Friday, August 31, 2007

31 august 2001 - Oostende, Belgium


A view on the North Sea from atop the highest building in Oostende.

12 (+) Emperor Gaius Caligula is born in Antium, Italy.
1867 (-) Writer Charles Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 46 in Paris, France.
1888 (-) Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is ripped open from groin to chest and her throat slashed by Jack the Ripper at the age of 43 in London, Whitechapel, Buck’s Row, United Kingdom.
1895 (-) Victor Portalier is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 17 in France.
1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Wilhelm Schulze is born in Coolshorn, Germany.
1928 (+) Actor James Coburn is born in Laurel, Nebraska, USA.
1929 (-) Sofie Ruck is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1933 (-) Psychologist Theodor Lessing is murdered by the SS at the age of 61 in Marienbad, Czechoslowakia.
1934 (-) Murderer Louis Douglas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 47 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1936 (+) Murderer Georges Rapin aka Monsieur Bill, is born in Paris, France.
1948 (x) 31-year-old Actor Robert Mitchum is arrested for smoking marihuana in Laurel Canyon, USA.
1949 (+) Actor Richard Gere is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1955 (-) Multiple Murderer Lester Bartholomew is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He killed his wife, 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter
1963 (-) Artist Georges Braque dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.
1966 (x) 96 Die in British airliner crash in Belgrado, Yugoslavia.
1969 (+) Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, is born in California, USA.
1973 (-) Filmmaker John Ford originally John Martin Feeney aka Sean O’Fenna, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 78 in Palm Desert, California, USA.
1981 (x) The Terrorist Movement Rote Armee Fraktion bomb the Nato-headquarters in Ramstein, Germany.
1982 (-) Konrad Mayer is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 26 in Bordeaux, France.
1983 (-) Ralph Calise is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 28 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
1985 (x) Serial Killer Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is recognized and chased by the Hispanic community, beaten up and finally arrested by a patrolman named Ramirez in East Los Angeles, Hubbard Street, California, USA.
1986 (-) Artist Henry Moore dies at the age of 88 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
1987 (x) 83 Die in Thai Airlines Boeing crash in Phuket, Thailand.
1990 (-) Murderer George Gilmore is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.
1993 (-) Murderer Richard Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1997 (-) Princess Diana Spencer aka Lady Di, dies in a car crash at the age of 36 in Paris, Cours Albert 1er underpass, France.
In the same vehicle also her lover Dodi Al Fayed, and the french driver, Henri Paul, were killed. The Mercedes S280 was leaving from the Ritz Hotel, tailed by a bunch of photographers on motorcycles. The vehicle crashed at a presumed 150 kph in a tunnel under the Seine river.
2001 (-) Murderer Ronald Frye is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
2002 (-) Musician Lionel Hampton dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 94 in New York, New York, USA.
2006 (-) Double murderer Derrick Frazier is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

30 august 1999 - Auckland, New Zealand


A camouflage Series III 109" Landrover in Auckland.

1181 (-) 170th Pope Alexander III originally Rolando Bandinelli, dies at the age of 81 in Civita Castellana, Italy.
1748 (+) Artist Jacques-Louis David is born in Paris, France.
1797 (+) Writer Mary Shelley is born in London, United Kingdom.
1850 (-) Murderer John Webster is executed by hanging in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
1918 (-) Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is shot in the left shoulder and jaw by Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, in Moscow, Russia.
He survived.
1935 (-) Writer Henri Barbusse dies at the age of 62 in Moscow, Russia.
1937 (+) Race-car designer and driver Bruce McLaren is born in Auckland, New Zealand.
1939 (+) BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, is born in Heswell, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
1949 (+) Musician Peter Maffay originally Peter Alexander Makkay, is born in Brasov, Romania.
1963 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested whilst burglarizing a store in Maitland, Missouri, USA.
1967 (-) Artist Ad Reinhardt dies at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.
1969 (-) Helen Puttock is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 29 in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
1969 (-) Irena W. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Katowice, Poland.
She survived.
1974 (x) Over 140 Die in train derailment in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
1974 (x) 153 Die in Belgrade-Dortmund Express train derailment in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
1975 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is baptised in the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
1977 (-) Mary Gregsten is strangled by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Shipley, Saltaire Canal Towpath, United Kingdom.
1981 (-) President Ali Rajah and prime minister Mohammed Bahonar are killed in a bomb-attack in Teheran, Iran.
1991 (-) Artist Jean Tinguely dies of heart-failure at the age of 66 in Bern, Switzerland.
1995 (-) Musician Sterling Morrison dies of lymphoma at the age of 53 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
2000 (-) Multiple murderer Jeffery Caldwell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He killed his parents and his sister in 1988.
2003 (-) Actor Charles Bronson originally Charles Dennis Buchinski, dies of pneumonia at the age of 80 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

29 august 1999 - Karekare, New Zealand


The black beach of Karekare.

29 (-) John The Baptist is executed by beheading in Samaria, Israël.
1799 (-) 250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, dies at the age of 81 in Valence, France.
1862 (+) Poet and writer Maurice Maeterlinck is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
1871 (+) The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater is born in Maryland, USA.
1877 (-) Mormon prophet Brigam Young aka The American Moses, dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
1894 (-) Murderer Albert Bruneau aka The Murderous Priest, is executed by the Guillotine in Laval, France.
1915 (+) Actress Ingrid Bergmann is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1916 (x) Over 1000 Die in Hsin Yu shipwreck in China.
1920 (+) Musician Charlie Parker aka “Bird”, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
1923 (+) Actor Richard Attenborough is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1928 (-) Murderer Gerard Toal is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Dublin, Ireland.
1935 (-) Queen of Belgium Astrid originally Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden, dies in a car-crash at the age of 29 in Küßnacht, Switzerland.
1938 (+) Artist Hermann Nitsch the Viennese Actionist, is born in Vienna, Austria.
1943 (-) Murderess Mildred Bolton commits suicide by cutting her wrists with a pair of scissors at the age of 57 in Dwight, Women’s penitentiary, Illinois, USA.
1948 (-) Nancy Chadwick is battered to death by Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, in the United Kingdom.
“In one of my funny moods.”
1958 (+) Musician Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, USA.
1959 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, rapes an unidentified girl in Grouville, Jersey.
1969 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Albert Price for sodomizing an unidentified 5-year-old boy in San Francisco, California, USA.
1969 (-) Glenda Harden is stabbed to death by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, at the age of 21 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1971 (-) Murderer Nathan Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 66 in Puerto Rico.
1982 (-) Actress Ingrid Bergmann dies of breast-cancer at the age of 67 in London, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1987 (-) Actor Lee Marvin dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

28 august 2007 - Whangamata - New Zealand


Stormy weather over the East Cost of the South Pacific Ocean in Whangamata.

1749 (+) Writer Johann von Goethe is born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1824 (+) Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is born in Rugely, United Kingdom.
1899 (+) Actor Charles Boyer is born in Figéac, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France.
1903 (+) Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim is born in Austria.
1916 (x) Germany declares war to Romania and Italy declares war to Germany in World War I.
1942 (+) Musician Sterling Morrison is born in East Meadow, New York, USA.
1943 (+) Actor and musician David Soul is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1962 (x) Former 25-year-old beauty-queen Hajna De Kaplany is stabbed and soaked in nitric acid by her husband, Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany who wanted to deprave her of her beauty and warn her against adultery in San José, 1135 Ranchero Way, Apertment 30, California, USA.
Hajna’s body was for 40% covered with 3rd degree burns and she died only after 33 days of agonizing pain.
1969 (-) William Freeman is abducted and strangled by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 12 in Antioch, California, USA.
1982 (-) Kase Lee is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1984 (-) Sasha Tschepelja is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Rostow, near Pension Stiller Don, Russia.
1985 (-) Inessa Guljajewa is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, busstation, Russia.
1987 (x) 48-year-old Sect-leader Park Soon-Ja is beaten to death by 45-year-old Lee Kyung-Soo, who also strangled 30 other members of the sect in Seoel, South Korea.
1987 (-) Aljoscha Chobotow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, main cemetary, Russia.
1987 (-) Filmmaker John Huston dies of emphysema at the age of 81 in Middletown, Rhode Island, USA.
1996 (x) 35-year-old Princess Diana Spencer aka Lady Di, divorces from Prince Charles in London, United Kingdom.
She received a settlement of around 17 million British Pounds.
2002 (-) Triple murderer Toronto Patterson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, August 27, 2007

27 august 2007 - Berlin, Germany


The window of what used to be the "Deutsche Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen" at Miquelstrasse 83 in Dahlem, Berlin. This is where on 14 may 1970 Ulrike Meinhof jumped through the window in the organised escape of Andreas Baader who was imprisoned for arson of two shopping centers. At that time Meinhof was still a journalist with only theoretical support for terrorist actions. At 11.25 hrs that day she changed her mind and went underground, by the evening she was on the most wanted listed all over Germany. The jump of Baader and Meinhof (and Gudrun Ensslin) through this window marks the official grounding of the "Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe" aka "Rote Armee Fraktion".

1590 (-) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.
1770 (+) Philosopher George Hegel is born in Stuttgart, Germany.
1871 (+) Writer Herman Dreiser is born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
1890 (+) Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1895 (-) Allaise is stabbed to death by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 16 in France.
1906 (+) Serial Killer Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, is born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.
1908 (+) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson is born in Stonewall, Texas, USA.
1909 (-) Murderer Joseph Gauvette is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.
1910 (+) Humanitarian nun Mother Teresa originally Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, is born in Skopje, Macedonia.
1929 (+) Writer Ira Levin is born in New York, New York, USA.
1938 (-) Phyllis Newcombe dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 22 in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.
She was waltzing in the Shire dance-hall when she suddenly caught fire and burned to ashes.
1954 (+) Double Murderer James Autry aka Cowboy, is born in the USA.
1955 (-) Black Emmett Till aka Bobo, is abducted from his home, beaten, shot and thrown in a river with a weight around his neck for whistling at a white woman at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, USA.
1964 (x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, shoots his grandparents “wondering how it would feel to shoot grandma” in California, USA.
1966 (-) Architect Charles Le Corbusier dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Cap Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
He went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and was found by bathers.
1967 (-) Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.
1969 (-) Helga Luther is mutilated and her throat cut by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 16 in Coburg, Germany.
1972 (-) Sailor Francis Chichester dies of lung cancer at the age of 70 in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.
1975 (-) Emperor Haile Selassie originally Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge’ez aka The Lion of Juda, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 83 in Ethiopia.
1979 (-) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed in an IRA bomb-attack on his yacht at the age of 79 in Mullaghmore, Ireland.
A few hours later 18 British soldiers are killed in another attack in Warrenpoint
1979 (-) Donald Hyden is sodomised, strangled and stabbed by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Attempts had been made to cut off his testicles.
1982 (x) Serial Killer Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, assaults and rapes an unidentified man and woman in Troyes, France.
1982 (-) Charles Petit is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Beaufort, France.
1987 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Schachty, Russia.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

26 august 1999 - Rangitoto, New Zealand


A day's walk on the abandoned rough volcanic island of Rangitoto.

55bc (x) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar invades Britain.

1738 (-) Forger William Newington is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.
1791 (-) Murderer Whiting Sweeting is executed by hanging in Stephentown, New York, USA.
1796 (-) Murderer Emmanuel Claus is executed by the Guillotine in Gent, Place de la Liberté, East Flanders, Belgium.
He was the first man to be executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.
1845 (+) Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, is born in London, Dawes Court, United Kingdom.
1873 (-) Murderer Thomas Montgomery is executed by hanging in Omagh Prison, Ireland.
1876 (-) Mutineer and murderer Emmanuel Bombas is executed by hanging in Cork County, Ireland.
1879 (-) Murderer John Ralph is executed by hanging in Warwick, United Kingdom.
1880 (+) Writer Guillaume Apollinaire originally Wilhelm Appolinaris Albertus Kostrowitsky, is born in Rome, Italy.
1884 (-) Murderer of his wife and four children Joseph Laycock is executed by hanging in Armley Gaol, Leeds, United Kingdom.
1884 (-) Murderer James Tobin is executed by hanging in Wexford County, Ireland.
1887 (-) Wife-murderer W. Wilton is executed by hanging in Lewes, United Kingdom.
1891 (-) Wife-murderer Edward Watts is executed by hanging in Winchester, United Kingdom.
1914 (+) Writer Julio Cortazar is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
1937 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Vera Millward is born in the United Kingdom.
1944 (+) Musician Maureen Tucker aka “Moe”, is born in Levittown, New York, USA.
1945 (-) Writer Franz Werfel dies at the age of 54 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.
1959 (+) Twelfth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Hughes is born in the USA.
1969 (-) Jerome Shea aka Shorty, is tortured to death and cut to pieces by The Manson Family at the age of 40 in California, USA.
1970 (x) 25-year-old Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder marries Ingrid Caven in Feldkirchen, Germany.
1972 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is released from prison on bail after being charged with child-abuse in Pennsylvania, USA.
1974 (-) Aircraft-pioneer Charles Lindbergh dies at the age of 72 in Maui, Hawaï.
1978 (-) Actor Charles Boyer commits suicide by an overdose of Seconal at the age of 79 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
He committed suicide two days after his wife, British actress Pat Paterson, died from cancer.
1983 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is sentenced to die for four murders throughout Orange County in California, USA.
1986 (-) Murderer Chester Wicker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Murderer Genaro Camacho is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2000 (x) 66-year-old Murderer Reggie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, is released from prison on compassionate reasons in Norfolk, Wayland Prison, United Kingdom.
2004 (-) Murderer James Alldridge III is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

25 august 1999 - Auckland, New Zealand


A black swan in Auckland.

1270 (-) Saint King Louis IX dies of typhoid fever at the age of 55 in Tunis, Algeria.
1819 (+) Detective Allan Pinkerton is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1845 (+) The Mad King of Bavaria, Friedrich Ludwig II is born in Nymphenburg Palace, Germany.
1867 (-) Physicist Michael Faraday dies at the age of 75 in Hampton Court, Surrey, United Kingdom.
1900 (-) Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche dies due to a physical and psychic collaps at the age of 55 in Weimar, Germany.
1907 (x) Serial Killer Jeanne Weber is judged insane and locked up in an asylum in France.
1912 (+) Architect of East Germany Erich Honecker is born in Neunkirchen, Germany.
1918 (+) Composer Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachussets, USA.
1929 (-) Klara Wanders is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 26 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
She survived.
1930 (+) Actor Sean Connery is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1938 (+) Writer Frederick Forsyth is born in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.
1946 (x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is arrested and charged with first degree robbery in Albany, Ontario Street, New York, USA.
1954 (+) Musician Elvis Costello originally Declan Patrick McManus, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1955 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for auto theft in Orrick, Missouri, USA.
1956 (-) Sexuologist Alfred Kinsey dies of heart disease and pneumonia at the age of 62 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
1965 (-) Genowefa L. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 28 in Bedzin, Poland.
1967 (-) Founder of the American Nazi-party George Lincoln Rockwell aka The American Hitler, is shot dead by John Patler at the age of 49 in Arlington, Econowash laundromat, Dominion Hills Shopping Center, Virginia, USA.
1969 (-) Leila Jackson is strangled and mutilated by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1970 (+) Model Claudia Schiffer is born in Rheinberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1984 (-) Writer Truman Capote originally Truman Streckfus Persons, dies of liver disease complicated by drug abuse at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1992 (-) An unidentified black policeman commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 8 people in a random shooting-spree in a police-station, South Africa.
2004 (-) Double murderer Jason Busby is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, August 24, 2007

24 august 1999 - Auckland, New Zealand


A stairway down into the ocean in Auckland.

79 (x) Mount Vesuvius erupts and covers the cities of Pompeï, Herculaneum and Stabiae in Italy.
1770 (-) Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 17 in Holborn, Brooke Street, United Kingdom.
1875 (x) 32-year-old Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel from Dover to Calais in France.
1895 (-) Mme Morand is killed by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 58 in France.
1919 (+) Musician Beny Moré aka El Barbaro Del Ritmo, originally Bartolome Maximilliano, is born in Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba.
1923 (-) Heinrich Struß is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Germany.
1929 (-) Gertrude Hamacher is strangled and her throat cut by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 5 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1929 (+) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat originally Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, is born in Cairo, Egypt.
1939 (-) Frank Dolezal commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Jail, Ohio, USA.
He was suspected of being the Mad Butcher of Cleveland and badly beaten to force a confession.
1943 (-) Philosopher Simone Weil dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 34 in Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom.
1944 (+) Television reporter Christine Chubbuck is born in Hudson, Ohio, USA.
1962 (-) Cop Killer James Duke is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.
1977 (x) Rubens’ "Albrecht von Österreich" is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Düsseldorf, Kunstmuzeum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1981 (x) 26-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is sentenced to 20 years to life in Manhattan, Criminal Court, New York, USA.
1984 (x) The Texas School Book Depository, from where Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, presumably operated, is destroyed by arson in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1985 (-) William Carns is shot by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 29 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.

1987 (-) Rapist and murderer Sterling Rault is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.
1987 (-) Supposed Robol scientist Edward Moolenbeek dies in the United Kingdom.
In fact Moolenbeek was a fictional character created by The Hafler Trio.
1993 (-) Murderer Ruben Montoya Cantu is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
His final request was for a piece of bubble gum, which was denied.
1993 (-) Serial Killer David Mason is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 36 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
While being held in county jail awaiting trial, he killed his cellmate. He was the last man to die in San Quentin's Gas Chamber.
1994 (x) Fifth bomb attack by 44-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Klagenfurth, Austria.
A five kg parcel-bomb is found near the Rennerschule, it explodes while 3 policemen are transporting it to the airport for closer examination, all three are injured.
2001 (-) Murderer Clifton White is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
2006 (-) Murderer Justin Fuller is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

23 august 2002 - Stubnitz


Club Moral performing "Felix Culpa" aka "L'Enfer est Intime" on the Stubnitz in Brugge, Belgium. (picture by Y.K.)

1898 (-) Artist Félicien Rops aka The Satanic Eroticist, dies at the age of 65 in Essones, France.
1912 (+) Actor Gene Kelly is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
1926 (-) Actor and Great Lover Rudolph Valentino dies of peronitis, gastric ulcer, pneumonia and an infection of the inner heart at the age of 31 in New York, New York, USA.
1927 (-) Anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti are executed by Old Sparky in Boston, Massachussets, USA.
They were convicted to death for a robbery-murder, rather due to their anarchist insights than through evidence.
1930 (+) Actress Vera Miles is born in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA.
1936 (+) Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, is born in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA.
1944 (x) 61 Die in USAF B-24 Liberator bomber crash in Freckleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
The aircraft crashed into a school and the "Sad Sack Snack Bar" where 7 Americans died.
1946 (+) The Who’s Drummer Keith Moon is born in London, United Kingdom.
1949 (+) Manson Family-member Leslie Van Houten is born in Altadena, California, USA.
1952 (+) Gangster Yvan Somville is born in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium.
1970 (+) Actor River Phoenix is born in Metolius, Oregon, USA.
1974 (-) Cathie Pearce is strangled by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, in Musella, Florida, USA.
1981 (-) Didier Vitry is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 18 in La Rochelle, France.
1982 (+) Juvenile murderer Robert Thompson is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) Andrea Kowe is raped, stabbed and beaten to death by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 23 in Besançon, France.
1995 (-) An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks are abducted and killed by Marc Dutroux at the age of 18 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.
2000 (-) Murderer David Gibbs is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2000 (x) 143 Die in Gulf Air Airbus A320 crash in Manama, the Persian Gulf.
2005 (-) Murderer Robert Shields is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2006 (x) 18-year-old Victim of Wolfgang Priklopil Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, escapes after being held in captivity for over 8 years by Wilhelm Priklopil in Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Heinestrasse 60, Austria.
2006 (-) Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, commits suicide by throwing himself before a commuter train at the age of 44 in Vienna, Northern Station, Austria.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

22 august 2003 - Asia


The sky at night over Asia on my flight back from Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta.

1241 (-) 178th Pope Gregorius IX originally Ugolino del Conti, dies at the age of 98 in Rome, Italy.
1280 (-) 188th Pope Nicholas III originally Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
1760 (+) 252th Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, is born in Genga, Italy.
1862 (+) Composer Claude Debussy is born in St. Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.
1891 (+) Artist Jacques Lipchitz is born in Druskininkaï, Lithuania, Russia.
1902 (+) Actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is born in Berlin, Germany.
1908 (+) Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is born in Chanteloup, France.
1920 (+) Writer Ray Bradbury is born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA.
1922 (-) Black Parks Blanks is lynched after a verbal disagreement with a Ku-Klux-Klan member in Yazoo-City, Missouri, USA.
1928 (+) Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen is born in Modrath, Germany.
1928 (x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for petty larceny in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1952 (+) Musician Peter Laughner is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
1961 (x) Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry attempts to assassinate 70-year-old President of France Charles De Gaulle in Petit-Clamart, France.
1961 (-) Michael Gregsten and Marie Storie are presumably attacked and shot by James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer, in Deadman’s Hill, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
Storie survived.
1965 (-) Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 25 in Duisburg, Grossenbaum, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1967 (+) Musician and Teenage-Star Yukiko Okada aka Yukko, is born in Japan.
1969 (x) 22-year-old Viktor Iliyin tries to assassinate 62-year-old Statesman Leonid Breshnev in Moscow, Red Square, Russia.
He kills Breshnev’s driver and injures 2 USSR-astronauts who accompanied him.
1976 (-) German Priest Oskar Brüsewitz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 47 in Zeits, in front of the Michaelskirche, Germany.
1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in West Cornforth, Durham, United Kingdom.
1980 (-) Margo Walls is strangled and hammered to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 47 in Farnsley, New Street, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) King Sobhuza II aka The Lion, dies at the age of 83 in Swaziland.
He leaves 500 widows and children.
1985 (x) 54 Die in British Airtours Boeing 737 fire in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1986 (-) Murderer Larry Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1988 (-) Mari Konno is strangled by Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, at the age of 4 in Saitama, Japan.
1991 (-) Murderer Derick Peterson is executed by Old Sparky in Greenville, Virginia, USA.
1996 (-) Murderer Luis Mata is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
2000 (-) Murderer Richard Jones is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (-) Murderer William Jones is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
2006 (x) 170 Die in Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 Tupolev TU-154M crash in Sukha Balka, Ukraine.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

21 august 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium


The setting for a 3-hour sound performance by Club Moral at the Robodandy event in Antwerpen.

1614 (-) Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, dies after being walled in in a small room in her own castle for 3 years at the age of 54 in Cachtice, Hungary.
1872 (+) Artist Aubrey Beardsley is born in Brighton, United Kingdom.
1904 (+) Musician Count Basie is born in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.
1911 (x) 29-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa and keeps it in his room for about 2 years in Paris, France.
1921 (x) 58-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Carl Grossmann is arrested in Berlin, Lange Strasse, Germany.
In his house bodyparts of several victims were found in the oven. He used to sell the meat in his stall at Schlesischen Bahnhof.
1929 (-) Frau Mantel and another woman are attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 30 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
They both survived.
1929 (x) 22-year-old Artist Frida Kahlo originally Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, marries Diego Rivera in The Blue House, Mexico City, Mexico.
Their marriage was called a union between an elephant and a dove.
1931 (-) Murderer Herbert Young is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the last execution by hanging in Arizona. After that the Gas Chamber was installed.
1943 (-) Ruth Fuerst is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.
1944 (x) 44 Die in Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash in Morocco.
The pilot had committed suicide.
1947 (-) Automobile designer Ettore Bugatti dies at the age of 65 in Dorlisheim, Alsace, France.
1961 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is put in solitary confinement for the stabbing of Jerry Tharrington in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.
1962 (+) Serial Killer and cannibal Tsutomu Miyazaki aka The Little Girl Murderer, is born in Japan.
He is born with deformed gnarled hands.
1963 (x) Four buddhist monks and a nun commit suicide by self-immolation as a protest against occupation of their holy temples by government armed forced in Saigon, Vietnam.
1968 (x) Russian armed forces invade Czechoslowakia.
1968 (-) Barbara Locci is shot dead by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 32 in Florence, Signa, Italy.
1969 (x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from a prison farm in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
1969 (x) Serial Killer Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
1971 (x) The Manson Family members Mary Brunner, Gypsy Share, Chuckleberry, Little Larry and Dennis Rice aka Fatherman are involved in a shoot-out with the police after robbing a gun-shop in Los Angeles, 13355 South Hawthorne Boulevard, California, USA.
1978 (-) Schipka Postalnyi is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 20 in Prezid, Yugoslavia.
1983 (-) Opposition-leader Benigno Aquino is shot dead on the airfield after returning from a 3-year exile in the USA at the age of 50 in Manila, the Fillipines.
1984 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is arrested and charged with the murders of at least 15 young men in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2005 (-) Musician and inventor Robert Moog dies of a brain tumor at the age of 71 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

Monday, August 20, 2007

20 august 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand


A sleeping dog on the pavement in Bangkok.

984 (-) 136th Pope John XIV originally Peter, dies of starvation or poison in Rome, Italy.
1823 (-) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
1833 (+) 23rd president of the USA Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio, USA.
1890 (+) Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft is born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
1900 (x) Family-murderer Franz Wallert kills his wife and his 4 children in Minnesota, USA.
1912 (-) Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth dies at the age of 83 in London, Hadley Wood, United Kingdom.
1914 (-) 257th Pope Pius X originally Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, dies of a heart attack at the age of 79 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
1923 (+) Musician Jim Reeves is born in Carthage, Texas, USA.
1929 (-) Anne Goldhausen is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1937 (+) Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1937 (x) The concentration camp of Buchenwald is inaugurated by 36-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Weimar, Germany.
1940 (-) Revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky is hacked to death by Jaime Ramon Mercader Del Rio Hernandes aka Frank Jacson aka Jacques Mornard at the age of 60 in Coyoacan, Mexico.
1942 (+) Musician Isaac Hayes is born in Covington, Tennessee, USA.
1946 (-) An unidentified woman is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, in Hof, Guterbahnhof, Germany.
1948 (+) Musician Robert Plant is born in West Bromwich, United Kingdom.
1950 (+) Serial Killer William Suff aka The Lake Elsinore Killer, is born in California, USA.
1962 (-) Murderer Leeroy McGahuey is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in Oregon, USA.
1962 (-) Jane Sullivan is strangled and raped by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 67 in Boston, Dorchester, 435 Columbia Road, Massachussets, USA.
1966 (+) Heavy Metal guitarist Darrell Abbott aka Dimebag, is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.
1971 (-) Linda Dudley is stabbed to death by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.
1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 23 in Bath, Avon, United Kingdom.
1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 54 in Biddeford, Maine, USA.
1980 (-) Musician Joe Dassin dies of a heart attack at the age of 41 in Tahiti.
1981 (-) IRA-member Michael Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, dies after 60 days hungerstriking at the age of 27 in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
He was the tenth and last to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.
1981 (-) Christopher Williams is choked to death by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 17 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
1986 (-) Mass-murderer Patrick Sherril commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 44 in Edmond, Oklahoma, USA.
He first shot 14 people in the post-office where he used to work.
1986 (-) Murderer Randy Woolls is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
As an experienced drug addict, he helped the executioner to find a good vein.
1993 (-) Murderer Carl Kelly is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2002 (-) Murderer Gary Etheridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

19 august 2001 - Oostende, Belgium


A model resembling very much artist Joseph Beuys in a War Memorial Museum in Oostende, Belgium.

1662 (-) Mathematician and philisopher Blaise Pascal dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Paris, France.
1692 (x) Susannah Martin, John Willard, George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr., and John Proctor are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, USA.
1871 (+) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright is born in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
1889 (-) Writer Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam aka Le Comte, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 50 in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France.
1895 (-) Outlaw and gunman John Hardin is shot in the back by John Selman at the age of 42 in El Paso, Acme Saloon, Texas, USA.
1922 (-) Murderer Thomas Allaway is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.
1936 (-) Poet and dramatist Frederico Garcia Lorca is executed by Nationalist Francists of the Falanga Militia at the age of 38 in Granada, Spain.
One of them fired 2 bullets in his behind because he was a homosexual.
1947 (+) 42nd President of the USA Bill Clinton originally Blythe, is born in Hope, Arkansas, USA.
1960 (x) 31-year-old US Spy Pilot Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for spying in Moscow, Russia.
1962 (-) Ida Irga is strangled raped and left indecently exposed by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 75 in Boston West End, 7 Grove street, Massachussets, USA.
1964 (-) C. is attacked and raped by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 44 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.
1968 (-) Child Actress Sara Roberts dies after surgery at the age of 44 in the USA.
1975 (x) 128 Die in Iljoesjin 62 crash in Damascus, Syria.
1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Groucho Marx dies of pneumonia at the age of 86 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1978 (x) 370 Die in cinema fire in Abadan, Persia.
1980 (x) 301 Die in Saudia Flight 163 Lockheed L1011-200 Tristar crash in Riad, Saudi Arabia.
1982 (-) Christian Klein is raped and shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Lons-le-Saunier, France.
1984 (-) Daniel Bridges is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Chicago, 1628 West Sherwin Avenue, Illinois, USA.
1987 (-) Spree Killer Michael Ryan aka The Rambo Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Hungerford, United Kingdom.
He first killed his mother and 13 others in a shooting spree.
1989 (-) Jelena Warga is stabbed to death and part of her face cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 19 in Krasnosnamenka, Russia.
1995 (-) Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 85 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

18 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


A devoted fan with a dubious t-shirt at Ruangrupa in Jakarta.

1227 (-) Mongol Ruler Ghengis Khan originally Temüüjin, dies of injuries suffered when falling off his horse at the age of 65 in Mongolia.
1276 (-) 186th Pope Adrianus V originally Ottobuono de’ Fieschi, dies at the age of 71 in Viterbo, Italy.
1503 (-) 213th Pope Alexander VI originally Rodrigo Borgia, is presumably poisoned at the age of 72 in Rome, Italy.
His stomach was swelling and became liquid while his skin was peeling off.
1559 (-) 223rd Pope Paul IV originally Giovanni Pietro Carafa, dies at the age of 83 in Rome, Italy.
1634 (-) Priest and philanderer Urbain Grandier aka The Devil of Loudun, is executed by burning at the stake.
He supposedly bewitched an entire Ursuline nun convent into debauchery.
1850 (-) Writer Honoré de Balzac dies of cold-fire at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
His face had swollen up and turned black.
1883 (+) Fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France.
1921 (-) Suspected black rapist Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging in Winston, North Carolina, USA.
1933 (+) Filmmaker Roman Polanski is born in Paris, France.
1934 (+) Attorney in the Manson Family trial Vincent Bugliosi is born in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA.
1937 (+) Actor Robert Redford is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1947 (x) 147 Die in dockyard explosion in Cadiz, Spain.
1954 (+) Actor Patrick Swayze is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
1959 (-) Serial Killer Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in San Quentin, California, USA.
1960 (x) The Beatles play their first concert in Hamburg, Indra Club, Germany.
1977 (x) 2 Elvis-fans are killed when an 18-year-old drunk driver crashes into the mouring crowd outside Elvis’ mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1980 (-) An unidentified man is beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 75 in California, USA.
1984 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.
1985 (x) Over 300 Die in ferry capsizing in Taiyang, China.
Everybody had moved to one side of the ship because of a fight.
1989 (-) Vietnam-hero turned murderer Herbert Richardson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 43 in Atmore, Alabama, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer Joe Trevino is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2005 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Rader aka The BTK Killer, is sentenced to 10 life sentences, one for each "Bind, Torture, Kill" murder in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

Friday, August 17, 2007

17 august 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A lonely break during a party on our rooftop terrace in Antwerpen.

1786 (+) Folk Hero David “Davy” Crockett is born in Greene County, Tennessee, USA.
1892 (+) Actress Mae West is born in Woodhaven, New York, USA.
1896 (-) Bridget Driscoll becomes the world's first automobile fatality when she steps in front of a car outside the Crystal Palace and dies at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.
At the coroner's inquest, driver Arthur Edsall stated that he had been driving at only 4 mph and that when he saw the pedestrian he rang his bell and shouted "Stand back!".
1909 (-) Murderer Madar Dhingra is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1915 (-) Alleged child-murderer Leo Frank aka Max the Jew, is lynched by a mob of prominent citizens calling themselves "The Knights of Mary Fagan" at the age of 31 in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA.
He was kidnapped from a prison farm and hanged from a tree.
1929 (+) US Spy Pilot Gary Powers is born in Jenkins, Kentucky, USA.
1933 (+) Black Power leader Michael De Freitas aka Michael X aka Michael Abdul Malik, is born in Trinidad.
1943 (+) Actor Robert DeNiro is born in New York, New York, USA.
1955 (-) Artist Fernand Léger dies at the age of 74 in Paris, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
1959 (+) Leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect David Koresh originally Vernon Wayne Howell, is born in Houston, USA.
1960 (+) Filmmaker Sean Penn is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.
1962 (-) Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter bleeds to death after being shot at the age of 18 in Berlin, Zimmerstrasse, Germany.
He was left to die for over an hour in full view of western onlookers.
1963 (x) 122 Die in ferry shipwreck in Okinawa, Japan.
1969 (-) Dr. Philip Blaiberg dies of a final rejection of his new heart at the age of 60 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was the man who lived longest with a transplanted heart.
1969 (-) Architect Ludwig Van Der Rohe dies at the age of 83 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1971 (-) Ruben Watson is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 19 in Houston, Texas, USA.
1973 (-) Steven Cropper is stabbed to death by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 8 in New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA.
1977 (-) Dr. Joseph Cordell is the last man known to die from bubonic plague aka The Black Death in San Jose, California, USA.
1979 (x) 156 Die in two Soviet Aeroflot airliners collision in Ukraine.
1980 (-) Azaria Chamberlain aka The Dingo Baby, is possibly abducted and killed by a dingo at the age of 0 in Ayers’ Rock campground, Australia.
1985 (-) Peter Pan is shot through the head by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in San Francisco, Lake Merced, California, USA.
1987 (-) Nazi leader Rudolf Hess commits suicide by asphyxiation at the age of 93 in Berlin, Spandau Prison, Germany.
He is the last of the Nazi leaders to die.
1991 (-) Mass murderer Wade Frankum aka The Strathfield Killer, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 33 in Strathfield Plaza, Australia.
Before he had fatally shot 7 people.
1997 (-) Actor Tony Wheeler dies of accidental hanging at the age of 26 in Chalkidiki, Greece.
He featured in a version of Jesus Christ Superstar, where he played the role of Judas who hangs himself after the trait of Jesus. Wheeler unfortunately played for real for an audience of over 600 people.
2006 (-) Murderer Richard Hinojosa is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

16 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


Performing at the BB's Club with Henry Foundation aka Batman (photo by Indra Ameng).

1888 (+) Man of Action Thomas Edward Lawrence of Arabia, is born in Tremadoc, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.
1894 (-) Murderer of president Sadi Carnot, Geronimo Caserio is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 20 in Lyon, Rhône, France.
1899 (-) Chemist and inventor Robert Bunsen dies at the age of 88 in Heidelberg, Germany.
1916 (-) Artist Umberto Boccioni is thrown from his horse during a cavalry training and trampled at the age of 33 in Verona, Sorte, Italy.
1920 (+) Writer Charles ‘Hank’ Bukowski originally Heinrich Karl Bukowski, is born in Andernach, Germany.
1926 (-) Mary Nesbitt is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 52 in Oakland, California, USA.
1928 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is arrested in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1935 (-) FBI-agent Nelson Klein is shot dead by George Barret at the age of 37 in College Corner, Indiana, USA.
1945 (-) Japanese admiral Takijiro Onishi aka the Father of Kamikaze, commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 54 in Japan.
He did not use a kaishakunin (second), and died of self-inflicted injuries over a period of 15 hours.
1948 (-) Baseball player George Ruth aka Babe Ruth aka The Sultan of Swat, dies of cancer at the age of 53 in New York, New York, USA.
1956 (-) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1958 (+) Musician Madonna originally Louise Ciccione, is born in Bay City, Michigan, USA.
1965 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to the first floor of a building he owns, collecting $11.000 on insurance in Philadelphia, 2039 East Fletcher Street, Pennsylvania, USA.
1969 (-) Jemima McDonald is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 32 in Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom, United Kingdom.
1969 (x) 34-year-old Family leader Charles Manson is arrested in a police-raid on the Spahn Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.
21 other Family members are also arrested but released after a couple of days due to a warrant misdate.
1975 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is arrested and charged with ‘attempt to evade a police-officer’ in Salt Lake City, Granger, Utah, USA.
1977 (-) Musician Elvis Presley aka The King, dies of alcohol and drug-overdose at the age of 42 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1977 (x) Bartholomeus Bruyn’s "Portrait" is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Germany.
1987 (x) 155 Die in Northwest Airlines Flight 255 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Detroit, Romulus, Michigan, USA.
4-year-old Cecelia Marie Cichan was the sole survivor.
1998 (-) Serial Killer Abdallah Al-Hubal is shot dead by police in Sanaa, Yemen.
He engaged in a shootout, killing the police-chief and wounding three others.
2000 (-) Murderer John Satterwhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2001 (-) Double murderer Jeffrey Doughtie is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2003 (x) 58-year-old Artist Jörg Immendorff is caught with seven prostitutes (and four more on the way) and 10 grams of cocaïne in a versace ashtrey in the luxury suite of the five star Steigenberger hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany.
He explained it as an act of "orientalism".
2003 (-) Dictator Idi Amin dies in Jeddah, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia.
2005 (x) 160 Die in West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 McDonnel Douglas MD-82 crash in Machiques, Venezuela.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

15 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


Traffic jam at night in Jakarta as seen by a patient with Superficial Punctate Keropathy.

1769 (+) War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is born in Ajaccio, Corsica.
1771 (+) Writer Walter Scott is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1785 (+) Writer Thomas de Quincey is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1857 (+) Jack the Ripper-suspect Montague John Druitt is born in Wimborne, Dorset, United Kingdom.
1877 (x) 30-year-old Inventor Thomas Edison makes the first phonograph recording in New Jersey, USA.
He recorded (and played) "Mary had a Little Lamp".
1896 (+) Inventor Léon Theremin originally Lev Sergeyevich Termen, is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1905 (-) Wife-murderer Arthur Devereux is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1925 (+) Actor Mike Connors originally Kreker Ohanian, aka Mannix, is born in Fresno, California, USA.
1930 (-) Murderer Robert Wilkins is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Washington, USA.
1935 (-) Airplane pioneer Wiley Post dies in a plane crash at the age of 36 in Point Barrow, Alaska, USA.
1940 (+) Terrorist Gudrun Ensslin is born in Bartholomä, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
1944 (+) Musician Sylvie Vartan is born in Iskretz, Bulgaria.
1945 (x) Japan capitulates in WWII after the US dropped 2 Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
1961 (x) 19-year-old Soldier Conrad Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, succesfully makes his escape to the West in Berlin, Ruppinerstrasse & Bernauerstrasse, Germany.
1965 (-) Maria B. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 22 in Czeladz-Piaski, Poland.
1967 (-) Artist René Magritte dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
1974 (+) Double murderer Tommie Hughes is born in Texas, USA.
1975 (-) Olive Smelt is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 46 in Halifax, United Kingdom.
She survived.
1977 (x) 69-year-old Nazi leader Herbert Kappler escapes from a hopital by the use of mountain-climbing equipment brought in by his wife in Rome, Italy.
1982 (-) Karl Bulcke is raped and shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 19 in Rochefort-Montagne, France.
1984 (-) An unidentified boy is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.
1992 (-) Britain’s official executioner Harry Allen dies at the age of 81 in the United Kingdom.
1995 (-) Murderer Vernon Sattlewhite is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1997 (x) 37-year-old Multiple Murderer Frederick Davidson aka The Lethal Graduate, opens fire in a classroom while meeting with a panel of professors to defend his master's thesis, shooting to death 3 of the professors in San Diego State University, California, USA.
1997 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sipho Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper, is arrested by heavily armed policemen on suspicion of killing at least 19 young women in the Besters squatter camp in Phoenix, Durban, South Africa.
1998 (-) Serial Killer Gary Evans commits suicide by drowning at the age of 43 in Albany, Hudson River, New York, USA.
He kicked out the window of a police van transporting him to court, jumped out and threw himself off a bridge. His hands and feet shackled, he drowned in the river.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

14 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


The Nayada Kanca Studio Musik where I had a rehearsal with Henry Foundation aka Batman for a music performance at the BB's Club, organized by Pink Girl Go Wild EuNice Nuh in Jakarta.

1464 (-) 210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, dies at the age of 58 in Ancona, Italy.
1742 (+) 251st Pope Pius VII originally Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, is born in Cesena, Italy.
1840 (+) Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing aka Psychopathia Sexualis, is born in Mannheim, Germany.
1876 (+) King of Servia Alexander I Obrenovic is born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1879 (+) Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean is born in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Paul Bronichewski is born in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1907 (-) Child murderess Rhoda Willis is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Cardiff, United Kingdom.
1910 (+) Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer is born in Nancy, France.
1924 (-) Murderer Arthur Henry Bishop is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1926 (+) Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller originally Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich, is born in Rome, Italy.
1936 (-) Murderer Rainey Bethea is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA.
It was the last public hanging, for which about 20.000 people showed up.
1941 (+) Musician David Crosby is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1945 (+) Filmmaker Wim Wenders is born in Düsseldorf, Germany.
1956 (-) Dramatist Berthold Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Germany.
In his will he provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.
1958 (x) 99 Die in KLM airliner crash in the Atlantic.
1961 (-) Actor Edwin Cooper aka Bozo the Clown, dies at the age of 41 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
1965 (-) Ulrich Kahlweis is abducted and tortured to death by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 12 in Velbert, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1969 (-) Roy Dumas is strangled by George Putt aka The Memphis Murderer, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
1971 (-) Automobile engineer Georg Von Opel dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany.
1972 (x) 156 Die in Iljoeshin II-62 crash in Berlin, Schönefeld Airport, Germany.
1979 (x) 150 boats are crushed and 18 sailors die in a storm during the Fastnet-race between Ireland and South-England in the United Kingdom.
1980 (-) Dorothy Stratten originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, is shot dead by Paul Snider at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Snider commits suicide with the same gun.
1980 (-) Bernard Marechal is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, in St. Malo, France.
1982 (-) Opal Mills is strangled by The Green River Killer at the age of 16 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1990 (-) Wanja Fomin is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Nowotscherkask, Aksai riverbank, Russia.
1994 (-) Writer Elias Canetti dies at the age of 89 in Zurich, Switzerland.
1994 (x) 44-year-old Terrorist Ilich Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is captured in Sudan.
He was recovering from a minor testicle operation.
1998 (-) Murderer Zane Hill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 62 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
2002 (-) Murderer Javier Medina is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2005 (x) 121 Die in Helios Airways Flight 522 crash in Athens, Greece.

Monday, August 13, 2007

13 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


A local bus in an outskirt district of Jakarta. This image would have sported the back of an exclusive Club Moral in Jakarta cd which never came out.

1863 (-) Artist Eugène Delacroix dies at the age of 65 in Paris, Île-de France, France.
1899 (+) Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1902 (+) Scientist and engineer Felix Wankel is born in Lahr, Germany.
1907 (+) Industrialist Alfried Krupp is born in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1907 (-) Murderer Richard Brinkley is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1910 (-) Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp, dies at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.
1912 (-) Composer Jules Massenet dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.
1913 (x) 40-year-old Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte poses as a nephew of the Sultan and is crowned as King in Durres, Albania.
During his 5-day "reign" he enjoyed the Sultan's harem and declared war to Montenegro.
1913 (+) President and archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III originally Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, is born in Panagia, Cyprus.
1915 (-) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.
1924 (x) 51-year-old Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, shoots his lover Theresa Mors and several bystanders in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1926 (+) Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is born in Biran, Cuba.
1929 (+) Serial Killer Raymond Leslie Morris aka The Cannock Chase Murderer, is born in Walsall, United Kingdom.
1937 (-) Murderer Burt Anderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 53 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1937 (-) Murderer Ernest Patton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1946 (-) Writer Herbert George Wells dies of heart failure at the age of 79 in London, United Kingdom.
1958 (-) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte dies at the age of 85 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
1961 (x) USSR and DDR military forces start building the Wall in Berlin, Germany.
1964 (-) Murderer Gwynne Evans originally John Robson Walby aka Ginger, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1964 (-) Murderer Peter Allen is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
1969 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, has a bucket of water slammed into his head by an unidentified fellow-inmate in State penitentiary, Oregon, USA.
1972 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Hani Hanjour is born in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia.
1973 (x) 85 Die in Caravelle explosion in La Coruna, Spain.
1982 (+) Juvenile murderer Jon Venables is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
1982 (-) Oleg Poshidajew is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Krasnodar Beach, Russia.
1993 (x) Over 100 Die in Royal Plaza Hotel collapse in Naakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
1996 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux, and his accomplices Michelle Martin and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of abduction in Marcinelle, Belgium.
A search of his house fails to discover 2 abducted girls in his basement.
1997 (-) Serial Killer Ali Reza Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Teheran, Shahrak Rah-Ahan, Iran.
He killed 9 girls and women between 10 and 47 years old in 4 months. He was first flogged by relatives of the victims, and then hanged from a mobile crane on the public square where he picked up most of his victims, before a crowd of 20.000.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

12 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


Indra Ameng at the studio of MTV-Radio Jakarta where I featured as a guest for one hour and performed a fantastic version of "I am Perverse".

30bc (-) Empress Thea Philopator Cleopatra VII commits suicide by the bite of a poisonous snake at the age of -38 in Egypt.

1484 (-) 212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
1689 (-) 240th Pope Innocentus XI originally Benedetto Odescalchi, dies at the age of 78 in Rome, Italy.
1827 (-) Poet and artist William Blake dies at the age of 69 in London, England.
1870 (+) Serial Killer Carl Denke is born in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
1881 (+) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille is born in Ashfield, Massachussets, USA.
1924 (-) Murderer Jean-Pierre Vaquier is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1927 (-) Murderer John Robinson is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1928 (-) Composer Leos Janacek dies at the age of 74 in Ostrava, Czechoslowakia.
1952 (x) Statesman Josef Stalin orders the immediate execution of 13 prominent Jewish writers, poets, artists and musicians in Moscow, Lubyanka Prison, Russia.
1955 (-) Writer Thomas Mann dies of athorasclerosis at the age of 80 in Zürich, Switzerland.
1957 (-) Wife murderer William Nicholson is executed by hanging in Kaapstad, South Africa.
1964 (-) Writer Ian Fleming dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
1966 (x) Policemen Christopher Head, David Wombwell and Geoffrey Fox are gunned down by John Edward Whitey, John Duddy and Harry Roberts in the ‘Baybrook Street Massacre’ in London, United Kingdom.
1973 (+) Terrorist Richard Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, is born in London, Bromley, United Kingdom.
1981 (-) Jean-Pierre Lacosta is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 24 in Mondicourt, France.
1982 (-) Actor Henry Fonda dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1983 (-) Artist James G. dies due to burns suffered in an accidental self-immolation at the age of 37 in London, United Kingdom.
He was setting fire to David Mach’s sculpture ‘General Belgrano’, outside the Royal Festival Hall, which was made out of 6000 rubber tyres.
1985 (x) 520 Die in Japan Airlines Flight 123 Boeing 747-SR46 crash in Osutaka Ridge, Japan.
It crashed into Mount Takamagahara. Four people survived.
1988 (-) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of drug abuse at the age of 27 in New York, New York, USA.
1992 (-) Composer John Cage dies at the age of 79 in New York, New York, USA.
1993 (-) Murderer David Holland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

11 august 1999 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A sun eclipse as seen through my welding gear.

1828 (-) Murderer William Corder aka The Red Barn Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Bury St. Edmonds Gaol, United Kingdom.
1837 (+) Fourth President of France Sadi Carnot is born in Limoges, France.
1892 (x) 32-year-old Murderess Lizzie Borden is arrested on suspicion of hacking to death her parents in Fall River, Massachussets, USA.
1913 (+) Writer Angus Wilson is born in Bexhill, Sussex, United Kingdom.
1929 (-) Maria Hahn is stabbed to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He bit open her neck and drank the warm blood.
1932 (+) Dramatist and filmmaker Fernando Arrabal is born in Melilla, Morocco.
1948 (+) Simpletone Rudy Cabie is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
1948 (+) Revolutionary student Jan Palach is born in Czechoslowakia.
1954 (-) Artist and murderer William Hepper is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1956 (-) Artist Jackson Pollock dies in a head-on collision with his Oldsmobile Convertible at the age of 44 in East-Hampton, New York, USA.
Other passengers in the car Edith Metzger also died while Ruth Kligman survived.
1957 (+) Nazi Punk Rocker Ian Stuart Donaldson is born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Blackpool, United Kingdom.
1974 (-) Gary Cordova is found poisoned and mutilated by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, in Orange County, Cabot Road, California, USA.
1976 (x) 54-year-old Serial Killer Bernard Pesquet is arrested on suspicion of 6 murders in his home town in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
1979 (x) Over 5000 Die in dam collapse in Morvi, India.
1982 (-) Cynthia Hinds is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, USA.
1984 (+) Mass murderer Mitchell Johnson is born in Arkansas, USA.
1992 (-) Murderer Curtis Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1994 (-) Actor Peter Cushing dies of cancer at the age of 81 in Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom.
1995 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Ali Reza Kordiyeh aka The Tehran Vampire, is lashed 214 times before his public hanging, in two days, for a three-month rape and killing spree earlier this year in Teheran, Iran.
1998 (x) Start of the trial against 14-year-old Mass murderer Mitchell Johnson and 12-year-old Andrew Golden for the Jonesboro Massacre in Arkansas, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer James Earhart is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2005 (x) 21-year-old Mass murderer Mitchell Johnson is released from prison after serving 7 years for the Jonesboro Massacre in Arkansas, USA.

Friday, August 10, 2007

10 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


Flying from Singapore to Jakarta with Emirates Airlines was quite a noteworthy experience due to the fantastic food, the company of several hundred strictly dressed muslim men and women, and last but not least live footage of the landing at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at dawn on the individual lcd-screens on the seat in front of us from a camera in the Boeing's nose.

1814 (+) Founder of the chocolate company Henri Nestlé is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
1874 (+) 31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover is born in West Branch, Idaho, USA.
1878 (+) Writer Alfred Döblin is born in Szczecin, Poland.
1903 (x) 77 Die in subway-train crash in Paris, France.
1910 (-) Murderer John Dickman is executed by hanging in Newcastle, United Kingdom.
1918 (-) Joseph Romano is beaten to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in Louisiana, USA.
1919 (-) Steve Boca is attacked by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in Louisiana, USA.
He survived.
1922 (-) IRA-member Reginald Dunne is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1922 (-) IRA-member Joseph O’Sullivan is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1923 (-) Murderer Manuel Martinez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1935 (+) Founder of The Process Church of the Final Judgment Robert DeGrimston aka The Teacher, is born in Shangai, China.
1941 (+) Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, is born in Liancourt, France.
1949 (-) Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1957 (+) Sixth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Raymond Smith aka Ricky Beeks, is born in the USA.
1962 (-) Mad Marylin Monroe fan Eustolio Monroe commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 31 in Los Amarilos, Venezuela.
1963 (-) Shirley McLeod is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 18 in Perth, Australia.
1969 (-) 44-year-old Leno LaBianca and 38-year old Rosemary LaBianca are slaughtered by The Manson Family in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1974 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, marries Sonia Szurma in Bradford, Clayton Baptist Chapel, United Kingdom.
1974 (-) Eileen Marie Hunley is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1977 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is arrested in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer Kenneth Dunn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2005 (-) Triple murderer Gary Sterling is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

9 august 2004 - Audreselles, France


The stony beach as seen from atop the cliffs in Audreselles.

1048 (-) 151st Pope Damasus 11 originally Poppo, dies of malaria in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
He reigned only 24 days and might have been poisoned.
1896 (+) Psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget is born in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
1918 (+) Filmmaker Robert Aldrich is born in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA.
1940 (-) Murderer Robert Burgunder is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1945 (x) US B-29 "Bockscar" drops a second Uranium 235 bomb named "Fat Man" in Nagasaki, Japan.
1957 (-) Nazi-doctor and mass-sterilizer Carl Clauberg dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in prison, Germany.
1962 (-) Writer Hermann Hesse dies of a stroke at the age of 85 in Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland.
1963 (+) Musician Whitney Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
1965 (x) 53 Die in underground long-distance-missiles stock explosion in Arkansas, USA.
1969 (-) Pregnant Sharon Tate is slaughtered by The Manson Family at the age of 26 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In the same event 35-year-old Jay Sebring, 25-year-old Abigail Folger, 32-year-old Wojiciech ‘Voytek’ Frykowski and 18-year-old Steven Parrent were also killed.
1970 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 13-year-old boy in Vallée des Vaux, St. Helier, Jersey.
1975 (-) Composer Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.
1976 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Nawaf al-Hazmi is born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
1983 (-) Igor Gudkow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 8 in Rostow, Fliegerpark, Russia.
1987 (x) 19-year-old Spree Killer Julian Knight shoots 24 people, killing 6 in a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Hoddle Street, Victoria, Australia.
1989 (x) Police enter the house of 29-year-old Serial Killer Graham Harrison by force, where they find the cut-up bodies of 7 women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1993 (-) Police-chief Mustafa Tabit is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 53 in Casablanca, Morocco.
He confessed to the rape and torture of hundreds of women during his service.
1995 (-) Musician Jerry Garcia aka Captain Trips, dies of a heart attack due to sleep apnea at the age of 53 in Forest Knolls, California, USA.
1996 (-) Laetitia Delhez is abducted and held imprisoned by Marc Dutroux at the age of 14 in Bertrix, Luxemburg, Belgium.
2000 (-) Double Murderer Brian Roberson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2000 (-) Murderer David Cruz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.