Monday, December 31, 2007

31 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A young actor in a street theater in Chinatown, Bangkok.

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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 Matisse is born in Bohin-en-Vermandois, France.
1877 (-) Artist Gustave Courbet dies at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.
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 Rudolf Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is destroyed by fire in Dornach, 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.
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.
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 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 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 in Georgia.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

30 december 2006 - Berlin, Germany


Detail of a blood painting by Hermann Nitsch in a retrospective exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.

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, Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Germany.
1910 (+) Writer Paul Bowles is born in Queens, New York, USA.
1928 (+) Musician Bo Diddley originally Elias Otha Bates, is born in McComb, Mississippi, USA.
1932 (-) Murderess Daisy De Melker is executed by hanging in Pretoria, South Africa.
She presumably killed her husband and son. Two more husbands and four children had died suspiciously.
1937 (-) Child-Murderer Frederick Hodder aka Uncle Fred Hudson, is executed by hanging in Nottingham, Lincoln Prison, United Kingdom.
1941 (-) Artist El Lissitsky dies at the age of 51 in Moscow, Russia.
1944 (x) 102 Die in train derailment in Mandalay, Myitkyina, Birma.
1946 (+) Musician Patti Smith is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1947 (-) Painter and forger Han Van Meegeren dies of heart-failure at the age of 58 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1956 (x) Art destructor Hugo 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.
1974 (-) Arsonist murderer Anthony 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 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".
2006 (-) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

29 december 1999 - Taling Chan, Thailand


Late night dinner at my favourite foodstall at the busstop in Taling Chan.

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 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.
1926 (-) Poet Rainer Maria 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 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 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 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.

Friday, December 28, 2007

28 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A strange staring character on my daily ride home with the last bus n° 123 from Thanon Maharat via Sanam Luang to Taling Chan.

1811 (-) Multiple Murderer John Williams commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 27.
1856 (+) 28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, USA.
1888 (+) Filmmaker Friedrich Murnau is born in Bielefeld, Germany.
1890 (x) 175 Sioux are massacred in Wounded Knee, USA.
1925 (+) Actress and musician Hildegard 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 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 Ravel dies after brain surgery at the age of 62 in Paris, France.
1945 (-) Writer Theodore 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.
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 Willie aka Dead Man Walking, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 27 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.
1987 (x) Mass Murderer Gene Simmons gets fired at his job and kills 7 in a shooting spree in Russelville, Arkansas, USA.
2001 (-) Serial Killer Larry 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.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

27 december 2007 - Borgerhout, Belgium


Candles blown out by the wind early in the morning after another legendary party at our house in Borgerhout.

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 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 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 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, at the age of 17 in Burntbroom, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1960 (+) Multiple Murderer Ricky 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.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

26 december 1999 - Ayutthaya, Thailand


My faithful guides Asarin and Jim on a bicycle trip through the old Siam capital of Ayutthaya.
Asarin where are you?


1883 (+) Artist Maurice Utrillo is born in Paris, Montmartre, Rue du Poteau, France.
1891 (+) Writer Henry 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.
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, The Great Beast and Ninette Fraux, Astarte Crowley is born in Thelema Abbey, Cicily.
1939 (+) Musician and record producer Phil Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
1950 (+) Serial Killer Randy 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 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 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.
1996 (-) Child Beauty Queen JonBenet 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 Ford dies of pneumonia at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

25 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


Audio junkies repairing cassetteplayers, televisions, videorecorders and all kinds of electronic equipment in makeshift stalls on Thanon Damrong in Bangkok.

795 (-) 95th Pope Hadrianus I dies in Rome, Italy.
1863 (+) Film pioneer Charles Pathé is born in Paris, France.
1871 (+) Composer Alexander Skrjabin is born in Moscow, Russia.
1882 (+) Make-up queen Helena Rubinstein is born in Krakow, Poland.
1885 (+) Actor John Bowers originally John E Bowersox, is born in Garrett, Indiana, USA.
1887 (+) Hotel-magnate Conrad 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.
1899 (+) Actor Humphrey 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.
1914 (+) Murderer Grady Cole is born in Arizona, USA.
1918 (+) President Anwar Sadat is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt.
1924 (+) Twilight Zone host Rod Serling is born in Syracuse, New York, USA.
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 Chaplin dies at the age of 88 in Vaud, Switzerland.
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 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 Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Monday, December 24, 2007

24 december 1999 - Taling Chan, Thailand


A homeless person spending Christmas Eve in front of the shop of a gas station in Taling Chan, Bangkok.

1491 (+) Jezuït Ignatius De Loyola is born in Loyola, Italy.
1524 (-) Explorer Vasco da Gama dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Kochi, India.
1885 (-) Mrs Rooney dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ottawa, Illinois, USA.
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 Reinhardt is born in New York, New York, USA.
1922 (+) Actress Ava Gardner is born in Brogden, North Carolina, USA.
1932 (+) Artist On Kawara is born in Kariya, Japan.
1935 (-) Composer Alban Berg dies of blood poisoning due to an insect bite at the age of 50 in Vienna, Austria.
1939 (+) Serial Killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman, is born in Fort Wayne, Waynedale, Indiana, 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.
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 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 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.
1987 (x) 48-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Simmons kills 7 members of his family whom he invited for a christmas party at his home in Russelville, Arkansas, USA.
Several days before, he killed another 7, including his wife and 4 children.
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.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

23 december 2006 - Bern, Switzerland


An anti-riot van of the Swiss police stationed in Bern.

1805 (+) Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Smith is born in Sharon, Vermont, USA.
1890 (-) Murderess Mary Pearcey is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.
1926 (-) Murderer Petrus 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 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.
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 Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Norwood Park, Summerdale 8213, Illinois, USA.
1979 (-) Art collector Peggy 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 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, 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 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.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

22 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


The clerk at the post-office across the Royal Palace who at first refused to gave me a postbox address but completely changed his mind when I came back with Sutee and gave me one at the office in Banglamphu, Bangkok.

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 Puccini is born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
1876 (+) Artist Emilio Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
1883 (+) Composer Edgard Varèse is born in Paris, France.
1902 (-) Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing aka 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.
1953 (-) Rapist and Murderer Alfred 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 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 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 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 (-) Lisa Thomas is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 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 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.

Friday, December 21, 2007

21 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


Some from the Silpakorn crew on a Christmas school market in Bangkok.

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 Böll is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1918 (+) Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt 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.
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 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 Ortiz is born in Arizona, USA.
1942 (-) Murderer Henry 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 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 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 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.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

20 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


Posters showing the way to my studio at Silpakorn University in Bangkok.

1800 (+) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre 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 has written "Mein Kampf".
1927 (x) 33-year-old Nazi leader Rudolf Hess marries 27-year-old Ilse Pröhl in Berlin, Germany.
1941 (x) Belgium declares war to Italy.
1946 (+) Psychic Uri 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 Steinbeck dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.
1968 (-) David Faraday is 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 Blanco is killed in an ETA bomb-attack in Spain.
1974 (-) Composer André Jolivet dies at the age of 69 in Paris, France.
1975 (-) Susan Bickrest is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano 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.
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 Filippines.
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 Sagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

19 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A parade with a large dragon somewhere along Silom in Bangkok.

1370 (-) 200th Pope Urbanus V originally Guillaume de Grimoard, dies at the age of 61 in Rome, Italy.
1848 (-) Writer Emily Brontë dies of a bad cold and tuberculosis at the age of 30 in Haworth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
1883 (-) Hendrik Frankenhuizen is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1906 (+) Statesman Leonid 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 Quinton dies at the age of 44 in Puerto Rico.
1931 (x) 34-year-old Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels marries Johanna Maria Magdalena ‘Engelchen’ Behrend in Severin, Germany.
1934 (-) Husband Murderess Ethel 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 supposed 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.
1967 (x) Serial Killer Hans Van Zon is arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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 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.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

18 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A magician in the bustling street of Soi Wanit on the border of Pahurat and Chinatown in Bangkok.

1737 (-) Violin craftsman Antonio Stradivari dies at the age of 94 in Cremona, Italy.
1863 (+) Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen is born in Graz, Austria.
1879 (+) Artist Paul Klee is born in Munchen-Buchesee, Switzerland.
1879 (+) Statesman Josef Stalin is born in Gori, Georgia, Russia.
1890 (+) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Armstrong is born in New York, New York, USA.
1892 (x) First performance of the ballet "The Nutcracker" by Composer Peter 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 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 Biko is born in King William's Town, South Africa.
1947 (+) Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
1948 (+) Serial Killer Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is born in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
1948 (-) Janet Fay is hammered to death by Marta Beck and Ray Fernandez aka The Honeymoon 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 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.

Monday, December 17, 2007

17 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


Waiting with a monk on the pier for the last river-express boat in Bangkok.

1833 (-) Kaspar 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.
1909 (-) King of Belgium Leopold II Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha dies of heart failure at the age of 74 in Brussels, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.
1914 (+) Murderer Raymond Fernandez of the Lonely Hearts Killers couple, 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 Brunner aka Marioche aka Mother Mary, is born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA.
1947 (-) Criminologist Bernard Spilsbury commits suicide by gas poisoning at the age of 70 in London, Bloomsbury, University College, United Kingdom.
1953 (-) Kidnapper and Murderer Carl Hall is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.
1953 (-) Kidnapper and Murderess Bonnie 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 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 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, 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.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

16 december 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium


Musician Jeroen Stevens at a Catholic performance in the Freaks end Future record shop in Antwerpen. The Freaks still owe us 2000 € from cd-sales, someday I will burn down these rip-offs their shop.

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 Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is born in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany.
1859 (-) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm 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 Arthur C. Clarke is born in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.
1935 (-) Actress Thelma Todd 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 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".
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) 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 Murderer Gary 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 Terrorist Movement CCC 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.
1993 (-) Rapist and murderer David Pruett is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.
1998 (x) Serial Child Killer Pedro Garcia aka Carlos Alberto Woods Salazar aka Pedro Pechuga, is arrested in Pereira, Colombia.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

15 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A Landrover series III 109" in the courtyard of Silpakorn University in Bangkok.

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 Eiffel is born in 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-magnate and billionaire Jean Paul Getty is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1921 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Marcel 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 Freed is born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA.
1930 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert 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 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.
1971 (x) 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 Meanes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer Sammie Felder is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, December 14, 2007

14 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A busdriver manoeuvering his vehicle through the traffic jam on Thanon Samdet Phra Pin Klao in Bangkok.

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.
1896 (+) Writer Paul Eluard is born in Paris, St. Denis, France.
1903 (-) Wife-murderer William 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 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.
1923 (+) Writer Gerard Reve is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1935 (+) Actress Lee 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.
1946 (+) Actress and musician Jane 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.
1973 (-) Kathy Scharf is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano 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 Prado dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

13 december 2005 - Borgerhout, Belgium


Upcoming lonely christmas atmosphere in Borgerhout.

1521 (+) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, is born in Grottamare, Italy.
1740 (+) Composer Franz 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 Heine is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1863 (+) Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl 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 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 Kandinsky dies at the age of 78 in Paris, France.
1944 (-) Actress Lupe 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 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.
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) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is convicted to 30 years imprisonment in Winchester, Jersey.
1973 (-) Marietta Di Girolamo is shot by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 31 in San Francisco, California, USA.
Her friend Agnos survived.
1973 (x) 42-year-old Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim Jones is arrested for solliciting a vice officer in a cinema-toilet in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He had been watching 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 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.
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.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

12 december 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A fine traffic jam in central Bangkok.

1777 (-) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller 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 von Rundstedt is born in Aschersleben, Germany.
1883 (-) Mien Frankenhuizen-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands.
1885 (+) Artist Wladimir Tatlin is born in Moscow, Russia.
1901 (x) 27-year-old Scientist Guglielmo 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 (+) Musician Frank Sinatra 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 Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, is born in New York, New York, USA.
1934 (x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert 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 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 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 (-) Murderer Vincent Cooks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

11 december 1999 - Taling Chan, Thailand


A large worm caught under the house of an artist. Usually they pour whisky over it in a jar, let the worm die in it and rest for 24 hours. Then you drink it to become a strong man.

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 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 Marais is born in Cherbourg, France.
1916 (+) Composer and musician Pérez Prado is born in Matanzas, Cuba.
1918 (+) Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia.
1919 (+) War leader Marshall Abdel 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 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.
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 16 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 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 Collier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, December 10, 2007

10 december 1999, Bangkok, Thailand


A deformed beggar making his way on the pavement in Pahurat, Bangkok.

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 the 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 the Belgians 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 Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, dies of a stroke at the age of 63 in Sanremo, Italy.
1908 (+) Composer Olivier 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.
1931 (-) Murderer Henry 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 "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 (-) Pamela J. is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Baltimore, Homeland, Maryland, USA.
His son Mike accompanied him.
1978 (-) Filmmaker Edward D. 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 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 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 Lockhart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Murderer Desmond 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.