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.

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