Sunday, April 8, 2007

8 april 2007 - Borgerhout, Belgium


Morning has broken in Borgerhout, Belgium.

1364 (-) King Jean II aka le Bon, dies at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.
He was held as an honoured prisoner at the Savoy Palace.
1672 (-) Quaker Thomas Lancaster is executed by hanging in Hawkshead, Cumbria, United Kingdom.
He poisoned his family of 6.
1893 (+) Actress Mary Pickford originally Gladys Smith, is born.
1898 (+) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is born in Halifax, Black Boy House, United Kingdom.
1911 (x) 128 Die in coal-mine explosion in Littleton, USA.
1929 (+) Musician and actor Jacques Brel is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
1930 (-) Homosexual Matricider Sidney Fox is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.
1938 (x) An unidentified headless woman is found as first victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1944 (-) Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is executed by lethal injection in Vienna, Austria.
He was first extensively experimented upon by the SS.
1949 (-) Murderer Jessie Carroll is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
1950 (-) Choreographer Vaslav Nijinski dies at the age of 61 in London, United Kingdom.
1961 (x) Over 200 Die in Dara shipwreck in the Persian Gulf.
1963 (+) Musician and son of Beatle John, Julian Lennon is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1972 (-) Ruthless Ruler Sheik Abeid Karume is assassinated by persons unknown in Zanzibar.
1973 (-) Artist Pablo Picasso dies at the age of 91 in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
1981 (-) War Leader Omar Bradley dies at the age of 88.
He led the Allied Forces to the beaches of Normandy.
1983 (-) Gustavo Herrera is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake County, Illinois, USA.
In the course of the fight, Eyler’s hand is badly cut between the thumb and forefinger.
1986 (-) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, commits suicide by jumping out of the 7th storey window of the Sun Music Agency building at the age of 18 in Tokio, Japan.
Over 30 young fans will follow her into death in the next days.
1994 (-) Musician Kurt Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Seattle, Lake Washington, Washington, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer Don Hawkins is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.

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