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.

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