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

Thursday, May 31, 2007

31 may 2003 - Loppem, Belgium

Three trees in the Flanders Fields of Loppem.

1809 (-) Composer Franz Josef Haydn dies at the age of 77 in Vienna, Austria.

1878 (-) Murderess Eugenie Chantrelle is executed by hanging at the age of 54 in the United Kingdom.

1922 (-) Murderer Major Herbert Armstrong is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in Gloucester Prison, United Kingdom.

1928 (-) Murderer Frederick Browne is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1928 (-) Murderer William Kennedy is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1930 (+) Actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1945 (+) Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder is born in Bad-Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany.

1945 (x) Nazi-Germany capitulates in WWII.

1953 (-) Artist Wladimir Tatlin dies in Moscow, Russia.

1962 (-) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in Ramleh Prison, Israël.

1965 (+) Actress Brooke Shields is born in New York, New York, USA.

1967 (-) Jan Douse aka Cra Cupido, is beaten and stabbed to death by Hans Van Zon at the age of 80 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1968 (x) Serial Killer Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, and Norma Bell break into the local nursery, leaving notes referring to the murder of 4-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1984 (x) 30-year-old Mass-Murderer Linwood Briley leads the escape of 6 convicted killers from the Mecklenberg Correctional Centre in Boydton, USA.
They are all arrested about 3 weeks later.

1990 (-) Joseph Proce is killed by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 78 in New York, Queens, New York, USA.

1991 (-) Writer Angus Wilson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 77 in the United Kingdom.

2000 (-) Multiple Murderer Robert Carter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

30 may 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Fundamental redecoration works in our house.

1640 (-) Artist Peter Paul Rubens dies of gout at the age of 63 in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1778 (-) Writer François Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, dies at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1845 (+) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I is born in Turin, Italy.

1881 (-) Cornelia De Hees-Van Der Linden is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands.
They were sisters in law.

1887 (+) Artist Alexander Archipenko is born in Kiev, Russia.

1909 (+) Musician Benny Goodman is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1912 (-) Airplane pioneer Wilbur Wright dies at the age of 45 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1927 (-) Jenny Randolph is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Buffalo, New York, USA.

1929 (+) German Priest Oskar Brüsewitz is born in Willkischken, Lithuania.

1947 (+) Artist Orlan is born in Saint Etienne, France.

1960 (+) Victim of Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, Beth Wilmot is born in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1960 (-) Writer Boris Pasternak dies at the age of 70 in Moscow, Peredelkino, Russia.

1961 (-) Dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.

1961 (x) 61 Die in KLM DC-8 crash in Portugal.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1972 (x) 28 die in the Massacre on the Airfield of Lod.

1981 (-) President Zia Ur-Rahman is killed during a rebellion in Bangladesh.

1985 (-) Arms-Factory director José Martinez-Parens is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 32 in Spain.

1985 (-) Carol Kyle is attacked and raped by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, in Los Angeles, Burbank, California, USA.
She survived.

1994 (-) Inventor of the ‘bic’, Marcel Bich dies at the age of 79 in France.

1999 (x) 36-year-old Mass Murderer Zhao Lianrong stabs eight women to death in Bejing, China.

2002 (-) Murderer Stanley Baker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

29 may 2005 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Dennis Tyfusch performing at the Scheld'apen in Antwerpen.

1903 (+) Actor and musician Bob Hope is born in London, Eltham, United Kingdom.

1914 (-) Murderess Augusta Fullam dies of a heat-stroke at the age of 40 in Agra Prison, India.

1914 (x) 1024 Die in Empress of Ireland Ocean liner shipwreck in St. Lawrence, Canada.
It collided with the collier.

1917 (+) 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachussets, USA.

1923 (-) Hans Sonnenfeld is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 19 in Hannover, Germany.

1953 (x) Explorer Sir Edmund Hilary and Tensing Norkey are he first men to reach the top of Mount Everest in Nepal.

1956 (+) Musician La Toya Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.

1957 (-) Filmmaker James Whale commits suicide by drowning in his swimming pool at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1966 (+) Child kidnapper and murderer Robert Anderson is born in Texas, USA.

1970 (-) Ex-president Pedro Arambaru is kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Argentina.

1970 (-) Artist Eva Hesse dies of cancer at the age of 34 in New York, USA.

1971 (-) David Hilligiest is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 13 in Houston Heights, Texas, USA.

1973 (-) Rosa Vasquez is presumably strangled by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.

1973 (-) Eugène Stephan is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 25 in Laigneville Cemetary, France.

1979 (-) Actress Mary Pickford originally Gladys Smith, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 86 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1982 (-) Actress Romy Schneider originally Rose-Marie Magdalena Albach-Retty, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 43 in Paris, France.

1987 (-) Murderer William Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Jackson, Georgia, USA.

1990 (-) Raymond Smith aka Ricky Beeks, is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 33 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

1994 (-) Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Santiago, Chili.

1998 (x) The California Board of Prison Terms takes 20 minutes to deny parole to Manson Family-member Leslie Van Houten in Frontera, Institution for Women, California, USA.

Monday, May 28, 2007

28 may 2007 - nowhere special

Nothing to take pictures of on this day in history.

1840 (+) Artist Hans Makart is born in Salzburg, Austria.

1880 (+) Historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler is born in Blankenburg, Brandenburg, Germany.

1906 (x) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is convicted to 3 months imprisonment for fraud in Paris, France.

1908 (+) Writer Ian Fleming is born in London, Mayfair, United Kingdom.

1914 (-) Weapon designer Paul von Mauser dies at the age of 76 in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany.

1923 (+) Composer Gyorgi Ligeti is born in Diciosanmartin, Tirnaeni, Romania.

1935 (x) Führer-mistress Eva Braun is found unconscious after swallowing 35 tablets of Vanodorm in Germany.
She recovered a couple of days later.

1940 (x) Belgium capitulates for Nazi-Germany in WWII..

1940 (-) Murderer Boyd Wilson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in Nevada, USA.

1942 (-) Gladys Hosking is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
He wanted to get her voice.

1944 (+) Musician Gladys Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1947 (-) Nazi-doctor in Auschwitz and Mauthausen Friedrich Entress is executed by hanging in Landsberg, Germany.

1948 (-) Supposed mistress of Adolf Hitler Unity Mitford dies due to injuries inflicted in a suicide-attempt 10 years earlier at the age of 33 in Oban, United Kingdom.

1949 (+) Musician Wendy O. Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, is born in Webster, New York, USA.

1959 (x) 92 Die in train derailment in Java.

1964 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for car theft in Oklahoma City, USA.

1965 (x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

1972 (-) Ex-King of England Edward of Windsor dies at the age of 77 in London, United Kingdom.

1973 (-) Artist Jacques Lipchitz dies at the age of 81 in Capri, Italy.

1974 (x) 6 die in a bomb-attack during an anti-fascist rally in Brescia, Italy.

1977 (x) 160 Die in Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Kentucky, USA.

1981 (-) Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski aka The Primate of the Millennium, dies at the age of 79 in Poland.

1986 (-) Wilfred Parkes is choked to death by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 70 in London, Stockwell Park Estate, Albamarle House, United Kingdom.

1987 (-) Murderer Anthony Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1993 (-) Christopher Dunn is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 37 in London, United Kingdom.

1996 (-) Sabine Dardenne is abducted and held imprisoned by Marc Dutroux in Kain, Belgium.

1997 (x) Serial Killer Thomas Quick is convicted to indefinite confinement in a security asylum for the criminally insane for the 1988 murder of the Israeli tourist Yinon Levy in Sweden.
This is his fourth conviction for the serial killer who has confessed to 15 killings.

1997 (-) Double Murderer Robert Madden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Napoleon Beazley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 25 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Japanese minister of Agriculture Toshikatsu Matsuoka commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in Tokyo, Japan.
He was involved in several corruption scandals.

2007 (-) Artist Jörg Immendorff dies of heart failure and Lou Gehrig's Disease at the age of 62 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

27 may 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

An anonymous letterbox in the wall of a garden in Antwerpen.

1840 (-) Composer Niccolo Paganini dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 58 in Nice, France.

1878 (+) Choreographer Isadora Duncan aka The Mother of Modern Dance, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1894 (+) Writer Louis Celine is born in Courbevoie, Asnières, France.

1894 (+) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett is born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, USA.

1897 (-) Beaupied is strangled by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 14 in France.

1911 (+) Actor Vincent Price is born in St. Louis, Montana, USA.

1919 (-) Bacteriologist Robert Koch dies at the age of 67 in Baden-Baden, Germany.

1922 (+) Actor Christopher Lee is born in London, United Kingdom.

1923 (+) Politician Henry Kissinger is born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany.

1940 (-) Murderer Mateo Quinionis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hawaï, USA.

1941 (x) Nazi-leader Richard Heydrich is fatally wounded in an assault by Josef Gabcik and Kan Kubis in Prague, Holesovice, Czechoslowakia.

1966 (x) 6 French army-jets crash due to a lack of fuel in Spain.

1968 (x) 99 Die in US Scorpion nuclear submarine shipwreck in the Atlantic.

1969 (-) Darwin Scott is stabbed to death and mutilated by persons unknown at the age of 64 in the USA.
He was the brother of Colonel Smith.

1978 (-) Eric Christgen is abducted and killed by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 4 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1993 (x) 5 Die in a Maffia bomb-attack on the famous Uffizi-Museum in Firenze, Italy.

1994 (-) Triple Murderer Charles Campbell is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.

1994 (-) Cop Killer Stephen Nethery is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

26 may 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

With Mauro during the recording of the Club Moral CD "User Handbook".

1828 (x) Caspar Hauser aka The Wild Child, is found on a market square in Nürnberg, Germany.

1883 (+) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, is born in Mulheim-am-Rhein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1884 (-) Husband murderess Mary Lefley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Lincoln, United Kingdom.
She had to be dragged to the gallows screaming 'murder, murder!' and struggling with the warders.

1886 (+) Singer Al Jolson originally Asa Yoelson aka The World’s Greatest Entertainer, is born in Seredzius, Lithuania.

1899 (+) War-criminal and art-collector Pieter Menten is born in Rotterdam, Holland.

1907 (+) Actor John Wayne originally Marion Michael Morrison, is born in Winterset, Iowa, USA.

1913 (+) Actor Peter Cushing is born in Kenley, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1916 (x) Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, sets fire to the State Penitentiary’s flax mill and workshops in Oregon, USA.

1922 (x) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is hit by a stroke in Moscow, Russia.

1924 (-) Fritz Wittig is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.

1926 (+) Musician Miles Davis is born in Alton, Illinois, USA.

1938 (-) Murderer Robert Hoolhouse is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Durham Gaol, United Kingdom.

1946 (-) Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, France.

1954 (x) 103 Die in US Bennington aircraftcarrier explosion.

1957 (+) Serial Killer Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, is born in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

1976 (-) Philosopher Martin Heidegger dies at the age of 86 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

1983 (x) The Public Health Service announces AIDS to be the number 1 public health menace in the USA.

1984 (-) Michelle Simms is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound To Die, at the age of 22 in Tampa, Florida, USA.

1991 (x) 223 Die in Lauda-Air Boeing 767 crash in Thailand.

1991 (-) Konerak Sinthasomphone is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 14 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

2003 (-) Falungong member Li Rongxian is tortured to death at the age of 44 in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp, Jilin, China.
He also suffered of advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Friday, May 25, 2007

25 may 2005 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Jacques Ambach in full glory during a performance at Factor 44 in Antwerpen.

1889 (+) Aircraft pioneer Igor Sikorsky is born in Kiev, Russia.

1892 (+) President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito is born in Kumrovec, Croatia, Yugoslavia.

1913 (-) Christine Klein is killed by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, at the age of 9 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1927 (+) Writer Robert Ludlum is born in New York, New York, USA.

1943 (x) In a letter to Enrico Fermi, Scientist and Father of the Atomic Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer discusses the possibility of infecting food with Strontium 90, whereby easily about 1/2 million people could be killed at once..

1961 (-) Murderer Victor Terry is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Bedford, United Kingdom.

1963 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the 2nd floor of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.

1968 (-) Martin Brown is strangled by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, at the age of 4 in Newcastle, Scotswood, 85 St. Margaret’s Road, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is arrested and questioned but released by the FBI in Corvallis, Callahan Hall Lounge, Oregon, USA.

1974 (x) Miguel Rivera is arrested on suspicion of being the Unidentified murderer Charlie Chopoff but is never brought to trial in New York, Eighth Street, New York, USA.

1977 (x) 2 unidentified burglars are blown to pieces whilst robbing a safe in a dynamite warehouse in Hunnerberg, Sweden.

1978 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap bomb in the parking lot of the Engineering Department in Chicago, University Circle Campus, Illinois, USA.
The bomb explodes the next day, when opened at the Northwestern Technological Institute police department, one person is injured.

1979 (-) Murderer John Spenkelink is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.

1979 (x) 279 Die in Panam DC-10 crash in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1983 (x) 294 Die in 10th of the Ramadan Ferry explosion in Nasser Lake, Egypt.

1984 (-) Sue Luna is abducted and killed by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 23 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

1984 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

1985 (x) Over 400 Die in M.V. Shamia Ferry capsizing in Meghna River, Bangladesh.

1989 (-) Murderer Stephen McCoy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1990 (-) GRAPO-terrorist Jose Sevillano dies after 177 days hungerstriking at the age of 30 in Madrid, prison hospital, Spain.

2000 (-) Murderer James Clayton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

24 may 2001 - Berchem, Belgium

The back of a bench in the railway station of Berchem.

1431 (-) Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 19 in Rouen, France.

1917 (-) Double Murderer Dr. Arthur Waite is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1930 (x) Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, is arrested in Düsseldorf, Mettmanner Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1935 (-) Murderer Tellie McQuate is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in California, USA.

1940 (+) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, is born in Leningrad, Russia.

1941 (+) Musician Bob Dylan originally Robert Zimmerman, is born in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.

1945 (+) Actress Priscilla Presley is born in New York, New York, USA.

1972 (x) 3 US-soldiers die in a Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, bomb-attack on the American Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.
5 more soldiers are injured.

1972 (-) Actress Asta Nielsen dies at the age of 90 in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

1974 (-) Musician Duke Ellington dies of lung cancer at the age of 75 in New York, New York, the USA.

1975 (-) Mass-Murderer Russel Smith commits suicide by a shot through the head in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1982 (x) Suzanne Wagner escapes after being held imprisoned as a sex-slave for over a year by Sex Researcher Dr. Ulrich Kochwald in Regensburg, Germany.

1985 (x) Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt, Germany.

1987 (x) Almost a million people walk from each side over the Golden Gate Bridge on it’s 50th anniversary festivity-day in San Francisco, California, USA.

1991 (-) Anthony Hughes is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 31 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer Richard Foster is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Double murderer Jesus Aguilar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

23 may 2007 - Tampere, Finland

A Finnish ex-army truck at the busstation of Tampere, Finland.

1892 (-) Mass-Murderer Frederick Deeming is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
About 10.000 spectators showed up.

1906 (-) Writer Hendrik Ibsen dies of a stroke at the age of 78 in Oslo, Norway.

1910 (+) Artist Franz Kline is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.

1910 (+) Musician Artie Shaw is born in New York, New York, USA.

1918 (-) Joseph Maggio is hacked to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
His wife is also killed in the same event.

1923 (-) Roland Hoch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.

1933 (+) Actress Joan Collins is born in London, United Kingdom.

1934 (-) Clyde Barker is shot dead by the police at the age of 25 in Gibsland, Louisiana, USA.
They were lured in an ambush by an accomplice.

1936 (-) Multiple Child-Murderer Adolf Seefeld is executed by the Guillotine in Berlin, Germany.

1945 (-) Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Lüneburg, Germany.

1950 (+) Serial Killer Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is born in Sacramento, California, USA.

1958 (+) Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan, The Want-Ad Killer, Kathy Sue Miller is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1958 (-) Murderer Emil Tillman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 41 in Germany.

1959 (-) Murderer Edward Eckwerth is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1964 (x) 328 Die in soccer riot caused by a denied goal in the game Peru-Argentina in Lima, Peru.

1967 (x) 3-year-old Zeena LaVey is the first person to receive a legal Satanic baptism ever in San Francisco, The Church of Satan, California, USA.

1969 (-) Paul Meyer crashes in the Channel with a Hercules C-130 he had stolen from Cambridge airbase at the age of 23 in Alderney, United Kingdom.

1989 (x) Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is sentenced to 5 years probation for sexual assault and enticing a child for immoral purposes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1991 (-) Murderer Ignacio Cuevas is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1997 (-) Artist James Lee Byars dies at the age of 65 in Cairo, Egypt.

2000 (-) Falungong member Yulan Mei dies in police detention after she was fatally injured during force-feeding at the age of 44 in Minghang hospital, Beijing, China.
On may 17 she was force-fed by an inmate who had no medical skills at all, the feeding tube was wrongly inserted causing serious injuries. After she returned to her cell she had a headache and started to vomit blood, lapsed into a coma and never regained consciousness again. She was the 19th Falungong member to die in police custody.

2000 (-) Murderer James Richardson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

22 may 1999 - Berlin, Germany

Two German presumably talking about art at AMVK's exhibition opening in Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

1813 (+) Composer Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany.

1859 (+) Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1885 (-) Writer Victor Hugo dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1907 (+) Actor and filmmaker Sir Laurence Olivier is born in Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1907 (+) Artist Georges Remi aka Hergé, is born in Liège, Liège, Belgium.

1915 (x) 227 Die in train collision in Gretna, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1924 (+) Musician Charles Aznavour originally Shahnour Vaghinagh Aznavourian, is born in Paris, France.

1940 (+) Actor Michael Sarrazin is born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

1951 (+) Serial Killer Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, is born in Rochester, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Wife murderer Leonard Coey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 59 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1960 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Jacqueline Hill is born in the United Kingdom.

1964 (-) Mass-Murderer Reuben Rolle commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 40 in Nassau, Bahamas.
He first shot 6 people in the Grove Club.

1967 (x) 252 Die in L’Innovation department store fire in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1970 (+) Fashion Model Naomi Campbell is born in Streatham, South London, United Kingdom.

1980 (-) Leslie O’Dell is tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 18 in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, USA.
They spent 3 hours of rape and sexual torture in room 117 of the Quality Inn Motel, Cottingham was arrested later that day.

1981 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is convicted to life-imprisonment for killing 13 women in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.

1981 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is arrested near the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1982 (-) Angela Marks is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.

1987 (-) Murderer Richard Tucker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1992 (-) Murder-instigator Robert Black is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He hired John Wayne Hearn to kill his wife Sandra.

1992 (x) 66-year-old TV-host Johnny Carson presents his last show on NBC in Hollywood, California, USA.
For the last time America heard "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!".

1997 (-) Poet Herman De Coninck dies of a heart-attack at the age of 53 in Lissabon, Portugal.

1997 (-) Murderer Larry White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Johnny Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, May 21, 2007

21 may 2007 - Tampere, Finland

The display of an 'invisible agent' at the Spy Museum in Tampere.

1633 (+) Composer Joseph De La Barre is born in France.

1844 (+) Artist Henri Rousseau aka Le Douanier, is born in Laval, Mayenne, France.

1873 (-) Johanna Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg at the age of 12 in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1916 (+) Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1918 (-) An unidentified girl is assaulted by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in California, USA.

1921 (+) Physicist Andrei Sakharov is born in Moscow, Russia.

1921 (x) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is charged with assault on a child and sent to an asylum in San Francisco, California, USA.

1924 (-) Bobby Franks is kidnapped and killed by Nathan & Richard Leopold & Loeb aka The Perfect Murderers, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1927 (x) Aircraft-pioneer Charles Lindbergh is the first man to fly from New York to Paris non-stop.

1943 (x) Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is arrested by the French Gestapo, suspected of leading an escape-route for jews in Paris, France.

1951 (+) Serial Killer Douglas Gretzler is born in Arizona, USA.
Along with mental hospital escapee Willie Luther Steelman, he killed 19 people.

1960 (+) Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is born in Milwaukee, Evangelical Deaconess Hospital, Wisconsin, USA.

1963 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the basement of a building he owns, collecting 15000$ on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.

1965 (-) Mass-Murderer Roger Girard commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 34 in Chavagneux, France.
He first killed his 34-year-old wife Jeannette, his 58-year-old mother Angèle, his 23-year-old brother Robert and 10-year-old Eliane, 8-year-old Jacqueline, 7-year-old Bernard, 4-year-old Yves, 2-year-old Daniel, 16-months-old Sylvianne and 6-months-old Pierre.

1970 (-) Jutta Rahn is strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 13 in Breitscheid, Germany.
Her 20-year-old boyfriend Peter Schay is charged with the crime and spent 15 months in prison before he was released due to lack of evidence.

1971 (-) US-War-hero Audi Murphy is killed in a plane crash in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1972 (x) 34-year-old Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth strikes in the St-Peters-Dom in Rome, Italy.

1972 (-) Billy Baulch is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 17 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.

1976 (x) The artificial respiration for Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is stopped in St. Claire's Hospital, New Jersey, USA.
She would remain in a coma for almost 10 years until her death.

1981 (-) IRA-member Raymond McCreesh dies after 61 days of hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

1981 (-) IRA-member Patrick O’Hara dies after 61 days of hungerstriking at the age of 24 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

1988 (x) Elite-sergeant Marciano Contaoe shoots 11 people in a drunken rage in Manila, the Fillipines.

1989 (x) Over 150 Die in Darma Mulia Ferry capsizing in Street of Lombok, Indonesia.

1997 (-) Murderer Bruce Callins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Founder of Herbalife International Inc. Mark Hughes dies of a combination of alcohol and anti-depressant Doxepin at the age of 44 in Malibu, California, USA.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

20 may 2007 - Tampere, Finland

A wooden walkway from a basalt lava rock eruption into a lake in Pirkkala near Tampere.

1506 (-) Explorer Christoffel Columbus dies of heart-failure at the age of 55 in Valladolid, Spain.

1799 (+) Writer Honoré De Balzac is born in Tours, France.

1882 (+) Writer Sigrid Undset is born in Kalundborg, Zeeland, Denmark.

1894 (-) Eugenie Delhomme is raped, strangled, her throat cut and her right breast severed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 20 in France.

1908 (+) Actor James Stewart is born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA.

1915 (+) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan is born in near the Kinneret, Israël.

1917 (x) Future Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, has his left foot ripped open by a German hand-grenade during a bitter fight in the Aisne, France.

1920 (+) Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Wojtila, is born in Wadowice, Poland.

1927 (-) Murderer Charles Blackburn is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1940 (-) Flemish Nationalist VNV-Leader Joris Van Severen is brutally murdered by drunken partizans in Abbéville, France.

1944 (+) Musician Joe Cocker is born in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

1946 (+) Musician Cher originally Cherilyn Sarkisian, is born in El Centro, California, USA.

1965 (x) 119 Die in Pakistani Airlines Boeing 707 crash in Caïro, Egypt.

1968 (x) Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is sentenced for sodomy and sent to the Iowa Men Reformatory in Anamosa, Iowa, USA.

1981 (-) Carmen Riviera is presumably murdered by Zodiac in Hayward, California, USA.

1992 (-) Murderer Roger Coleman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Virginia, USA.

1992 (-) Murderer Jesus Romero is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Clarence Lackey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (x) 15-year-old Mass Murderer Kip Kinkel kills his parents and drives to his school where he starts a shooting rampage that kills two of his classmates and wounds another 22 in Springfield, Thurston High School cafeteria, Oregon, USA.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

19 may 2002 - Paris, France

The former Prison de la Bastille where Marquis De Sade was imprisoned in 1789.

1536 (-) First Marchioness of Pembroke Anna Boleyn is executed by beheading at the age of 29 in London, United Kingdom.
She had been charged with adultery, incest and treason.

1870 (+) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1872 (-) Schoolmaster Johan Van Dale dies of smallpocks at the age of 46 in the Netherlands.
He compiled the New Dutch Language Wordbook.

1881 (+) Architect of modern Turkey Kemal Mustafa Ataturk is born in Salonika, Greece.

1890 (+) Leader of the Viet Minh Independence Movement Ho Chi Minh originally Nguyen Sinh Cung, is born in Hoang Tru Village, Nghe An Province, Vietnam.

1916 (-) Murderer Francisco Rodriguez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1928 (x) 195 Die in coal-mine explosion in Mather, USA.

1933 (-) Murderer Luke Nichols is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.

1935 (-) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, is killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of 47 in Bovington, Dorset, United Kingdom.

1945 (+) Musician Pete Townshend is born in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom.

1948 (+) Musician Grace Jones originally Grace Mendoza, is born in Spanishtown, Jamaica.

1954 (-) Composer Charles Ives dies at the age of 79 in West Riding, Connecticut, USA.

1971 (x) Serial Killer Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, is arrested in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1972 (x) The Axel-Springer building is bombed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Berlin, Germany.

1975 (x) Explorer Junko Tabei is the first woman to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Nepal.

1975 (x) Supposed Murderer Patrick Meehan is granted a Royal Pardon and released from prison in Peterhead, United Kingdom.

1981 (-) Sandra Wolfsteiner is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 16 in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.

1994 (-) Jacqueline Onassis dies of lymph-cancer at the age of 64 in New York, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Triple Murderer Richard Drinkard is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-) Murderer Pedro Muniz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer Richard Cartwright is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, May 18, 2007

18 may 2002 - Paris, France

Romain Slocombe and a Japanese friend at a farewell party in AMVK's Paris studio. I happened to be a character in Slocombe's book "Sake des Brumes" in the 'Poulpe' series.

1812 (-) Murderer John Bellingham is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.

1872 (+) Philosopher Bertrand Russel is born in Trelleck, Gwent, United Kingdom.

1897 (+) Actor Frank Capra is born in Palermo, Italy.

1906 (+) Filmmaker Roberto Rosselini is born in Rome, Italy.

1911 (-) Composer Gustav Mahler dies of streptokok-poisoning at the age of 51 in Vienna, Austria.

1912 (+) Musician Perry Como is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

1927 (+) Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is born in Fargo, North Dakota, USA.

1927 (x) Mass Murderer Andrew Kehoe wires the Consolidated School with dynamite, killing 38 children and 5 adults in Bath, Michigan, USA.
The night before he had stabbed his wife to death. Andrew himself also died in the blast when he fired into his car, still loaded with more dynamite.

1928 (x) The home of Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Elliott is bombed by persons unknown in New York, New York, USA.

1939 (-) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
It was the last execution before the outbreak of the war.

1942 (-) Murderer John Stanton is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida, USA.

1953 (x) The body of Beryl Evans is exhumed to establish wether Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, had indeed murdered her, in London, Gunners Bury Cemetary, United Kingdom.

1960 (+) Spree Killer Michael Ryan aka The Rambo Killer, is born in Savernake, United Kingdom.

1967 (-) Joyce Cassel is attacked and raped by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.
She survived.

1971 (-) Elisabeth Porteous is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1980 (-) Musician Ian Curtis from the Joy Division, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 23 in Manchester, United Kingdom.

1987 (-) SF-writer Alice Sheldon commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 71 in Maclean, Washington, USA.
She killed her sick and blind 84-year-old husband first.

1993 (-) Murderer John Sawyers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-) Murderer Robert Carter is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2004 (-) Double murderer Kelsey Patterson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer Bryan Wolfe is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

17 may 2005 - Brugge, Belgium

A film crew documenting AMVK's work at an exhibition in the Belfort of Brugge.

1866 (+) Composer Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France.

1873 (+) Writer Henri Barbusse is born in Asnières, France.

1900 (+) Ayatollah Ruwalla Khomeini is born in Khomein Isfahan, Persia, Iran.

1904 (+) Actor Jean Gabin originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, is born in Paris, France.

1924 (x) Numerous skulls and bones are found in the river Leine between Schloss Herrenhausen and the Bruckmühle. They are all presumed victims of Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Germany.

1927 (x) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for malicious wounding in London, South Western Magistrates Court, United Kingdom.

1937 (+) Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas, USA.

1955 (+) Actress Debra Winger is born in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

1978 (-) Vera Millward is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 41 in Manchester, United Kingdom.

1979 (x) Serial Killer Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is sentenced to die in the Gas Chamber in Santa Clara County, California, USA.

1990 (-) Murderer Johnny Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1994 (-) Murderer John Thanos is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Maryland, USA.

2006 (-) Double murderer Jermaine Herron is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

16 may 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

I filled a small wooden box with earth from my Hole. Tomorrow at 5.00 am I'm leaving for Pori, Finland where I will do a performance related to my Diggin' Project. There will also be a noise concert in Tampere, and Carl Cryplant promised to do a Dj-set.

1860 (+) America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, is born in Gilmantown, New Hampshire, USA.

1878 (-) Mass-poisoness Lydia Sherman aka The Borgia of Connecticut, dies at the age of 54 in the State Prison, Connecticut, USA.
She poisoned three husbands and seven children with arsenic.

1905 (+) Actor Henry Fonda is born in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA.

1919 (+) Musician Wladzu Liberace is born in West Allis, Wisconsin, USA.

1920 (+) Actress Martine Carol is born in Saint Mandé, Val de Marne, France.

1930 (-) Gertrud Bell is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1938 (-) Actor Jack Dougherty commits suicide by coal-monoxide-poisoning at the age of 42 in the Hollywood Hills, California, USA.

1940 (+) Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

1944 (-) Henry Gein is presumably beaten to death and thrown into a fire by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 42 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1957 (-) FBI-agent Eliot Ness aka The Untouchable, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 54 in Cleveland, USA.
In one popular yet false anecdote, he died just as he was about to have the first alcoholic drink of his life.

1966 (+) Musician Janet Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.

1975 (-) Black Power leader Michael De Freitas aka Michael X aka Michael Abdul Malik, is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Port-of-Spain's Royal Gaol, Trinidad.

1984 (-) Writer Irwin Shaw originally Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff, dies at the age of 71 in Davos, Switzerland.

1985 (x) Unknown number Die in Aeroflot Iljoeshin crash in Sakhalin, Russia.

1987 (-) Oleg Makerenkow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 13 in Swerdlowsk, Rewda, Ural, Russia.

1990 (-) Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr dies of throat-cancer at the age of 64 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1990 (-) Creator of The Muppets Jim Henson dies of a bacterial infection at the age of 57 in New York, New York, USA.

1990 (-) Dag Drollet is shot dead by Christian Brando at the age of 26 in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, the Brandon Estate, California, USA.

1992 (-) Astrologer Howard Sasportas dies of aids at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.

1993 (x) 7 people are shot dead by persons unknown in a nightclub in Fresno, California, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Harry Moore is executed by lethal injection in Oregon, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Clifton Belyeu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (x) 36-year-old Spree Killer Günther Ewen goes on a shooting spree in Dillingen, Germany.
He shot two people to death in a disco, then broke into an apartment and killed the tenants.

1999 (-) Spree Killer Günther Ewen commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 36 in Luxemburg, Luxemburg.
He was hunted down by German and French police after going on a 3-day shooting spree in which he killed 5.

2002 (-) Murderer Ronford Styron is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

15 may 2004 - Aachen, Germany

Curator Philippe Pirotte having a crush on an AMVK lightbox at her "How Reliable is the Brain?" exhibition in NAK, Aachen.

1905 (+) Actor Joseph Cotton is born in Petersburg, Virginia, USA.

1909 (+) Actor James Mason is born in Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

1923 (+) Photographer Richard Avedon is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1929 (x) 125 Die in Hospital fire in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1930 (+) Artist Jasper Johns is born in Augusta, Georgia, USA.

1935 (-) Artist Kasimir Malewitsch dies at the age of 57 in Leningrad, Russia.

1936 (-) Murderer Jack Sullivan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1937 (+) Musician Trini Lopez is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1967 (-) Artist Edward Hopper dies at the age of 84 in New York, New York, USA.

1972 (x) Judge Wolfgang Buddenberg’s car is bombed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Germany.

1972 (x) Governor of Alabama and President-Candidate George Wallace is shot 5 times by Would-be Assassin Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland, USA.
The assassination attempt left him paralyzed.

1980 (-) Jean Reyner is strangled and her breasts removed by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, in New York, Hotel Seville, 22 East Twenty-ninth street, New York, USA.

1981 (x) Serial Killer Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, marries the mother of his son in Coquilham, British Columbia, Canada.

1981 (-) Ulrike Hellan is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 10 in Mainz, Germany.
She survived, and Bopp was arrested later on the day.

1985 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in room 224, a computer room, of Cory Hall in Berkeley, University, California, USA.
One person is badly injured when opening the package.

1985 (-) Murderer Jesse De La Rosa is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1986 (-) Rapist and murderer Jay Pinkerton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 24 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1987 (-) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 69 in New York, New York, USA.

1993 (-) Eric Schmitt aka The Human Bomb, is shot dead by a special RAID-police-commando after hostaging a class of young children for 46 hours, having dynamite tied around his waist at the age of 42 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1995 (-) Renee Blackwell is killed by Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, at the age of 24 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He tossed her body in a dumpster behind a McDonald's at 63rd and Ashland.

1998 (-) Musician Frank Sinatra aka The Voice, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Bruce Jacobs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, May 14, 2007

14 may 1999 - Gent, Belgium

Gallerist Barbara Thumm and artist AMVK at the St. Baafscathedral in Gent.

1856 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom.

1868 (+) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld is born in Kolberg, Poland.

1912 (-) Writer August Strindberg dies of pneumonia at the age of 63 in Stockholm, Sweden.

1930 (-) Maria Butlies is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1935 (-) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld dies of a heart-attack at the age of 67 in Nice, France.

1944 (+) Filmmaker George Lucas is born in Modesto, California, USA.

1952 (+) Musician David Byrne is born in Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1965 (-) Irena St. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 16 in Grodziek, Poland.

1968 (-) Mr Delisse is shot in the head by Nestor Pirotte in Genval, Belgium.
Pirotte, sentenced to death 13 years earlier, was out on parole.

1970 (x) Terrorist Andreas Baader is liberated from the Deutschen Zentralinstituts für soziale Fragen while on leave from Tegel Prison, by Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin in Berlin, Miquelstrasse, Germany.
It marks the official foundation of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion.

1972 (-) National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
It was a protest against the occupation of Lithuania by the USSR.

1973 (x) 7 members of the Alday family are raped, sodomised, beaten and shot dead by escaped prisoners Wayne Coleman, George Dungee and Carl and Billy Isaacs in Seminole County, Georgia, USA.

1976 (-) Samuel Stapleton is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1977 (x) Unknown Master’s ‘Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes’ is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Lubeck, St. Agidien church, Germany.

1983 (x) Serial Killer Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is arrested for drunk driving, while the body of 25-year-old Terry Lee Gambrel was found garotted in the passenger seat in San Diego, Interstate 5, California, USA.

1984 (-) SS-Colonel and inventor of the “Black Raven” Gassing Vans Walter Rauff dies of a heart-attack at the age of 77 in Chile.

1985 (-) William Doi is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, California, USA.

1986 (-) Aline Peres is stabbed to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 49 in Brest, France.

1988 (-) Aljoscha Woronko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 9 in Artjomowsk, Russia.

1991 (-) Widow of Leader Mao, Jiang Qing aka Madame Mao, commits suicide by a drug overdose at the age of 77 in China.

1993 (-) Gangster and kidnapper Patrick Haemers commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 41 in Brussels, Vorst Prison, Brabant, Belgium.

1997 (-) Joan Brock is beaten to death as sixth victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 55 in LaPlace, Texas, USA.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

13 may 2002 - Lyon, France

A hole in a wall and the Flowers of Romance in Lyon, France.

1882 (+) Artist Georges Bracque is born in Argenteuil, France.

1907 (+) Writer Daphne Du Maurier is born in London, United Kingdom.

1931 (+) Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim Jones is born in Lynn, Indiana, USA.

1939 (+) Actor Harvey Keitel is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1941 (+) Musician Ritchie Valens originally Richard Steven Valenzuela, is born in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, USA.

1950 (+) Musician Stevie Wonder originally Stevland Morris, is born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA.

1961 (-) Actor Gary Cooper originally Frank Cooper, dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1962 (-) Artist Franz Kline dies at the age of 59 in New York, New York, USA.

1963 (x) 36-year-old James Foster is arrested on suspicion of strangling 4 women in New York, New York, USA.

1969 (x) Over 100 Die in race riot in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

1972 (x) 115 Die in Nightclub fire in Osaka, Japan.

1972 (+) Triple murderer Marion Dudley is born in Texas, USA.

1981 (x) Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Wojtila, is shot by 24-year-old Mehmet Ali Agca in Rome, Italy.

1990 (x) Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, rents room 213 at the Oxford Apartments on 25th North Street, where he will kill and dismember 13 people in less than 2 years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Anthony Westley is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

12 may 2007 - Machelen, Belgium

The new landscape in the town where I lived when I was young and looked different then.

1820 (+) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, is born in Florence, Italy.

1842 (+) Composer Jules Massenet is born in Montaud, France.

1870 (-) Johannes Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg at the age of 1 in the Netherlands.

1892 (-) Sex Murderer Etienne Deschamps is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1893 (-) Murderer John Carlisle is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.

1895 (-) Adele Mortureux is murdered by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.

1897 (+) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1907 (-) Satanist writer Joris-Karl Huysmans originally Charles-Marie-Georges, dies of cancer of the mouth in a benedict monastery, France.

1921 (+) Artist Joseph Beuys is born in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1924 (+) Actor and comedian Anthony Hancock is born in 23 Railway Cuttings, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

1928 (+) Composer Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

1932 (-) Charles Lindbergh Jr is found dead after presumably being kidnapped by Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, at the age of 2 in the wood near Hopewell Mansion, New Jersey, USA.

1936 (-) Murderer Dr. Buck Ruxton is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

1951 (x) First US hydrogen-bomb-test in Eniwetok, the Pacific Ocean.

1953 (x) First USSR hydrogen-bomb-test.

1957 (-) Actor and filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim aka The Man You Love to Hate, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Maurepas, France.

1972 (x) A bomb-attack is executed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on the police headquarters in Augsburg, Germany.

1981 (-) IRA-member Francis Hughes dies after 59 days of hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

1982 (x) Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Wojtila, is stabbed with a bajonet by 32-year-old artist Juan Fernandez Krohn in Fatima, Portugal.

1984 (x) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, has his second death-sentence commuted to life-imprisonment in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.

1985 (-) Artist and Art Brut-pioneer Jean Dubuffet dies at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1987 (-) Spree Killer Michel Van Den Wijnendale aka The Mad Cyclist, commits suicide by a shot through the head in Bogaarden, Brabant, Belgium.
He was closed in by the police after he shot 90-year-old Jean Baptiste and 84-year-old Margriet Nechelput, 54-year-old Edgard, 46-year-old Liliane and 20-year-old Christian De Crem and 37-year-old Marie-Therese and 3-year-old Ludovic De Rijck.

1989 (x) Serial Killer Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is found guilty on 18 counts of murder in Orange County, West County Municipal Courts building, California, USA.

1993 (-) Cop Killer Leonel Herrera is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1997 (-) Serial Killer Dimitris Vakrinos commits suicide by hanging in prison at the age of 36 in Greece.
The former taxi driver was hanging by the neck from shoelaces tied to a shower head.

2006 (x) over 200 Die in oil pipeline explosion in Atlas Creek, Lagos, Nigeria.
Illegal oil traders tried to steal oil from the pipeline by drilling a hole in it.

Friday, May 11, 2007

11 may 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A basement at an unspecified location in Borgerhout.

1888 (+) Composer Irving Berlin originally Israel Isidore Baline, is born in Mogilev, Russia.

1904 (+) Artist Salvador Dali is born in Figueras, Gerona, Spain.

1916 (-) Composer Max Reger dies at the age of 43 in Leipzig, Germany.

1920 (-) Millionaire, bridge-expert and womanizer Joseph Elwell is shot dead by persons unknown in New York, 244 West 70th street, New York, USA.

1928 (-) Cop Killer John Whitfield is shot dead whilst escaping from the Ohio State Penitentiary in Ohio, USA.

1945 (-) Gauleiter of Sudetenland Konrad Henlein commits suicide by cutting his veins with broken glasses at the age of 47 in an allied POW camp in Plzen, Czechoslowakia.

1947 (x) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It was her third escape, but she was recaptured 12 hours later.

1947 (x) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, has her death sentence commuted to life-imprisonment after 20 years in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1959 (x) Actor Peter Lorre originally Laszlo Lowenstein, suffers a heart-attack while directing a film in Spain.

1966 (-) Genowefa B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 36 in Lagiza-Nieplieko, Poland.

1968 (-) An unidentified boy is attacked by Mary Bell aka Child of Hell, in Newcastle, Scotswood, Delaval Arms, United Kingdom.

1972 (x) A bomb-attack is executed by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on the US-armt 5th Corps headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.

1980 (-) Pamela Weisenfeld is tortured and beaten to death by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 27 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA.

1981 (-) Musician Bob Marley dies of lung cancer and a brain tumor at the age of 36 in Miami, Florida, USA.

1983 (-) Dominique Crete is stabbed to death by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 16 in Amiens, France.

1985 (x) 56 Die in soccer-stadium fire in Bradford, United Kingdom.

1985 (x) 11 members of a religious cult die in a shoot-out with the police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1989 (-) Sascha Djakonow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 8 in Rostow, Kamenka, Russia.

1993 (x) Over 200 Die in Toy-factory fire in Bangkok, Thailand.

2000 (-) Double murderer Michael McBride is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

10 may 2002 - Lyon, France

I tied my left leg to a tree by use of a rope.
Then applied a plaster cast over my leg and tree.
I cut myself loose and left the cast behind.
Quai St. Vincent - Lyon

1899 (+) Actor Fred Astaire originally Fréderic Austerlitz, is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

1904 (-) Explorer Sir Henry Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), dies at the age of 63 in London, United Kingdom.

1920 (x) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, marries Ethel Simpson Waddington in Halifax Registry Office, United Kingdom.

1924 (x) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is inaugurated as director of the Federal Bureau in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1933 (x) Thousands of ‘entartete’ books are burned by the Nazis on public squares in various cities, Germany.

1940 (x) Nazi-Germany attacks Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg.

1941 (x) Nazi leader Rudolf Hess flies to the United Kingdom, presumably with a peace-mission, but he crashes and is taken prisoner of war in Scotland, United Kingdom.

1955 (+) Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is born in Decatur, Georgia, USA.

1977 (-) Actress Joan Crawford originally Lucille Fay LeSueur, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.

1987 (-) Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in in a prison, Japan.
He spent 39 years on Death Row.

1987 (x) 183 Die in Lot Iljoeshin 62 crash in Poland.

1987 (x) 8 members of the Terrorist Movement Irish Republican Army are killed in an ambushed police-attack in Loughall, Ireland.

1994 (-) Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is executed by lethal injection in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.
After the execution began, one of the three lethal drugs clogged the tube leading to Gacy's arm, and therefore stopped flowing. Blinds, covering the window through which witnesses observe the execution, were then drawn. The clogged tube was replaced with a new one, the blinds were opened, and the execution process resumed.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

9 may 2002 - Lyon, France

I tied my left hand to a tree by use of a rope.
Then applied a plaster cast over my hand and tree.
I cut myself loose and left the cast behind.
Montée de la Sarra - Lyon

1785 (-) Composer Franz Schnitzer dies at the age of 44 in Ottobeuren, Germany.

1805 (-) Poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist Friedrich Von Schiller dies of catarre at the age of 45 in Weimar, Saxony, Germany.

1830 (+) Photographer Edward Muybridge is born in Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom.

1903 (-) Artist Paul Gauguin dies of syphilis at the age of 55 in Tahiti.

1907 (+) Writer and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur Von Schirach is born in Weimar, Germany.

1912 (+) Actor Pedro Armendariz is born in Mexico City, Mexico.

1924 (-) Heinz Martin is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 14 in Hannover, Germany.

1938 (+) Serial Killer Carroll Cole aka Silent Rage, is born in Sioux City, Iowa, USA.

1942 (-) Pauline Thompson is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, in Melbourne, Spring Street, Australia.

1949 (+) Musician Billy Joel is born in the Bronx, New York, USA.

1959 (-) Dorothy Pearce is raped and beaten to death by Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy, at the age of 59 in Southlands Beach, Bermudas.

1976 (-) Terrorist Ulrike Meinhof commits suicide by hanging at the age of 41 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.
She was probably murdered by the authorities.

1976 (-) Marcella Claxton is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Leeds, Roundhay, Soldiers’ Field, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1978 (-) Politician Aldo Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades after being kidnapped at the age of 61 in Rome, Italy.

1979 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap bomb in a cardboard box in a common area at the Northwestern University Campus in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
One person is injured when opening the package.

1982 (-) Regina Spielman is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 17 in Dietzenbach, Heusenstamm Wald, Germany.

1982 (x) Serial Killer David Mason beats and garottes his cellmate to death with a towel in Alameda County Jail, California, USA.
He hung the victim from a shower rod to make it look like suicide.

1983 (-) Jimmy Roberts is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 18 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1986 (x) The leaders of the Terrorist Movement CCC Pierre Carette, Bernard Sassoye, Didier Chevolet and Pascale Vandegeerde go hungerstriking in the prisons of St. Gillis and Vorst in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1986 (-) Laurent Bureau is raped and beaten to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, in Perigueux, France.

1990 (x) 34 Jewish graves are destroyed, and the freshly buried body of 81-year-old Felix Germon is mutilated with a spear thrust through the chest and rectum by a so-called neo-Nazi commando in Carpentras, France.
Afterwards it turned out to be the work of a group of bored bourgeois kids.

1997 (-) William Reese is shot dead as fourth victim by Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, in Pennsville, Finn’s Point National Cemetary, New Jersey, USA.
His body was found in a lake near Minneapolis a week later.

1997 (-) Sam Arcuri is bludgeoned to death by Daniel Blank at the age of 76 in LaPlace, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer William Kitchens is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Reginald Reeves is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

8 may 2005 - Siberia, Russia

The tip of the wing of an Iljoeshin above Siberia.

1811 (-) Murderer Arthur Hodge is executed by hanging in the West Indies.

1825 (+) Founder of the Red Cross Henri Dunant is born in Geneve, Switzerland.

1880 (-) Writer Gustave Flaubert dies of apoplexy at the age of 58 in Croisset, France.

1884 (+) 33rd president of the USA Harry Truman is born in Lamar, Montana, USA.

1891 (-) Theosophist Madame Blavatsky originally Helene Petrovna Hahn, dies of complications from influenza at the age of 59 in London, United Kingdom.

1893 (-) Murderer Carlyle Harris is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1903 (+) Actor Fernand Contandin aka Fernandel, is born in Marseille, France.

1904 (-) Photographer Edward Muybridge dies at the age of 74 in Kingston-Upon-Thames, United Kingdom.

1905 (-) Gangster Bill Rudolph aka The Missouri Kid, is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1908 (x) Serial Killer Jeanne Weber is caught in the act of strangling 10-year-old Marcel Poirot, and is arrested in Commercy, France.

1920 (-) Black Henry Scott is riddled with bullets for asking a white woman to wait a few minutes in Tampa, Florida, USA.

1936 (-) Philosopher Oswald Spengler dies at the age of 56 in München, Germany.

1940 (+) Writer Peter Benchley is born in New York, New York, USA.

1940 (+) Musician Eric Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, is born in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA.

1945 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with burglary and first degree robbery in Denver, Vrain Street, Colorado, USA.

1946 (+) Serial Killer J.C. Simon aka The Red Zebra Killer, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.

1958 (x) 128 Die in train collision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1959 (-) Cop Killer Ronald Marwood is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1966 (+) Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, Ervin Gibson is born in Illinois, USA.

1966 (-) Manfred Grassman is abducted, tortured and murdered by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 11 in Essen, Germany.

1968 (x) Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are arrested in their flats in Finsbury, City Road, Braithwaite House, United Kingdom.

1976 (-) Karin Toepfer is raped and strangled by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, in Dinslaken, Germany.

1978 (x) Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, escapes from the Santé Prison with his accomplices Besse and Carman in Paris, France.

1980 (-) Gabriela Roesner is raped and strangled by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 23 in Langen, Germany.

1985 (x) Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Auburn Fabrication Division of the Boeing Company in Oakland, California, USA.

1991 (x) Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, is sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, USA.
It is his 11th consecutive life-sentence.

1993 (-) Murderer Larry Johnson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 49 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Scott Carpenter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 22 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
He was the youngest person to be executed since capital punishment resumed in 1976.

1999 (-) Actor Dirk Bogarde dies of a heart-attack at the age of 78 in London, United Kingdom.

Monday, May 7, 2007

7 may 2005 - Vladivostok, Russia

The Russian translation of Longman's "Dictionary of Common Errors".

1833 (+) Composer Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany.

1840 (+) Composer Peter Tchaikowsky is born in Wotkinsk, Wjatka, Russia.

1896 (-) America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Philadelphia, Moyamensing Prison, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was also known as Henry Howard Holmes, D.T. Pratt, Harry Henry Gordon, Edward Hatch, J.A. Judson, Alexander Cook, A.C. Hayes, George Howell, G.D. Hale or Mr. Hall.

1901 (+) Actor Gary Cooper originally Frank Cooper, is born in Helena, Montana, USA.

1906 (-) Joshua II aka The Mad Prophet, is murdered by George Michael in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

1914 (-) Black Charley Jones is lynched for stealing a pair of cheap shoes in Grovetown, Missouri, USA.

1915 (x) 1198 Die in Lusitania Liner shipwreck in Ireland.
It was shot by a German U-Boot.

1919 (+) Activist Eva Peron aka Evita, is born in Los Toldos, Argentina.

1942 (x) An unidentified male headless body is fished out of the Seine and presumed to be the first victim of Serial Killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in St. Louen, France.

1946 (-) Dutch Fascist NSB-Leader Anton Mussert is executed by the Firing Squad in Waalsdorpervlakte, the Netherlands.

1948 (+) Manson Family-member Susan Atkins aka Sadie, is born in Milbrea, USA.

1972 (-) Jack Blake is abducted and killed by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 10 in Watertown, New York, USA.

1972 (-) Anita Luchessa is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, at the age of 18 in Berkeley, California, USA.

1981 (x) 20-year-old Mass-Murderer Lawrence Moore bursts into the Oregon Museum Tavern and opens fire, he shoots 23 people of whom 4 fatally, in Keizer, Oregon, USA.

1982 (x) Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is discharged from the Mental Health Institute in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, USA.

1984 (-) David Block is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 22 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.

1991 (-) Laurence Guillaume is raped, tortured and strangled by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 14 in Metz, France.

1992 (-) Murderer Justin May is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Terry Washington is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

6 may 2002 - Lyon, France

My bruised shoulder from a performance in Brussels when arriving in Lyon for another performance festival.

1678 (-) Composer Joseph De La Barre dies at the age of 44 in France.

1838 (+) Composer Alfred Pease is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1856 (+) Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud is born in Freiberg, Moravia, Hungary.

1862 (-) Writer and pacifist Henry Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Concord, Massachussets, USA.
He said never to have found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

1880 (+) Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is born in Aschaffenberg, Germany.

1895 (+) Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Valentino is born in Castellaneta, Apulia, Italy.

1902 (+) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, is born in Saarbrücken, Germany.

1910 (-) King Edward VII dies at the age of 68 in London, United Kingdom.

1915 (+) Actor and filmmaker Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.

1932 (-) Paul Doumer is shot dead by Paul Gorgoelov at the age of 75 in Paris, France.
Gorgoelov was a self-proclaimed Russian Fascist.

1937 (x) 36 Die in Hindenburgh crash in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.

1943 (+) Terrorist Andreas Baader is born in München, Germany.

1953 (+) British Prime Minister Tony Blair is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1960 (x) Assassin of Bolshevik Revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Jacques Mornard is released from prison in Mexico.

1963 (-) Beverly Samans is stabbed to death by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 23 in Boston, Cambridge, 4 University Road, Massachussets, USA.

1966 (x) Serial Killer Ian Brady aka The Moors Murderer, and Myra Hindley are sentenced to 3 and 2 respectively concurrent terms of life-imprisonment in London, United Kingdom.

1972 (x) 115 Die in Alitalia DC-8 crash in Palermo, Italy.

1985 (x) Fifteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, State Police Building, Brabant, Belgium.
It was a revenge because the State Police failed to warn 2 firemen who got killed in a previous attack.

1986 (-) Charles Quarrel is presumably murdered by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 73 in London, Southwark, King James Street, United Kingdom.

1992 (-) Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, dies at the age of 90 in Paris, Avenue Montaigne, France.

1998 (-) Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is executed at the age of 39 in Xinjiang, China.
He was found guilty of killing 14 people.

2003 (-) Murderer Roger Vaughn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.