

2006 (-) Musician Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.

2007 (-) Singer-songwiter Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty dies at the age of 66 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
He was a founding member of the 'Mamas and the Papas'.

18 January 2010 - Kate McGarrigle Dies

2012-01-18T06:10:00.001+01:00

1574 (-) Hermit and cannibalistic murderer Gilles Garnier aka The Werewolf of Dole, is executed by burning at the stake in Dole, France.
He stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12.

1803 (-) Wife- and child-murderer George Forster is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
Shortly after the execution his body was taken to a nearby house where it was used in an experiment by Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini. "On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion."

1878 (x) 32-year-old Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, marries 31-year-old Louisa Bicknese in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1890 (-) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I dies at the age of 44 in Aosta, Italy.

1892 (+) Actor Oliver Norvell Hardy is born in Harlem, Georgia, USA.

1904 (+) Actor Cary Grant is born in Bristol, Horfield, 15 Hughenden Road, United Kingdom.

1909 (-) Charlie Von Dahmer is shot dead by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Juneau, Alaska, USA.

1913 (+) Actor and comedian Danny Kaye is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Philosopher Gilles Deleuze is born in Paris, France.

1929 (x) 4 policemen are killed by 33-year-old Anarchist and Mass Cop Killer IJe Wijkstra in Groningen, Doezum, the Netherlands.

1932 (+) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Edward Wilson is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.

1936 (-) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at the age of 70 in London, United Kingdom.

1946 (-) Murderer Joseph Wessel is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.

1952 (+) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is born in Gopinatham, Karnataka, India.

1955 (+) Actor Kevin Costner is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1973 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment for 25 counts of first degree murder in Fairfield, California, USA.

1977 (x) 90 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Sydney, Australia.

1981 (-) Shari Hull is shot dead after being sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 20 in Salem, TransAmerica Title Building, Oregon, USA.

1982 (x) 4 US stunt-pilots crash with their Thunderbird Jets in the Nevada Desert, USA.

1984 (+) Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, is born in Seoul, South Korea.

1987 (-) Jacquelin Askins is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, at the age of 18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
She survived.

2000 (-) Murderer Spencer Cory Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He kidnapped and brutally killed Cecile Ham, wife of Bill Ham, manager and image-maker of ZZ Top in 1991.

2001 (-) Murderer Alvin Uriah III Goodwin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2010 (x) 92 Die in TAME Flight 120 Boeing 727-100 crash in the Andes, Colombia.

2010 (x) 52-year-old Attacker of Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca is released from prison for the murder of journalist Abdi Ipecki in 1979 in Turkey.
He spent 29 years behind bars, 19 in Italy and 10 in Turkey.

2010 (-) Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle known for “Complainte pour Ste Catherine”, dies of clear cell sarcoma at the age of 63 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

17 January 1977 - Gary Mark Gilmore is Executed

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1504 (+) 225th Pope St. Pius V originally Michele Ghisleri, is born in Bosco, Italy.

1528 (+) Queen of Navarra Jeanne d’Albret is born in Paris, France.

1706 (+) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, USA.

1751 (-) Composer Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni dies of diabetes at the age of 79 in Venezia, Italy.

1874 (-) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke due to pneumonia, and the other one of fear, at the age of 62 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and lifted right testicle.

1893 (-) 19th president of the USA Rutherford Birchard Hayes dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Fremont, Ohio, USA.

1894 (x) 33-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Georgiana Yoke as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, USA.

1897 (+) Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is born in Auxerre, 100 Rue de Paris, Yonne, France.

1899 (+) Gangster Al Alphonse Capone is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1899 (+) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1919 (x) 460 Die in Chaonia Steamer shipwreck in the Strait of Messina.

1928 (+) Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is born in London, United Kingdom.

1933 (+) Singer and actress Dalida is born in Caïro, Egypt.

1942 (+) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammed Ali is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

1943 (+) Symbionese Liberation Army member Wendy Masako Yoshimura is born in Manzanar Internment Camp for Japanese Americans , California, USA.

1944 (+) Singer and actress Françoise Madeleine Hardy is born in Paris 9th, France.

1947 (-) Margot M. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 20 in Niedersachsen, Germany.

1950 (x) 11 Thieves steal $1.218.211,29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities from the Brinks Building Offices in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Although all of the gangsters were captured and put on trial only 58.000 Dollars were ever recovered. The rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

1956 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is committed to DeWitt State Hospital, diagnosed with schizophrenia and paranoia in Auburn, California, USA.
During his treatment he received 23 electroshocks in three months time.

1961 (-) Patrice Lumumba is assasinated while imprisoned by Joseph Kasavubu at the age of 35 in Katanga, Belgian Congo.

1966 (x) A US-bomber with 4 Hydrogen-bombs aboard crashes into the sea in Palomares, Spain.

1975 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1977 (-) Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.
He gained international notoriety for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled. His ashes were scattered from an airplane over Spanish Fork, Utah.

1978 (x) 25-year-old Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is stabbed by a white inmate in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1981 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry capsizing in Meghna, Bangladesh.

1988 (x) 108 Die in CAAC Iljoeshin-18 crash in Chongquing, China.

1989 (-) Mass Murderer Patrick Edward Purdy aka The S.A.T.A.N. Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 5 and wounding over 30 children at the age of 24 in Stockton, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.
All of the fatally shot victims and many of the wounded were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants.

1995 (-) Double Murderer Mario Marquez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies of multiple strokes two days before at the age of 85 in Beijing, China.
He spent nearly 16 years under house arrest after he opposed a military intervention to end the student-led protest at Tienanmen Square.

2006 (-) Multiple Murderer Clarence Ray Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 76 in San Quentin State Prison, California, USA.
His last meal consisted of Buffalo steak and frybread as well as a bucket of KFC white-meat-only chicken, sugar-free pecan pie, sugar-free walnut ice cream and whole milk. The ice-cream was left out to thaw for one hour, which he turned into a milkshake by hand.

2007 (-) Cop Killer Johnathan Moore is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2010 (x) 68-year-old War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the fourth time in Iraq.

2010 (-) Actor Erich Wolf Segal dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in London, United Kingdom.

16 January 1969 - Jan Palach Commits Suicide

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1864 (x) 18-year-old Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, marries John Nichols in London, United Kingdom.

1907 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery in Brieg Penitentiary, Germany.

1930 (+) Multiple Murderer Clarence Ray Allen is born in Blair, Oklahoma, USA.

1933 (+) Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1935 (-) Gangster Kate “Ma” Barker originally Arizona Clark, is shot dead by FBI agents at the age of 61 in Ocala, Florida, USA.
Her son Fred was also shot dead.

1936 (-) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 65 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The first blow short-circuited because of a number of needles Fish had inserted in his scrotum during his lifetime. He was the oldest man ever to be executed in Sing Sing.

1943 (+) Artist Heinz Cibulka is born in Wien, Austria.

1944 (x) Over 500 Die in trainwreck in a tunnel in Leon, Spain.

1947 (+) Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah now known as Sara Jane Olson, is born in Barnesville, Minnesota, USA.

1948 (+) Filmmaker John Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Composer Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 89 in New York, New York, USA.

1960 (-) Murderer Homer Buckley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Reidsville Prison, Georgia, USA.

1961 (+) Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner is born in Utah, USA.

1965 (-) Anna Kalinka is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 16 in Warsaw, Praga, Poland.

1969 (-) Revolutionary student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 20 in Prague, Wenceslas Square, Czechoslowakia.

1969 (x) USSR spacecrafts Soyoez 4 and Soyoez 5 are linked in Space.

1970 (-) Jean Way is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 23 in Montreal, Canada.

1978 (-) Child-killer and would-be mass-murderer Ronald Frank Cooper is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in South Africa.

1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Das Berchtesgaden Diner" in Aalst, Fabrieksken, East Flanders, Belgium.

1985 (-) Multiple Murderer Doyle Skillern is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1988 (-) James Doxtator is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in West Allis, South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Jermarr Carlos Arnold is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf August Oetker dies of pneumonia at the age of 90 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

15 January 1981 - Meyer Lansky originally Majer Suchowlinski Dies

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1622 (+) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière is born in Paris, France.

1906 (+) Billionaire Aristoteles Sokratis Onassis is born in Smyrna, Turkey.

1918 (-) Wife-murderer Frederick Small is executed by hanging in Concord State Prison, New Hampshire, USA.

1918 (+) President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

1919 (-) Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back of the head by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.

1919 (-) Rosa Luxemburg is shot in the back of the head and thrown in the Landwehr Canal by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.
Her body was only found on 1 june 1919.

1924 (-) Heinrich Koch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 20 in Hannover, Germany.

1929 (+) Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1932 (-) Murderer Guy Fairley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Mississippi, USA.

1941 (+) Musician and artist Don Donald Glen Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, is born in Glendale, California, USA.

1945 (-) Murderer Henry W. M. Merton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in Oregon, USA.

1945 (-) Murderer Walter Higgins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 32 in Oregon, USA.

1947 (-) Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is found severely tortured, murdered, drained of all her blood and cut to pieces by persons unknown at the age of 22 in Los Angeles, Leimert Park, California, USA.

1951 (x) 44-year-old KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.

1953 (+) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is born in California, USA.

1971 (x) 30-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci starts his performance series "Seedbed" at Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York, USA.

1978 (-) Lisa Levy is clubbed to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 20 in Tallahassee, Chi Omega Sorority House and nearby apartments, Florida, USA.
21-year-old Karen Chandler, Kathy Kleiner and Cheryl Thomas are severely battered but survived.

1981 (-) Gangster Meyer Lansky originally Majer Suchowlinski, dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

1985 (x) Thirteenth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, Nato Cultural Centre, Brabant, Belgium.

1986 (-) Yvonne Schaible is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 4th, 20 rue Censier, France.

1989 (x) Over 150 Die in 2-train collision in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
They crashed head-on into each other.

2001 (x) Wikipedia goes online.

2003 (-) Murderer John Richard Baltazar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 January 1977 - Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell Dies

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1742 (-) Astrologist Edmund Halley dies at the age of 85 in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

1875 (+) Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kayserberg, Germany.

1898 (-) Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1908 (-) Murderess Marie Girodin Wilkinson St-Léger Gould is executed by the Guillotine in Monaco.

1909 (+) Filmmaker Joseph Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1920 (-) Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 55 in New York City, New York, USA.

1921 (-) Murderer Pedro Dominguez is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1925 (+) Writer Yukio Mishima is born in Tokio, Japan.

1925 (-) Murderer Ben Burchfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.

1933 (+) Experimental film-maker Stan James Stanley Brakhage originally Robert Sanders, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
He was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth.

1936 (-) Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.

1938 (-) Murderer Elvin Jack Odom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1941 (+) Actress Faye Dunaway is born in Bascom, Florida, USA.

1944 (+) Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Germany.

1945 (+) Musician Neil Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1946 (+) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Frederick Shipman is born in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

1951 (x) National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 22-year-old Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook in the USA.

1957 (-) Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 57 in Holmby Hills, 232 Mapleton Drive, California, USA.
At the time of his death he only weighed 36kgs.

1961 (x) Serial Killer Peter Hoessl aka Der Wochenendmörder, is arrested and charged with 5 murders in 5 years in München, Germany.

1969 (-) Michèle Louvet is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, France.
She survived.

1972 (-) King of Denmark Frederick the 9th dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Denmark.

1975 (-) Louise Greenberg is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Margate, New Jersey, USA.
He is accompanied by his son Michael.

1977 (-) Erotic writer Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, dies at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1986 (-) Paris-Dakar rally-organiser Thierry Sabine dies in an Ecureuil helicopter-crash at the age of 36 in Mali.
Also killed were the singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, journalist Nathalie Odent and Jean-Paul Lefur.

1990 (-) Andrej Krawtschenko is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Schachty cemetary, Russia.

1999 (-) Dramatist Jerzy Grotowski dies of cancer at the age of 65 in Pontadera, Tuscany, Italy.

2003 (-) Multiple murderer Samuel Clark Gallamore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Lewis Williams is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Kenneth Eugene Bruce is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Actress Darlene Conley aka Sally Spectra, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

13 January 1941 - James Augustine Aloysius Joyce Dies

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1830 (x) Start of the Great Fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1866 (+) Occult Teacher George Ivanowitsch Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Leniniakin, Russia.
The exact date of his birth remains unknown (conjectures range from 1866 to 1877).

1908 (x) 171 Die in Rhodes Opera House cinema fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, USA.

1909 (+) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1919 (+) Actor Robert Langford Modini Stack is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1922 (-) Murderer Ricardo Lauterio is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1922 (-) Murderer Thomas Roman is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1928 (-) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Winnipeg, Canada.

1928 (-) Murderer Garfield Fuller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1941 (-) Writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 58 in Zurich, Switzerland.

1941 (-) Lotte Marlow is assaulted by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 25 in Berlin, Germany.
She survived.

1943 (-) Allen M. Small dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 52 in Deer Island, Maine, USA.

1944 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is released from prison by the French Gestapo in Fresnes, France.

1946 (+) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1958 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1968 (x) 35-year-old Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, plays live in Folsom State Prison, California, USA.

1975 (-) Lesley Whittle is kidnapped and killed by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, at the age of 17 in Highley, Shropshire, United Kingdom.

1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Happy Star/Nominette" in Aalst, Fabrieksken, East Flanders, Belgium.

1981 (x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

1982 (x) 78 Die in Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 crash into the icy Potomac River in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1984 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for one murder in Seminole County Courthouse, Florida, USA.
It’s his eighth life-sentence, and the first time ever that somebody is sentenced for the murder of an unidentified person.

1985 (x) 418 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Awash, Ethiopia.
It was the worst train disaster in Africa.

1986 (-) Françoise Vendome is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 12th, 68 rue de Charenton, France.

1991 (x) 40 Die in soccer riot in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1992 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1995 (-) Malaysian drug trafficker Chan Ting Chong aka Steven, is executed by the Firing Squad in Indonesia.
He was the first person known to have been executed for drug-related offences in Indonesia.

1999 (-) Murderer Jess James Gillies is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1999 (-) Cop Killer Troy Dale Farris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is executed at the age of 37 in Missouri, USA.

2002 (-) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Frederick Shipman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 56 in Wakefield, Her Majesty's Prison, United Kingdom.

12 January 1976 - Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie Dies

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1860 (-) Murderer Patrick Maude is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.

1876 (+) Writer Jack London is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1891 (+) Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond is born in London, United Kingdom.

1893 (+) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is born in Mariënbad-sanatorium, Rosenheim, Germany.

1918 (+) Spiritual Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is born in Raipur, India.

1926 (x) Start of the second trial against 24-year-old Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans in Hannover, Schwurgericht, Germany.

1928 (-) Murderess Ruth Brown Snyder aka The Granite Woman, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
The final moments of her execution were caught on film with the aid of a miniature one time use camera strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer.

1928 (-) Murderer Judd Henry Gray aka Lover Boy, is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1942 (+) Weather Underground Leader Bernardine Rae Dohrn originally Ohmstein, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1944 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Inge Viett is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1949 (-) Murderess Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, dies at the age of 42 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
She killed an elderly widow “in one of my funny moods”.

1950 (x) 64 Die in Truculent submarine collision with the Swedish tanker Davina in the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom.

1950 (+) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is born in Arkansas, USA.

1953 (-) Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.

1960 (-) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

1960 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, stabbs his mother Viola to death in Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.

1961 (x) 37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife in New York, New York, USA.

1975 (-) Caryn Campbell is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA.

1976 (-) Writer Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie dies at the age of 85 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

1983 (-) Cult-leader Lindbergh Sanders is shot dead with 6 other members in a 30-hour gun-fight with the police at the age of 49 in Memphis, Shannon Street, Tennessee, USA.
The day before Sanders had taken police officer Robert S. Hester hostage. During the shootout Hester was beaten to death.

1986 (-) Marjem Jurblum is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 81 in Paris 11th, 7 rue Pelée, France.

1988 (x) Start of the trial against 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

2000 (-) Double murderer Earl Carl Jr. Heiselbetz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

11 January 2005 - Thelma White Dies

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1872 (+) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1923 (x) French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr-area up to Bochum as a repercussion for damages suffered during WWI in Germany.

1928 (-) Writer Thomas Hardy dies of a cold-inflammation at the age of 87 in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.

1935 (x) 37-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo from Hawaï to California in the USA.

1936 (+) Artist Eva Hesse is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1938 (x) 31-year-old Writer Samuel Beckett is stabbed and wounded by a pimp in Paris, France.

1941 (+) Artist Barry Flanagan is born in Prestatyn, Wales, United Kingdom.

1950 (x) Start of the trial against 25-year-old Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, who was charged with the murder of his wife and baby daughter, who were actually killed by John Christie, in London, Old Bailey N°1 Court, United Kingdom.

1953 (x) First Bomb explosion by 49-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York’s Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, USA.

1955 (-) Murderer Eugene Monahan is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.

1957 (-) Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Colorado, USA.

1957 (-) Murderer Otto Austin Loel is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.

1959 (-) Carrol Jackson is killed and raped by Melvin Rees aka The Sex Beast, in Apple Grove, Virginia, USA.
He also forced her husband and two children in the trunk of a car, and killed them later.

1966 (-) Artist Alberto Giacometti dies at the age of 64 in Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland.

1968 (-) Composer Reszoe Seress aka Rudi, originally Spitzer, commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 78 in Budapest, Hungary.
His song 'Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)' sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933.

1979 (-) Diane Wilder is strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellington, Bayside Drive, Washington, USA.

1979 (x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 1" in Gent, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, East Flanders, Belgium.

1982 (x) Start of the trial against 42-year-old Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1983 (-) USSR-leader Nikolay Viktorovitsch Podgorny dies at the age of 79 in Moscow, Russia.

2005 (-) Actress Thelma White originally Thelma Wolpa aka Reefer Madness, dies of pneumonia at the age of 94 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, USA.
The last years of her life she spent solitary with her Mexican Hairless Dogs.

2007 (-) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Edward Wilson dies at the age of 75 in Capitola, California, USA.

2008 (-) Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary dies of heart failure at the age of 88 in Auckland, City Hospital, New Zealand.

10 January 2004 - Spalding Gray Commits Suicide

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1862 (-) Firearms inventor Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

1883 (x) 73 Die in Newall Hotel fire in Milwaukee, USA.

1888 (-) Wife-murderer Dr. Philip Cross aka The Coachford Poisoner, is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in Dublin, Ireland.

1912 (+) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is born in Münzkirchen, Austria.

1917 (+) Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is born in Arizona, USA.

1917 (-) Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, dies of kidney failure at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

1930 (-) Murderer Edward Ives is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Colorado, USA.

1934 (-) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Leipzig, Germany.

1943 (+) Singer-songwriter Jim James Joseph Croce is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1945 (+) Musician Rod Stewart is born in London, United Kingdom.

1949 (+) Heavyweight Boxing-champion George Foreman is born in Marshall, Texas, USA.

1949 (+) Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1956 (+) Son of Geraldine Yvonne Vinal and Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, Michael Lee is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1961 (-) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1963 (+) Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is born in Arkansas, USA.

1970 (-) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev dies of peritonitis at the age of 44 in Moscow, USSR.

1972 (-) John Szyc is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1976 (-) Françoise Lecron is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue Faidherbe, France.
She survived.

1976 (-) Blues music pioneer Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf, dies of complications of kidney disease at the age of 65 in Hines, Illinois, USA.

1983 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is attacked with a broken coffee-jar by murderer Jimmy Costelloe in F2 Hospital wing of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

1986 (-) Murderer James Terry Roach is executed by Old Sparky in South Carolina, USA.

1997 (-) Arsonist and murderer Billy W. Waldrop is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

1998 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Aida Nureddin Mohammed aka The Angel of Death, in Caïro, Egypt.

2004 (-) Actor, screenwriter and playwright Spalding Gray commits suicide by drowning at the age of 62 in East River, New York, USA.

2005 (x) 46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando is charged with spousal abuse of 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Five months later they divorced.

2007 (-) Murderer Carlos Granados is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

9 January 1979 - Piero Luigi Nervi Dies

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1324 (-) Explorer Marco Polo dies at the age of 69 in Venice, Italy.

1554 (+) 234th Pope Gregorius XV originally Alessandro Ludovisi, is born in Bologna, Italy.

1788 (x) Connecticut becomes the fifth of the United States in Connecticut, USA.

1836 (-) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 35 in Paris, France.

1890 (+) Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1900 (-) Child Murderess Louise Josephine Masset is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
She was convicted for murdering her young son Manfred in the ladies' lavatories at Dalston Junction station in 1899.

1908 (+) Feminist writer and philosopher Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand De Beauvoir is born in Paris, France.

1913 (+) 37th president of the USA Richard Mulhouse Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California, USA.
He was the only president to resign without completing an elected term.

1923 (-) Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson originally Graydon, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.
When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson.

1923 (-) Murderer Frederick Baywaters is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.
On 3 October 1922 he stabbed his lover Edith Thompson's husband Percy to death.

1925 (+) Actor Lee Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef is born in Somerville, New Jersey, USA.

1925 (-) Wife murderer Sam Flowers is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He killed his wife on 20 february 1923.

1941 (+) Songwriter, musician and activist Joan Chandos Baez is born in Staten Island, New York, USA.

1946 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel is born in Germany.

1950 (+) Musician Ralph Christian Möbius aka Rio Reiser, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1953 (-) Murderer Morris Leland is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in Oregon, USA.
In the summer of 1949 he abducted 15-year-old high school student Thelma Taylor and held her captive under St. John's Bridge in Portland.

1953 (-) Murderer Frank Oliver Payne is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in Oregon, USA.

1958 (-) Hitman Elmer Burke aka ‘Trigger’, is executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1958 (+) Attacker of Pope John Paul II Mehmet Ali Agca is born in Hekimhan, Turkey.

1969 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 7 1/2-year-old girl in her bed in La Rocque, Jersey.

1971 (x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier slashes open his arm and writes “Freedom From Pigs” on the wall of his cell in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

1972 (x) The ocean-liner Queen Elisabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong.

1979 (-) Engineer and inventor of concrete ceilings Piero Luigi Nervi dies at the age of 87 in Rome, Italy.

1984 (-) Natalja Schalopina is stabbed to death and mutilated by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.

1986 (-) Yvonne Couronne is tortured and strangled by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 14th, 8b rue Sarette, France.

1993 (x) 42-year-old Serial Killer William Bill Lester Lee Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is arrested after a routine traffic stop in California, USA.
He is suspected of 22 murders, mostly prostitutes.

1998 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, is sentenced to death in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer Jack Wade Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Raymond Dale Rowsey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
His final meal was a pizza, chicken wings, two packages of peanut M&M candy and a Pepsi.

8 January 1948 - Kurt Schwitters Dies

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1601 (+) Moralist, philosopher and Jesuit Baltasar Gracian y Morales is born in Belmonte de Calatayud, Aragon, Spain.

1642 (-) Scientist Galileo Galilei dies of fever and heart palpitations at the age of 77 in Arcetri, Tuscany, Italy.

1775 (-) Printer and typographer John Baskerville dies at the age of 68 in Easy Hill, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

1831 (+) Druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola John Stith Pemberton is born in Knoxville, Georgia, USA.

1896 (-) Writer Paul Marie Verlaine dies of a kidney and stomach-disease at the age of 51 in Paris, France.

1904 (+) Nazi-doctor Karl Brandt is born in Mulhouse, France.

1926 (-) Murderer William Lawrence is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1935 (+) Musician Elvis Aaron Presley aka The King, is born in East Tupelo, Missouri, USA.

1937 (+) Musician Shirley Bassey is born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

1937 (-) Murderer Frank Duarte is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1943 (-) Murderer Grady B. Cole is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1943 (-) Murderer J. C. Levice is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1943 (-) Murderer Charles Sanders is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 21 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1947 (+) Musician and actor David Bowie is born in London, United Kingdom.

1947 (+) Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is born in California, USA.

1948 (-) Artist Kurt Schwitters dies at the age of 60 in Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

1958 (+) Musician Marc Moreland is born in California, USA.
He was the founder of 'Wall of Voodoo'.

1962 (x) 92 Die in two-train-collision in Harmelen, the Netherlands.

1973 (-) Cynthia Schall is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Freedom, California, USA.
He hid the body and went back the next day to have sex with it and cut off the head.

1974 (-) Josette Routier is shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-sur-Oise, 19 rue du Docteur Roux, France.

1975 (-) Maria Fasching is stabbed to death by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 22 in Leonia, New Jersey, USA.

1989 (x) 47 Die in British Midland Flight 92 Boeing 737-400 crash onto the M1 motorway embankment in Kegworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

1996 (-) President of France François Mitterand dies at the age of 79 in Paris, France.

1996 (x) Over 350 Die in Antonov 32 cargo plane crash in Kinshasa Central Market, Zaïre.

7 January 1973 - Mark James Robert Essex Dies

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1502 (+) 226th Pope Gregorius XIII originally Ugo Buoncompagni, is born in Bologna, Italy.

1536 (-) First wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon dies of cancer at the age of 50 in Kimbolton Castle, United Kingdom.

1611 (x) Start of the trial against 50-year-old Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices for violating and killing over 650 girls and maidens in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslowakie. Her servants Ilona Nagy’s fingers are torn off with red hot pincers, Dorottya Szentes Szeoch and Janos Ficzko Ujvary are decapitated, drained of all their blood and thrown into the fire, while Bathory is sentenced to be walled in in her own castle. in Cachtice, Hungary.

1800 (+) 13th president of the USA Millard Fillmore is born in Summerhill, Cayuga County, New York, USA.

1896 (+) Serial Killer Joe Joseph D. Ball aka The Alligator Man aka the Butcher of Elmendorf aka the Bluebeard of South Texas, is born in Elmendorf, Texas, USA.

1898 (-) Murderer William Henry Theodore Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in San Quentin, California, USA.

1898 (-) Jack O’Neil is executed by hanging in Massachussets, USA.
He was the last man to be executed in Massachussets, a couple of months later another man confessed to the crime.

1925 (+) Serial Killer Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, is born in Mercatale, Italy.

1938 (+) Artist and writer Roland Topor is born in Paris, France.

1943 (-) Engineer Nikola Tesla aka The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century, dies of heart failure at the age of 86 in New York, New York, USA.

1946 (-) Suzanne Degnan is abducted and held for ransom, but quite soon murdered and cut to pieces by William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, at the age of 6 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1967 (-) Deranged deserter Richard James Paris hands his bride 14 sticks of dynamite and shoots into the package in the Las Vegas Orbit Inn, Nevada, USA.
His bride and 5 other honeymoon-ers also die in the explosion.

1967 (x) Over 100 Die in bus collision in Ternate, Cavine, Filippines.
It crashed into a ravine.

1972 (x) 104 Die in Iberia Caravelle crash in Ibiza, Spain.

1973 (-) Sniper Mark James Robert Essex is killed in a bullet spray at the age of 24 in New Orleans, Downtown Howard Johnson Motel, Louisiana, USA.
He confronted 11 hours of siege after killing 7, including a police officer. A week before he had already killed two cops.

1975 (-) Nancy Baird is abducted by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 21 in Framington, Utah, USA.
Her body will never be found.

1977 (-) Barbara Kiel is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 22 in Mainz, Germany.
She survived.

1988 (-) Murderer Robert Streetman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1989 (-) Emperor of Japan Akihito Hirohito dies of duodenal cancer at the age of 87 in Tokyo, Fukiage Palace, Japan.

1994 (-) Catherine Rocher is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.

1998 (x) 55-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, attempts to commit suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Montana, USA.

1999 (-) Double Murderer John Walter Castro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

6 January 1993 - Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev Dies

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1412 (+) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is born in Domrémy, Bar, France.
This is an educated guess, some scholars suggest that the actual birthdate is the 7th.

1540 (x) 48-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fourth wife Anne of Cleves in Greenwich, Palace of Placenta, United Kingdom.

1852 (-) Inventor Louis Braille dies of tuberculosis at the age of 43 in Paris, France.

1872 (+) Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin is born in Moscow, Russia.

1884 (-) Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel dies of chronic nephritis at the age of 61 in Brno, Czechoslowakia.

1912 (x) New Mexico becomes the 47th of the United States in the USA.

1919 (-) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.

1938 (+) Singer and actor Adriano Celentano is born in Milan, Italy.

1946 (+) Musician Syd Roger Keith Barrett is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

1950 (-) Double Murderer Daniel Raven is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.

1955 (+) Actor Rowan Sebastian Atkinson aka Mr. Bean, is born in Consett, Durham, United Kingdom.

1960 (x) 32-year-old Mass Murderer Julian Andrew Frank detonates a bomb on a National Airlines flight in Bolivia, North Carolina, USA.
He had taken a life insurance for almost one million dollars, payable to his wife, to take care of a money deal that went wrong. All other 33 on board were killed as well.

1965 (x) 30-year-old Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges performs a self-trepanation with a Black & Decker power drill, a surgical knife and a hypodermic syringe for local anesthetic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1967 (x) 84 Die in bus collision in Terpate, the Philippines.

1972 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is arrested in Siemanowice, Poland.

1975 (-) Mary Rudolph is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Dumont, New Jersey, USA.
His son Michael Kallinger also takes part in the attack.

1976 (-) Françoise Jakubowska is battered, shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 20 in Villers-Saint-Paul, France.

1982 (x) Over 100 Dolphins commit suicide by hitting the coast-line in Kioesjoe, Japan.

1982 (x) Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1986 (-) Andrée Ladam is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 14th, rue Baillou, France.

1989 (-) Murderer George C Mercer aka Tiny, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.
He was the first person to be executed after the re-installment of the death penalty in Missouri in 1971.

1993 (-) Choreographer Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev dies of AIDS at the age of 54 in Paris, France.

1993 (-) Musician Dizzy John Birks Gillespie dies of cancer at the age of 75 in New Jersey, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer John Glenn Moody is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Mentally deranged murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
He lived on Death Row longer than any Arkansas prisoner.

2004 (-) Murderer Ynobe Katron Matthews is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Musician Lou Allen Rawls dies of lung and brain cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, USA.

5 January 1998 - Sonny Bono Dies

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1854 (x) 300 Die in San Francisco steamer shipwreck in the USA.

1876 (+) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1895 (x) 35-year-old French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in Paris, France.
He was sent to Devil's Island off French Guiana.

1910 (-) Murderer Jose Lopez is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1914 (+) Artist Nicolas de Staël is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1914 (+) Actor George Bessolo Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, is born in Woolstock, Iowa, USA.

1924 (-) An unidentified boy is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1932 (+) First Lady Raisa Gorbachev originally Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko, is born in Siberia, USSR.

1933 (+) Serial Killer Nestor Pirotte is born in Sosoye, Belgium.

1933 (-) 30th president of the USA Calvin John Coolidge dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.

1942 (+) Murderer Henry John Burnett is born in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1945 (-) Murderer John Earnest Ransom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1945 (-) Murderer Robert E. Lee Folkes is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 20 in Oregon, USA.

1946 (+) Actress Diane Keaton is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.

1952 (-) Murderer James Lanmore is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.

1979 (-) Musician Charles Mingus dies of amyotropic lateral sclerosis at the age of 56 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

1982 (-) Tammy Williams is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 17 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, USA.

1990 (x) Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren and 7 of his followers are arrested on suspicion of ritual murder in Missouri, USA.

1993 (-) Child-rapist and murderer Westley Allan Dodd is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.

1998 (-) Musician and born-again politician Sonny Salvatore Phillip Bono known from Sonny & Cher, dies from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing at the age of 62 in South Lake Tahoe, California, USA.

2005 (-) Manager of ‘The Doors’ Daniel Danny Sugarman dies of lung cancer at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2007 (-) Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Ando dies of heart failure at the age of 96 in Osaka, Japan.

4 January 1960 - Albert Camus Dies

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1643 (+) Scientist Isaac Newton is born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.

1785 (+) Philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.

1809 (+) Inventor Louis Braille is born in Paris, France.

1838 (+) Dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb, is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1881 (+) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck is born in Duisburg, Germany.

1890 (+) Swindler who tried to sell the Eiffel Tower twice, Victor Lustig aka The Count, is born in Hostinne, Czechoslowakia.

1896 (+) Surrealist writer André Aimé René Masson is born in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France.

1924 (-) Murderer George Parker is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Oregon, USA.

1939 (-) Peter Seaton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, United Kingdom.

1941 (-) Olga is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 28 in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.

1958 (x) 38-year-old Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary reaches the SouthPole.

1960 (-) Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at the age of 46 in Petit-Villeblévin, Yonne, France.

1964 (-) Mary Sullivan is strangled and raped with a broomstick by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, 44a Charles Street, Massachussets, USA.

1965 (-) Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in London, United Kingdom.

1967 (-) Adolf Schickel commits suicide by drowning at the age of 27 in Wiesbaden, Main River, Germany.
He was falsely accused of killing his girlfriend, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter.

1974 (-) Sharon Clarke is sexually assaulted, but survived after several months in a coma, by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Seattle University District, Washington, USA.

1974 (-) Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India, dies at the age of 80 in Coimbatore, India.

1984 (x) The first test-tube birth resulting in triplets occurs in France.

1984 (-) Sigrid Poeltz is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, in Bremen, Germany.

1989 (-) Felicia Stephens is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, in Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

1995 (-) Murderer Jesse DeWayne is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1995 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Jesse D. Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1996 (-) Carmelina Russo is presumably abducted as first victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 46 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium.
Her remains were found cut to pieces 17 days later in Chateau L'Abbaye, France.

1999 (-) Serial Killer Donald Leroy Evans is stabbed to death by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack in Parchman State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer James Scott Porter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Nikki Bacharach commits suicide by suffocation using a plastic bag and helium at the age of 40 in Thousand Oaks, USA.
She was the daughter of songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson, and suffered from Aperger's Disorder.

2010 (-) Chess Grandmaster Bobby Robert James Fischer dies of degenerative renal failure at the age of 66 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

3 January 1923 - Hermann Göring Marries

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106bc (+) Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in Arpinum, Italy.

1431 (x) 19-year-old Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon in Beaulieu, France.

1496 (x) 43-year-old Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine in Italy.

1840 (+) Missionary Father Damiaan originally Jozef De Veuster, is born in Tremelo, Brabant, Belgium.

1892 (+) Writer John Reginald Reuel Tolkien aka The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

1916 (+) Murderess Toni Jo Henry originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

1920 (+) Attorney-General Siegfried Buback is born in Wilsdruff, Germany.

1923 (x) 29-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring marries Carin Freiin von Fock in Munich, Germany.

1949 (+) Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski, Sylvia Marie Likens is born in Lebanon, Indiana, USA.

1951 (+) Actor Mel Gibson aka Mad Max, is born in Peerskill, New York, USA.

1959 (x) Alaska becomes the 49th US state in Alaska, USA.

1962 (x) 35-year-old Revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in Rome, Italy.

1964 (+) Gay Zombie film-maker Bruce LaBruce originally Justin Stewart, is born in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.

1967 (-) Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby dies of a heart attack and bloodclot in his lungs at the age of 55 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1975 (-) Executioner of Breendonk-KZ Richard De Bodt dies at the age of 68 in Brussels, St. Gilles prison, Brabant, Belgium.

1979 (-) Hotel-magnate Conrad Nicholson Sr. Hilton dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1980 (-) Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is murdered by unidentified poachers at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Kenya.

1990 (x) 50-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, his prison cell is searched, several aviation maps and escape routes are found in Lemon Creek Prison, Juneau, Alaska, USA.

1990 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, is arrested in Salmon Creek, New York, USA.
He was masturbating in his car on a bridge over the creek in which the body of his latest victim was floating.

1994 (x) 120 Die in Bajkal Toepolev 154 crash in Irkoetsk, Siberia, Russia.

2004 (x) 148 Die in Flash Airlines Flight 604 Boeing 737 crash in the Red Sea.

2 January 2007 - Nicolas Cocaign Kills

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1557 (-) Artist Jacopo Pontormo originally Jacopo Carucci, dies at the age of 62 in Florence, Italy.

1892 (x) 41-year-old Writer Guy Henri René Albert De Maupassant tries to commit suicide by cutting his throat in Paris, France.

1896 (+) Filmmaker Dziga Vertov originally Denis Abelevich Kaufman aka The Man with a Movie Camera, is born in Bialystok, Grodno, Poland.

1915 (-) Automobile manufacterer Armand Peugeot dies at the age of 65 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.

1920 (+) SF-writer Isaac Asimov is born in Petrovichi, Belarus, Russia.

1937 (-) Actor Ross Alexander originally Ross Smith, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 29 in Encino, California, USA.
He used the same gun with which his wife killed herself when she found out about his homosexuality two years before.

1938 (+) Serial Killer Ian Stewart Brady aka The Moors Murderer, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1938 (+) Land Artist Robert Smithson is born in Passaic, New Jersey, USA.

1942 (-) Joachim Guschinow is killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.

1951 (x) 22-year-old Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook shoots 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser in Joplin, Missouri, USA.
They drove around at gunpoint for 2 days in the midwest.

1952 (+) Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man, is born in Glendale, California, USA.

1953 (-) Kathleen Maloney is strangled and raped by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.

1954 (x) During Italy’s first television-transmission 77-year-old 260th Pope Pius XII warns the Italian families for the dangers of television in family-life in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.

1955 (-) President of Panama José Antonio Remón Cantera is murdered at a race track by an unknown revolutionary commando at the age of 46 in Panama City, Panama.

1960 (-) Cycling legend Fausto Angelo Coppi aka Il Campionissimo, dies of malaria at the age of 40 in Tortona, Italy.

1968 (x) 58-year-old Dr. Philip Blaiberg becomes the second man to have a heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa.
He lived nineteen months with it.

1971 (-) Fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel dies at the age of 87 in Paris, France.

1971 (x) 66 Die in soccer tribune crash during the game Rangers-Celtic in Glasgow, Ibrox Park, United Kingdom.

1972 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He was picked up at the Greyhound terminal.

1979 (x) Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, in Santa Clara County, California, USA.

1981 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested with prostitute Olivia Reivers in Sheffield’s Red Light District, Melbourne Avenue, United Kingdom.

1992 (-) Maryann Holloman is strangled and cut to pieces by Joel Rifkin in Westbury, New York, USA.

2007 (x) 36-year-old Cannibal Nicolas Cocaign kills his 41-year-old cellmate Thierry Baudry, cut open his chest with a razorblade and ate part of his lung, which he thought to be his heart in Rouen, France.
A third convict, David Lagrue watched the act in stupefied terror and committed suicide in prison in November 2009.

1 January 1972 - Maurice Auguste Chevalier Dies

2012-01-01T04:59:00.008+01:00

1431 (+) 214th Pope Alexander VI is born in Valencia, Spain.

1504 (+) Theologian and church reformer Caspar Cruciger is born in Leipzig, Germany.

1521 (x) 37-year-old Reformer Martin Luther is banned from the church in a papal bull in Rome, Italy.

1655 (-) 236th Pope Innocentus X originally Giambattista Pamfili, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.

1735 (+) Patriot, silversmith and activist Paul Revere is born in Boston, North End, Massachusetts, USA.

1881 (+) King Vajiravudh of Siam Rama VI originally Phra Mongkutklao, is born in Bangkok, Thailand.

1895 (+) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1912 (x) 45-year-old Revolutionary Leader Yat-sen Sun aka Sun Zhongshan aka Sun Deming, calls out the Republic of China in China.

1919 (+) Writer Jerome David Salinger is born in New York, New York, USA.

1919 (+) Actress Carole Landis originally Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, is born in Fairchild, Wisconsin, USA.

1919 (+) Boxer Rocky Graziano originally Thomas Rocco Barbella, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1927 (+) Choreographer Maurice Béjart is born in Marseille, France.

1931 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, attempts to derail the Vienna-Passau Express D-train in Ansbach, Austria.

1940 (+) Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, is born in Richmond, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1946 (x) Eniac , the first American computer is finished by scientists John William Mauchly and John Prosper Eckert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1952 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion member Knut Detlef Folkerts is born in Singen, Germany.

1953 (-) Musician Hank Hiram King Williams dies of a drug overdose at the age of 29 in Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA.
The only items found in the backseat of Hank's car were a few cans of beer and the hand-written lyrics to an unrecorded song, 'Then Came that Fateful Day'.

1956 (+) Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Reynolds Hughes is born in California, USA.

1958 (-) Peter Smart is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 45 in Uddingston, Scotland, United Kingdom.
His wife Doris and their 10-year-old son Michael were also shot dead.

1971 (x) 90 Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin-18 crash in Moscow, USSR.

1971 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is treated for rectal bleeding in the Oregon State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.

1972 (-) Actor and musician Maurice Auguste Chevalier dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1978 (x) 213 Die in Air India Jumbo crash in Bombay, India.

1981 (x) Club Moral is founded by artists Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK and Danny Devos aka DDV in Antwerp, Belgium.

1987 (-) Deborah Dudley is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1995 (-) Serial Killer Frederick Walter Stephen West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 53 in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

31 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-31T05:01:00.000+01:00

A young actor in a street theatre play in a back alley of Chinatown/Pahurat in Bangkok, Thailand.

335 (-) 33rd Pope Sylvester I dies in Rome, Italy.

1378 (+) 209th Pope Callixtus III originally Alfons de Borja, is born in Valencia, Xativa, Spain.

1514 (+) Anatomist Andreas Vesalius is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1748 (+) Feminist Olympe de Gouges originally Marie Gouze, is born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.

1869 (+) Artist Henri Emile Benoit Matisse is born in Bohin-en-Vermandois, France.

1877 (-) Artist Gustave Courbet dies at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.

1886 (+) Artist and magician Austin Osman Spare is born in London, Snow Hill, United Kingdom.

1898 (-) Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France.

1908 (+) Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ukraïne, Russia.

1922 (x) The Goetheaneum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is destroyed by fire in Switzerland.

1937 (+) Actor Anthony Hopkins aka Hannibal Lecter, is born in Wales, United Kingdom.

1943 (+) Musician John Denver originally Henry John Deutschendorf, is born in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.

1943 (+) Actor Ben Kingsley originally Krishna Banji, is born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1948 (+) Musician Donna Summer originally LaDonna Gaines, is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1959 (+) Actor Val Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1960 (+) Spree Killer John Allan Muhammad originally John Allan Williams aka The Beltway Sniper, is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

1962 (-) Patricia Bisette is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 24 in Boston Back Bay, 515 Park Drive, Massachussets, USA.

1966 (-) Tuula Hoeoek is battered to death by Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, at the age of 21 in St. Clement, Jersey.

1967 (-) An unidentified woman is raped and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Bonheiden, Kasteel van Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.

1969 (-) United Mine Workers Union Leader Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock, is shot dead by three unidentified hitmen in his house at the age of 59 in Clarkesville, Pennsylvania, USA.
His wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by his son Kenneth.

1976 (x) 82 Die in Libyan airliner crash in Saudi Arabia.

1980 (-) Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan dies at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1982 (-) Toshimitsu Ozawa is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, United Kingdom.
He survived.

1984 (x) 37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train 10 days earlier in Concord, New Hampshire, USA.

1985 (-) Musician Eric Hilliard Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, dies in a plane crash at the age of 45 in De Kalb, Texas, USA.

1986 (x) 96 Die in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1993 (-) President Zviad Gamsachoerdia commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 54 in Georgia.

30 December 2006 - Berlin, Germany

2010-12-30T04:54:00.000+01:00

A blood and oil painting on canvas by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch at an exhibition in Berlin, Germany.

1591 (-) 230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, dies at the age of 72 in Rome, Italy.

1865 (+) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.

1903 (x) Over 600 Die in Iroquis Theatre fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1909 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Germany.

1910 (+) Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, USA.

1928 (+) Musician Bo Diddley originally Elias Otha Bates, is born in McComb, Mississippi, USA.

1932 (-) Multiple poisoness Daisy Louisa De Melker Originally Daisy Hancorn-Smith, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria, South Africa.
She presumably killed her husband and son. Two more husbands and four children had died suspiciously.

1934 (+) Singer-songwriter Del Shannon originally Charles Wedon Westover, is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

1937 (-) Child-Murderer Frederick Hodder aka Uncle Fred Hudson, is executed by hanging in Nottingham, Lincoln Prison, United Kingdom.

1941 (-) Artist El Ellasar Markowitsch Lissitsky dies at the age of 51 in Moscow, Russia.

1944 (x) 102 Die in train derailment in Mandalay, Myitkyina, Birma.

1946 (+) Musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1947 (-) Painter and forger Han Henricus Antonius Van Meegeren dies of heart-failure at the age of 58 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1956 (x) Art destructor Hugo Unjaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ in Paris, Le Louvre, France.

1959 (+) Actress Tracy Ullman is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

1968 (-) Marina Habe is is presumably stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 18 in Mulholland Drive, California, USA.

1970 (-) World-champion boxing Sonny Liston dies of a probable heroin overdose at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
He was found on 5 January 1971.

1974 (-) Arsonist Murderer Anthony F. Barbaro commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 18 in Olean, New York, USA.

1977 (-) Robert Donnelly is attacked by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 22 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
He survived.

1978 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, escapes from the city jail in Aspen, Colorado, USA.

1978 (-) An unidentified man is strangled and drowned by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, United Kingdom.

1987 (-) Mass Murderer Robert Dreesman commits suicide at the age of 41 in Algona, Iowa, USA.
He first killed his parents, his sister and her three children.

1995 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills a family of four with a hunting rifle and sets the house on fire in Ukraïne, Russia.

1996 (x) Over 300 Die in train explosion in India.
It was a terrorist bomb attack.

2004 (x) 194 Die in Republica Cromagnon nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".

2004 (-) Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 94 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.

2006 (-) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Baghdad, Iraq.

2009 (-) Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, commits suicide by blowing himself up at the age of 32 in Khost, Camp Chapman, Afghanistan.
Seven CIA agents who were organising a birthday party for him were blown to pieces as well.

29 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-29T04:49:00.000+01:00

My favourite array of late night foodstalls at the busstop in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

1610 (x) 50-year-old Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices are arrested in Cachtice, Hungary.

1721 (+) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, is born in Paris, France.

1800 (+) Engineer Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1808 (+) 17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

1825 (-) Artist Jacques-Louis David is hit by a carriage and dies of deformations to the heart at the age of 77 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1834 (-) Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Germany.

1865 (-) Murderer John Hundley is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

1876 (x) 92 Die in Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA.
The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The two designers of the bridge committed suicide.

1901 (-) Husband Murderess Emily Swan is executed by hanging in Leeds, Armley Gaol, United Kingdom.

1916 (-) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is killed by Prince Joesoepov at the age of 47 in Petrograd, Russia.

1921 (+) Founder of the Solar Lodge division of the Ordo Templis Orientis Georgina Jean Brayton is born in California, USA.

1923 (+) Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Ohio, USA.

1926 (-) Poet Rainer Maria Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Valmont, Switzerland.

1933 (+) Quaker Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.

1937 (+) Actress Mary Tyler Moore is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1938 (+) Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, USA.

1943 (x) 12-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1945 (x) Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1946 (+) Actress Marianne Faithfull is born in Hampstead, United Kingdom.

1957 (-) Judy Dull is is found skeletonised, abducted, assaulted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 20 in Thousand Palms, off US Highway 60, California, USA.

1969 (x) 56-year-old Muriel McKay is kidnapped by Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
She was never found again, probably fed to the Hosein pigs.

1972 (x) 98 Die in Eastern Airlines airliner crash in Miami, Florida, USA.

1973 (-) Cruz Mestas is is found tortured and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 24 in San Bernardino mountains, California, USA.

1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in Isleworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Ambrose Griffin is shot dead by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 52 in Sacramento, Robertson Avenue, California, USA.

1980 (-) Musician Tim Hardin dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1986 (-) Filmmaker Andrei Arseniewitsch Tarkovski dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, France.

1987 (x) Over 150 Die in ferry fire in Patvakhali, Bangladesh.

1997 (x) The government starts to kill all 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza in Hong Kong.

2001 (x) 274 Die in massive downtown fire in Lima, Peru.

2009 (-) British Drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.

28 December 2002 - Eernegem, Belgium

2010-12-28T04:42:00.000+01:00

My hasty self-patched-up leg after my performance "Parels voor de Zwijnen" at a pig farm in Eernegem, Belgium.

1811 (-) Multiple Murderer John Williams commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 27.

1841 (+) Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess, is born in Yngsjö, Sweden.

1846 (x) Iowa becomes the 29th United State of America in Iowa, USA.

1856 (+) 28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, USA.

1888 (+) Filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau is born in Bielefeld, Germany.

1890 (x) 175 Sioux are massacred in Wounded Knee, USA.

1924 (+) Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-by Murderer, Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Actress and musician Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Germany.

1926 (-) Germania Harpin is raped and strangled as eleventh victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 29 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
He also killed her 8-month-old child.

1931 (+) Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord is born in Paris, France.

1934 (x) X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in New York, Grasslands Hospital, New York, USA.

1936 (+) Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, is born in Paris, France.

1937 (-) Composer Maurice Joseph Ravel dies after brain surgery at the age of 62 in Paris, France.

1945 (-) Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser dies at the age of 74 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1963 (-) Composer Paul Hindemuth dies at the age of 68 in Frankfurt, Germany.

1972 (x) The presumed skeleton of Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is found in Berlin, Germany.

1979 (x) USSR military forces attack Afghanistan.

1979 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Interruption - 1" with Frank De Busscher in Antwerpen, Ruimte Z, Antwerp, Belgium.

1983 (-) Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowns after diving off a friend’s boat at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, Marina Del Rei, California, USA.

1984 (-) Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Inglewood, California, USA.

1984 (-) Murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 27 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.

1987 (x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, USA.

2001 (-) Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Florida, USA.

2004 (-) Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

27 December 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-12-27T04:38:00.000+01:00

Candles blown out by the wind after some party at our house in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1717 (+) 250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, is born in Cesena, Italy.

1822 (+) Scientist Louis Pasteur is born in Dole, France.

1845 (+) Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, is born in Guterslöh, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1901 (+) Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1923 (-) Architect and engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel dies at the age of 91 in Paris, Rue Rabelais, France.

1925 (-) Writer and lawyer Louis Dosfel dies at the age of 44 in Belgium.

1944 (x) Execution ‘en masse’ of the French Gestapo in Paris, France.

1948 (+) Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, France.

1950 (-) Artist Max Beckmann dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Isabelle Cooke is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 17 in Burntbroom, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1960 (+) Multiple Murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in the USA.

1965 (+) Serial Killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in St. Laurent de Maroni, Guyana.

1975 (x) Over 750 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

1983 (x) 63-year-old 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in the Rebiba Prison in Rome, Italy.

1983 (-) An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

1986 (-) Steven Fefferman is castrated and stabbed to death by Ricky Green at the age of 29 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto is killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack at the age of 54 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Some 20 bystanders were also killed in the blast.

2007 (-) Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies at the age of 85 in Warsaw, Poland.

26 December 1999 - Ayutthaya, Thailand

2010-12-26T04:29:00.000+01:00

The famous Buddha head that was miraculously brought up from the earth by the roots of a Banyan tree in Wat Phra Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

1883 (+) Artist Maurice Utrillo is born in Paris, Montmartre, Rue du Poteau, France.

1891 (+) Writer Henry Valentine Miller is born in New York, New York, USA.

1893 (+) Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong is born in Shao-Shan, Hunan, China.

1899 (+) Punjabi Revolutionary Udham Singh originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, is born in Sangrur Dist, Punjab, India.

1916 (-) Anna Collomb is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 45 in Gambais, France.

1920 (+) Daughter of Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast and Ninette Fraux, Astarte Lulu Panthea Crowley is born in Thelema Abbey, Sicily, Italy.

1939 (+) Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1950 (+) Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is born in Salem, Oregon, USA.

1957 (-) Film pioneer Charles Pathé dies at the age of 94 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

1964 (-) Lesley Downey is abducted and murdered by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 10 in Manchester, Ancoats, United Kingdom.
Her pleas and screams were recorded on tape, and Brady and Hindley slept a night on a blanket on her grave on Saddleworth Moors.

1972 (-) 33rd president of the USA Harry S. (Shippe or Solomon) Truman dies at the age of 88 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

1972 (x) 34-year-old Multiple Murderer Anthony Jackson is arrested after a fight with the police in Cambridge, Massachussets, USA.

1972 (-) Eddie Moore is is found garotted by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 21 in 7th Street Intersection, California, USA.

1980 (-) Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, commits suicide by drug overdose at the age of 30 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
He saved up his daily dose of Sinequan (doxepin hydrochloride) for 3 weeks.

1983 (-) Martina Volkmann is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.

1987 (-) Murderer Franciscus V. commits suicide by drowning at the age of 84 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
He first strangled his 79-year-old wife Maria.

1987 (x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his son Billy and wife Renata, their son Trae and daughter, his daughter Sheila and husband Dennis McNulty, his incestuous daughter Sylvia Gail and grandson Michael in Dover, Arkansas, USA.

1996 (-) Child Beauty Queen JonBenet Patricia Ramsey is sexually assaulted and strangled by persons unknown at the age of 6 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

2006 (-) 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford dies of pneumonia at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.

25 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-25T04:20:00.000+01:00

A street vendor with a selection of delicious squid near Tha Phrachan Nuea River Express pier in Bangkok, Thailand.

795 (-) 95th Pope Hadrianus I dies in Rome, Italy.

1863 (+) Film pioneer Charles Pathé is born in Paris, France.

1878 (+) Racer and founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company Louis-Joseph Chevrolet is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

1882 (+) Make-up queen Helena Chaja Rubinstein is born in Krakow, Poland.

1885 (+) Actor John Bowers originally John E Bowersox, is born in Garrett, Indiana, USA.

1887 (+) Hotel-magnate Conrad Nicholson Sr. Hilton is born in Socorro County, New Mexico, USA.

1891 (-) Julia Connor is murdered by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Chicago, Holmes Castle, Illinois, USA.

1893 (+) Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson originally Graydon, is born in London, Dalston, United Kingdom.

1897 (-) Mary Spink is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, United Kingdom.

1899 (+) Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1908 (+) Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, is born in Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1911 (+) Artist Louise Bourgeois is born in Paris, France.

1914 (+) Murderer Grady B. Cole is born in Arizona, USA.

1918 (+) President Anwar Al Sadat is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt.

1924 (+) Twilight Zone host Rod Rodman Edward Serling is born in Syracuse, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Writer Carlos Castaneda is born in Cajamarca, Peru.

1946 (-) Filmmaker W.C. Fields originally William Claude Dukenfield, dies of a stomach-bleeding at the age of 66 in Pasadena, California, USA.

1949 (+) Actress Sissy Spacek is born in Quitman, Texas, USA.

1952 (x) 47-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It’s her sixth attempt to escape, she is recaptured 46 hours later.

1959 (-) Irmgard Feder is attacked and mutilated by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 19 in Freberg, Germany.
She survived.

1961 (+) Son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Mike Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1971 (x) 163 Die in Taejongak Hotel fire in Seoul, Korea.

1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin dies at the age of 88 in Vaud, Switzerland.

1977 (+) Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, is born in Kuwait.

1982 (-) John R. Johnson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 25 in Belshaw, Indiana, USA.

1983 (+) Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family and Joan Svege, Benjamin Charles Watson is born in Texas, USA.

1983 (-) Artist Juan Mirò dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 90 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.

1989 (-) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 71 in Romania.
He and his 70-year-old wife Elena had been sentenced to death by a People’s Court.

1995 (-) Actor Dean Martin originally Dino Crocetti aka The King of Cool, dies of lung cancer at the age of 78 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1998 (x) 53-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is found drunk in his prison cell in Cambridgeshire, Whitemoor Prison, United Kingdom.
It is thought he had been bingeing on homemade moonshine.

2006 (-) Musician James Joseph Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

2006 (-) Murderer Yoshimitsu Akiyama is executed by hanging at the age of 77 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2006 (-) Murderer Hiroaki Hidaka is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hiroshima, Japan.

2006 (-) Murderer Yoshio Fujinami is executed by hanging at the age of 75 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2006 (-) Murderer Michio Fukuoka is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Japan.

2009 (x) 23-year-old Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, attempts to detonate PETN and TAPN plastic explosives hidden in his underwear aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

24 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-24T04:13:00.000+01:00

An evening stroll through Chinatown with intriguing foodstalls selling flattened duck and pig heads in Bangkok, Thailand.

1491 (+) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is born in Loyola, Italy.

1524 (-) Explorer Vasco da Gama dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Kochi, India.

1809 (+) Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson is born in Madison County, Kentucky, USA.

1885 (-) Mrs Rooney dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ottawa, Illinois, USA.

1886 (+) Aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud, Sergei Konstantonowitch Pankejev aka Der Wolfsmann, is born in Odessa, Russia.

1888 (x) 35-year-old Artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off the lob of his left ear in France.
He supposedly gave it to a prostitute named Rachel.

1905 (+) Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes is born in Houston, Texas, USA.

1913 (+) Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt is born in New York, New York, USA.

1922 (+) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner is born in Brogden, North Carolina, USA.

1932 (+) Artist On Kawara is born in Kariya, Japan.

1935 (-) Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg dies of blood poisoning due to an insect bite at the age of 50 in Vienna, Austria.

1939 (+) Serial Killer Dean Arnold Corll aka The Candyman, is born in Fort Wayne, Waynedale, Indiana, USA.

1941 (+) Murderer Robert Lee Massie is born in California, USA.

1953 (x) 155 Die in North Island Main Trunk express train derailment in Tangiwai, New Zealand.
The train plunged into the Whangaehu River.

1961 (+) Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is born in Hong Kong.

1963 (-) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, dies at the age of 67 in Paris, France.

1966 (-) Janina Kozielska is slashed to ribbons by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Poland.
The body was found on the night-train from Krakow to Warsaw.

1966 (x) 129 Die in US military CL-44 crash in South Vietnam.

1969 (+) Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1974 (-) Ernst Dorf is is beaten to death with a stone by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 59 in Gifhorn, Germany.

1975 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, attacks 2 unidentified girls with a knife in New York, New York, USA.
They both survived.

1975 (-) Composer Bernhard Herrmann dies of cardio-vascular disease at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 85 in London, Mayfair, United Kingdom.

1978 (-) Andrew Robinson is stabbed to death by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 13 in Gifhorn, Germany.

1979 (-) Student-leader Rudi Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke dies of drowning after an epileptic seizure while in his bathtub at the age of 39 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Because of massive brain damage from an assassination attempt on 11 april 1968 he continued to suffer health problems which finally led to his death.

1980 (-) Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz dies at the age of 89 in Aumühle, Germany.

1982 (-) Writer Luis Aragon dies at the age of 85 in Paris, France.

1995 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills the Zaichenkos, a family of four, with a hunting rifle in Ukraïne, Russia.

2008 (-) Dramatist Harold Pinter dies of liver cancer at the age of 78 in London, United Kingdom.

23 December 2003 - Berchem, Belgium

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The apartment where Club Moral recorded their Livingstone live-cd in Berchem, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1805 (+) Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is born in Sharon, Vermont, USA.

1890 (-) Murderess Mary Pearcey is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Ex-Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy is born in Déville-lès-Rouen, France.

1926 (-) Murderer Petrus Stephanus François Hauptfleisch is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He killed his mother.

1926 (-) Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 23 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

1928 (+) Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook is born in Joplin, Missouri, USA.

1932 (x) 31-year-old Wife of Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels originally Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend, has a miscarriage in München, Germany.

1941 (+) Musician Tim Hardin is born in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

1948 (-) Prime Minister Hideko Tojo is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Tokyo, Sugamo Prison, Japan.
6 more officals are hanged for war-crimes.

1952 (-) Murderer Leslie Green is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, United Kingdom.

1961 (x) 70 Die in train derailment in Italy.

1972 (-) Airplane designer Andrej Toepolev dies at the age of 84 in Moscow, Russia.

1978 (x) Start of the excavations in the house of 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Norwood Park, Summerdale 8213, Illinois, USA.

1979 (-) Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim dies at the age of 81 in Padua, Italy.
She is buried in the garden of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni next to her beloved dogs.

1984 (x) 15 die in a fascist bomb-attack on the Naples-Milan express in Italy.

1985 (-) Hard Rock lover Ray Belknap commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Sparks, Nevada, USA.
He engaged in a suicide pact with a friend after listening intensively to Judas Priest albums.

1987 (x) 39-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, escapes from prison in Alderson, West-Virginia, USA.

1987 (x) 15-year-old Adagiso Scioni hi-jacks a KLM Boeing 737 between Amsterdam and Milan, but is arrested on arrival in Rome, Italy.

1989 (-) Darlene Trippi is beaten to death by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 32 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

1995 (x) The charred bodies of 16 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning or had been shot to death in Grenoble, France.

1997 (x) The New Year, a two-story houseboat where Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, shot himself through the head, days after killing Gianni Versace in july, sinks to the bottom of Indian Creek in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

22 December 2002 - Eernegem, Belgium

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Getting acknowledged with some of the 200 pigs that would witness my performance "Parels voor de Zwijnen" a couple of days later on a farm in Eernegem, Belgium.

1639 (+) Dramatist Jean Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, Aisne, France.

1738 (-) Prostitute Constantia Jones is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Tyburn, United Kingdom.
She had stolen 36 shillings from a client.

1858 (+) Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michale Secondo Puccini is born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

1876 (+) Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

1883 (+) Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse is born in Paris, France.

1902 (-) Psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing known for “Psychopathia Sexualis”, dies at the age of 62 in Graz, Austria.

1926 (-) John Bernard is raped and strangled as tenth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Council Bluffs, Ohio, USA.

1936 (+) Victim of the Manson Family Wojciech Frykowski is born in Lodz, Poland.

1939 (x) 132 Die in train collision in Magdeburg, Germany.

1946 (+) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison is born in Weed, California, USA.

1949 (+) Musicians Maurice & Robin Gibb aka the Bee Gees, are born in Douglas, Isle of Man.

1953 (-) Rapist and Murderer Alfred Charles Whiteway is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1960 (+) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1963 (x) 128 Die in TSMS Lakonia fire in Madeira, Portugal.

1966 (-) Ilona Harke is abducted and killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 5 in Wuppertal-Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He also cut some steaks from the body for later consumption.

1969 (-) Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg originally Jonas Stern, dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1971 (x) 66-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is released on parole after 39 year imprisonment in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1971 (-) Ida Van Isacker-Smeets is assaulted, strangled, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 47 in Mechelen, Hanswijk, Dijleoever, Antwerp, Belgium.

1971 (x) Four members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypotheken- und Wechselbank at Fackelstrasse of over 100.000 marks in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Policeman Herbert Schoner was shot dead when he tried to stop the getaway car.

1972 (x) 22 survivors of a plane crash are found in the Andes Mountains, Chile.
They survived on cannibalism.

1972 (+) Musician Vanessa Chantal Paradis is born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France.

1973 (-) Teresa Walsh is presumably strangled as forty-fourth victim by Zodiac at the age of 23 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

1975 (x) 431 Die in coal-mine explosion in Tjashalla, India.

1975 (-) Suzanne Bach is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 17 in Weinheim, Germany.
She survived.

1975 (-) Connie Bronzich is drugged and stabbed to death by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 28 in Katmandu, Nepal.

1978 (-) Lenotschka Sakotnowa is stabbed and strangled as first victim by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Schachty, Meshewoi 26, Russia.

1982 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, abducts and sexually assaults 2 15-year-old girls on a beach in New South Wales, Australia.
They survived.

1984 (x) 37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, shoots 19-year-old Troy Canty, 19-year-old Darrel Cabey, 19-year-old Barry Allen and 18-year-old Jimmy Ramseur, who were trying to rob him in the Seventh Avenue 2 subway train in New York, Harlem, New York, USA.

1986 (+) Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, is born in Lagos, Nigeria.

1986 (-) Lisa Thomas is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1987 (x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his wife Rebecca, his children Gene, 17-year-old Loretta, Eddy, Marianne and Becky, and his granddaughter 3-year-old Barbara by shooting, strangling and drowning them in Dover, Arkansas, USA.

1989 (-) Writer Samuel Beckett dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1992 (x) 157 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 and helicopter collision in Libya.

1996 (-) Jacqueline Leclercq is presumably abducted as fourth victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Hyon, Rue Malapert, Hainaut, Belgium.

1997 (x) Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Ahmad Suraji aka Nasib Datuk Kalewang aka The Sorcerer, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He stands trial for the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried.

1997 (x) 48-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national in Paris, France.

2001 (x) 28-year-old Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, attempts to blow up the American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami Boeing 767 by use of PETN explosives hidden in his shoe.

2007 (x) 61-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is stabbed in the face by a fellow inmate in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Sutcliffe was already blind in one eye after a previous attack.

21 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

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Sutee, Asarin and Luckana enjoying a gift festival at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

1682 (+) Pirate John Rackham aka Calico Jack, is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

1875 (-) Murderer Henry Wainwright is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he shouted: “Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?”.

1906 (-) Murderer Henry Hose is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Oregon, USA.

1911 (x) Bank messenger Ernest Caby is robbed and shot by 35-year-old Gangster Jules Bonnot and his gang in Paris, rue Orderer, France.
It is the first hold-up ever to make use of a getaway-car.

1917 (+) Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1918 (+) Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim is born in Vienna, Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria.

1935 (-) Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 45 in Hindas, Gothenburg, Germany.

1936 (x) 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse in Tokyo, Japan.

1937 (+) Actress Jane Fonda is born in New York, New York, USA.

1940 (+) Composer Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

1940 (-) Writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California, USA.
He died in the apartment of his friend, Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

1941 (+) Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is born in Arizona, USA.

1942 (-) Murderer Henry John Delves Boughton aka Sir Murder, commits suicide by drug-overdose in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1945 (-) War leader George Patton aka Old Blood and Guts, dies of embolism at the age of 60 in Heidelberg, military hospital, Germany.
He had been thrown forward and smashed his head into a metal part when the Cadillac Model 75 he was sitting in crashed into a 2 1/2 ton military truck.

1951 (x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in West-Frankfurt, Illinois, USA.

1952 (+) Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is born in Illinois, USA.

1954 (x) 31-year-old Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1967 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, David C. Thomas is born in the USA.

1967 (-) Heart-patient Louis Washkansky dies at the age of 55 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was the first man who had a transplanted heart.

1977 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Patrick Kearney aka The Thrash Bag Killer, pleads guilty to three counts of murder and is sentenced to life imprisonment in Riverside, California, USA.

1978 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1987 (x) 1586 Die in Dona Paz passenger ferry and Vector oil tanker collision in Tablas Strait, the Philippines.
The ferry was overcrowded and probably over 4000 people died.

1988 (x) 270 Die in Pan Am Flight 103 Boeing 747-121 crash in Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom.
The plane was sabotaged by Libyan terrorists.

2007 (x) The remains of Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan are exhumed for re-burial in Coburg, Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia in 1967. The site of the former prison was redeveloped for commercial and residential use.

20 December 2009 - Antwerpen, Belgium

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The view on snow covered buildings from our rooftop terrace in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1800 (+) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is born in Francheville, Rhône, France.

1876 (-) Murderess Hannah Ocuish aka Omish, is executed by hanging at the age of 12 in New London, Connecticut, USA.
She is the youngest person ever hanged in the USA.

1901 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Bock is born in Hannover, Germany.

1911 (-) Murderer Wade Hood is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in South Carolina, USA.

1920 (-) Eventual Serial Killer Joseph Mumfry is shot dead by Mrs Mike Pepitone in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He was recognised as being the Axe Man of New Orleans by Mrs Pepitone, wife of one of his victims.

1924 (-) Serial Killer Carl Denke commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
He was arrested after attacking Vincenz Oliver with a hackblade during dinner. When police searched his house, they found drums with salted meat and written notes about 20 years of murder and cannibalism.

1924 (x) 35-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving 9 months for his attempt at a coup d’état a year earlier in Berlin, Landsberg Prison, Germany.
While in prison, he wrote "Mein Kampf".

1927 (x) 33-year-old Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess marries 27-year-old Ilse Pröhl in Berlin, Germany.

1941 (x) Belgium declares war to Italy.

1946 (+) Psychic Uri György Geller is born in Tel Aviv, Israël.

1948 (+) Musician Alan Parsons is born in London, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Mary Hattam is assaulted and battered to death by Rupert Stuart aka The Murderous Aboriginal, at the age of 9 in Ceduna, Australia.

1960 (x) 49-year-old Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer is arrested in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1963 (x) Start of the trial against 21 guards and doctors of Auschwitz-KZ in Frankfurt, Germany.

1968 (-) Writer John Ernst Steinbeck dies of heart disease and congestive heart failure at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1968 (-) David Faraday and 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen are shot dead as second and third victim by Zodiac at the age of 17 in Vallejo, California, USA.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a ‘Happy Christmas’ postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and adds a scrap of eight victim Paul Stine’s bloody shirt in California, USA.

1973 (-) Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco is killed in an ETA bomb-attack in Spain.

1973 (-) Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, dies minutes after initially succesful heart surgery to repair two artificial heart valves at the age of 37 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, USA.

1974 (-) Composer André Jolivet dies at the age of 69 in Paris, France.

1975 (-) Susan Bickrest is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Port Orange, Spruce Creek, Florida, USA.

1976 (x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Honka is convicted to 15 years imprisonment and sent to a mental asylum for life in Hamburg, Germany.

1979 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Perfectone" in Gent, Zaal Cercle, East Flanders, Belgium.

1981 (-) Beatrix Scheble is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 16 in Frankfurt City Park, Germany.

1982 (-) Composer Arthur Rubinstein dies at the age of 95 in Genève, Switzerland.

1982 (-) Steven Agan is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 23 in Newport, Indiana, USA.

1983 (-) Hedda Buekow is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Tiergarten, Germany.

1985 (-) Estelle Donjoux is tortured and killed as ninth by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 91 in Paris 14th, 14 rue Lacaze, France.

1987 (x) Over 2500 Die in Dona Paz Ferry shipwreck in Tablas Strait, Philippines.

1993 (x) Serial Killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, is sentenced to 5 terms of life-imprisonment in London, United Kingdom.

1995 (x) 160 Die in American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757-223 crash into a mountain in Buga, Colombia.
Four people survived.

1996 (-) Futurologist Carl Edward Sagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

19 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

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A long Dragon decorated with lights carried through the streets by some 60 men in Silom, Bangkok, Thailand.

1370 (-) 200th Pope Urbanus V originally Guillaume de Grimoard, dies at the age of 61 in Rome, Italy.

1848 (-) Writer Emily Jane Brontë dies of a bad cold and tuberculosis at the age of 30 in Haworth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1851 (-) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner dies at the age of 76 in London, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk, United Kingdom.
He is said to have uttered the last words "The sun is God" before expiring.

1883 (-) Hendrik Frankenhuizen is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1906 (+) Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev is born in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraïne, Russia.

1907 (x) 239 Die in coal-mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, USA.

1910 (+) Writer and thief Jean Genet is born in Paris, Maternité de la Rue d’Assas 22, France.

1915 (+) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, is born in Paris, France.
Somewhere in the street, on a policeman’s coat.

1915 (-) Neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany.

1925 (-) Black Lindsey Coleman is lynched because he wasn’t guilty of murder in Clarksdale, Missouri, USA.

1925 (-) Composer Jose Ignacio Quinton dies at the age of 44 in Puerto Rico.

1931 (x) 34-year-old Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels marries Johanna Maria Magdalena ‘Engelchen’ Behrend in Severin, Germany.

1934 (-) Husband Murderess Ethel Lille Major is executed by hanging in Hull Prison, United Kingdom.

1946 (-) Mrs. G. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 44 in Braunschweig, Germany.

1956 (x) 57-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested on suspicion of four murders in Lewes, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Jillian Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 22 in Perth, Cottesloe, Stirling Highway, Australia.

1964 (-) Christiane Herreman is raped and strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 21 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1968 (-) Nora Wenzl is slashed to ribbons by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 14 in Staffelstein, Germany.

1971 (-) Barbara Fields is abducted, assaulted and raped by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 18 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
She survived.

1975 (x) 27-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the attempted assassination of president Ford in Sacramento, California, USA.

1977 (-) John Swint is shot dead by Ottis Toole aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 67 in Houston, Texas, USA.

1995 (x) A search of the house of 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux fails to discover 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo who are kept in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium.

1996 (-) Actor Marcello Mastroianni dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72 in Paris, France.

1997 (x) 16-year-old Serial Killer Ershov is arrested after a 34-year-old woman managed to escape following an attack in a city park in Moscow, Russia.
During police interrogation, Ershov confessed to killing two of the five women murdered in Losiny Ostrov park over a two-month period.

1997 (x) 104 Die in SilkAir Flight 185 Boeing 737-300 crash in Palembang, Indonesia.
Due to the high speed, the entire aircraft and passengers disintegrated upon impact.

2000 (-) Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

18 December 2004 - Brussels, Belgium

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Standing on the corner of Koolmijnenkaai and Vandermaelenstraat where Serial Killer András Pándy killed two of his wives and four of his children and dissolved their bodies in acid in Brussels, Belgium.

1737 (-) Violin craftsman Antonio Stradivari dies at the age of 94 in Cremona, Italy.

1863 (+) Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen is born in Graz, Austria.

1879 (+) Artist Paul Klee is born in Munchen-Buchesee, Switzerland.

1879 (+) Statesman Josef Vissarionowitsch Dzugashvili Stalin is born in Gori, Georgia, Russia.

1890 (+) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong is born in New York, New York, USA.

1892 (x) First performance of the ballet "The Nutcracker" by 52-year-old Composer Peter Ilyitsch Tchaikowsky in St. Petersburg, Marlinsky Theatre, Russia.

1907 (x) Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is released from prison in the United Kingdom.

1914 (-) Margaret Lofty is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, in London, Highgate, United Kingdom.

1916 (+) Pin-up and actress Betty Elizabeth Ruth Grable aka The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1943 (+) Rolling Stone Keith Richards is born in Kent, United Kingdom.

1946 (+) Nationalist Leader Steve Stephen Bantu Biko is born in King William's Town, South Africa.

1947 (+) Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

1948 (+) Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is born in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

1948 (-) Janet Fay is hammered to death by Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers, in Long Island, New York, USA.

1964 (+) Actor Brad Pitt is born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.

1967 (-) Child-Murderer Gunther Voltz is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Metz, France.

1979 (x) 23-year-old Necrophile Karen Greenlee is arrested after an attempt to commit suicide by an overdose of pain-killers in Alleghany, Sierra County, USA.

1980 (-) USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Moscow, Russia.

1980 (x) 33-year-old Mass-murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle and Roland Feneuille are convicted to death in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1986 (-) Murderer Richard Andrade is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1987 (-) Sound engineer Konrad Conny Plank dies at the age of 47 in Köln, Germany.

1997 (x) 55-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is rushed to a hospital only hours after her appeal against having to spend the rest of her life in jail was turned down in Durham, United Kingdom.

2001 (-) Musician Gilbert Bécaud dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.

17 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

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Waiting for a late River Express boat in the company of a monk in Bangkok, Thailand.

1833 (-) Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, dies at the age of 21 in Augsburg, Germany.
He was stabbed in the chest in the Hofgarten by an unidentified man three days earlier.

1877 (+) Chief executioner Jules-Henri Desfourneaux aka Monsieur de Paris, is born in Bar-le-Duc, France.

1903 (+) Writer Erskine Preston Caldwell is born in Moreland, Georgia, USA.

1909 (-) King of Belgium Louis Philippe Marie Victor Leopold II Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha dies of heart failure at the age of 74 in Brussels, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.

1914 (+) Serial Killer Raymond Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with his wife Martha Beck), is born in Hawaï, USA.

1915 (-) Black Cordella Stevenson is abducted, raped and hung from a telephone-pole in Columbus, outside the Mobile & Ohio Railway Station, Missouri, USA.
Her body was left hanging for two days before someone took care of taking it down.

1923 (+) Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is born in Hessen, Germany.

1942 (+) Musician and founder of ‘The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’ Paul Butterfield is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1943 (+) Manson Family member Mary Therese Brunner aka Marioche aka Mother Mary, is born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA.

1947 (-) Criminologist Bernard Henry Spilsbury commits suicide by gas poisoning at the age of 70 in London, Bloomsbury, University College, United Kingdom.

1953 (-) Kidnapper and Murderer Carl Austin Hall is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.

1953 (-) Kidnapper and Murderess Bonnie Brown Heady is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in State Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.

1958 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is sentenced to death in San Diego, California, USA.

1961 (x) 320 Die in circus fire in Niteroi, Brazil.
The fire was started by former employee Adilson Marcelino.

1963 (-) Murderer John Whitty is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.

1963 (-) Murderer Russel Pascoe is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Bristol Prison, United Kingdom.

1968 (x) 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is sentenced to detention for life for the murder of two children in Newcastle, Moot Hall, United Kingdom.
Her accomplice Norma Bell is acquitted.

1978 (-) Jazz composer Don Ellis dies at the age of 44 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He composed the soundtrack for the movie 'The Deadly Tower', about Charles Whitman.

1979 (x) 23-year-old Necrophile Karen Greenlee steals a mortuary hearse and drives off with the body of 31-year-old John Mercure in Sacramento Memorial Lawn Mortuary, California, USA.
She wanted to have sex with the body.

1989 (-) June Cicero is strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 34 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

2004 (-) Pop artist Tom Wesselman dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.

16 December 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-12-16T04:51:00.000+01:00

Sickboy performing with The Parallels at the FreaksendFuture shop in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1485 (+) First wife of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.

1770 (+) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven is born in Bonn, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1775 (+) Writer Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire, England.

1790 (+) King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is born in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany.

1859 (-) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Carl Grimm dies at the age of 73 in Berlin, Germany.

1899 (+) Actor Noel Coward is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1901 (+) Anthropologist Margaret Mead is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1904 (-) Mrs Cochcrane dies of spontaneous human combustion in Falkirk, Rosehill, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1904 (-) Barbara Bell dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 77 in Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

1917 (+) Writer and Space Odysseyist Arthur C. Charles Clarke is born in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.

1917 (+) Lebanese Statesman Kamal Jumblatt is born in Moukhtara, Lebanon.

1928 (+) Sf-writer Philip K. Kindred Dick is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1935 (-) Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl, dies of coal-monoxide poisoning at the age of 30 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
She was probably murdered by persons unknown.

1938 (+) Actress Liv Ullmann is born in Tokyo, Japan.

1938 (-) Swindler Philip Musica aka Donald Coster, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 61 in New York, New York, USA.

1944 (-) Musician Glenn Alton Miller is permanently lost at sea whilst returning from a mission in Germany at the age of 40 in the Atlantic Ocean.

1944 (x) 597 Die in Rex cinema fire in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
The building was caught in a full hit by a V2 during the showing of the movie "Buffalo Bill".

1956 (+) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux is born in Paris, France.

1960 (x) 134 Die in United Airlines Flight 826 Douglas DC-8 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 Lockheed L-1049 collision in Staten Island, New York, USA.

1965 (-) Writer William Somerset Maugham dies at the age of 91 in Cap-Ferrat, France.

1969 (x) 44-year-old Viennese Aktionist Otto Mühl performs his aktion "O Tannenbaum" in Braunschweig, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Germany.

1970 (x) 16-year-old Religious fanatic Frank Alexander aka The Prophet, is found beating his 39-year-old mother Dagmar and sisters Marina (18) and Petra (15) to death, cutting away their sex organs and nailing them to the walls of Flat 1d at 37 Calle Jesus Nazareno in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
In the meantime his father Harald played the organ.

1976 (x) 36-year-old Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, attempts to commit suicide in State Prison, Utah, USA.

1977 (-) Maryann Carr is suffocated by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 26 in Ledgewood Terrace, Quality Inn Motel parking lot, New Jersey, USA.

1985 (x) The 4 only members of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes 33-year old Pierre Carette, 30-year-old Didier Chevolet, 28-year-old Pascale Vandegeerde and 23-year-old Bertrand Sassoye are arrested in a fast-food restaurant in Namur, Namur, Belgium.

1989 (-) Actor Lee Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Oxnard, California, USA.

1993 (-) Rapist and murderer David Marion Pruett is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

1998 (x) Serial Child Killer Pedro Pablo Ramirez Garcia aka Carlos Alberto Woods Salazar aka Pedro Pechuga, is arrested in Pereira, Colombia.

15 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-15T04:45:00.000+01:00

A Series III 109" Landrover in the courtyard of Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

37 (+) Fifth and last Emperor of Rome Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Nero originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, is born in Antium, Italy.

1761 (-) Murderer John M’Naughton Esq., is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Strabane, Tyrone, United Kingdom.

1832 (+) Architect and engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel is born in Dijon, France.

1855 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is arrested and charged with the poisoning of John Parsons Cook in the United Kingdom.

1892 (+) Oil-magnata and billionaire Jean Paul Getty aka The Richest Living American, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

1921 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, graduates from the university as a doctor of medicine with the tract ‘Contributions to the study of Acute Progressive Paralysis’ in Paris, France.
Acute Progressive Paralysis is the disease Henri Desiré Landru was suffering from.

1921 (+) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed is born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA.

1930 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is committed to the Bellevue Hospital for a 10-day observation after sending obscenities through the mail in New York, New York, USA.

1930 (+) Victim of the Manson Family Rosemary LaBianca is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1961 (x) 55-year-old Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death in Jerusalem, Ramleh Prison, Israël.

1966 (-) Filmmaker Walt Walter Elias Disney dies of a malignant lung-tumor at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1967 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Wuppertal, Germany.

1970 (x) USSR space-craft Venus 7 lands on Venus and transmits 23 minutes of images in Russia.

1970 (x) 308 Die in Namyong Ho capsizing in Korean Strait, South Korea.

1971 (x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier is convicted to die in the Gas Chamber in California, USA.

1973 (x) 17-year-old Playboy John Paul Getty III is released after a 5-month kidnap in the USA.
A ransom of 2 million dollars was paid and Getty’s ear had been cut off.

1975 (-) Cornelia Hemker aka Cocky, is drugged, beaten to death and set on fire by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Rangsit, Thailand.

1993 (-) Murderer Clifford Phillips is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-) Murderer James R. Meanes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Sammie Jr. Felder is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

14 December 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-12-14T04:55:00.000+01:00

A music concert by Monguito and a ghost appearance at Scheld'apen in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1503 (+) Prophet Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus, is born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France.

1799 (-) 1st president of the USA George Washington dies of acute laryngitis after a ride in snow and rain around his estate at the age of 67 in Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA.

1865 (+) Serial poisoner Severin Antoniovitch Klosowski aka George Chapman, is born in Nagorna, Poland.

1896 (+) Writer Paul Eluard is born in Paris, St. Denis, France.

1903 (-) Wife-murderer William B. Ennis is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
He was the first policeman to be executed on the Electric Chair.

1911 (x) 39-year-old Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen is the first man to reach the South-Pole.

1913 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Friedrich Abeling is born in Hannover, Germany.

1914 (+) Mafia-leader Joseph “Joe” Colombo is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1923 (+) Writer Gerard Kornelis van het Reve is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1935 (+) Actress Lee Ann Remick is born in Quincy, Massachussets, USA.

1939 (-) Frau Jablinski is stabbed in the head by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.
She survived.

1943 (-) Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg dies at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA.

1946 (+) Actress and musician Jane Mallory Birkin is born in London, United Kingdom.

1947 (-) Erika M. is beaten to death and mutilated by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 37 in Braunschweig, Germany.

1952 (-) Ethel Simpson is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, in London, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Ethel Little is tortured by an unidentified sexual deviate at the age of 53 in Miami, Florida, USA.
She finally died of shock and blood-loss after hours of sexual misdemeanor.

1968 (x) 47-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs "Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee" in Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1973 (-) Kathy Scharf is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Merrit Island, Florida, USA.

1976 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, is arrested after 8 years of terror in Nogent-sur-Oise in Montataire, Martinets Estate, France.

1976 (x) SS-executioner Hans Looijen is convicted to life-imprisonment in Roermond, the Netherlands.

1977 (-) Marylin Moore is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Chapeltown, Prince Philip playing fields, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1980 (-) Serial Killer Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Yugoslavia.

1989 (-) Composer and musician Pérez Damaso Prado dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Mexico City, Mexico.

1989 (-) Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.

1999 (-) Murderer Robert Atworth is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man, dies at the age of 51 in Eagle Rock, California, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer-for-hire John B. Sr. Nixon is executed by lethal injection at the age of 77 in State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.
For his last meal he requested a well-done T-bone steak, buttered asparagus spears, a baked potato with sour cream, peach pie, vanilla ice cream, and sweet tea.

13 December 2005 - Borgerhout, Belgium

2010-12-13T04:47:00.000+01:00

Merry Christmas atmosphere in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1521 (+) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, is born in Grottamare, Italy.

1740 (+) Composer Franz Xaver Schnitzer is born in Urtsbach, Germany.

1782 (-) Cannibal Blaise Ferrage Seye is broken on the wheel and exposed to die on the gibbet at the age of 25 in the United Kingdom.

1797 (+) Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1863 (+) Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, is born in Neuruppin, Germany.

1912 (-) Murderer Mike Morgan is executed by hanging in Oregon, USA.

1912 (-) Murderer Fiaulder Noble is executed by hanging in Oregon, USA.

1912 (-) Murderer Frank Garrison is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Oregon, USA.

1912 (-) Double murderer H. E. Roberts is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, USA.

1913 (x) 32-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested when he tried to sell the Mona Lisa, stolen by him 2,5 years earlier, to an antique dealer in Paris, France.

1925 (+) Actor Dick Van Dyke is born in West Plains, Montana, USA.

1930 (-) Wife-murderer Charles Chapin aka Sing Sing’s Rose Man, dies at the age of 72 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1934 (-) Murderer Ruf Satterfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in North Carolina, USA.

1937 (x) The Imperial Japanese Army marches into China, slaughtering over 50.000 people in less than 2 months in Nanking, China.

1944 (-) Artist Wassily Vasiliewitsch Kandinsky dies at the age of 78 in Paris, France.

1944 (-) Actress Lupe Maria Guadelupe Villalobos Vélez commits suicide by an overdose of Secobarbital at the age of 36 in Glendale, California, USA.
Instead of dying from the overdose, her stomach got upset and she drowned while vomiting in the toilet.

1945 (-) Guard and Senior Supervisor in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Irma Grese aka The Beast of Belsen, is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Hameln Gaol, Germany.
Also hanged on this occasion are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juanna Bormann, Josef Kramer, Dr. Fritz Klein and 8 more leaders of the Belzen-KZ. Her last word to executioner Albert Pierrepoint was: "Schnell!".

1948 (+) Musician Ted Theodore Nugent aka The Atrocious Theodocious, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1954 (-) Murderess Styllou Christofi is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Billy Peterson dies of spontaneous human combustion in Michigan, USA.

1967 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Hans Johannes Marinus Van Zon is arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

1970 (-) James Glass is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 14 in Houston, Columbia, Texas, USA.

1971 (x) 46-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is convicted to 30 years imprisonment in Winchester, Jersey.

1973 (-) Agnos and Marietta Di Girolamo are shot by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 31 in San Francisco, California, USA.
Agnos survived.

1973 (x) 42-year-old Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim James Warren Jones is arrested for solliciting a vice officer in a cinema-toilet in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He had been watching the movie "Dirty Harry".

1977 (-) Kimberley Martin aka Donna, is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

1977 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed Abdullah al-Nami is born in Saudi Arabia.

1984 (-) USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolai Sjetsjelokow commits suicide by a shot in the head after a degradation at the age of 75 in Russia.

1988 (-) Murderer Raymond Landry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
Pronounced dead 40 minutes after being strapped to the execution gurney and 24 minutes after the drugs first started flowing into his arms. Two minutes into the killing, the syringe came out of Landry's vein, spraying the deadly chemicals across the room toward the witnesses. The execution team had to reinsert the catheter into the vein. The curtain was drawn for 14 minutes so witnesses could not see the intermission.

1995 (-) Murderer James Griddle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2008 (-) Actor Horst Tappert aka Stephan Derrick, dies at the age of 85 in Planegg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

12 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-12T04:29:00.000+01:00

Dinner at some rough joint near a busstop in Bangkok, Thailand.

1777 (-) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller dies due to excessive opium abuse at the age of 69 in Bern, Switzerland.

1821 (+) Writer Gustave Flaubert is born in Rouen, France.

1847 (+) Criminologist Hans Gross is born in Graz, Austria.

1863 (+) Artist Edvard Munch is born in Loten, Hedmark, Norway.

1875 (+) War leader Gerd Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt is born in Aschersleben, Germany.

1883 (-) Mien Frankenhuizen-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1885 (+) Futurist artist Wladimir Jewgrafowitsch Tatlin is born in Moscow, Russia.

1901 (x) 27-year-old Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi realizes the first radio transmission across the Atlantic in St. Johns, Signal Hill, Newfoundland.

1913 (-) Alice Burnham is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, at the age of 25 in Blackpool, United Kingdom.

1915 (+) Singer and actor Frank Francis Albert Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes aka The Voice, is born in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

1917 (x) Over 500 Die in train derailment in Modane, France.

1917 (+) Serial Killer Edward Joseph Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1934 (x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested in a rooming house in New York, 200 East 52nd Street, New York, USA.

1939 (-) Actor Douglas Fairbanks originally Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman, dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1941 (+) Musician Dionne Warwick is born in East Orange, New Jersey, USA.

1946 (-) Lucie S. is beaten to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 55 in Niedersachsen, Germany.

1949 (+) Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs is born in Gralla, Styria, Austria.

1951 (-) Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1965 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Richard Guerrero is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1965 (-) Irena S. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 57 in Czeladz, Poland.

1969 (x) Fascist bomb attack in Milano, Piazza della Fontana, Italy.

1984 (-) Murderer Alpha Otis Stephens is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 39 in the USA.
After the first jolt of electricity failed to kill him , Stephens struggled for eight minutes before a second charge finished the job. The first jolt took two minutes, and there was a six minute pause so his body could cool before physicians could examine him (and declare that another jolt was needed.) During that six-minute interval, Stephens took 23 breaths.

1985 (x) 258 Die in Arrow Air Flight 1285 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF crash in Gander, Newfoundland.

1988 (-) Erika Namba is abducted and strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Kawagoe, Japan.

1990 (-) Oljoscha Chobotow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Schachty’s main cemetary, Russia.

1994 (-) Murderer Raymond Kinnemon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1996 (-) Rapist and murderer Lem Tuggle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

1999 (-) Writer Joseph Heller dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in East Hampton, New York, USA.

2001 (-) Bankrobber and Cop Killer Vincent Edward Cooks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Musician Ike Wister Turner dies of emphysema at the age of 76 in San Marcos, California, USA.

11 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-11T05:00:00.000+01:00

A stray dog sitting on the corner of an intersection watching traffic go by in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

1475 (+) 217th Pope Leo X originally Giovanni De Medici, is born in Florence, Italy.

1783 (-) Mass Murderer William Beadle commits suicide by cutting his throat at the age of 53 in the United Kingdom.
He first hacked to death his wife and four children.

1803 (+) Composer Hector Berlioz is born in Côte St. André, France.

1843 (+) Bacteriologist Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch is born in Clausthal, Lower Saxony, Germany.

1880 (-) Gunsmith Oliver Winchester dies at the age of 70 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1912 (+) Filmmaker Carlo Ponti is born in Magenta, Italy.

1913 (+) Actor Jean Alfred Villain Marais is born in Cherbourg, France.

1916 (+) Composer and musician Pérez Damaso Prado is born in Matanzas, Cuba.

1918 (+) Writer Alexander Isaewitsch Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia.

1919 (+) War leader Marshall Abdel Hakim Amer is born in Astal, Egypt.

1920 (x) While singing in "L’Elesir d’Amour", 47-year-old Musician Enrico Caruso starts bleeding heavily from the mouth in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1936 (+) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is born in Philadelphia, Northern Liberties Hospital, Pennsylvania, USA.
Illigimate to 21-year-old Judith Renner.

1941 (x) Nazi-Germany and Italy declare war to the USA.

1951 (-) Murderer Herbert Leonard Mills is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Nottingham Prison, United Kingdom.

1960 (x) 73-year-old Would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick attempts to blow op President John F. Kennedy in Palm Beach, St Edward Church, Florida, USA.
He was waiting in his dynamite-laden car to cause a fatal explosion but declined when he saw Jackie Kennedy and their two children.

1964 (-) Musician Sam Cooke is presumably shot to death by Bertha Franklin at the age of 33 in Los Angeles, Hacienda Motel, California, USA.
He supposedly broke into manager Franklin's apartment wearing nothing but a shoe and a raincoat.

1965 (x) 12 die in Disco Club fire, arsoned by 25-year-old Mass Murderer Lee Lassiter in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1970 (x) Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen members Vivian Bogart and Patricia Mclean are arrested after throwing an incendiary bomb at the Royal National Bank in New York City, New York, USA.
They pleaded guilty.

1975 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, is arrested and beaten up by members of the public in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

1976 (-) Greg Godzik is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 17 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1978 (-) Robert Piest is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 15 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1979 (-) Gangster Yvan Somville shot dead in a police-fusillade at the age of 27 in Brussels, Koekelberg, Jacques Sermonlaan, Brabant, Belgium.

1980 (-) Madeleine Humbert is shot in the head by Nestor Pirotte in Spa, restaurant "La Vieille France", Belgium.
Two other men were shot as well.

1982 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

1985 (x) Hugh Scrutton is killed when a booby trap placed by 43-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, explodes in Sacramento, Rentech Computer Store, California, USA.

1995 (-) Murderer Esequel Banda is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (x) 101 Die in Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 crash in Surat Thani, Thailand.

2002 (-) Double murderer James Paul Collier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2008 (-) Fetish model Bettie Mae Page aka the Queen of Pinups, dies of pneumonia at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

10 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-10T04:26:00.000+01:00

A disformed schoolboy crawling over the pavement and begging in Pahurat, Bangkok, Thailand.

1520 (x) 37-year-old Reformer Martin Luther burns his copy of the Papal Bull "Exsurge Domine" in Wittenberg, Elster Gate, Germany.

1541 (x) Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are hung, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered for having sexual relations with Fifth wife of Henry VIII Katherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn, in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.
Their heads were put on display on London Bridge.

1865 (-) King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, dies at the age of 75 in Brussels, Laken, Brabant, Belgium.

1868 (x) The first traffic lights are installed outside the House of Parliament in London, United Kingdom.

1896 (-) Inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, dies of a stroke at the age of 63 in Sanremo, Italy.

1900 (-) Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip, is executed by beheading at the age of 25 in Västerås, Sweden.

1908 (+) Composer Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen is born in Avignon, Vaucluse, France.

1915 (-) Murderer Ramon Villalobo is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1920 (-) Automobile manufacturing pioneer Horace Elgin Dodge dies of pneumonia at the age of 52 in New York, Ritz-Carlton hotel, New York, USA.

1931 (-) Murderer Henry Daniel Seymour is executed by hanging in Oxford, United Kingdom.

1944 (x) The 18th Army Headquarters announces that it is allowed to eat the meat from dead enemy soldiers in Japan.

1945 (-) Actress and stunt-woman Mary Wiggins commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 36 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

1945 (-) Frances Brown is battered, shot and stabbed to death by William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, at the age of 30 in Chicago, Pine Grove Avenue, Pine Crest Residential Hotel, Illinois, USA.
On the bedroom wall he wrote in lipstick: “For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself”.

1958 (-) Cult Leader Krishna Venta and 9 members of the Fountain of the World are blown up in their subterranean chambers in Chatsworth, California, USA.
The blast was presumably instigated by two former members of the cult.

1967 (-) Musician Otis Redding known for “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”, dies in an air-plane crash at the age of 26 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

1969 (-) Leona Roberts is presumably abducted and killed as tenth victim by Zodiac at the age of 16 in Bolinas Lagoon, California, USA.

1974 (-) P. J. is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Baltimore, Homeland, Maryland, USA.
His son Mike accompanied him.

1978 (-) Filmmaker Edward D. Davis Wood Jr. dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

1979 (-) Dorothy Williams is beaten and stabbed by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 17 in Tampa, Florida, USA.

1980 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, is found guilty of the rape and murder of 5 young girls in Yugoslavia.
He burned their bodies in his bread-oven.

1986 (-) Actress Harriet Roman is beaten to death by her 22-year-old dwarf son in Encino, California, USA.

1992 (-) Murderer Kavin Lincecum is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1994 (x) Advertising executive Thomas Mosser is killed when opening a package sent by 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in North Caldwell, New Jersey, USA.

1994 (-) Agnès Nijkamp is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.

1997 (-) Serial Killer Michael Lee Lockhart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Desmond Keith Carter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2006 (-) Military president and dictator Augusto Pinochet dies of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema after suffering a heart attack a week earlier at the age of 91 in Santiago, Chile.
There were still over 300 criminal charges for abuse of human rights pending.

9 December 2002 - Gent, Belgium

2010-12-09T04:07:00.000+01:00

An unidentified spy passing on information about the newly presented cultural support organisation IBK at De Bijloke in Gent, Belgium.

1565 (-) 224th Pope Pius IV originally Gian Angelo De Medici, dies at the age of 66 in Rome, Italy.

1608 (+) Poet John Milton known for “Paradise Lost”, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1641 (-) Painter Sir Anthony van Dyck dies at the age of 42 in London, Blackfriars, United Kingdom.

1669 (-) 238th Pope Clementius IX originally Giulio Rospigliosi, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.

1842 (+) Anarchist Peter Alekseyewitsch Kropotkin aka The Anarchist Prince, is born in Moscow, Russia.

1915 (-) Criminologist Hans Gross dies at the age of 68 in Graz, Austria.

1918 (+) Actor Kirk Douglas originally Issur Danielovitch Demsky, is born in Amsterdam, New York, USA.

1927 (+) Composer Pierre Henry is born in Paris, France.

1929 (+) Filmmaker John Nicholas Cassavetes is born in New York, New York, USA.

1941 (+) Actor Beau Lloyd Vernet Bridges is born in Hollywood, California, USA.

1957 (+) Musician Donny Donald Clark Osmond is born in Ogden, Utah, USA.

1975 (-) Stephanie Parry is drugged and choked to death by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 0 in Pattaya, Thailand.

1977 (-) David Talsma is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1983 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is sentenced to death for one murder in Titusville, Brevard County Courthouse, Florida, USA.
It’s his third death-penalty.

1987 (x) An unidentified man kills 12 people in a wild shooting spree in a telecommunications centre in Melbourne, Australia.

1996 (x) 21-year-old Multiple Murderer Narit Bunchien aka Archie, shoots 21-year-old An Phong, Steve Nguyen, Hoi Thanah and 15-year-old Mary Pham to death, who were supposedly burglarizing his house in Houston, Texas, USA.

1996 (x) Thirteenth bomb attack by 47-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Graz, Austria.
A mail-bomb is detected.

1999 (-) Triple murderer James Beathard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

8 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-08T03:59:00.000+01:00

Waiting for the bus with some monks near Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

1542 (+) Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is born in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1626 (+) Queen of Sweden Christina is born in Sweden.

1859 (-) Writer Thomas de Quincey dies at the age of 74 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1861 (+) Film pioneer Georges Meliès is born in Paris, France.

1864 (+) Artist Camille Claudel is born in Fère-en-Tardenois, France.

1864 (-) Mathematician George Boole dies of a fever attack at the age of 49 in Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland.

1865 (+) Composer Jean Johan Julius Christian Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland.

1909 (-) Murderer Abel Atherton is executed by hanging at the age of 30.

1913 (+) Poet Delmore Schwartz aka The European Son, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1916 (+) Filmmaker Richard O. Fleischer is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr is born in New York, New York, USA.

1926 (+) Writer and biographer of Adolf Hitler Joachim Clemens Fest is born in Berlin, Germany.

1930 (+) Actor Maximillian Schell is born in Vienna, Austria.

1936 (+) Actor David Carradine aka Kwai Chang Caine, is born in Hollywood, California, USA.

1937 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is arrested in Villa La Voulzie in Paris, La Celle Saint Cloud, France.

1941 (x) The United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the USA declare war to Japan.

1943 (+) Musician Jim James Douglas Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, USA.

1944 (-) Murderer Richard Harry Layton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 36 in Oregon, USA.

1953 (+) Actress Kim Basinger is born in Athens, Georgia, USA.

1954 (-) Mary Hogan is shot dead and parts of her body are made into various artefacts by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, in Plainfield, Wisconsin, USA.

1966 (+) Musician Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1966 (x) 217 Die in Heraklon ferry shipwreck in Kreta, Greece.

1969 (x) 93 Die in Olympic Airways DC-6B crash in Athens, Greece.

1973 (-) Betty Satlow dies of carbon monoxide poisoning in Hoquiam, Washington, USA.
Her body was taken to the mortuary where it was discovered later, burning inside the coffin.

1976 (-) Murderess Patty Bolin commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 40 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
She killed several members of her family.

1978 (-) Founder of the State of Israel Golda Meir originally Golda Mabovitz or Golda Myerson, dies of cancer at the age of 80 in Jerusalem, Israël.

1980 (-) Beatle John Winston Lennon is shot dead by 25-year-old David Mark Chapman at the age of 40 in New York, Dakota Building, New York, USA.

1981 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer William George Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is beaten up by Hillside Strangler Angelo Buono and John W. Stinson in his prison cell in California, USA.

1987 (-) Mass Murderer Frank Vitkovic commits suicide by jumping through an office window at the age of 22 in Melbourne, Queen Street, Victoria, Australia.
He went on a shooting rage, killing 8 people as he walked through the building.

1990 (-) Artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor dies at the age of 75 in Krakow, Poland.

1998 (-) Murderer Jeff Emery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Multiple murderer David Long is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer Claude Howard Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is shot dead during a performance by a member of the audience at the age of 38 in Columbus, Alrosa Villa Nightclub, Ohio, USA.
Three other people were also fatally shot before the police killed the gunman

7 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

2010-12-07T04:38:00.000+01:00

My room at a guesthouse near the river in Banglampoo, Bangkok, Thailand.

43bc (-) Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated by Centurion Herennius and Tribune Popilius at the age of 63 in Formia, Italy.

283 (-) Pope Eutychianus dies in Rome, Italy.

1254 (-) Innocentus IV originally Sinibaldo Fieschi, dies at the age of 59 in Naples, Italy.

1542 (+) Queen of Scots Mary is born in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1892 (-) Emeline Cigrand is murdered by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Chicago, Holmes Castle, Illinois, USA.

1912 (x) Explorer Ludwig Borchart discovers the buste of Queen Nefertete in Achet-Aton, Egypt.

1928 (+) Linguist and philosopher Auram Noam Chomsky is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1938 (-) Serial Poisoner Anna Maria Hahn is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Ohio, USA.

1941 (x) The Japanese Air-Force attacks Pearl Harbour.

1946 (x) 119 Die in Wine Coff Hotel fire in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1960 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, burns down a bus-barn with three school-buses in Iowa, USA.

1967 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years for car theft in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

1973 (+) Mass Murderer Charles Carl Roberts aka The Amish School Shooter, is born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.

1976 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Frans Hooymayers aka Brother Death, is convicted to 13 years imprisonment although he is suspected of killing over 100 elderly patients in the Luckerheide Clinic in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

1982 (-) Murderer Charles Jr Brooks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He is the first man to be executed by a mixture of Sodium Thipental aka Thruth Drug, Pancuronum Bromide and Potassium Chloride.

1983 (-) Richard Wayne is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 21 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Another unidentified male is found at the same location.

1983 (x) 93 Die in Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 and Avaiaco DC-9 collision in Madrid, Barajas International Airport, Spain.

1984 (-) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 55 in Jefferson, State Penitentiary, Unit 5C, Cell 213, Missouri, USA.
He hung himself with a piece of electric wire.

1987 (-) Mass murderer David Burke commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 35 in Cayucos, California, USA.
He killed both the pilot and co-pilot of a Pacific Southwest Flight 1771 British Aerospace BAe 146-200 causing the plane to crash with another 40 people on board. On an air-sickness bag he wrote "Hi Ray. I think it's sort of ironical that we ended up like this. I asked for some leniency for my family. Remember? Well, I got none and you'll get none."

1989 (-) Murderer Carlos Deluna is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1993 (x) 35-year-old Mass Murderer Colin Ferguson fires a Ruger handgun, round after round, in a commuter train riding from Manhattan to Long Island in New York, New York, USA.
He killed 6 and injured over 20.

1995 (-) Murderer Hai Hai Vuong is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-) Serial Killer Daniel Lee Corwin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Murderer Seiha Fujima is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2007 (-) Murderer Hiroki Fukawa is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2007 (-) Murderer Noboru Ikemoto is executed by hanging at the age of 75 in Osaka, Japan.

6 December 1999 - Singapore

2010-12-06T04:30:00.000+01:00

Thai girlfriends taking a break with a fried rice in a restaurant in Orchard Towers in Singapore.

1421 (+) King of England Henry VI is born in Windsor, United Kingdom.

1630 (x) 0-year-old Artist Peter Paul Rubens marries 16-year-old Helène Fourment in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1658 (-) Moralist, philosopher and Jesuit Baltasar Gracian y Morales dies at the age of 57 in Taragona, Spain.

1805 (-) Artist and inventor of the pencil Nicolas-Jacques Conté dies at the age of 50 in France.

1825 (+) Multiple murderer Dr. Edward William Pritchard is born in Southsea, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

1907 (x) 362 Die in coal-mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, USA.

1908 (+) Gangster George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1912 (-) Murderer Louis Willie is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.

1917 (x) Over 2000 Die in SS Mont Blanc explosion in Halifax, Canada.
Many die in the subsequent fire that rages through the city.

1920 (+) Musician Dave David Warren Brubeck is born in Concord, California, USA.

1923 (-) Adolf Hennies is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 19 in Hannover, Germany.

1928 (-) Wife-murderer Chung Yi Miao is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Manchester, Strangeways Gaol, United Kingdom.

1938 (-) Mass Murderess Martha Lowenstein Marek is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 34 in Vienna, Austria.

1941 (+) Artist Bruce Nauman is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.

1941 (+) Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, is born in Kirkwood, Illinois, USA.

1942 (+) Writer Peter Handke is born in Griffen, Carinthia, Austria.

1943 (-) Madge Knight dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 52 in Chichester, Sussex, United Kingdom.

1961 (-) Revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon dies of leukaemia at the age of 36 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

1964 (x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is committed to the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Atascadero, California, USA.
He shot dead his grandparents “to see how it would feel”.

1965 (x) Over 125 Die in 2 buses crash in Sotouboua, Togo.
They drove into a crowd of dancers.

1969 (-) Rock fan Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hell’s Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the age of 18 in Altamont, California, USA.
During a scuffle he had pulled a gun.

1969 (x) Several police cars are bombed by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen as a protest for the fatal shooting of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark two days before in Chicago, 3600 North Halsted Street, Illinois, USA.

1973 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is stabbed 32 times in his cell for bumping into a fellow inmate in Vaccaville Medical Facility, California, USA.
His left eye was removed in surgery.

1980 (-) An unidentified woman is raped, beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 75 in California, USA.

1985 (-) Serial Killer Carroll Edward Cole aka Silent Rage, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Carson City, Nevada, USA.

1985 (x) Twenty-seventh bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes on a Nato-pipeline in Wortegem-Petegem, West Flanders, Belgium.

1988 (-) Musician Roy Kelton Orbison dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA.

1989 (-) Mass Murderer Marc ‘Gamil Gharbi’ Lepine aka The Women-Hating Rambo, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 25 in Montreal, Engineering University Campus, Quebec, Canada.
He first killed 14 women and injured another 12 in a shooting rampage.

1993 (x) Fourth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Vienna, Austria.
Four bomb-letters arrive at various locations, three are detected before they explode, one women gets injured.

1994 (-) Murderer Herman Clark is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1995 (-) Murderer Robert O’Neal is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Montana, USA.
He was the first white man executed for the murder of a black man.

1995 (-) Murderer Bernard Amos is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1995 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux is imprisoned for car theft in Belgium.
While he is in prison 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starve to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle.

2000 (-) Multiple murderer Daniel Joe Hittle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Ernest West Basden is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2007 (x) 105 Die in coal mine explosion in Linfen, Shanxi, China.

5 December 1999 - Singapore

2010-12-05T04:30:00.000+01:00

A selftimer photo in front of an abandoned shack on a rarely used ex-military airport in Singapore.

1782 (+) 8th president of the USA Martin Van Buren is born in Kinderhook, New York, USA.

1791 (-) Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is presumably poisoned at the age of 35 in Vienna, Austria.

1870 (-) Writer Alexandre Dumas originally Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, dies at the age of 68 in Puys, Seine-Maritime, France.

1890 (+) Filmmaker Fritz Lang is born in Vienna, Austria.

1901 (+) Filmmaker Walt Walter Elias Disney is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1906 (+) Actor and filmmaker Otto Ludwig Preminger is born in Czernowitz, Hungary.

1926 (-) Artist Claude Oscar Monet dies of cataract at the age of 86 in Giverny, Aure, France.

1930 (x) 66 Die in a mysterious poisonous gas cloud in Liège, Liège, Belgium.

1932 (+) Musician Little Richard is born in Macon, Georgia, USA.

1947 (x) Magick Master Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast 666, is cremated in Brighton, United Kingdom.

1947 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is sentenced to 12 years hard labour in Braunschweig, Germany.

1949 (x) 34-year-old Sex-Murderer Frederick Ducharme is arrested, wearing only a raincoat and rubber boots, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1951 (+) Artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1953 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, marries Irmgard in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1962 (-) Sophie Clark is sexually assaulted and strangled as seventh victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 20 in Back Bay Boston, 315 Huntington Avenue, Massachussets, USA.

1966 (-) Retired Doctor Bentley dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 92 in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, USA.

1966 (+) Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is born in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

1968 (x) Start of the trial against 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, and Norma Bell in Newcastle, United Kingdom.

1970 (x) Five members of the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen are arrested for bomb attacks in New York, New York, USA.
All of them plead guilty.

1975 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, marries Betty Crawford in Chatham, Pennsylvania, USA.

1979 (-) Mira Kosecki is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 19 in Stari Log, Yugoslavia.

1983 (-) Filmmaker Robert Aldrich dies at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1983 (-) An unidentified boy is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Effingham county, Illinois, USA.

1991 (-) Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Joliet, Silver Cross Hospital, Illinois, USA.

1993 (x) Third bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Vienna, Austria.
Former Viennese Major Helmut Zilk gets injured. Two other bomb-letters are detected before they explode.

2000 (-) Murderer Garry Dean Miller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Robbie Lyons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2007 (-) Mass murderer Robert A. Hawkins commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Omaha, Westroads Mall, Nebraska, USA.
Before he killed 8 people with an AK-47 rifle, his suicide note read "I'm a piece of shit, now I'll be famous".

2007 (-) Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in Kürten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

4 December 2008 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-12-04T04:29:00.000+01:00

My 'performing sculpture' sawing through another artist's work at the Victim Design exhibition in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1850 (-) Inventor of electromagnets William Sturgeon dies at the age of 67 in Prestwich, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

1865 (+) Nurse Edith Louisa Cavell is born in Swardeston, United Kingdom.

1866 (+) Artist Wassily Vasiliewitsch Kandinsky is born in Moscow, Russia.

1871 (-) Pieternella Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, at the age of 1 in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1875 (+) Poet Rainer Maria Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Rilke is born in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

1881 (-) Mass Murderer Konrad Beck is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Berlin, Germany.

1892 (+) Caudillo of Spain Francisco Y Bahamonde Franco is born in El Ferrol, La Coruna, Spain.

1894 (-) Murderer James Canham Read is executed by hanging in Chelmsford, United Kingdom.

1910 (+) Actress Thelma White originally Thelma Wolpa aka Reefer Madness, is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

1924 (x) Start of the trial against 45-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover Schwürgericht, Germany.

1940 (+) Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is born in Waco, Texas, USA.

1944 (+) Beach Boy Dennis Wilson is born in Inglewood, California, USA.

1949 (+) Actor Jeff Bridges is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1953 (x) 28-year-old Murderer Vincent Ciucci chloroforms his wife Anne and their 3 children and shoots them through the head in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1955 (+) Musician Maurizio Bianchi aka M.B., is born in Pomponesco, Mantua, Italy.

1957 (x) 92 Die in train collision in London, United Kingdom.

1969 (-) Black Panther Mark Clark is shot dead in a police raid at the age of 22 in Chicago, 2337 W. Monroe Street, Illinois, USA.

1969 (-) Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton is shot dead in a police raid at the age of 21 in Chicago, 2337 W. Monroe Street, Illinois, USA.

1971 (-) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Georg von Rauch dies of a shot in the head at the age of 24 in Berlin, Schöneberg, Eisenacher Strasse, Germany.
He was shot dead by Kriminalhauptmeister Hans-Joachim Schulz after trying to move an observed Ford Transit van, he had his hands in the air and was unarmed.

1971 (x) During a concert by Composer Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, an unidentified man in the audience sets fire to the concert hall with a flare gun in Montreux, Casino, Switzerland.
The event is noted in Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water".

1971 (x) 100 Die in Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 Boeing 737-2H6 crash in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia.
The plane was presumably hijacked by a member of the Japanese Red Army who shot both pilots.

1974 (x) 191 Die in KLM DC-8 crash in Columbia, Sri Lanka.

1974 (x) 69-year-old Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre pays a visit to imprisoned terrorist Andreas Baader in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.

1976 (-) Composer Benjamin Britten dies at the age of 63 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

1980 (-) Prime minister Sa Carneiro dies in a plane crash in Portugal.

1981 (x) 28-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Stefan Werner Wisniewski is sentenced to two life sentences in Düsseldorf, Germany.

1985 (x) Twentysixth bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Antwerp, Bank of America, Antwerp, Belgium.

1985 (x) 56-year-old Sadist Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, is released from prison in Indiana, USA.

1986 (-) Murderer Michael W. Evans is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1993 (-) Composer Frank Zappa dies of cancer at the age of 52 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1993 (x) Second bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Vienna, Austria.
The package was addressed to president Helmut Schiller.

1997 (x) Serial Killer Moses Sithole is convicted on 38 counts of murder, 40 of rape and six of robbery, in Pretoria High Court, South Africa.
He is sentenced to 2,410 years in prison.

2002 (-) Double murderer Leonard Uresti Rojas is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Ivan Ray Jr. Murphy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

3 December 1999 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-12-03T04:13:00.001+01:00

Detail of an installation by Messieurs Delmotte at Walter's Store in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1857 (+) Writer Joseph Conrad originally Teodor Jozef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski, is born in Berdyczew, Ukraïne, Russia.

1883 (+) Composer Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern is born in Vienna, Austria.

1888 (-) Jack the Ripper-suspect Montague John Druitt commits suicide by drowning at the age of 31 in London, United Kingdom.

1888 (-) Optician Carl Zeiss dies at the age of 72 in Jena, Germany.

1889 (+) Jean Harlow’s husband Paul Bern originally Paul Levy, is born in Hamburg, Germany.

1894 (-) Writer and adventurer Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson dies of a stroke at the age of 44 in Vailima, Samoa, the South Pacific.

1911 (+) Composer Nino Rinaldi Rota is born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

1919 (-) Artist Pierre Auguste Renoir dies of arthritis at the age of 78 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.

1930 (+) Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is born in Paris, France.

1939 (x) 34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It was her second escape, she is recaptured after a couple of days.

1940 (-) Mathilde Hollesch is beaten up and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 22 in Berlin, Karlshorst, Germany.

1948 (+) Musician Ozzy Osbourne is born in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

1948 (+) Murderer Arthur Martin Boyd is born in North Carolina, USA.

1956 (-) Artist Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko dies at the age of 65 in Moscow, Russia.

1961 (+) Serial Killer Wayne Adam Ford aka The Breast Severer, is born in Petaluma, California, USA.

1966 (-) Cop Killer Jesus Garcia-Romero is executed by the Garotte at the age of 23 in Madrid, Carabanchel Prison, Spain.

1967 (x) 54-year-old Heart-patient Louis Washkansky is the first man to have a heart transplantation in Kaapstad, Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa.

1972 (x) 155 Die in Iberia charter crash in the Canary Islands.

1974 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his son Mike terrorize Helen Bogin, Ethel Fisher-Cohen, Thelma Suden and Anna Pearl-Frankston for several hours in their house in Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania, USA.

1977 (-) Agnes Cooney is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 23 in Calder Cruix, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

1979 (x) 11 fans die in a stampede at the entrance of a concert by The Who in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.

1979 (-) Kenneth Ockendon is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.

1980 (-) Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley aka The British Führer, dies at the age of 84 in Orsay, France.

1981 (-) Ilse Blumenthaler is assaulted, raped and deflowered by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.

1984 (x) Over 2500 Die in Union Carbide chemical plant explosion in Bhopal, India.

1993 (x) First bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Hartberg, Austria.
Priest August Janisch gets injured. Also at the Viennese ORF-Centrum a bomb explodes Silvana Meixner gets injured.

1995 (-) Serial Killer Gerard John Schaefer is stabbed to death by fellow inmate Vincent Rivera at the age of 49 in Florida, USA.

2003 (-) Double murderer Richard Charles Duncan is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2 December 2006 - Brussels, Belgium

2010-12-02T03:57:00.000+01:00

AMVK cutting a birthday cake that sports one of her own computer drawn artworks in Brussels, Belgium.

1264 (-) 182nd Pope Urbanus IV originally Jacques Pantaléon, dies at the age of 69 in Perugia, Italy.

1804 (x) 35-year-old War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as King in Paris, France.

1814 (-) Writer and philosopher Donatien Alphonse François De Sade dies at the age of 74 in France.

1859 (+) Artist Georges Seurat is born in Paris, France.

1891 (+) Artist Otto Dix is born in Gera, Germany.

1910 (-) Murderer Rafael Barela is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Florence, State Prison, Arizona, USA.

1910 (-) Murderer Cesario Sanchez is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1923 (+) Soprano Maria Callas originally Mengeghini-Calogeropoulou, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1936 (-) Murderer Albert Kessel is executed by the Gas Chamber in San Quentin, California, USA.
He is the first man to die in the Gas Chamber.

1944 (-) Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies at the age of 67 in Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy.

1946 (+) Manson Family-member Tex Charles Denton Watson is born in Copeville, Texas, USA.

1946 (+) Fashion designer Gianni Versace is born in Reggio Calabra, Italy.

1948 (-) Murderer George Russel is executed by hanging in Oxford Prison, United Kingdom.

1952 (+) Murderer Jose R. Villafuerte is born in Arizona, USA.

1956 (x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, plants a bomb in the Paramount Cinema in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1956 (+) Serial Killer David Edwin Mason is born in California, USA.

1969 (-) Joel Pugh is presumably killed by throatcutting by The Manson Family at the age of 29 in London, Targart Hotel, Targart Road, United Kingdom.

1973 (-) Cathy Fechtel is presumably shot dead as forty-second and forty-third victim by Zodiac at the age of 27 in Livermore, California, USA.

1976 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Konerak Sinthasomphone is born in Laos.

1979 (-) Deedah Goodarzi is murdered, hacked to pieces and set on fire by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 22 in New York, Travel Inn Motor Lodge, 515 West 42nd Street, Room 417, New York, USA.

1981 (-) Andrea Altiery aka Enchantement, is abducted and killed by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 23 in Anchorage, Boniface Mall, Alaska, USA.

1982 (-) Actor Martin “Marty” Alan Feldman dies of a heart attack due to shellfish food poisoning at the age of 48 in Mexico City, Mexico.

1983 (x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, is again sentenced to life-imprisonment after his first sentence was quashed in Beauvais, France.

1984 (-) Maffia-member Leonardo Vitale is shot dead in a mental hospital at the age of 46 in Italy.
He was the first maffia-member to show remorse and cooperate with the police.

1985 (x) The ashes from victims of the august 12th airplane crash are stolen from the crematorium in Gumma, Japan.

1990 (-) Composer Aaron Copland dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 90 in North Tarrytown, New York, USA.

1993 (-) Drug Baron Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar aka El Patron, is shot dead by a 500-men special police task-force at the age of 44 in Medellin, Colombia.

2004 (-) Musician Kevin Coyne dies of lung fibrosis at the age of 60 in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.

2006 (-) Shocking Blue singer Mariska Veres dies of cancer at the age of 59 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

1 December 2010 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-12-01T08:41:00.000+01:00

Edelweiss flowers spring through the snow on our rooftop rock garden in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1521 (-) 217th Pope Leo X originally Giovanni De Medici, dies at the age of 46 in Rome, Italy.

1761 (+) Wax sculptor Marie Tussaud originally Marie Grosholtz, is born in Strasbourg, France.

1830 (-) 253rd Pope Pius VIII originally Francesco Xaverio Cappeliari, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.

1866 (-) Surveyor George Everest dies at the age of 76 in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

1933 (+) Musician Lou Allen Rawls is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1935 (+) Actor and filmmaker Woody Allen originally Allen Konigsberg, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1942 (x) The first transport of jews arrives in the concentration-camp in Birkenau, Germany.

1945 (+) Musician Bette Midler is born in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.

1947 (-) Magick Master Aleister Edward Alexander Crowley aka The Great Beast 666, dies of myocardial degeneration and chronic bronchitis at the age of 72 in Netherwood, The Ridge, Hastings, United Kingdom.

1949 (+) Drug Baron Pablo Emilio Gaviria Escobar aka El Patron, is born in Medellin, Colombia.

1957 (-) Robert Colvert is robbed and shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 21 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

1958 (x) 95 Die in Our Lady of Angels parochial school fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
It turned out to be a case of arson by a 10-year-old boy who confessed in 1962.

1961 (+) Cannibal and murderer Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister, is born in Germany.

1965 (x) The death-sentence of 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is commuted to life-imprisonment in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

1969 (-) Elaine Davis is presumably killed as ninth victim by Zodiac in California, USA.

1973 (-) Architect of Israël David Gruen Ben Gurion dies at the age of 87 in Tel-Aviv, Israël.

1974 (-) An unidentified man is killed as first victim by The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1974 (x) 92 Die in Trans World Airlines Flight 514 Boeing 727-231 crash in Mount Weather, Virginia, USA.

1981 (x) 178 Die in Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crash in Corsica, France.

1982 (x) 61-year-old The first man with an artificial heart, Barney Clark has a heart transplantation in Salt Lake City, Utah,

1987 (-) Terrorist Shinichi Hachiya commits suicide by poisoning at the age of 69 in Bahrein, airport, Saudi-Arabia.
Along with 27-year-old Mayume Akabe he was arrested on suspicion of planting the bomb in the Boeing that exploded 2 days before in Birma. Later the two were identified as Korean agents Kim Sung-il and Kim Hyun-hee.

1987 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is arrested in Paris, France.

1987 (x) Jean-Marie Rouillan, Nathalie Menigon, Joëlle Aubron and Georges Cipriani, leaders of the Terrorist Movement Action Directe start hungerstriking in prison in Paris, France.

1987 (-) Susan Tucker is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

2007 (x) 57-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, walks into a police station and claims loss of memory in London, United Kingdom.
He had been missing after a trip on the North Sea on 21 march 2002 and declared dead.

30 November 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

2010-11-30T04:46:00.000+01:00

A cut in my foot in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1648 (+) Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, is born in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.

1667 (+) Writer Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1774 (-) Highwayman Jack Rann aka 16-String Jack, is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.

1810 (+) Gunsmith Oliver Winchester is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1824 (-) Forger Henry Fauntleroy Esq. is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1835 (+) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is born in Florida, Missouri, USA.

1874 (+) Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is born in Woodstock, United Kingdom.

1885 (-) Wife-Murderer Robert Goodale is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Norwich Castle, United Kingdom.

1900 (-) Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde dies of meningitis at the age of 46 in Paris, France.

1903 (-) Murderer Tom Horn is executed by hanging.
On the scaffold he shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve ar you, Joe?”.

1908 (x) 154 Die in coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, USA.

1918 (+) Actor Efrem Zimbalist is born in New York, New York, USA.

1923 (-) Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean dies of pneumonia at the age of 44 in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Broken in health, but not in spirit.

1925 (-) Murderer W. R. Lloyd is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.

1936 (+) Anarchist Abie Abbott Howard Hoffman is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

1937 (+) Cyclist Tom Simpson is born in Haswell, Durham, United Kingdom.

1937 (+) Filmmaker Ridley Scott is born in South Shields, United Kingdom.

1940 (+) Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is born in Vienna, Austria.

1941 (+) War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is born in Tikrit, Iraq.

1946 (+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ralf Baptist Friedrich is born in Landsweiler-Reden, Germany.

1953 (-) Artist Francis Picabia dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.

1955 (+) Musician Billy Idol originally William Michael Broad, is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1956 (-) Rapist and murderer James Bowman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.

1957 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks an unidentified 29-year-old nurse in Monte à l’Abbé, Jersey.

1957 (+) IRA-member Thomas McElwee originally Tomas Mac Giolla Bhuidhe, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.

1962 (-) Murderer Lowell Lee Andrews is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.

1962 (-) Oskar Seidel is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Neuhaus, Sparkasse, Germany.

1981 (-) Jim Griffin is handcuffed and severely beaten up by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, North Dearborn Street, Illinois, USA.
He survived.

1987 (-) Writer James Baldwin dies of esophageal cancer at the age of 63 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.

1989 (-) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is blown to pieces in his armoured Mercedes-Benz by Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 59 in Bad Homborg, Germany.

1989 (x) 37-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is released from prison in Willich, Germany.

1994 (-) Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 62 in Champot, France.

1994 (x) 23-year-old Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, is shot fwice in the head, twice in the groin and once in the arm by two unidentified robbers and dies of respiratory failure in Manhattan, Quad Recording Studios, New York, USA.

1996 (-) Musician Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka Tiny Tim, dies at the age of 64 in Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, USA.
While playing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis he suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led out by his wife, Susan Marie Gardner, who asked him if he was okay. Tim responded, "No, I'm not!" Those were to be his final words. He collapsed shortly thereafter and was rushed to a hospital where he died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for an hour and fifteen minutes.

1997 (-) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker dies of breast cancer at the age of 50 in Tijuana, Mexico.

2001 (-) Murderer John Hardy Rose is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2007 (-) Daredevil Evel Robert Craig Knievel dies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 69 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.

29 November 2002 - Gent, Belgium

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The setting of a rare Club Moral music performance on the occasion of an AMVK book launch in Gent, Belgium.

741 (-) Pope Gregorius III dies in Rome, Italy.

1268 (-) Pope Clementius IV originally Guy Faucoi le Gros, dies in Viterbo, Italy.

1643 (-) Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies at the age of 76 in Venice, Italy.

1803 (-) Child-Murderer Caleb Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in Windham, Connecticut, USA.

1803 (+) Physicist Johann Christian Andreas Doppler is born in Salzburg, Austria.

1826 (-) Highwayman James Boyce from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1826 (-) Highwayman James Goulby from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1826 (-) Highwayman Robert King from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1826 (-) Highwayman George Nicholls from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1826 (-) Highwayman John Robinson from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1859 (+) Serial Killer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster, is born in Charlestown, Massachussets, USA.

1880 (-) Murderer Thomas Wheeler is executed by hanging in London, St Alban's Prison, United Kingdom.

1881 (-) Murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton aka The Chinless Killer, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Lewes, Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.

1894 (-) Murderer Thomas Richards is executed by hanging in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom.

1924 (-) Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michale Secondo Puccini dies of throat cancer at the age of 65 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1933 (+) Musician John Mayall is born in Macclesfield, United Kingdom.

1933 (+) Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.

1940 (+) Singer-songwiter Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty is born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

1947 (+) Peace activist and founder of ‘Die Grünen’, the German Green Party Petra Karin Kelly is born in Günzburg, Germany.

1951 (x) 46-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It’s her fourth escape, she is captured a few hours later.

1963 (x) 118 Die in Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 Douglas DC-8 crash in Montreal, St. Therese, Canada.

1971 (x) 49-year-old ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht is kidnapped by Hans Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Kron in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He was released 17 days later after paying a ransom of seven million DM.

1973 (x) 101 Die in department store fire in Kumamoto, Japan.

1974 (x) 40-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof Is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Germany.

1975 (-) World Champion Formule 1 Racing, Graham Hill crashes in a Piper Aztec airplane at the age of 46 in London, Arkley Golf Course, United Kingdom.
Five more members of his team also die.

1980 (x) 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "This Week I Was Beaten Up - 2" and "Eternity Forever - 2" with The Simpletones at Mixage Festival in Utrecht, Schouwburg, the Netherlands.

1981 (-) Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, commits suicide by drowning at the age of 43 in Santa Catalina Island, California, USA.

1983 (x) Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is arrested while raping an unidentified girl in Bockenheim, Germany.

1986 (-) Sandra Lindsay is abducted and chained down by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, 3520 North Marshall Street, Pennsylvania, USA.
She survived.

1986 (-) Actor Cary Grant originally Alexander Archibald Leach, dies of a stroke at the age of 82 in Davenport, Iowa, USA.

1987 (x) 115 Die in Korean Airlines Flight 858 Boeing 707 explosion in Bay of Bengal, Birma.
The plane was supposed to be sabotaged.

1987 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is arrested in Paris, France.

1995 (-) Rapist and murderer Anthony Larette is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.

1996 (-) Minimal Artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin dies at the age of 63 in Riverhead, New York, USA.

1998 (x) Mass Murderer Seth Privacky kills his 50-year-old parents Stephen C. and Linda Privacky, his 78-year-old grandfather John J. Privacky and his 19-year-old brother and his girlfriend Jedediah J. Privacky and April A. Boss in Muskegon, Michigan, USA.

2001 (-) Beatle George Harrison aka L’Angelo Misterioso, dies of lung cancer at the age of 58 in Los Angeles, California, USA.