When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: January 2007

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

31 january 2007 - Rotterdam, Netherlands

The broken neon light lettering on the Centraal Station of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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

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

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

1949 (+) Serial Killer Robert Berdella is born in Cuhahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.

1955 (-) Founder of the WMCA John Mott dies at the age of 89 in the USA.

1959 (-) Jack Larber dies of spontaneous human combustion in San Francisco, California, USA.

1964 (x) Serial Killer Wladimir Ionesyan aka Iwan The Axeman, is sentenced to death for 5 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.

1974 (-) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn dies at the age of 91 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) Serial Killer Charles 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.

1994 (-) Writer Pierre Boulle dies at the age of 81 in France.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

30 january 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A screen capture of an old documentary movie about "Sao Ching Cha" outside Wat Suthat in Bangkok, Thailand.
In this ceremony, monks swing from Sao Ching Cha or the Great Swing, trying to grab a bag of coins placed on one of the pillars. The ceremony was discontinued in 1935 after several fatal accidents. The last renovations were done in 1959.

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

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.

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

1933 (x) 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.

1948 (-) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright dies at the age of 78 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1948 (-) Mahatma Ghandi 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 at the age of 75.

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) 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 aka Blind Fury, in Daytona, Florida, USA.

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

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

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

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

1998 (-) Murderer Ricky Sanderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in North Carolina, USA.

Monday, January 29, 2007

29 january 2004 - Singapore

A late night dinner of green curry chicken at Serangoon Road in Singapore.

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

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

1880 (+) Filmmaker W.C. Fields originally William Claude Dukenfield, is born in the 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) Serial Killer Jeanne Weber is brought to trial for the strangling of 2 children, but found not guilty in Paris, France.

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

1930 (x) Serial Killer Marcel 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.

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

1941 (-) Dictator Metaxas commits suicide in Greece.

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 Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.

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

1979 (x) Murdereress Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school because she didn't like mondays in San Diego, California, USA.
She killed the principal and the janitor and wounded 9 children.

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) Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is sentenced to 40 years in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

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

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

Sunday, January 28, 2007

28 january 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

A figure detail from the diorama 'Plunge' by Ferdinand Hodler in the Alpines Museum in Bern, Switzerland.
Taking his theme from the triumph and tragedy in the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, Hodler created two gigantic dioramas in 1865 and 1894 measuring 7,25 x 4,35m each for the World's Fair in Antwerp. They are a symbolic representation of human fate in general.

1596 (-) Explorer Sir Francis Drake dies of dysenteria at the age of 56.

1725 (-) Peter the Great dies of an inflammation of the bladder at the age of 53.

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

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

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

1829 (-) Murderer 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.

1881 (-) Writer Fjodor Dostojewski dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 60 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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

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

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

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

1936 (+) Actor Alan Alda originally Alphonso D’Abruzzo, is born in New York, 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 74 in Roquebrune, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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

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

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, Germany.

1978 (x) Serial Killer Richard 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 1 min 12 sec after take-off in the 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'.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

27 january 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A walk in Rivierenhof park outside Antwerpen, Belgium.

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

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

1892 (+) Composer Mitya Stillman is born.

1901 (-) Composer Giuseppe Verdi dies of a stroke at the age of 88 in Milan, Italy.

1906 (+) Actress Starr 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.

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 wounded 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 4 in Space.

1972 (-) Musician Mahalia Jackson dies of a heart-attack at the age of 60 in the 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 ‘Manson’-documentary.

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.

1979 (-) Politician Nelson A. Rockefeller dies at the age of 70 in the USA.

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 in France.

Friday, January 26, 2007

26 january 2003 - Dublin, Ireland

A crumpled page about the murder of John F. Kennedy recovered from artist Francis Bacon's studio in Dublin, Ireland.

1880 (+) General Douglas MacArthur is born in the USA.

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

1925 (+) Actor Paul Newman is born in Cleveland, Ohio, 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.

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

1948 (x) 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery, presumably by 56-year-old Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa in Tokio, Imperial Bank, Japan.
He posed as a health officer, and ordered16 employees to drink some "dysentery medicine", what was really potassium cyanide.

1962 (-) Gangster Charlie Luciano aka Lucky Luciano, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 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) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

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) Family leader Charles 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 Group in Germany.

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

Thursday, January 25, 2007

25 january 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The hole I am "Diggin' for Gordon" at an unknown location in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1882 (+) Writer Virginia 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.

1943 (-) Actor Spencer Charters commits suicide by coal-monoxide poisoning combined with sleeping tablets at the age of 68 in California, USA.

1947 (-) Gangster Al Capone dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 48 in Palm Island, Florida, 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 and 4-year-old Damon Francis Gianera are shot dead by Herbert Mullin at the age of 24 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) Nazi leader Klaus Barbie 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.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

24 january 2004 - Singapore

A tropical rainstorm at Newton Circus Food Court in Singapore.

45 (-) Caligula is assassinated by persons unknown in Rome, Italy.

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

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 (+) Artist Vito Acconci is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

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

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

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

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

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

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 (-) Artist Joseph Beuys dies of heart-failure at the age of 65 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1989 (-) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 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.

1992 (-) Murderer Rickey Rector is executed by lethal injection 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.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

23 january 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

A walk on a snowy mountain during feiertag at the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland.

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

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

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

1923 (x) The furniture, including the stove, of 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 Pavlova dies at the age of 49 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.

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.

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

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, Greece.

1976 (-) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Sorokin dies of natural cause 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.

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

1997 (-) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in State Prison, Florence, 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) Serial Killer Andonis Daglis 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.

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

Monday, January 22, 2007

22 january 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

All day down with flu and high fever among the visionary demons of the Dürrenmatt Mansarde in Bern, Switzerland.

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

1875 (+) Filmmaker David Wark Griffith is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, USA.

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

1901 (-) Queen Victoria dies at the age of in the United Kingdom.
Her death marks the end of the Victorian Age.

1922 (-) 257th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.

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

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

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

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

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

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 at the age of 64 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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

1980 (x) Physicist Andrei Sakharov is arrested by the KGB and expelled to Gorki in Russia.

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

Sunday, January 21, 2007

21 january 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The music band Club Moral on the night I left for Kuala Lumpur, a city where I didn't know anybody and nobody knew me.

1791 (-) King Louis XVI is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.

1855 (+) Inventor and designer John Browning is born.

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

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

1924 (+) Actor Telly 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 originally Alfie Hill, is born in Southampton, United Kingdom.

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

1938 (+) DJ Wolfman Jack is born in the USA.

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

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

1941 (+) Musician Placido Domingo is born in Barcelona, Spain.

1944 (+) Murderer and litterary talent Jack Henry Abbott from 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 57 in London, United Kingdom.

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

1959 (-) Filmmaker Cecil Blount De Mille dies 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 dies at the age of 73 in 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 Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.

1984 (-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller aka Tarzan, dies at the age of 80 in a mental hospital in Acapulco, Mexico.

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

1997 (-) Colonel Tom Parker aka The Man Who Made Elvis, dies at the age of 87 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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

Saturday, January 20, 2007

20 january 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

Evening Dinner in 'Der Goldene Schluessel' in Bern, Switzerland.

1774 (-) Composer Florian Gassmann dies at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.

1896 (+) Actor George Burns originally Nathan Birnbaum, is born in New York, New York, USA.

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 Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in the USA.

1936 (-) King of England George V dies at the age of 71 in Sandringham, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

1946 (+) Filmmaker David Lynch is born in the USA.

1959 (+) Serial Killer Joel 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 Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

1968 (x) Filmmaker Roman Polanski marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.

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, United Kingdom.

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

1985 (x) An unidentified member of the RAF is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.

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

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

1997 (-) The oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Haisman dies at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.

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

Friday, January 19, 2007

19 january 2005 - Bern, Switzerland

First snow of the year in Bern, Switzerland.

1809 (+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in the USA.

1866 (-) Murderess Martha Grinder is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.

1870 (-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 28 in Paris, France.

1921 (+) Writer Patricia Highsmith is born in the United Kingdom.

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

1935 (+) Actress Tippi Hedren is born.

1938 (+) Musician Phil Everly is born in Brownie, Kentucky, USA.

1943 (+) Musician Janis Joplin is born in the USA.

1946 (+) Musician and actress Dolly Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.

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

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) Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born To Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1969 (-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation in Lille, 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.

1982 (-) Leader of the ‘Red Orchestra’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77.

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

Thursday, January 18, 2007

18 january 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

An abandoned printshop in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1574 (-) Gilles Garnier aka The Werewolf of Dole, is executed by burning at the stake in Dole, France.

1803 (-) Wife- and child-murderer George Foster is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, United Kingdom.

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

1892 (+) Actor Oliver Hardy is born in the USA.

1904 (+) Actor Cary Grant originally Alexander Archibald Leach, is born in the USA.

1913 (+) Actor Danny Kaye originally David Kaminsky, is born.

1920 (-) Artist Amadeo Modigliani dies at the age of 35 in Paris, France.

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

1929 (x) 4 policemen are killed by Cop Killer Ije Wijkstra in Groningen, the Netherlands.

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

1942 (+) Heavy-weight Boxing champion Muhammed Ali is born.

1946 (-) Murderer Joseph Wessel is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in 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.

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.

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.

1989 (-) Mass Murderer Patrick 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 in a school at the age of 24 in Stockton, California, USA.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

17 january 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Poster in an abandoned brothel where I performed "Only the Lonely" in Antwerpen, Belgium.

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

1706 (+) Politician and inventor Benjamin Franklin is born in France.
The inventor of the lightning-conductor

1874 (-) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke, and the other one of fear, at the age of 63 in the USA.
They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and lifted right testicle.

1894 (x) 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 Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is born in Auxerre, 100 Rue de Paris, Yonne, France.

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

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

1928 (+) Designer Vidal Sassoon is born.

1933 (+) Musician Dalida originally Yolande Christina Gigliotti, is born in Caïro, Egypt.

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

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

1975 (x) 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 (-) Murderer Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in State Prison, Utah, USA.

1978 (x) 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.

2005 (-) Actress Thelma White dies of pneumonia at the age of 94 in Motion Picture and Television Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA.
She was famous for her portrayal of a hard-boiled addiction queen in the 1936 cult movie 'Reefer Madness'.

2005 (-) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies of a stroke 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.

16 january 2004 - Gent, Belgium

AMVK interviewed by Jan Van Hove in the "HeadRoom" at the SMAK in Gent, Belgium.

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

1919 (-) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt dies of a heart-attack at the age of 61 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.

1936 (-) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 66 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.

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

1957 (-) Composer Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 90 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 (-) Patrice Lumumba is assasinated while imprisoned by Joseph Kasavubu in Katanga, Belgian Congo.

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 (-) Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 21 in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

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

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

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 Canada.

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

1985 (-) Multiple Murderer Doyle Skillern is executed by lethal injection in the 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.

Monday, January 15, 2007

15 january 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

My performance "Pain" in an abandoned Land Rover in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

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

1919 (-) Karl Liebknecht is assassinated by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 48 in Germany.

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

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

1968 (-) ‘Gloomy Sunday’-composer Reszoe Seres commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 69 in Budapest, Hungary.

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 batterd but survived.

1985 (x) Thirteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, Nato Cultural Centre, Brabant, Belgium.

1986 (-) Paris-Dakar rally-organiser Thierry Sabine dies in a helicopter-crash at the age of 36 in the African desert.

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.

1999 (-) Gangster Meyer Lansky dies of a heart-attack in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

1999 (-) Dramatist Jerzy Grotowski dies of cancer at the age of 66 in Toscany, Italy.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

14 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

A tasty hotpot dinner at a foodstall next to the busstop in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

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

1799 (-) 1st president of the USA George Washington dies of an infection and swelling of the trachea at the age of 67 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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

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

1909 (+) Filmmaker Joseph Losey is born in the USA.

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

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

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

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

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

1946 (+) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold 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 Mass Murderer Billy Cook in the USA.

1957 (-) Actor Humphrey Bogart dies of cancer at the age of 58 in the USA.

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.

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.

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

Saturday, January 13, 2007

13 january 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium

An abandoned brothel where I did a performance "Only the Lonely" in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1874 (+) Occult Teacher George Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Leniniakin, Russia.

1908 (x) Over 100 Die in Rhodes Opera House cinema fire in Boyertown, USA.

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

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

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

1928 (-) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Winnipeg, Canada.

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

1941 (-) Writer James Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 59 in Zurich, Switzerland.

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

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

1944 (x) Serial Killer Marcel 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.

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

1981 (x) 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 Jet crash into the icy Potomac River in Washington, USA.

1984 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Stano 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.

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 Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

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

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

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

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

Friday, January 12, 2007

12 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

Foodstall cleanup in the neighbourhood of Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

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

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

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

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

1928 (-) Murderess Ruth Snyder aka The Granite Woman, is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

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

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 tanker on the River Thames in the United Kingdom.

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 dies of a heart-attack at the age of 60 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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

1961 (x) Writer Norman Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife in the 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 Christie dies at the age of 86 in Wallingford, Oxon, United Kingdom.

1983 (-) Cult-leader Lindbergh Sanders is shot dead with 6 other members in a gun-fight with the police in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

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 Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

11 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

Students from Silpakorn University performing "Blindman" during my Performance Workshop in Bangkok, Singapore. "Blindman" is based on a performance by Gerrit Dekker.

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 upto Bochum as a repercussion for damages suffered during WWI in Germany.

1927 (+) Choreographer Maurice Béjart is born in Marseille, France.

1928 (-) Writer Thomas Hardy dies of a cold-inflammation at the age of 88 in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.

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

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

1950 (x) Start of the trial against Timothy 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 George 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 Graham is executed by the Gas Chamber in Colorado, USA.

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

1959 (-) Carrol Jackson is killed and raped by Melvin Rees 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 65 in Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland.

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

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

1983 (-) USSR-leader Nikolay Podgorny dies at the age of 80 in Moscow, Russia.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

10 january 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Preparing my project "Diggin' for Gordon" at an unknown location in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1836 (-) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre Lacenaire is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 33 in France.

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

1888 (-) Wife-murderer Dr. Philip Cross is executed by hanging in Dublin, Ireland.

1917 (+) Multiple Murderer Lester Bartholomew is born in Arizona, 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 in Leipzig, Germany.

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

1949 (+) Heavy-weight Boxing-champion George Foreman is born in the 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.

1970 (-) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Belyayev dies at the age of 44 in the 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.

1983 (x) 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 Roach is executed by Old Sparky in South Carolina, USA.

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

1998 (x) Start of the trial against 25-year-old Serial Killer Aida 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.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

9 january 2005 - Düsseldorf, Germany

Top view of painter Luc Tuymans in the front of a bus he hired to bring all of his friends to his exhibition at K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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

1900 (-) Child Murderess Louise Masset is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Newgate Prison, London, United Kingdom.

1908 (+) Writer Simone 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 Thompson is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.

1923 (-) Murderer Frederick Baywaters is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Actor Lee 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 (+) Musician Joan Baez is born in Staten Island, New York, USA.

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

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

1971 (x) 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.

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

2004 (-) Murderer Raymond Rowsey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

8 january 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A water pump on a bridge near my house in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

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

1642 (-) Scientist Galileo Galilei dies at the age of 68 in Italy.

1896 (-) Writer Paul Verlaine dies of a kidney and stomach-disease at the age of 51 in 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 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 Cole is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1943 (-) Murderer J. 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 originally David Robert Jones, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1947 (+) Serial Killer William 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.

Sunday, January 7, 2007

7 january 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The neck piece of my Guillotine in my studio in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1611 (x) Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices are arrested 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 Csjejthe, Czechoslowakia.

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

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

1898 (-) Murderer William 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.

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 Paris hands his bride 14 sticks of dynamite and shoots into the package in the Las Vegas Orbit Inn, 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 Essex is killed in a bullet spray 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.

1999 (-) Double Murderer John Castro is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

Saturday, January 6, 2007

6 january 2002 - Oelegem, Belgium

Winter beauty near the WW-I fortress of Oelegem, Belgium.

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

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 61 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.

1920 (+) Cult-leader Sun Myung Moon is born.

1950 (-) Double Murderer Daniel Raven is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.

1955 (+) Actor Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean, is born in the United Kingdom.

1960 (x) Mass Murderer Julian 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.

1967 (x) 84 Die in bus collision in Terpate, the Philippines.

1972 (x) 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.

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 Mercer aka Tiny, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.

1993 (-) Choreographer Rudolf Nureyev dies of aids at the age of 54 in Paris, France.

1993 (-) Musician Dizzy Gillespie dies of cancer at the age of 75 in New Jersey, USA.

1993 (-) Child-rapist and murderer Westley Dodd is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Washington, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer John Moody is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Mentally deranged murderer Charles Singleton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Friday, January 5, 2007

5 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

Fire engines on Sanam Luang in Bangkok, Thailand.

1876 (+) First Chancellor of the German Federal Republic Konrad Adenauer is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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 Reeves aka Superman originally George Keefer Brewer, is born in Woolstock, Iowa, USA.

1924 (-) An unidentiefied boyis 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.

1945 (-) Murderer John Ransom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 48 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1946 (+) Actress Diane Keaton originally Diane Hall, is born in Santa Ana, California, USA.

1970 (-) Union Leader Yablonski is murdered by persons unknown in the USA.

1971 (-) World-champion boxing Sonny Liston dies at the age of 37 in the USA.

1979 (-) Musician Charlie Mingus dies at the age of 56 in the USA.

1990 (x) Cult Leader Jeffrey Lundgren and 7 of his followers are arrested on suspicion of ritual murder in Missouri, USA.

2005 (-) Manager of ‘The Doors’ Danny Sugarman dies of lung cancer at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

4 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

A decorated truck in the traffic jam at Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

1785 (+) Philologist and folklorist Jakob Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.

1838 (+) Midget Charles Stratton aka Tom Thumb, is born in the USA.

1881 (+) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck is born in Duisburg, Germany.

1896 (+) Surrealist writer André Masson is born in Balagny-sur-Therain, Oise, France.

1939 (-) Peter Seaton dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 1 in London, United Kingdom.

1941 (-) Olga is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnellbahn Mörder, at the age of 28 in Berlin, Germany.

1960 (-) Writer Albert Camus dies in a car crash at the age of 47 in Petit-Villeblévin, Yonne, France.

1964 (-) Mary Sullivan is strangled and raped with a broomstick by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 19 in Boston, 44a Charles Street, Massachussets, USA.

1965 (-) Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot dies 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, at the age of 18 in Seattle University District, Washington, USA.

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, at the age of 17 in Bremen, Germany.

1989 (-) Felicia Stephens is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, 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 Jacobs is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Serial Killer Donald Evans is stabbed to death by 29-year-old fellow death row inmate Jimmy Mack at the age of 41 in Parchman State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.

1999 (-) Serial Killer Donald Evans is stabbed to death by fellow deathrow inmate Jimmie Mack at the age of 41 in Parchman State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

3 january 2004 - Oostende, Belgium

Sunset at the seaside in Oostende, Belgium.

1892 (+) Writer John Tolkien is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

1951 (+) Actor Mel Gibson aka Mad Max, is born in Peerskill, New York, USA.

1958 (x) Explorer Sir Edmund Hilary reaches the SouthPole.

1962 (x) Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is excommunicated by the Vatican in Rome, Italy.

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 Hilton dies at the age of 91 in the USA.

1980 (-) Joy Adamson aka Born Free, is murdered by unidentified poachers in Kenya.

1990 (x) Serial Killer Robert 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) Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, is arrested in Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

1994 (x) 120 Die in Bajkal Toepolev 154 crash in Irkoetsk, Siberia, Russia.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

2 january 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand

Thai Boxing or Muay Thai in Ratchadamnoen Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.

1896 (+) Filmmaker Dziga Vertov is born in Bialystok, Grodno, Poland.

1920 (+) SF-writer Isaac Asimov is born in Petrovichi, Russia.

1937 (-) Actor Ross Alexander commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 30 in the USA.

1938 (+) Serial Killer Ian Brady aka The Moors Murderer, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1942 (-) Joachim Guschinow is killed by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.

1951 (x) Mass Murderer Billy 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.

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) 259th Pope Pius XII originally Eugenio Maria Pacelli, warns the Italian families for the dangers of television in family-life, during Italy’s first television-transmission in the Vatican.

1955 (-) José Remon is murdered by an unknown revolutionary commando in Panama.

1960 (-) Cycling legend Fausto Coppi dies at the age of 41 in Italy.

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 Serial Killer Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, in Santa Clara County, California, USA.

1981 (x) 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 at the age of 39 in Westbury, New York, USA.