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

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

28 february 2007 - In Dreams

No pictures taken on any 28th february....

1942 (+) Rolling Stone Brian Jones is born in Cheltenham, United Kingdom.

1956 (-) Robber and Cop Killer Emile Buisson is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.

1957 (-) Murderer Leonardo Salemi is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.

1960 (+) Serial Killer Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is born in El Paso, Texas, USA.

1974 (x) Picasso’s "Guernica" is sprayed over with the text "Kill Lies All" by art-gallery-owner Tony Shafrazi in New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

1986 (-) Prime-minister Olof Palme is shot dead in Stockholm, Sweden.

1987 (x) 57-year-old Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is arrested and charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

1988 (x) Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, is arrested in Venice, Treviso, Italy.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

27 february 2005 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Dorothea Olkowski giving a lecture at the booklaunch of AMVK's "The HeadNurse-files" in the M_HKA, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1861 (+) Philosopher Rudolf Steiner is born in Kraljevec, Hungary.

1887 (-) Composer Alexander Porphiriewitsch Borodin dies at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1901 (+) Artist Marino Marini is born in Italy.

1902 (+) Writer John Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, USA.

1906 (+) Racketeer Bugsy Siegel is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1913 (+) Philosopher Paul Ricoeur is born in Valence, France.

1930 (+) Actress Joanne Woodward is born in Thomasville, Georgia, USA.

1932 (+) Actress Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Taylor is born in London, United Kingdom.

1933 (x) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is arrested in Berlin, Germany.

1936 (-) Physiologist Iwan Pawlow dies at the age of 87 in Leningrad, Russia.

1937 (-) 2 unidentified women are killed by Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, in New York City, New York, USA.

1947 (+) Victim of Ted Bundy, The Only Living Witness, Roberta Parks is born in Lakewood, Ohio, USA.

1947 (-) Murderer Walter Rowland is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

1973 (x) The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA.

1975 (x) CDU-chairman Peter Lorenz is kidnapped by the Baader-Meinhof-Group, Movement 2nd June in Berlin, Germany.

1984 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage State Courthouse, Alaska, USA.

Monday, February 26, 2007

26 february 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A welcoming reception at "'t Schoon Verdiep" of the Antwerp Townhall to announce the start of an artist studio management cooperation between the NICC and the City of Antwerp.

1802 (+) Writer Victor Hugo is born in Besançon, France.

1846 (+) Outlaw Buffalo Bill Cody is born in the USA.

1852 (-) Mass-murderess Helène Jegado is executed by the Guillotine in France.

1878 (+) Artist Kasimir Malewitsch is born in Kiew, Russia.

1914 (-) Murderer George Ball is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Liverpool, Walton Prison, United Kingdom.

1918 (x) Over 3000 Die in Provence crusier shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

1928 (+) Musician Fats Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1932 (+) Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, USA.

1943 (-) First commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies in a plane-crash in Germany.

1943 (x) The first transport of Gypsies arrives in Buchenwald-KZ, Germany.

1959 (x) Peter Paul Rubens’ "Hollensturz der verdammten" is attacked with acid by 57-year-old Kurt Walmen in München, Alte Pinakothek, Germany.

1971 (-) Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, dies of cancer at the age of 67 in Paris, Avenue Foch, France.

1971 (-) Lynda Kanes is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Angwin, California, USA.
Her body is found 8 days later, nude and wrapped in an American flag.

1978 (-) Poisoness of her mother, husband, mother-in-law and son, Audrey Hilley dies of a heart-attack due to hypothermia at the age of 53 in Blue Mountain, Vermont, USA.
She jumped parole and wandered through the woods for 5 days.

1984 (-) Rosario Gonzalez is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Miami, Florida, USA.

2000 (-) Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell with the cable of an electric razor at the age of 50 in Gralla, Styria, Austria.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

25 february 2006 - Paris, France

Artist and writer Romain Slocombe at the opening of AMVK's exhibition at Jousse Entreprise in Paris, France. I'm a figure in his novel "Saké des Brumes".

1500 (+) Emperor of Germany, Charles is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1842 (+) Writer Karl May is born in Germany.

1873 (+) Musician Enrico Caruso is born in Napoli, Italy.

1879 (-) Charles Peace aka The Murderous Musician, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Leeds, Armley Prison, United Kingdom.

1917 (+) Writer Anthony Burgess is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.

1922 (-) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 52 in Paris, France.

1943 (+) Beatle George Harrison is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1953 (+) Artist Martin Kippenberger is born in Dortmund, Germany.

1964 (-) Artist Alexander Archipenko dies at the age of 76 in New York, New York, USA.

1967 (x) Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, escapes from Bridgewater Hospital but is arrested 2 days later in Lynn, Massachussets, USA.

1969 (-) Jan Zajic commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslowakia.

1970 (-) Artist Mark Rothko originally Marcus Rothkowitz, commits suicide by slashing his wrists at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1978 (+) Son of Kelly Boyd and Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, Ryan Bianchi is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1980 (-) Michael Gluck is beaten to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in Goshen, Oregon, USA.

1980 (-) Cassidy Johnson aka ‘Muffin’, is smothered by Christine Falling aka The Baby-Sitter, at the age of 2 in Blountstown, Florida, USA.

1981 (-) Jill Martin is sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 18 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
She survived.

1983 (-) Writer Tennessee Williams chokes to death at the age of 72 in New York, New York, USA.

1990 (x) 87 die in Happy Land Social Club fire, by Arsonist Julio Gonzales because of a row with his girlfriend and his eviction from the club in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.

1994 (x) Mass Murderer Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Muslim worshipers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank, Israël.
He killed 29 of them before being bludgeoned to death by survivors.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

24 february 2006 - Paris, France

The Rue Le Sueur in Paris where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21, in his infamous "Triangular Chamber of Death", before and during WWII. The original building however was torn down.

1767 (-) Murderer Patrick Redmond is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
After 28 minutes he was declared dead, he was taken down and revived after 6 hours by the use of bronchotomy.

1786 (+) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Grimm is born in Hanau, Germany.

1841 (+) Artist Pierre Renoir is born in Limoges, France.

1939 (-) Murderer Franklin McCall is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Florida, USA.

1949 (+) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is born in Arizona, USA.

1953 (-) Parenticider Miles Giffard is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Bristol, United Kingdom.

1953 (-) War leader Gerd Von Rundstedt dies in Germany.

1956 (-) Sex-murderer Arthur Brown is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Prison, Missouri, USA.

1960 (-) Murderer Earl Steward is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in Nevada, USA.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from reformatory school to the Netherlands in Ruiselede, Antwerp, Belgium.

1972 (x) 98 Die in department-store fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1972 (-) Frank Aguirre is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 19 in Houston, Texas, USA.

1973 (x) 20-year-old Carol Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, Toni Antoinette Denise White, James Cyril Cendrillon and Alphons Joseph Klimek in Hampton, United Kingdom.

1979 (-) An unidentified woman is presumably strangled by Zodiac in Sacramento, California, USA.

1987 (x) Serial Killer Joel Rifkin his father Ben commits suicide by a pain-killer overdose in New York, New York, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Karl LaGrand is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

Friday, February 23, 2007

23 february 2007 - Gent, Belgium

The back of Viennese Aktionist Hermann Nitsch at the opening reception of his exhibition in Galerie Fortlaan 17 in Gent, Belgium.

1685 (+) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel is born in Halle, Germany.

1885 (x) Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is brought upon the scaffold 3 times to be hanged, but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt. He will at last be repreived in Exeter Jail, United Kingdom.

1897 (-) Celestin Gautrais is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, in France.

1906 (-) Murderer of his 24 wives Johan Hoch is executed by hanging in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1924 (-) 28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson dies at the age of 68 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1930 (-) Nazi-leader Horst Wessel dies due to injuries after an assault in Germany.

1930 (-) Hildegard Eid is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, at the age of 24 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.

1931 (-) Cop Killer ‘Iron’ Irene Schroder aka Tiger Girl, is executed by Old Sparky in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.
She was the first woman to die in the Pennsylvania Electric Chair.

1937 (-) An unidentified woman is hacked to death by The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Lake Erie, East 156th street, Ohio, USA.

1939 (+) Actor Peter Fonda is born in New York, New York, USA.

1942 (-) Writer Stefan Zweig commits suicide by an overdose of Veronal at the age of 61 in Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Brazil.
His girlfriend Lotte joins him in death.

1944 (+) Musician Johnny Winter is born in the USA.

1946 (x) Serial Killer Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is found whipping an unidentified girl in London, Strand Palace Hotel, United Kingdom.

1965 (-) Actor Stan Laurel originally Arthur Jefferson, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 74.

1966 (+) Seventh victim of Bobby Joe Long aka Bound To Die, Virginia Johnson is born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

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

1975 (x) Manson Family-member Susan Atkins aka Sadie, is baptised by Chaplain Sargent Wright in Frontiera, Institution for Women, California, USA.

1976 (x) Start of the first trial against Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, in Salt Lake City, Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Utah, USA.

1981 (x) Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina attempts a military coup in Spain.
He failed.

1981 (-) Gabriella Bohn is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

1985 (x) Over 100 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.

1996 (-) Serial Killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed by lethal injection in California.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

22 february 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Prelude to a memorable homecoming party at our house.

1732 (+) 1st president of the USA George Washington is born in Bridges Creek, Virginia, USA.

1788 (+) Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Dantzig, Poland.

1807 (-) Murderer John Holloway is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.

1807 (-) Murderer Owen Haggerty is executed by hanging in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.

1807 (-) Murderess Elisabeth Godfrey is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in London, outside Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
In the crowd of nearly 40.000 spectators over 100 were trampled to death, and many more injured.

1810 (+) Composer Frédéric Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland.

1899 (+) Actor in many Universal horror movies Dwight Fry is born as an only child in Salina, Kansas, USA.

1900 (+) Filmmaker Luis Bunuel aka Un Chien Andalou, is born in Calanda, Spain.

1915 (x) Actress Sarah Bernhardt has her right leg amputated in the United Kingdom.

1928 (+) Poet Paul Van Ostaeyen is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1942 (x) The first ‘low-pressure’ experiments are carried out on prisoners of war by Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher in Dachau-KZ, Germany.

1950 (+) Musician Genesis P-Orridge originally Neil Andrew Megson, is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.

1960 (x) 123 Die in coal-mine explosion in Zwickau, Germany.

1968 (-) Patricia Docker is strangled by Bible John at the age of 25 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

1973 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry and freighter collision in Rangoon, Birma.

1974 (x) Serial Killer Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with public indecency in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1980 (-) Artist Oskar Kokoschka dies at the age of 61 in Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland.

1984 (-) Marta Rjabenko is stabbed to death and her nipples and uterus cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.

1987 (-) Artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol aka The Pope of Pop, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 58 in New York, New York, USA.
He died in his sleep after recovering from a gall-operation.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

21 february 2005 - Brugge, Belgium

The ceremony for Flemish Cultural Prizes in Brugge where Mauro was awarded the prize for music.

1677 (-) Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza dies at the age of 44 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1852 (-) Writer Nikolaj Gogol dies of anaemia at the age of 43 in Russia.

1876 (+) Artist Constantin Brancusi is born in Pestiani, Goj, Romania.

1907 (x) 142 Die in SS Berlin shipwreck in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands.

1910 (+) Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, is born in the USA.

1925 (x) Inauguration of a monument in memory of the victims of Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Stocken-cemetary Abteilung 49D/189-192, Germany.

1930 (-) Murderess Eva Dugan is executed by hanging at the age of 52 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
She was the only woman ever executed in Arizona. In a gruesome footnote, her body separated from her head, which rolled at the feet of the spectators.

1933 (+) Musician Nina Simone is born in Tyron, North Carolina, USA.

1965 (-) Revolutionary leader Malcolm X dies in Harlem, New York, USA.

1973 (x) 108 Die in Libyan airliner crash in the Sinaï Desert.
The plane was shot down by Israeli Jet-fighters.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

20 february 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A leaking gas pipe in our basement.

1895 (+) Henri Valéry, an alias used by Marcel Petiot, The Triangular Chamber of Death, is born in Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France.

1904 (+) USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is born in Russia.

1911 (-) Mass-poisoner John Hutchinson commits suicide by Prussic acid in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Filmmaker Robert Altman is born in Kansas City, Montana, USA.

1926 (-) Clara Newman is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60.

1927 (+) Actor Sidney Poitier is born in Miami, Florida, USA.

1941 (-) Lisa Nowak is beaten to death by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnellbahn Mörder, at the age of 30 in Berlin, Germany.

1954 (+) Patty Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is born in the USA.

1960 (+) Murderer and son of Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger, The Shoemaker, Joey Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1962 (x) 40-year-old Astronaut John Glenn is the first US-astronaut to fly around the earth in Space.

1967 (+) Musician Kurt Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1971 (x) Dictator Idi Amin is chosen for president by the army in Uganda.

1987 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap behind the CAAMs computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
One person is injured when moving the package.

2005 (-) Writer Hunter Thompson aka the creator of Gonzo journalism, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 67 in Woody Creek, Colorado, USA.
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun—for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax—This won't hurt."

Monday, February 19, 2007

19 february 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Noise, fireworks & smoke at the New Year's Dragon ceremony, celebrating the start of the Chinese Year of the Pig in Chinatown, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1473 (+) Scientist Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland.

1725 (-) Innkeeper Mme Millet dies of spontaneous human combustion in Rheims, France.

1898 (+) Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, is born in the Netherlands.

1924 (+) Actor Lee Marvin is born in the USA.

1943 (+) ‘Mama’ Cass Elliott is born in the USA.

1943 (x) 46-year-old Murderer James Rawlins is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1951 (-) Murderer Jean Lee is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

1951 (-) Murderer Robert Clayton is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

1951 (-) Murderer Norman Andrews is executed by hanging in Sydney, Pentridge Jail, New South Wales, Australia.

1951 (-) Writer André Gide dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

1952 (-) Writer Knut Hamsun dies at the age of 93 in Aust-Agder, Norway.

1958 (x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Asanoi, India.

1963 (-) Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 44 in Havana, Cuba.

1966 (-) Stanislawa S. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Grudkow, Poland.
She survived.

1980 (-) AC/DC Heavy Metal musician Bon Scott chokes to death in his own vomit at the age of 33 in the USA.

1983 (x) 13 people are fatally shot in a robbery by Willie Mak and Benjamin Ng in Seattle, Chinatown, Washington, USA.

1985 (x) 148 Die in Iberia Boeing crash in Bilbao, Spain.
It collided into a mountain.

1989 (+) Daughter of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Mary Elisabeth Watson is born in Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Wilford Berry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.
He was the first person to be executed in Ohio since 1963.

2002 (-) Murderer John Byrd is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

18 february 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Rushing the birthday cake for AMVK's mother in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1546 (-) Reformer Martin Luther dies at the age of 63 in Eisleben, Germany.

1564 (+) Queen Mary Tudor aka Bloody Mary, is born in Greenwich, United Kingdom.

1564 (-) Artist Buonarotti Michelangelo dies of a stroke at the age of 89 in Italy.

1896 (+) Writer André Breton is born in Tinchebray, Orne, France.

1903 (+) USSR-leader Nikolay Podgorny is born in Russia.

1932 (+) Filmmaker Milos Forman is born.

1933 (+) Artist Yoko Ono is born in Japan.

1949 (-) Olive Durand-Deacon is shot dead and dumped in sulphuric acid by John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, at the age of 69 in Crawley, Leopold Road, Sussex, United Kingdom.

1954 (+) Actor John Travolta is born in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.

1961 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old boy in Mont Cochon, Jersey.

1963 (-) Gertrude Gruen is attacked and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
She survived.

1967 (-) Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer dies at the age of 62 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

1972 (x) The California Supreme Court vote 6 to 1 to abolish the Death Penalty in California, USA.

1973 (x) An ultra-right commando steals the coffin of Marshall Henri Pétain and re-buries it near the Battlefield in Verdun, France.

1982 (-) Detective-writer Ngaio Marsh dies at the age of 82.

1991 (-) Curtis Straughter is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

1997 (-) Joyce Dickerson is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 37 in Springfield, downtown, Massachussets, USA.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

17 february 2004 - Singapore

A patient with Superficial Punctate Keratopathy may complain of blurred vision, watery eyes, a sensation of having a foreign body stuck in the eye and sensitivity to bright light.

1673 (-) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Molière dies of an imagined disease causing the vomiting of blood at the age of 51 in France.

1909 (-) Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, Goyathlay Geronimo dies in the USA.

1929 (+) Writer Chaim Potok is born in New York, New York, USA.

1934 (-) King of Belgium Albert I falls off a mountain at the age of 58 in Dinant, Belgium.

1970 (x) Murderer Jeffrey McDonald stabs to death his wife and daughters in a self-created Manson-inspired attack in California, USA.

1974 (x) 48 Die in soccer riot during the game Zamalek-Dukla Prague in Egypt.

1984 (-) Sigurd Bessener is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 81 in Berlin, Schöneberg, Germany.

1986 (-) Religious leader Jiddoe Krishnamurti dies of cancer at the age of 90.

1986 (x) 69 Die in 2-train collision in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
They crashed head-on into each other.

1986 (x) 70 Die in bus crash in Suhamgano, Bangladesh.
It drove into a river.

1992 (x) Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1993 (x) Serial Killer Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist, is arrested in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Friday, February 16, 2007

16 february 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Harry Heirmans rolling all the leftovers of my installation "DDV in China" at Factor44 in a great ball.

1899 (-) President Felix Faure dies in the act of making love to murderess Marguerite Steinheil in Paris, France.

1940 (+) Musician and born-again politician Sonny Bono is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1954 (-) Wife-murderer and matricider Donald Merret aka Ronald Chesney, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 46 in Köln, Germany.

1955 (x) Over 100 Die in elderly home fire in Yokohama, Japan.

1958 (-) Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 33 in Hannover, Zuchthaus Celle, Germany.

1963 (-) Constance Madrill is raped and strangled by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 24 in West Perth, Western, Australia.

1965 (-) Bridget O’Hara aka Bridget Moore, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 27 in London, United Kingdom.

1970 (x) 150 Die in train derailment in Nigeria.
Afterwards 52 ‘survivors’ died in a truck crash.

1972 (-) Leslie Richardson is attacked by Donald Neilson aka The Black Panther Killer, in Heywood, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

1978 (-) Cindy Hudspeth is raped and strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

1978 (-) William Kindred aka Billy Shotgun, is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1979 (-) Lila Bratislav is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Kocevska Reka, Yugoslavia.

1990 (-) Artist Keith Haring dies of aids at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.

1999 (-) Triple Murderer Johnie Cox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Varner, Arkansas, USA.

1999 (-) Triple Murderer Andrew Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Cop Killer Anthony Chaney is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

15 february 2004 - Singapore

A procession of chinese men carrying a dopesmoking magician along Bukit Timah Road in Singapore. The preparation of this activity had been going along for several days. First a complex of wooden floors and tents had been built, with various kinds of altars, stages and lots of tables. It continued with the burning of a huge stack of paper one day all day long. The procession lasted only for about half an hour as the magician was carried around the block.

1564 (+) Scientist Galileo Galilei is born in Italy.

1909 (x) Over 250 Die in Flores Theatre fire in Acapulco, Mexico.

1933 (-) Anton Cermak is shot dead by Joseph Zangara in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Zangara actually tried to kill the 32nd president of the USA, Franklin Roosevelt.

1939 (+) Serial Killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is born in Esterville, Coleman Hospital, Iowa, USA.

1942 (x) Capitulation of Singapore in WWII, 138.000 British and Australian soldiers are taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in Singapore.

1954 (-) Annie Hamann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.
In view of the events, the German radio warns the public for the danger of buying poisoned sweets.

1960 (-) Murderer Fernat Bournani kills 2 cops and is lynched by the public at the age of 28 in Paris, rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, France.

1961 (x) 73 Die in Sabena Boeing 707 crash in Berg, Brabant, Belgium.
Among the victims was the entire US figure-skating association.

1963 (-) Murderer Robert Griffin is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio, USA.

1965 (-) Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole dies of lung cancer at the age of 50 in the USA.

1966 (-) Revolutionary priest Camillo Torres is shot dead by a military patrol in El Carmen, Colombia.

1970 (x) 102 Die in DC-9 crash in the Carribean Sea.

1974 (x) Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is banned from the USSR in Moscow, Russia.

1974 (-) Donald Skepper is shot dead by Donald Neilson aka The Black Panther Killer, in Lancashire, United Kingdom.

1978 (x) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested ‘trying to evade a police-officer’ in Pensacola, Florida, USA.

1983 (x) Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is stabbed in the upper left arm and back by fellow inmate and multiple murderer Henry Brisbon in Menard Correctional Centre, Illinois, USA.

1984 (-) Leamon Hunt is shot dead by Red Brigades in Rome, Italy.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

14 february 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The full moon through the clouds at night.

1572 (+) Composer Hans Haiden is born.

1779 (-) Explorer James Cook is stabbed and beaten to death by Hawaïan natives at the age of 51 in Hawaï.

1840 (+) Artist Claude Monet is born in Paris, France.

1912 (x) Arizona becomes the 48th of the United States in the USA.

1913 (+) Union-leader Jimmy Hoffa is born in the USA.

1929 (x) Gangsters Adam Meyer, Frank Foster, John May, Frank Clark, Al Weinshank and Frank Gusenberg are shot dead in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, arranged by Gangster Al Capone in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1945 (-) Farmer Charles Watson is accused of witchcraft and ritually murdered by driving a pitfork into his chest and a sickle through his throat by persons unknown at the age of 74 in Meon Hill, Lower Quinton, United Kingdom.

1950 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, marries his first wife, Joan Davies in Wales, United Kingdom.

1950 (-) Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Jansky dies at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.

1960 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 12-year-old schoolboy in Grands Vaux, Jersey.

1967 (x) Over 150 graves are destroyed by an unidentified maniac who roams Belgian, German and Dutch cemetaries in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

1969 (-) Mafia Leader Vito Genovese dies of a heart-attack in Springfield, Missouri State Prison, Missouri, USA.

1972 (x) 112 Die in Caravelle crash in Dubai, India.
The plane collided with a mountain.

1974 (-) Writer Pelham ‘Plum’ Grenville Wodehouse dies of a heart-attack at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.

1974 (-) Isabella Griffiths is stabbed to death by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, at the age of 84 in Chelsea, 19 Cheyne Walk, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Multiple murderer and self-styled Nazi Fred Cowan commits suicide by a shot through the head in New Rochelle, New York, USA.

1979 (x) Melvin Reynolds confesses to the abduction and murder of Eric Christgen and is sentenced to life-imprisonment, although the murder was committed by Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1981 (-) Julie Reitz is shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 17 in Beaverton, Cherryhill Drive, Oregon, USA.

1986 (-) Sadist murderer Marc Fasquel is shot dead by the police at the age of 37 in Montbequi, France.

1989 (x) Writer Salman Rushdie is condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeiny for his ‘Satanical Verses’ blasphemy in Teheran, Iran.

1990 (x) 90 Die in Indian Airlines Airbus A-320 crash in Bangalore Airport, India.

1994 (-) Serial Killer Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is executed by the Firing Squad in Rostow, Russia.

1997 (x) Serial Killer Ilshyat Kuzikov is arrested on suspicion of killing three of his vodka drinking buddies and eating their internal organs in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The confessed cannibal said he killed his first victim in 1992 after inviting him to his flat for a nightcap. After sating his appetite Kuzikov dismembered his friends and put them in a garbage dump.

1997 (x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, is granted bail after spending two decades behind bars in New Delhi, India.
Desperately trying to avoid extradition to Thailand, he said he would not leave jail until he received his identity papers from the French embassy.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

13 february 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A fallen tree in Rivierenhof park in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1866 (x) Outlaw Jesse James hits his first bank, the Commercial Bank of Liberty in Missouri, USA.

1883 (-) Composer Richard Wagner dies of heart-failure at the age of 70 in Venice, Italy.

1891 (-) Frances Coles is presumably murdered by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.

1903 (+) Writer Georges Simenon is born in Liège, Liège, Belgium.

1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Richard Gräf is born in Hannover, Germany.

1906 (-) Double murderer William Williams is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.

1914 (-) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon dies in Paris, France.

1933 (+) Actress Kim Novak is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1934 (+) Actor George Segal is born in Great Neck, New York, USA.

1937 (x) 658 Die in theatre fire in Antung, China.

1938 (+) Actor Oliver Reed is born in London, United Kingdom.

1945 (x) Over 35.000 Die in the 4.000-tonnes RAF bombing in Dresden, Germany.

1960 (x) 25-year-old Vampire Florencio Fernandez is arrested in Monteros, Argentina.

1960 (x) 23-year-old Horst Otto confesses to the murder of Manuela Knodt, who was actually killed by Joachim Kroll, The Ruhr Hunter in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Otto will nevertheless be tried, found guilty and spend 8 years in jail.

1960 (x) First French Atomic Bomb test in the Sahara.

1964 (-) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 62 in Germany.
He was the leader of the T-4 programme, to extinct all the mentally deranged.

1973 (-) Fred Perez aka Freddie Bell, is shot dead by Herbert Mullin at the age of 73 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
Mullin was arrested minutes later.

1981 (-) Eta-member José Arregui is tortured to death in prison at the age of 30 in Madrid, Spain.

Monday, February 12, 2007

12 february 2007 - Nowhere special

I was nowhere in particular today.

1809 (+) Scientist Charles Darwin is born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom.

1809 (+) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln is born in Larue, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA.

1861 (+) Writer and psycho-analist Lou Andreas Salome is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1867 (+) Writer Hedwig Courts-Mahler is born in Germany.

1884 (+) Artist Max Beckmann is born in Leipzig, Germany.

1885 (-) Murderer Lewis Beach is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.

1907 (x) 131 Die in Larchmont Steamer shipwreck in Long Island, USA.

1913 (-) Murderer Frederick Pulin is executed by Old Sparky in Dannemora, New York, USA.
He was the last man executed by the electric chair in Clinton Prison.

1918 (-) Black murderer Jim McIlherron lynched by burning and charred to the bone by a mob of 1200 in Estil Springs, Tennessee, USA.

1923 (-) Fritz Franke is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1929 (-) Rudolf Scheer is stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, at the age of 54 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He also drank the blood of his victim.

1952 (+) Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is born in California, USA.

1954 (-) Filmmaker Dziga Vertov dies at the age of 58 in Moscow, Russia.

1971 (x) Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is arrested and charged with assault of a teenage boy in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1979 (-) Filmmaker Jean Renoir dies at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

1980 (x) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is convicted to death for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.

1986 (-) Writer Frank Herbert aka ‘Dune’, dies at the age of 65.

1986 (-) Cutter of the Jonker-diamond Lazare Kaplan dies at the age of 102.

1989 (-) Writer Thomas Bernhard dies of a heart-attack at the age of 59 in Gmunden, Austria.

1993 (-) James Bulger is abducted, tortured and stoned to death by 11-year-old Jon Venables and Robert Thompson at the age of 2 in Liverpool, Strand shopping centre, United Kingdom.

1994 (-) Artist Donald Judd dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1994 (x) Mass-murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, tries to escape through a hole in the wall of his cell in Leuven-Centraal, Brabant, Belgium.
He is caught in the prison courtyard.

1999 (-) Mass Murderer Edwin Bell commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 23 in Oklahoma City, Gardenwood Apartments, 1925 N. Gary Ave., Oklahoma, USA.
Minutes before he shot his 45-year-old mother Linda Farris, his 21-year-old wife Markita King, and his children, 4-year-old Ebony, 2-year-old Essyce, and 8-month-old Marjonna Bell

2003 (-) Murderer Richard Fox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

11 february 2004 - KL-Singapore Express

An 'Elephant Woman' sleeping on the express train from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.

1847 (+) Inventor Thomas Edison is born in Milan, Ohio, USA.

1869 (-) Murderer James Whelan is executed by hanging in Ottawa, Canada.
It would be the last public hanging in Canada.

1906 (-) Murderer Milton Diltwer is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.

1927 (-) William Gaffney is abducted from Riker Avenue, Astoria, Queens and strangled, cut to pieces and roasted by Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, at the age of 4 in New York, Brooklyn, 99 Fifteenth St., New York, USA.
The body was dumped in the Bowery Bay.

1936 (+) Actor Burt Reynolds is born in Waycross, Georgia, USA.

1937 (-) Child-murderer Albert Volckmann is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1941 (-) Martha Zernowski is attacked and thrown out of a train by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnellbahn Mörder, in Berlin, Germany.

1957 (x) Politician Margaret Thatcher aka The Iron Lady, is chosen as leader for the Conservative Party in London, United Kingdom.

1997 (-) Rosemary Downs is strangled by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 43 in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.

2006 (-) Writer Peter Benchley dies of ideopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 65 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

10 february 2004 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Butterfly Park.

1890 (+) Writer Boris Pasternak is born in Moscow, Russia.

1893 (+) Comedian Jimmy Durante is born in the USA.

1898 (+) Dramatist Berthold Brecht is born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.

1923 (-) Scientist and Inventor of X-rays Wilhelm Roentgen dies at the age of 78 in München, Germany.

1932 (-) Writer Edgar Wallace dies at the age of 57.

1939 (-) 258th Pope Pius XI dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.

1946 (+) Musician Donovan is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1948 (-) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailowitch Eisenstein dies at the age of 50 in Moscow, Russia.

1962 (x) The United States and Russia exchange the spies Powers and Abel against each other in Berlin, Germany.

1973 (-) 19 year-old Mark John Dreibelbis and 4 other boys are shot dead by Herbert Mullin in Santa Cruz, Henry Cowell State Park, The Garden of Eden Overlook, California, USA.

1978 (x) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is added to the list of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted in the USA.

1999 (-) Serial Killer George Cordova aka Spiderman, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer and litterary talent Jack Henry Abbott from The Belly of the Beast, commits suicide by hanging with a shoelace in his prison cell at the age of 58 in Wende Correctional Faculty, USA.

2003 (-) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 44 in a hotel room, Tampa, Florida, USA.
I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced.

2005 (-) Playwright and author Arthur Miller dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 89 in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA.

Friday, February 9, 2007

9 february 1999 - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Returning from Bangkok into Schiphol at 7am in the morning I took up my teaching job at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1617 (-) Composer Hans Haiden dies at the age of 44.

1771 (+) Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap is born in Framingham, Massachussets, USA.

1773 (+) 9th president of the USA William Henry Harrison is born in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.
He served only 31 days, having caught pneumonia at his inauguration.

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

1885 (+) Composer Alban Berg is born in Vienna, Austria.

1913 (-) Black murderer Dand Rucker is lynched by burning in Houston, Texas, USA.

1932 (-) Murderer Major Johnson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1942 (x) Triple Murderer Gordon Cummins strangles a woman outside of an air raid shelter during The Blitz in London, United Kingdom.
He went on to kill three more women over the next five days before being captured.

1945 (+) Actress Mia Farrow is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1963 (-) Military overtaker of King Feisal II General Quassim is executed in Iraq.

1977 (-) Engineer and designer Sergei Iljoesjin dies at the age of 83 in Russia.

1979 (-) Helena L. is shot through the head by Freddy Horion aka Beatle, in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1980 (x) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, marries Carole Boone in the Orlando Courthouse, Florida, USA.

1980 (-) Kimberley Leach is bludgeoned to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 12 in Jacksonville, Lake City, Florida, USA.

1981 (-) Musician Bill Haley dies at the age of 55 in Harlingen, Texas, USA.

1983 (x) Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is arrested after neighbours complained about a blocked drain in 23 Cranley Gardens in London, Muswell Hill, United Kingdom.

1984 (-) Soviet leader Joeri Andropov dies of a bad cold at the age of 69 in Moscow, Russia.

1999 (-) Double murderer Jaturun Siripongs is executed by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

8 february 2004 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The view from my room in the Empire Hotel, Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1587 (-) Queen of Scots Mary Stuart is executed by beheading at the age of 44 in Fotheringhay Castle, Scotland, United Kingdom.
It took three blows to separate her head.

1808 (-) Murderer Edward Donnelly is executed by hanging in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA.

1828 (+) Writer Jules Verne is born in France.

1920 (+) Actress Lana Turner is born in Wallace, Idaho, USA.

1921 (-) Anarchist Peter Alekseyewitsch Kropotkin aka The Anarchist Prince, dies at the age of 78 in Moscow, Russia.

1923 (x) 120 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, Mexico.

1924 (-) Wife-murderer Gee Jon is executed by the Gas Chamber in Carson City, Nevada, USA.
He was the first man to be executed by gas.

1924 (-) Hermann Speichert is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.

1925 (+) Actor Jack Lemmon is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1929 (-) Child-Rose Ohilger is strangled and stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, at the age of 8 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1931 (+) Actor James Dean aka Rebel Without A Cause, is born in Marion, Indiana, USA.

1940 (+) Actor Nick Nolte is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

1942 (+) Producer and shaper of Californian Surf Sound Terry Melcher originally Terry Jordan, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He’s the son of Doris Day and one of Manson’s enemies.

1955 (-) Irmgard Strehl is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 19 in Herrenstein, Germany.

1961 (-) Murderer Georges Riley is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Shrewsbury Prison, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Irene Richardson is hammered, stabbed and her throat cut by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 28 in Leeds, Roundhay, Soldiers Field, United Kingdom.

1980 (-) Greek Folk-legend Nikos Xilouris dies of cancer at the age of 44 in Greece.

1989 (x) 144 Die in Independent Air Boeing 707 collision in Santa Maria Island, off Portugal.
It crashed into a mountain.

1997 (x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer Stephen Anderson goes berserk in a ski resort, killing six people and wounding five others before he was arrested naked and unarmed by authorities who tracked him through the rugged forest with the help of planes and helicopters in Raurimu, New Zealand.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

7 february 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Maybe you see further than I can see,
or maybe things just look differently
Maybe I'm nothing but a shadow on the wall
Maybe love's a tomb where you dance at night

1812 (+) Writer Charles Dickens is born in the United Kingdom.

1904 (+) Murderer of Leon Trotsky, Ramon Mercador is born in Brazil.

1904 (-) Black murderous couple Mr and Mrs Holbert are lynched by burning in Doddsville, Missouri, USA.

1936 (-) Murderer John Daugherty is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

1962 (x) 298 Die in coal-mine explosion in Völklingen, Germany.

1979 (-) Nazi-doctor Josef Mengele aka The White Angel, drowns while swimming at the beach at the age of 67 in Beritoga, Brazil.

1981 (-) Fatima Sohnenberg is strangled by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 42 in Frankfurt, Rodgau, Germany.

1987 (-) Sarah Lindsey is raped, beaten and finally starved to death by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1994 (-) Composer Witold Lutoslawski dies at the age of 81 in Warschau, Poland.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

6 february 2004 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

On the third day of Thaipoosam, the Silver Chariot returns to Sri Maha Mariamman temple in Kuala Lumpur.

1897 (x) Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is diagnosed as suffering from a mental disease at the Provinzial Heil- und Pflegeanstalt in Hildesheim, Germany.

1911 (+) Actor and 40th president of the USA Ronald Reagan is born in Tampico, Illinois, USA.

1912 (+) Führer-mistress Eva Braun is born in München, Germany.

1918 (-) Artist Gustav Klimt dies at the age of 55 in München, Germany.

1919 (+) Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is born in Hungary.

1922 (+) Actor Patrick MacNee is born in London, United Kingdom.

1930 (x) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, marries Estelle Wilcox in Waterloo, Iowa, USA.

1934 (-) Murderer Ernest Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Leeds, Armley Prison, United Kingdom.

1936 (+) Filmmaker François Truffaut is born in Paris, France.

1945 (+) Musician Bob Marley is born in Jamaïca.

1945 (-) Fascist writer Robert Brasillach is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Fresnes, Montrouge Fortress, France.
Many personalities, like Jean Cocteau, Arthur Honegger, Paul Valéry, François Mauriac, and Albert Camus, apply for a retrieve, which is not granted by President De Gaulle.

1947 (-) Frau Sch. is bludgeoned to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 49 in Gudersleben, Germany.

1948 (-) Murderer Stanislaw Myszka is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Perth, United Kingdom.

1952 (-) Murderer Alfred Moore is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Leeds, Armsley Prison, United Kingdom.

1973 (x) 22 Die in School fire.
The fire was lighted by 2 excluded pupils.

1973 (-) Annick Delisle is bludgeoned and shot to death by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-Sur-Oise, Allée Paul Verlaine, France.

1986 (-) Descendant of Cristofle Colombus, general Cristobal Colon De Carvajal is shot dead by the ETA in Spain.

1995 (x) Eighth bomb attack by Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Stinatz, Austria.
Two people get injured.

Monday, February 5, 2007

5 february 2004 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Perhaps the most propiatory rite that a devotee of Shanmuka undertakes is what is known as the Kavadi. The benefits that a devotee gains from offering a Kavadi to the Lord are a millionfold greater than the little bit of pain that the devotee inflicts upon himself.

1840 (+) Engineer and tyre-manufacterer John Dunlop is born in Ireland.

1848 (+) The first woman ever to appear for a major crime before ‘Hanging Judge Parker’, Myra Belle Star Shirley is born in Missouri, USA.

1908 (+) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is born in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

1914 (+) Writer William Seward Burroughs is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1924 (x) Ted Williams cuts the throats of his three daughters to save them from being put in an institution and presumed consequent prostitution in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1937 (-) Writer and psycho-analist Lou Andreas Salome dies at the age of 76.

1948 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted of auto theft and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1973 (-) Rosalind Thorpe is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, at the age of 22 in Berkeley, California, USA.

1997 (x) 73 Die in helicopter collision in Shaar Yishoev, Israël.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

4 february 2004 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A rolling devotee during the Thaipoosam festival at the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. An endless stream of Kavadi bearers and devotees reach the temple grounds after a 12km journey from the Sri Maha Mariamman temple in the city. Generally people take a vow to offer a Kavadi to the Lord for the purpose of tiding over or averting a great calamity.

1880 (x) 69-year-old James, Johannah, Thomas, Bridget and John Donelly are killed with clubs, spades and gunfire by the ‘Whiteboys’ Northern Division of the Ku Klux Klan in Lucan, Ontario, Canada.

1881 (+) Artist Fernand Leger is born in Argentan, France.

1889 (-) The first woman ever to appear for a major crime before ‘Hanging Judge Parker’, Myra Belle Star Shirley is shot dead by an unknown gunman at the age of 44 in the USA.

1894 (-) Designer and musician Adolphe Sax dies at the age of 80 in Paris, France.

1900 (+) Writer Jacques Prévert is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.

1902 (+) Aircraft-pioneer Charles Lindbergh is born in the USA.

1907 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Erdner is born in Gehrden, Germany.

1921 (-) Rapist and murderer Jack Field is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1921 (-) Rapist and murderer William Gray is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1928 (-) Child-abductor and murderer William Hickman aka The Fox, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in San Quentin, California, USA.

1948 (+) Musician Alice Cooper originally Vincent Furnier, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1966 (x) 133 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Tokyo Bay, Japan.

1970 (x) 236 Die in train collision in Buenos Aires, Brazil.

1972 (x) An unidentified sailor is the first deadly victim in a Baader-Meinhof-Group bomb-attack by the Movement 2nd June against a British Yachting Club in Berlin-Gatow, Germany.

1972 (-) Yvonne Weber is abducted and presumably killed by Zodiac at the age of 12 in Santa Rosa, Redwood Ice-Skating Rink, California, USA.
Her skeletonised body was found 10 months later.

1974 (x) Patty Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in Berkeley, California, USA.

1976 (-) Composer Benjamin Britten dies at the age of 62 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

1983 (-) Musician Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa and an Icepac overdose at the age of 32 in the USA.

1984 (-) Anneliese Schreiner is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.
She survived.

1986 (-) John Jordan is presumably strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 57 in Brixton, London, Josephine Avenue, United Kingdom.

1987 (-) Musician Liberace dies at the age of 67 in the USA.

1995 (x) Four gypsies are killed in the seventh bomb attack by Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Oberwarth, Austria.
The gypsies tried to remove a racist poster near their camp.

1997 (x) Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is given notice that she will never leave prison during her life in the United Kingdom.

1999 (-) Satan Worshiper and Triple Murderer Sean Sellers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

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

1999 (x) Cannibal Dorangel Vargas aka The Hannibal Lecter of the Andes, is arrested on charges of cannibalism in Caracas, Venezuela.

Saturday, February 3, 2007

3 february 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Blood running down my chest from a cut in my nipple. Mashed up with the picture in this post to make this picture.

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

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

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

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

1903 (-) Child Murderess Annie Walters is executed by hanging in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.

1903 (-) Child Murderess Amelia Sach is executed by hanging in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.

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

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

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

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

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

1958 (-) Musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens aka La Bamba die in a ‘Beechcraft Bonanza’ airplane crash in Mason, Iowa, USA.
The whole ‘Big Bopper Band’ is wiped out.

1971 (-) An unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 38 in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.

1975 (-) Musician Oem Koelsoem aka The Nightingale of the Nile, dies at the age of 77 in Egypt.

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

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

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

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

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

1998 (-) Serial Killer Karla Tucker aka The Pick Ax Murderess, is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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

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

Friday, February 2, 2007

2 february 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

Having a spicy Tom Yum soup with Frankie Teardrop Pinckers at a construction site foodstall in Bangkok, Thailand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1964 (-) Hannah Tailford is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 30 in London, United Kingdom.

1967 (-) Murderer Ronald Ryan is executed by hanging in Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia.

1969 (-) Actor Boris Karloff originally William Henry Pratt, dies of a bad cold at the age of 82 in Midhurst, Sussex, United Kingdom.

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

1979 (-) Sex Pistol Sid Vicious dies of heroin-overdose at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

1 february 2004 - Singapore

A closed door in Singapore.

1874 (+) Writer Hugo Von Hoffmansthal is born in Vienna, Austria.

1895 (+) Filmmaker John Ford originally Sean O’Fenna, is born in Cape Elisabeth, Maine, USA.

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

1908 (x) King Carlos I and his son Prince Luis are shot dead by a mob of revolutionaries in Portugal.

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

1929 (-) Murderer Tom Dreher is executed by hanging.

1929 (-) Murderess Ada Lebout is executed by hanging.

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

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

1944 (-) Artist Piet Mondriaan dies at the age of 82 in New York, New York, USA.

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

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

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

1966 (-) Actor and filmmaker Buster Keaton dies at the age of 70 in London, United Kingdom.

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

1974 (x) 188 Die in 25-storey bank-building fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1974 (x) The Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs is arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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

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

1981 (-) Airplane designer Donald Douglas dies at the age of 90 in the USA.

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

1985 (-) Ernst Zimmerman is shot dead by the RAF at the age of 55 in München, Germany.

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

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