Saturday, August 4, 2007

4 august 2003 - Singapore


A sign in a hairdresser shop on Serangoon Road in Singapore.

1521 (+) 228th Pope Urbanus VII originally Giovanni Battista Castagna, is born in Rome, Italy.
1693 (x) Benedictine Monk Dom Pérignon invents Champagne in Epernay, Abbey of Hautvilliers, France.
1755 (+) Artist and inventor of the pencil Nicolas-Jacques Conté is born in Saint-Céneri-près-Sées, France.
1792 (+) Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is born in Horsham, England.
1859 (+) Writer Knut Hamsun is born in Lom, Norway.
1875 (-) Writer Hans Christian Andersen dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 70 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1892 (-) Andrew Borden is and his wife Abby are presumably hacked to death by Lizzie Borden at the age of 70 in Fall River, 92 Second Street, Massachussets, USA.
1897 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is arrested after an attempt to kill a woman in the Bois des Pelleries, France.
1901 (+) Musician Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
1906 (x) 350 Die in Sirio shipwreck in Cape Palos, Italy.
1944 (x) 15-year-old Anne Frank is discovered in a hideout in Amsterdam, Prinsengracht, the Netherlands.
The whole family is transported to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen KZ.
1947 (+) Composer Klaus Schulze aka Richard Wahnfried, is born in Berlin, Germany.
1962 (-) Mass murderer Ray Lanker commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 14 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
First he killed his father, mother, brother and sister.
1962 (x) 16-year-old Mass murderer Hugh Paulsen shoots his neighbours; husband, wife and 3 children in Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
1965 (-) Zofia W. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 22 in Lagisza, Poland.
She survived.
1974 (x) Fascists bomb the Rome-München express-train in Bologna, Italy.
1999 (-) Murderer Ricky Blackmon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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