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.

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