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.

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