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

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

31 october 2005 - YangZhen, China

A tattoo session at ArtFarm in YangZhen.

1705 (+) 249th Pope Clementius XIV originally Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, is born in Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna, Italy.

1765 (-) Duke of Cumberland William Augustus aka Butcher Cumberland, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in London, United Kingdom.

1815 (-) Farmer, mechanic and composer Daniel Belknap dies at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.

1886 (+) Statesman Chang Kai-Shek is born in Xikou, China.

1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Franke is born in Berlin, Germany.

1913 (-) Murderer Mike Spanos is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Oregon, USA.

1913 (-) Murderer Frank Seymour is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Oregon, USA.

1918 (-) Artist Egon Schiele dies of Spanish flu at the age of 28 in Vienna, Austria.

1920 (+) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1926 (-) Magician Harry Houdini originally Erich Weiss, dies of peronitis from a ruptured appendix in Detroit, Grace Hospital, Room 401, Michigan, USA.
He was punched in the stomach several times by Joselyn Gordon Whitehead at his own request on 22 october 1926 which caused his appendicitis.

1926 (x) An unidentified 15-year-old boy who tried to kill 43-year-old Fascist leader Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce, is lynched by a mad mob in Bologna, Italy.

1929 (+) Actor Bud Spencer originally Carlo Pedersoli, is born in Naples, Italy.

1936 (+) Actor Michael Landon originally Eugene Orowitz, is born in Forest Hills, New York, USA.

1938 (-) An unidentified woman dies as result of a cyclopropane explosion while undergoing breast surgery at the age of 44 in Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachussets, USA.
The source of ignition was static electricity.

1950 (+) Actor John Candy is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1961 (-) Murderer Honor Robinson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1974 (-) Laura Aime is abducted and strangled by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1981 (-) ‘Orange Socks’ is strangled by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, in Oklahoma, USA.
She was found along the Interstate 35 and remains unidentified.

1984 (-) President Indira Ghandi shot dead by her Sikh body-guards Beant Singh and Sawant Singh at the age of 66 in New Delhi, India.

1993 (-) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in Rome, Italy.

1993 (-) Actor River Phoenix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 23 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1996 (x) 99 Die in TAM Fokker crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

1999 (x) 217 Die in Egypt Air Flight 990 Boeing 767-366ER crash in Nantucket, the Atlantic Ocean.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

30 october 2005 - YangZhen, China

Belgian visitors for artfarm at the evening dinner in the "Happy Forest" restaurant in YangZhen.

1735 (+) 2nd president of the USA John Adams is born in Braintree, Quincy, Massachussets, USA.

1857 (+) Neurologist Gilles de la Tourette is born in Poitou, France.

1863 (-) Murderer Griffith Williams is executed by hanging in Mound City, Kansas, USA.

1871 (+) Poet Paul Valéry is born in Sête, Hérault, France.

1885 (+) Writer Ezra Pound is born in Hailey, Idaho, USA.

1910 (-) Founder of the Red Cross Henri Dunant due to depression and paranoia at the age of 85 in Heiden, Switzerland.

1931 (-) Cop Killer James Kingsley is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.

1932 (+) Filmmaker Louis Malle is born in Thumeries, France.

1937 (+) Filmmaker Claude Lelouche is born in France.

1941 (-) Murderer James Thomas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 19 in Oregon, USA.

1966 (-) Cheri Bates is stabbed to death as first victim by Zodiac at the age of 18 in Riverside, RCC Library, California, USA.

1968 (-) Actor Ramon Novarro originally José Ramon Gil Samaniego aka The Sheik, has his skull crushed by Paul and Thomas Ferguson at the age of 69 in Laurel, California, USA.
He choked to death on his own blood.

1970 (x) 26-year-old Musician Jim Morrison is sentenced to 6 months imprisonmen and fined $500 for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, Florida, USA.

1975 (-) Wilma McCann is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 26 in Leeds, Prince Philip Playing Fields, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Tina Williams is raped and shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 17 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

1977 (-) Judy Miller is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 15 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

1979 (-) Minister of Labour Robert Boulin commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rambouillet, France.
His final note read: "I have decided to drown myself in a lake in the forest, of Rambouillet, where I enjoyed riding horseback."

1981 (-) Britta Schilling is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.

1982 (-) Robert Foley is found beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1984 (-) Murderer Thomas Barefoot is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1985 (x) Mass Murderess Sylvia Segress kills 8 people in a shooting rage in Springfield, Pennsylvania, USA.

1990 (-) Wadim Tistschenko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Schachty, Km1128 on the Kirpitschnaja-Sady road, Russia.

1990 (-) Escape artist Joseph Burrus is crushed by a load of concrete in a "buried alive" magician's trick in San Francisco, California, USA.

1997 (-) Filmmaker Samuel Fuller dies at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Monday, October 29, 2007

29 october 2005 - YangZhen, China

Gardenworks on the farm in YangZhen, since we had no heavy equipment on hand some back to basics techniques were necessary to move a couple of nasty boulders.

1656 (+) Astrologist Edmund Halley is born in London, Hackney, United Kingdom.

1897 (+) Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels is born in Germany.

1901 (-) Assassin Leon Czolgosz aka The Man who shot William McKinley, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Auburn Prison, New York, USA.

1930 (+) Artist Niki de Saint Phalle is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1932 (+) Artist R.B. Kitaj is born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA.

1947 (+) Actor Richard Dreyfuss is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1949 (-) Occult Teacher George Gurdjieff dies at the age of 83 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, American Hospital, France.

1957 (-) Rosemarie Nitribitt is choked and her skull crushed by persons unknown at the age of 24 in Frankfurt, Germany.
A number of her clients commit suicide or flee the country in the ensued police-investigation.

1963 (x) 14-year-old Serial Killer Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, attempts to commit suicide by opening a vein with a pen in Santa Cruz, City Jail, California, USA.

1984 (x) 240 Die in USSR transport plane crash in Kaboul, Afghanistan.

1987 (-) Geneviève M. is attacked by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 85 in Paris 12th, France.

1997 (-) Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 67 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1997 (-) James Loper is shot dead by Louis Peoples at the age of 29 in Stockton, Eight Mile Road near Interstate 5, California, USA.

2002 (x) Over 60 Die in ITC shopping center fire in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Over 100 people remain missing.

2006 (x) 97 Die in Aviation Development Company Flight 53 Boeing 737-2B7 crash in Abuja, Nigeria.
7 people survived.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

28 october 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Queues lining the streets around Antwerp Central Station to see the multi-media installation by AMVK in the tunnel underneath, in all 75.000 people passed by in two days.

1895 (x) Start of the trial against 35-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Philadelphia, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Pennsylvania, USA.

1898 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is sentenced to death for twelve murders in Ain, France.

1901 (-) ‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree commits suicide by jumping off a rock at the age of 51 in Celerina, Switzerland.

1903 (+) Writer Evelyn Waugh is born in London, United Kingdom.

1909 (+) Artist Francis Bacon is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1955 (+) Software-tycoon Bill Gates is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.

1967 (+) Actress Julia Roberts is born in Smyrna, Georgia, USA.

1967 (-) Jack ‘The Hat’ McVitie is stabbed to death by Reggie Kray aka The Profession of Violence, at the age of 38 in London, Bethnal Green, United Kingdom.

1976 (-) IRA-Leader Maire Drumm is shot dead by persons unknown at the age of 56 in Belfast, Ireland.
He lay in a hospital, recovering from an eye-operation.

1997 (-) Multiple Murderer Kenneth Ransom is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1997 (x) Distraught over debts, a failed marriage, and her latest lover leaving her, 33-year-old Mass murderess Susan Eubanks kills her 6-year-old, 7-year-old and 14-year-old sons with a shot through the head and tries to commit suicide by a gunblast to the abdomen in San Diego, California, USA.
Another 4-year-old son died in the hospital

1999 (-) Murderer Domingo Cantu is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

27 october 2006 - Porto, Portugal

A statue of the dead Christ in the Igreja do Carmo in Porto.

1466 (+) Humanist Desiderius Erasmus originally Gerrit Gerritszoon, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The exact year of birth is not known, it could also be 1469.

1728 (+) Explorer Captain James Cook is born in Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1782 (+) Composer Niccolo Paganini is born in Genova, Italy.

1858 (+) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York, New York, USA.

1914 (+) Poet Dylan Thomas is born in Swansea, United Kingdom.

1919 (-) Michele Pepitone is murdered as last victim by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1923 (+) Artist Roy Lichtenstein is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1923 (-) Heinz Brinkmann is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 13 in Hannover, Germany.

1932 (x) Murderer Robert Irwin aka The Mad Sculptor, attends a surgical emergency room, having tried to cut off his penis in New York, New York, USA.

1939 (+) Actor John Cleese is born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Luis Garavito is abducted by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 28 in Tustin, California, USA.
In an ensuing fight, they are spotted by a highway patrolman, and Glatman is arrested.

1964 (-) An unidentified girl is raped and abused by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1975 (-) Teenage Sex-Killer Robert Poulin commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Ottawa, St. Pius X High School, Ontario, Canada.

1977 (-) Writer James Cain dies of alcohol poisoning at the age of 85 in Hyattsville, Maryland, USA.

1977 (x) The members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are buried in Stuttgart, Waldfriedhof Cemetary, Germany.

1982 (-) Olga Kuprina is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Kastachji Lagerja, Russia.

1983 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is arrested in his house in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

1989 (-) Patty Ives is strangled and her neck broken by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 25 in Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.

1996 (-) Victor Rossi is beaten to death as first victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 41 in Prairieville, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Triple murderer Alberto Ortiz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

Friday, October 26, 2007

26 october 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The stage at AMVK's big Central Station project with Rudy Trouvé, AMVK, Dylan, Panzar, Jelle Jespers and Michiel Thijs soundchecking in Antwerpen.

1440 (-) Serial Killer Gilles De Rais is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Nantes, France.
His body and those of his accomplices Henriet and Poitou, also hanged, are thrown into the fire.

1685 (+) Composer Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Italy.

1811 (+) Inventor Isaac Singer is born in Pittstown, New York, USA.

1902 (+) Naturopath Alfred Vogel is born in Aesch, Switzerland.

1911 (+) Musician Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1916 (+) President of France François Mitterand is born in Jarnac, France.

1919 (+) Sjah Mohammed Pahlevi is born in Teheran, Iran.

1925 (+) Writer Jan Wolkers is born in the Netherlands.

1941 (+) RAF member Holger Meins is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1942 (+) Actor Bob Hoskins is born in Suffolk, United Kingdom.

1964 (+) Mass Murderer Marc Lepine aka The Women-Hating Rambo, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1964 (-) Serial Killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Perth, Fremantle Prison, Australia.

1965 (-) Sylvia Likens is tortured to death by neighbour boys, who were set up by Gertrude Baniszewski in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

1966 (x) Over 100 Die in shipwreck in the Kosi River, India.

1972 (-) Aircraft pioneer Igor Sikorsky dies at the age of 83 in Easton, Connecticut, USA.

1979 (-) President Park Tsjoeng Hie is shot dead by KCIA-chief Kimjae Kioe at the age of 62 in Korea.

1984 (-) Heavy Metal fan John McCollum commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19.
He had been listening to Ozzy Osbourne records all day long.

2002 (x) Over 170 Die in Dubrovka Theatre siege in Moscow, Russia.
After three days of occupation by 40 Chechnen terrorists the building was stormed by the Spetsnaz brigade.

2004 (-) Murderer Dominique Green is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

25 october 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

AMVK's original copy of Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'Intelligence des Fleurs" in an exhibition at the Library in Antwerpen.

1838 (+) Composer Georges Bizet is born in Paris, 28 Rue de la Tour d’Auvergne, France.

1879 (+) Serial Killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is born in Hannover, Germany.

1894 (-) Alice Pitezel is gassed in a trunk by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Toronto, 16 St. Vincent street, Canada.

1913 (+) Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is born in Bad Godesberg, Germany.

1920 (-) IRA-member Terence MacSwiney dies after 74 days of hungerstriking at the age of 41 in Brixton Prison, Ireland.
It was the longest hunger strike in Irish History.

1923 (-) Hermann Wolf is killed and his meat sold by by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.

1941 (-) Artist Robert Delaunay dies at the age of 56 in Montpellier, France.

1943 (-) Murderer Ruffie Lundon is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Florida, USA.

1957 (-) The Syndicate’s most ruthless killer, Albert Anastasia is shot dead while being shaved in New York, Sheraton Hotel, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Architect Henry Van De Velde dies at the age of 94 in Zürich, Switzerland.

1965 (-) Teresa T. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 24 in Bedzin, Poland.

1970 (-) Mary Bennallack is persumably killed by throatcutting as eighteenth victim by Zodiac in Sacramento, California, USA.

1973 (-) Athlete Abebe Bikila dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 41 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot.

1980 (-) Maureen Lea is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Leeds, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1993 (-) Actor Vincent Price dies of lung cancer at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1997 (-) Robin Atkins is asphyxiated by Alfred Gaynor at the age of 29 in Springfield, off Spring Street, Massachussets, USA.

2004 (-) BBC Dj John Peel originally Kohn Robert Parker Ravelscroft, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 65 in Cuzco, Peru.

2006 (-) Triple murderer Gregory Summers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2006 (-) Serial Killer Danny Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Starke, Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

24 october 2003 - Brussels, Belgium

A performance by Whitehouse in Brussels.

1537 (-) Third wife of Henry VIII Jane Seymour dies of puerperal fever at the age of 29 in Hampton Court, United Kingdom.

1903 (+) FBI-agent Melvin Purvis is born in Illinois, USA.

1915 (+) Designer Bob Kane aka The Father of Batman, is born in California, USA.

1925 (+) Composer Luciano Berio is born in Oneglia, Liguria, Italy.

1927 (+) Musician Gilbert Bécaud is born in Toulon, France.

1929 (x) All the rich run around in panic because of the Wall Street Crash in New York, New York, USA.

1929 (-) Hubertine Meurer and Klara Wander are attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 34 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
They both survived.

1933 (+) Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are born in Hoxton, United Kingdom.

1935 (-) Gangster and bootlegger Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schulz, dies of peronitis at the age of 33 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
He was shot by Charley "The Bug" Workman 22 hours before at the Palace Chop House. His famous last words, induced by high fever and morphine were recorded by a stenographer and inspired a number of writers.

1939 (x) 34-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
She returned voluntarily, 6 days later after visiting her ill mother.

1944 (-) Automobile pioneer Louis Renault due to mistreatment in Fresnes Prison accused of collaboration at the age of 67 in Paris, France.

1945 (+) SPK and RAF 2nd Generation member Hanna Krabbe is born in Bad Bentheim, Germany.

1948 (-) Composer Franz Lehar dies at the age of 78 in Bad Ischi, Austria.

1953 (-) Evelyn Hartley is presumably murdered by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 15 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1958 (-) Murderer Bart Caritativo is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1960 (x) Over 120 skilled technicians and scientists Die in R-16 ICBM Rocket Missile explosion in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 41, Russia.
Its secondary engines were accidently ignited while is was still on the launchpad.

1962 (x) 37-year-old Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested for obscenity in Hollywood, Troubadour Theatre, California, USA.

1963 (x) 137 Die in ferry capsizing in Yojoe, Han River, Korea.

1972 (-) Margaret Guilfoyle is stabbed to death and ripped to pieces by Herbert Mullin at the age of 24 in Santa Cruz, Empire Grade, California, USA.

1991 (-) Star Trek creator Eugene “Gene” Roddenberry dies at the age of 70 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1996 (x) 15-year-old Olga Galtseva is found, covered with terrible wounds during a raid on the apartment of Serial Killer and Cannibal Alexander Spesivtsev in Novokuznetsk, Siberia, Russia.
Also found are the mutilated bodies of 13-year-old Yevgenia Barashkina and 13-year-old Anastasia Burnayeva who had been missing for over a month.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

23 october 2005 - Jiaozhuanghu, China

Having a vehicle and treating it with respect. One threewheeler helping out another one on the way to the Tunnel Warfare Museum in Jiaozhuanghu.

1893 (+) Actor and filmmaker Gummo Marx is born in New York, New York, USA.

1910 (-) 5th King of Thailand Rama V originally Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua aka Chulalongkorn the Great, dies at the age of 57 in Bangkok, Thailand.

1921 (-) Engineer and tyre-manufacterer John Dunlop dies at the age of 81 in Dublin, Ireland.

1923 (x) The first solo dance performance by 21-year-old actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl takes place in München, Germany.

1925 (+) TV-host Johnny Carson is born in Coming, Iowa, USA.

1927 (+) Artist Edward Kienholz is born in Fairfield, Washington, USA.

1950 (-) Singer Al Jolson originally Asa Yoelson aka The World’s Greatest Entertainer, dies of a heart-attack at the age of 64 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1957 (-) Fashion designer Christian Dior dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Montecatini, Tuscany, Italy.
Supposedly he suffered a heart attack during a sexual encounter with two young men.

1961 (-) Murderer Arthur Schuck is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.

1972 (-) Wendell Hubbard is stabbed to death and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 9 in New York, East Harlem, New York, USA.

1976 (-) Carl Denaro is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.
He survived.

1982 (-) Steven Crockett is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 19 in Kankakee, Illinois, USA.

1992 (-) Double murderer John Gardner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

1998 (-) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, dies at the age of 93 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1998 (-) Patricia Tamez is murdered by Wayne Ford aka The Breast Severer, at the age of 29 in Hesperia, California, USA.

Monday, October 22, 2007

22 october 2002 - Vilvoorde, Belgium

A patch of green along the railroad between Brussels and Antwerpen, in Vilvoorde, the city where I was born.

1785 (x) 45-year-old Writer and philosopher Donatien Alphonse François De Sade begins to write his ‘120 Days of Sodom’ on a paper roll of 11cm wide and 12m long, finishing it in just 37 days in Paris, Prison de la Bastille, France.

1811 (+) Composer Franz Liszt is born in Raiding, Hungary.

1844 (+) Actress Sarah Bernhardt is born in Paris, France.

1877 (x) 207 Die in William Dixons pit 1 and 2 coal mine explosion in Blantyre, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1879 (x) 32-year-old Inventor Thomas Edison tests the first incandescent light bulb in New Jersey, USA.
It burned 13 1/2 hours.

1902 (-) Maud March is poisoned by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in the United Kingdom.

1905 (+) Radio engineer and discoverer of cosmic radio sources Karl Jansky is born in Norman, Oklahoma, USA.

1906 (-) Artist Paul Cézanne dies of delirium influenza at the age of 67 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

1909 (-) Murderer Mathew Janeigaj is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, USA.

1913 (x) 263 Die in coal-mine explosion in Dawson, New Mexico, USA.

1920 (+) Spiritual theorist Timothy Leary is born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

1925 (+) Artist Robert Rauschenberg is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.

1934 (-) Gangster Charles Floyd aka Pretty Boy, is shot dead by the FBI in a shootout at the age of 30 in East Liverpool, Ohio, USA.

1942 (-) Sex-murderer Ronald Fearn is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 23 in Canon City, Colorado, USA.

1943 (+) Actress Catherine Deneuve is born in Paris, France.

1948 (+) Manson Family member Lynette Fromme aka Squeaky, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1949 (x) 200 Die in train derailment in Nowy Dwor, Poland.

1960 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, is convicted to life-imprisonment in Freiburg, Germany.

1971 (-) Polizeimeister Norbert Schmid is shot dead by Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Hamburg, Germany.
He is the first deadly victim of the terrorist group.

1977 (-) Glen Parks is shot dead by Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 47 in Bellmead, Texas, USA.

1979 (x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, is arrested in Los Angeles, Glendale, California, USA.

1981 (-) Suzanna Cambi and Mainardo Paolo are shot dead and mutilated as seventh and eighth victim by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 24 in Florence, Calenzano, Italy.
Suzanna’s pubis had been removed.

1987 (-) Actor Lino Ventura dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Paris, St. Cloud, France.

1995 (-) Writer Kingsley Amis dies at the age of 73 in London, United Kingdom.

1997 (-) Murderer Alan Bannister is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Missouri, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer Gerald Mitchell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

21 october 2003 - Brussels, Belgium

Tables and chairs in the largest restaurant for civil servants in Brussels. It served 2000 people at the same time and is now demolished.

1440 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Gilles De Rais makes a full confession of his crimes in court in Nantes, France.

1805 (-) Admiral Horatio Nelson is shot in the spine during the Battle of Trafalgar at the age of 47.

1833 (+) Inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1888 (+) Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1917 (+) Musician Dizzy Gillespie is born in Cheraw, South Carolina, USA.

1926 (-) Mabel Fluke is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1930 (+) Murderer Richard Jordan is born in Arizona, USA.

1966 (x) 116 children and 28 adults Die in coal-slag avalanche in Aberfan, United Kingdom.

1969 (-) Writer Jack Kerouac dies of a liver-disease at the age of 47 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

1971 (x) 24-year-old Manson Family-member Tex Watson is sentenced to die in the Gas Chambers for the Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1980 (-) Pediatrician Hans Asperger dies at the age of 74 in Wien, Austria.

1984 (-) Filmmaker François Truffaut dies of a brain tumour at the age of 52 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1985 (-) Assassin of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, Dan White commits suicide in California, USA.

1989 (x) 132 Die in Boeing 727 crash in Honduras.

1989 (-) Dorothy Keeler is is found skeletonised, beaten to death by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 59 in Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.

1998 (-) Musician Jim Shepard commits suicide at the age of 44 in Culumbus, Ohio, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Arthur Boyd is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2006 (-) Writer John Symonds dies at the age of 92 in the United Kingdom.
He was a close friend of Aleister Crowley.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

20 october 2007 - In Dreams

No real picture for today. Busy being in a discussion about which I'll write something on my other blog one of these days.

1187 (-) 172nd Pope Urbanus III originally Uberto Crivelli, dies of grief in Ferrara, Italy.

1854 (+) Writer Arthur Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France.

1874 (+) Composer Charles Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

1880 (+) Nazi-doctor and aeronautic experimentor Hans August Rascher is born in Fürstenfeldbruch, Germany.

1882 (+) Actor Bela Lugosi originally Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko, is born in Lugos, Hungary.

1891 (-) Matilda Clover is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, at the age of 27 in the United Kingdom.

1894 (+) Actress Olive Thomas originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy, is born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA.

1910 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Brinkmann is born in Clausthal, Germany.

1926 (-) Virginia Grant is strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 59 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1944 (x) 130 Die in liquid gas-tank explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1944 (x) 130 Die in liquid gas reservoir explosion in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1946 (+) Writer Elfriede Jelinek is born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria.

1953 (+) Musician Tom Petty is born in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

1961 (x) Over 500 Die in train derailment in Calcutta, India.

1964 (-) 31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover dies at the age of 90 in New York, New York, USA.

1965 (-) President of the United Industrial Worker’s Union John Kilpatrick is shot dead by Dana H. Nash in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1966 (+) Terrorist Leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi is born in Zarqa, Jordan.

1968 (x) 39-year-old Widow of John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy marries 62-year-old Billionaire Aristoteles Onassis in Skorpios, Greece.

1973 (-) Richard and Quita Hague is attacked by the Black Zebra Killers at the age of 28 in San Francisco, Pennsylvania Avenue, California, USA.
Richard survived despite terrible machete-wounds.

1981 (x) 3 Die in Fascist bomb explosion in Jewish Diamond Centre, Antwerp, Belgium.
Over 100 people are wounded.

1981 (x) Serial Killer Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for assaulting a hitchhiker in France.

1981 (-) Danny Davis is abducted, tortured and murdered by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1985 (x) Twentieth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC against the organisers of an anti-nuclear rally in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

1994 (-) Actor Burt Lancaster dies of a heart-attack at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1998 (x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Parker aka The Bedroom Basher, is convicted to death on six counts of first-degree murder in Santa Ana, California, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Ricky Morrow is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-) Murder contractor Luis Ramirez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He hired Edward Bell to kill the boyfriend of his ex-wife.

Friday, October 19, 2007

19 october 2005 - Beijing, China

While Ignace organised a "2ThroatStuckers" performance at the 2Kolegas bar for me with Yilichi, a Hanggai singer, I spent the night at this Beijing apartment and left sometime early in the morning.

1745 (-) Writer Jonathan Swift dies at the age of 77 in Dublin, Ireland.

1862 (+) Film pioneer Auguste Lumière is born in Besançon, France.

1882 (+) Artist Umberto Boccioni is born in Reccio di Calabria, Italy.

1909 (-) Criminologist Cesare Lombroso dies at the age of 70 in Turin, Italy.

1926 (-) Beatrice Withers is raped and strangled as sixth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 35 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1928 (-) Kidnapper and Murderer Edward Hickman is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.

1931 (+) Writer John le Carré originally David John Moore Cornwell, is born in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom.

1943 (-) Artist Camille Claudel dies at the age of 78 in Montfavet, France.
She spent the last 30 years of her life in the Asile de Montdevergues.

1944 (+) Murderer Ronald O’Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer, is born in Pasadena, Texas, USA.

1944 (+) Musician Peter Tosh originally Winston Hubert McIntosh aka Stepping Razor, is born in Kingston, Jamaïca.

1945 (+) Actor Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine, The Dirtiest Man in the World, is born in Towson, Maryland, USA.

1959 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 28-year-old woman in St. Martin’s, Jersey.

1964 (-) VietCong terrorist Nguyen Van Troi is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 17 in Saigon, Vietnam.

1970 (-) Victor Ohta is shot dead by John Linley Frazier at the age of 47 in Santa Cruz, Soquel, California, USA.
In the same event also the Ohta children 11-year-old Taggart, 12-year-old Derrick and their nurse Dorothy Cadwallader are killed.

1974 (-) Doris Hovey is shot through the head by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, at the age of 53 in Woodford, Virginia, USA.

1976 (-) Murderer Michaian Shobek is executed by hanging in Nassau, Bahamas.

1983 (x) 4 skeletonised victims of 30-year-old Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, are found in Lake Village, Indiana, USA.

1984 (x) In a nation-wide ‘Mammouth’-operation the authorities try to track down members of the Terrorist Movement CCC in Belgium.

1984 (-) Catholic Priest Jerzy Popieluszko is kidnapped and murdered by the secret police Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa at the age of 37 in Poland.
His body was found 10 days later in the Vistula Water Reservoir.

1985 (x) Nineteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Namur, Military Promotion Centre, Namur, Belgium.

1987 (x) 5 of the highest ranked generals of the Red Army, Vladimir Sjoetov, Erlen Porfiyev, Vladimir Bardashevsky, Kiril Trofimov and Joeri Rybinin are killed in a helicopter crash in Russia.

1988 (x) 131 Die in Air India Boeing 737 crash in Ahmadabad, India.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

18 october 2003 - Ronse, Belgium

A performance by Merlin Spie at an exhibition in Ronse.

1405 (+) 210th Pope Pius II originally Enea Silvio Piccolomini, is born in Corsignano, Italy.

1417 (-) 205th Pope Gregorius XII originally Angelo Corrario, dies in Rome, Italy.

1503 (-) 215th Pope Pius III originally Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, dies of an ulcer in his leg at the age of 64 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
Some sources say he was poisoned.

1777 (+) Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich von Kleist is born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Germany.

1898 (+) Actress Lotte Lenya originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, is born in Wien, Austria.

1925 (+) Musician and politician Melina Mercouri is born in Athens, Greece.

1926 (+) Actor Klaus Kinski originally Nikolausz Gunther Nakszynski, is born in Zoppot, Poland.

1926 (+) Musician Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1927 (+) Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is born in Bedzinie, Poland.

1931 (-) Inventor Thomas Edison dies at the age of 84 in West Orange, New Jersey, USA.

1939 (+) Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, is born in New Orleans, Old French Hospital, Louisiana, USA.

1944 (+) Cop Killer Barry Prudom is born in the United Kingdom.

1947 (+) Leader of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, Luc Jouret is born in Kikwit, Zaïre.

1957 (+) Mass Murderer James Clark is born in Arizona, USA.

1960 (+) Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme is born in Belgium.

1971 (x) 67-year-old USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin is attacked by an unidentified demonstrator in Ottawa, Canadian Parliament, Canada.

1974 (-) Melissa Smith is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 17 in Salt Lake City, Midvale, Utah, USA.

1977 (+) Triple murderer Lamont Reese is born in Texas, USA.

1977 (-) RAF Leader Andreas Baader commits suicide by a shot in the head with a FEG 7.65 pistol at the age of 34 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 719, Germany.

1977 (-) RAF Leader Jan-Carl Raspe commits suicide by a shot in the head with a Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol at the age of 33 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 716, Germany.
He was alive when guards found him in the morning but died in the hospital.

1977 (-) RAF Leader Gudrun Ensslin commits suicide by hanging with a length of speaker cable at the age of 37 in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 720, Germany.

1977 (x) 30-year-old RAF member Irmgard Möller stabbs herself four times in the heart region with a pair of scissors in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, cell 716, Germany.
She survived.

1977 (-) President of the German Employers’ Association Hanns Martin Schleyer is executed after being held prisoner of the Baader-Meinhof -Gruppe RAF-commando Siegfried Hausner for 44 days at the age of 62 in Mulhouse, France.

1978 (-) Murderer of Leon Trotsky, Ramon Mercador dies at the age of 64 in Havana, Cuba.

1985 (-) ANC-militant Benjamin Moloise is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in South Africa.

1991 (-) Murderer Michael McDougall is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

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

2004 (-) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is lured into an ambush by the Tamil Nadu State Special Task Force and gunned down at the age of 52 in Paparapatti, Dharmapuri, India.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

17 october 2005 - YangZhen, China

My mode of transport on the country roads near YangZhen.

1849 (-) Composer Frédéric Chopin dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Paris, France.

1874 (x) 44-year-old Photographer Edward Muybridge shoots Major Harry Larkin through the heart because he was dating his wife Flora in San Francisco, California, USA.

1898 (+) Writer Simon Vestdijk is born in Harlingen, the Netherlands.

1912 (+) 263rd Pope John Paul I originally Albino Luciani, is born in Canale d'Agordo, Italy.

1915 (+) Playwright and author Arthur Miller is born in New York, New York, USA.

1918 (+) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1920 (+) Actor Montgomery ‘Monty’ Clift is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

1930 (+) Writer Jimmy Breslin is born in Jamaica, New York, USA.

1931 (-) Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, dies of heart failure at the age of 43 in Stockholm, Sweden.

1933 (+) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, is born in Brussels, Belgium.

1938 (+) Daredevil Evel Knievel is born in Butte, Montana, USA.

1967 (-) The Last Emperor of China Henry Puyi dies of kidney cancer and heart disease at the age of 61 in Beijing, China.

1970 (-) Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte aka Minister of Unemployment and Assimilation, is found strangled in the booth of a car after being kidnapped 8 days earlier by the Front de Libération de Quebec at the age of 49 in Quebec, Canada.

1972 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Watertown, New York, USA.

1975 (-) Teresa Knowlton is drugged and drowned by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Pattaya Beach, Thailand.

1977 (-) Yolanda Washington is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, in Los Angeles, Hollywood Freeway, California, USA.

1977 (-) Vida Menas is raped and strangled by Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, at the age of 18 in Dolenja Vas, Yugoslavia.

1977 (-) Russel Nelson is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1977 (x) The Lufthansa Flight 181 "Landshut" Boeing is stormed by German GSG9 commandos in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Two hijackers are killed all hostages are rescued.

1984 (x) Fifth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Gent, Christian Party Headquarters, East Flanders, Belgium.

1984 (-) Writer and painter Henri Michaux dies at the age of 85 in Paris, France.

1990 (-) Murderer Wilbert Evans is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
During the electrocution, blood spewed from Evens’ right side face, drenching his shirt with blood.

1990 (-) Wadim Gromow is stabbed to death and his tongue bitten off by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 16 in Rostow, Russia.

1997 (x) A 15-year-old Unidentified boy is sentenced to indefinite detention at a juvenile prison in Kobe, Japan.
He was convicted of assaulting five children and murdering two.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

16 october 2005 - YangZhen, China

Drying of fresh corn along the country road in YangZhen. The picture I used for the cover of my DDV - Live in China CD.

1553 (-) Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder originally Lucas Sunder, dies at the age of 81 in Weimar, Germany.

1708 (+) Scientist and poet Albrecht von Haller is born in Bern, Switzerland.

1793 (-) Excessive Queen of France Marie Antoinette originally Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 37 in Paris, France.

1799 (-) Composer Antoine Gresnick dies at the age of 44 in Paris, France.

1854 (+) Writer Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1872 (+) Acrobat and 5-day-King of Albania Otto Witte is born in Albania.

1886 (+) Architect of Israël David Ben Gurion is born in Plonsk, Poland.

1888 (x) Serial Killer Jack the Ripper mails a human kidney, ripped from the body of Catherine Eddowes, ‘From Hell’ to George Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, United Kingdom.

1908 (+) Leader of Albania Enver Hoxha is born in Gjirokaster, Albania.

1909 (+) Murderer Rainey Bethea is born in Roanoke, Virginia, USA.

1914 (+) King of the Gypsies Christian Johannes Modeste is born.

1927 (+) Writer Günter Grass is born in Gdansk, Poland.

1931 (-) Hedvig Samuelson aka Sammy, is stabbed and shot dead by Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, at the age of 24 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
She cut the bodies in pieces and mailed them in trunks to Los Angeles, where they were discovered 3 days later, blood seeping from one of them.

1936 (+) Serial Killer Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is born in Jablotschnoje, Achtyra, Sumy, Russia.

1937 (-) Roger Leblond is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 24 in Neuilly, France.

1939 (+) Musician and Femme Fatale Christa Paffgen aka Nico, is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1946 (-) Serial Killer Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.

1946 (x) 53-year-old Joachim Von Ribbentrop, 64-year-old Wilhelm Keitel, 45-year-old Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 53-year-old Alfred Rosenberg, 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick, 47-year-old Hans Frank, 61-year-old Julius Streicher, 52-year-old Fritz Sauckel, 54-year-old Alfred Jodl and 54-year-old Arthur Seiss-Inquart are executed by hanging for crimes against humanity by John Woods in Nurnberg, gymnastics-hall of the prison, Germany.

1955 (x) 14-year-old Robert Peterson, 13-year-old John and 11-year-old Anton Schuessler are found molested, strangled and beaten to death by an unidentified sex-killer in Chicago, Robinson Woods Forest Preserve, Illinois, USA.

1955 (+) IRA-member Kieran Doherty originally Ciaran O Dochartaigh, is born in Belfast, Ireland.

1959 (x) 20-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, arrives in Moscow, Russia.

1974 (-) Karen Wein is raped and strangled by Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, in Marlboro, Connecticut, USA.

1975 (-) Susan Dye is presumably strangled a forty-seventh victim by Zodiac in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

1981 (-) Politician and Military Leader Moshe Dayan dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

1985 (-) Murderer William Vandiver is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Indiana, USA.
He was still breathing after the first administration of 2,300 volts, and the current had to be applied three more times before he died.

1991 (-) Mass Murderer George Hennard commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 35 in Killeen, Texas, USA.
He first drove his van into "Luby’s Restaurant" and started shooting around, killing 23 and wounding another 15.

1995 (x) Eleventh bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Stronsdorf, Austria.
Three mail-bombs explode, several people are injured.

1995 (x) 43-year-old RAF member Knut Folkerts is released from prison in Stuttgart, Germany.

1995 (x) Twelfth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Graz, Austria.
Four mail-bombs explode while still at post-offices, several people are injured.

1996 (x) 80 Die in soccer-tribune collaps in the game Guatemala-Costa Rica in Guatemala City, Mateo Flores Stadium, Guatemala.

1996 (x) 94 Die in Estado Mateas Flores stampede in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
47.000 soccer fans tried to squeeze in the 36.000 seat stadium.

1997 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Bai Baoshan is arrested and charged with 14 murders in Beijing, China.

Monday, October 15, 2007

15 october 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A tree struck by lightning leaving behind a horned stump in Rivierenhof, Antwerpen.

55BC (-) Poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius commits suicide by drinking a love potion at the age of 44 in Italy.

1398 (-) 202nd Pope Urbanus VI originally Bartolomeo Prignano, dies at the age of 80 in Rome, Italy.

1591 (-) 229th Pope Gregorius XIV originally Niccolo Spondrati, dies at the age of 56 in Rome, Italy.

1844 (+) Philosopher and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche is born in Rocken, Saxony, Germany.

1881 (+) Writer Pelham ‘Plum’ Grenville Wodehouse is born in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1917 (-) Spy Margaretha Zelle aka Mata Hari, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 41 in Vinçennes, France.

1920 (+) Writer Mario Puzo is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1926 (+) Philosopher Michel Foucault is born in Poitiers, France.

1935 (-) Rapist and multiple murderer Jerry Thompson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Joliet Prison, Illinois, USA.

1935 (-) Murderer John Favorito is executed by Old Sparky in Trenton State Prison, USA.
The executioner is almost knocked out when he touches the body, which was loaded with electric current after the execution.

1938 (+) Musician and politician Fela Kuti originally Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, is born in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

1940 (+) Student Benno Ohnesorg is born in Hannover, Germany.

1941 (-) Mass Cop Killer Eric Graham is shot dead by the police in New Zealand.

1945 (-) Politician Pierre Laval is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
He was a Nazi-collaborator during the war.

1946 (-) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 53 in Nurnberg Prison, Germany.

1946 (+) RAF 2nd Generation member Bernhard Rössner is born in München, Germany.

1946 (+) Musician Richard Carpenter is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1956 (+) Mass Murderer George Hennard is born in Texas, USA.

1959 (x) 20-year-old Serial Killer Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is discharged from the US Army because of his bizarre obsessions in Fort Gordon, Georgia, USA.

1962 (+) Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, is born in Vitry-le-François, France.

1964 (-) Musician Cole Porter dies of pneumonia and a heart attack at the age of 72 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1967 (+) Murderer Desmond Carter is born in North Carolina, USA.

1967 (-) Protester Florence Beaumont commits suicide by self-immolation in Los Angeles, Federal Building, California, USA.
She was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam.

1971 (-) Marie-Therese Rosseel is assaulted, stabbed to death, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 18 in Muizen, Muizenhoek 1, Antwerp, Belgium.

1972 (-) Laura Brook is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

1977 (-) Christine Eadie is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 17 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1982 (x) Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.

1982 (x) 24-year-old Ralf Erb is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed by Serial Killer Kurt Steinwegs in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1983 (-) An unidentified boy is found as skeletonised victim by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Rensseler, Indiana, USA.

1984 (x) Fourth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, Liberal Politic Centre, Brabant, Belgium.

1986 (-) Ex-wife of Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline Picasso commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 60 in Mougins, Villa Notre Dame de la Vie, France.

1992 (x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is sentenced to death in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

14 october 2005 - YangZhen, China

Tear off a strip, fold in accordeaon shape, hold it on your hand or place it on a plate, light it slightly blowing on the strip for it not to be set on fire as it must burn slowly. The Papier d'Arménie Triple, natural and effective deodorizer, purifies and perfumes the atmosphere. It neutralizes odors of cooking, tobacco, animals, etc. Highly used during flu-epidemies, or when the weather is wet, it is very useful whole of the year to purify home and make it more pleasant. Of much use to communities, hotel and class-rooms, the Papier d'Arménie Triple purifies and deodorizes the air in sick people's rooms where windows can not be opened.

1874 (-) Murderer Pierre Moreau is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 32 in Paris, France.
A large crowd showed up to witness the public spectacle.

1876 (+) Gangster Jules Bonnot is born in Montbéliard, France.

1890 (+) 34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, is born in Denison, Texas, USA.

1895 (-) Murderer J. Crews is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.

1912 (+) Victim of John Reginald Christie, of 10 Rillington Place, Muriel Amelia Eady is born in the United Kingdom.

1912 (x) 54-year-old 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt is shot by John Schrank, but the bullet is plowed down by a bulky speech in the president’s pocket in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1927 (+) Actor Roger Moore is born in London, United Kingdom.

1935 (+) Minimal composer La Monte Young is born in Bern, Idaho, USA.

1943 (x) About 300 to 600 prisoners die in an attempt to escape from a concentration-camp in Sobibor, Poland.

1944 (-) Nazi Leader Erwin Rommel aka The Desert Fox, commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 52 in Herrlingen, Germany.
He was forced to commit suicide because he planned to kill his Führer.

1944 (+) ETA-member Txabi Etxebarrieta is born in Spain.
He was the first ETA-member to be shot dead by the Guardia Civil

1944 (+) Actor Udo Kier originally Udo Kierspe, is born in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1953 (+) Serial Killer Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, is born in Kenova, West Virginia, USA.

1953 (-) Valentin Lehmann is poisoned by Christa Lehmann aka the Mass Poisoner of Worms, in Worms, Germany.

1958 (+) Musician Thomas Dolby originally Thomas Morgan Robertson, is born in Caïro, Egypt.

1959 (-) Actor Errol Flynn dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1968 (x) Start of the trial against the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein for an arson-attack on Kaufhaus Schneider in Frankfurter Landgericht, Germany.

1974 (+) Porn actress Jessica Drake is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1977 (-) Musician and actor Bing Crosby originally Harry Lillis, dies at the age of 73 in Madrid, Spain.

1979 (-) Alonzo Daniels is abducted, molested and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1979 (-) Christie Hayes is abducted and assaulted by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
She managed to escape.

1983 (x) Melvin Reynolds is released from prison after serving 4 years for a murder committed by 54-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, in Missouri, USA.

1983 (+) Porn actress Vanessa Lane is born in New York, New York, USA.

1985 (-) Maffia Godfather Bekir Celenk dies of a heart-attack in Turkey.

1990 (-) Composer Leonard Bernstein dies of lung-inefficiency at the age of 72 in New York, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Writer Harold Robbins originally Francis Kane and given the adoptive name Harold Rubin, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 81 in Monte Carlo, France.

1999 (-) Murderer Jerry McFadden is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

13 october 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Sun Arise come every mornin', bringin' back the warmth to the ground in Antwerpen.

1563 (+) Religious founder and saint Francesco Caracciolo is born in Villa Santa Maria, Italy.

1872 (+) Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, is born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, USA.

1891 (-) Ellen Donworth is poisoned by Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, at the age of 19 in the United Kingdom.

1921 (+) Actor Yves Montand originally Ivo Levi, is born in Monsumagno, Italy.

1925 (+) Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, is born in Grantham, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Comedian Lenny Bruce is born in Long Island, New York, USA.

1941 (+) Musician Paul Simon is born in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

1961 (-) Filmmaker Maya Deren originally Eleanora Derenkovskaya, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.
There were also rumors of a Voodoo curse, the use of suspect vitamin shots from Max Jacobcon, known as 'Doctor Feelgood'.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and includes a bloody scrap from his eighth victim’s shirt in San Francisco, California, USA.

1969 (-) Clida Delaney is probably strangled by The Manson Family at the age of 64 in Ukiah, US Highway 101, California, USA.

1972 (-) Lawrence White is beaten to death by Herbert Mullin at the age of 55 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

1972 (x) 176 Die in Aeroflot Ilyushin II-62 crash in Moscow, Russia.

1972 (x) 29 Die in Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Fairchild FH-227D crash in Chile.
16 people survived in the mountainous region on human meat for over 2 months.

1976 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in New Jersey, USA.

1976 (x) 100 Die in Boeing 707 cargo jet crash in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
97 children were killed on the ground.

1977 (x) The Lufthansa Flight 181 "Landshut" Boeing is skyjacked by four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestina between Mallorca and Frankfurt and held hostage in return for release of 11 imprisoned members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Germany.

1978 (x) 50-year-old Murderer James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King, marries Anna Christine Sallings Sandhu in the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee, USA.

1981 (-) Jan Nielsen is kicked to death by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 26 in Faborg, Denmark.

1984 (-) Mass-Murderer Linwood Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Richmond State Penitentiary, Virginia, USA.

1984 (-) Karen Dinsfriend is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 28 in Tampa, Florida, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Gary Davis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Colorado State Penitentiary, Colorado, USA.
He was the first person executed in Colorado since 30 years and the first by lethal injection.

1998 (-) Multiple Murderer Jeremy Sagastegui is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.
He said he had also killed a child to make sure he'd get the death penalty, at his trial he refused all defense and pleaded guilty.

Friday, October 12, 2007

12 october 2005 - Shanghai, China

Rows of Buddha statues at Longhua Temple in Shanghai.

1654 (x) Over 100 Die in gunpowder store explosion in Delft, the Netherlands.

1875 (+) Magick Master Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast 666, is born in Leamington, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

1891 (+) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is born in Breslau, Germany.

1915 (-) Nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 49 in Brussels, Nationale Schietbaan, Brabant, Belgium.
She and her friend Philippe Baucq, who was also executed, were sentenced to death for offering help to British soldiers.

1923 (-) Wilhelm Erdner is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Mordhaus Neue Straße, Germany.

1934 (-) Tilda Blomqvist is killed in an arsoned housefire by Sigvard Thurnemann aka The Doctor, in Sweden.
Thurnemann was assisted by Erik Hedstrom.

1935 (+) Tenor Luciano Pavarotti is born in Modena, Italy.

1937 (-) Thief and multiple murderer Fritz Ophuls is executed by the Guillotine in Germany.
He was sentenced to death for over 120 crimes.

1946 (+) Neighbour to David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, John Carr is born in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
Berkowitz believed Carr’s dog to be Satan who gave him visionary messages.

1949 (+) Terrorist Ilich Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is born in Caracas, Venezuela.

1969 (x) 34-year-old Family leader Charles Manson is arrested in a police-raid on the Barker Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.
He was hiding in a small cupboard under a sink and spotted by his hair sticking out of the door. Also arrested are Beth Tracy aka Collie Sinclair, Diane Bluestein aka Shake Lake, Sherry Andrews aka Claudia Leigh Smith, John Philip Haught aka Zero Christopher Jesus, Kenneth R. Brown aka Scott Bell Davis, Lee Hamic aka William Rex Cole aka Bill Vance, Vern Edward Thompson aka Plumlee, Lawrence L. Bailey aka Little Larry and Bruce Davis. They are all charged with auto-theft.

1971 (-) Musician Gene Vincent originally Vincent Eugene Craddock, dies of alcohol-poisoning at the age of 36 in California, USA.

1974 (-) Arlis Perry is raped, tortured and ritually murdered by cultists at the age of 19 in Stanford, University Memorial Church, California, USA.

1978 (-) Susan Geiger is sexually tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 19 in South Hackensack, Airport Motel, New Jersey, USA.
She survived.

1978 (-) Nancy Spungen aka Nauseating Nancy, is stabbed to death by Sid Vicious at the age of 20 in New York, Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA.

1980 (x) 33-year-old Mass-murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle, tries to escape from prison by use of a replica handgun made out of breadcrumb in Gent, De Nieuwe Wandeling, Belgium.
He is caught on the roof of the prison.

1982 (-) Craig Townsend is handcuffed, severely beaten up and left in a coma by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Lowell, Indiana, USA.
He survived.

1985 (x) Seventeenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Charleroi, Acec factory, Hainaut, Belgium.

1985 (x) Eighteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Charleroi, Taxpaying offices, Hainaut, Belgium.

1993 (x) 53 members of a cult commit suicide by axes and other primitive weaponry after Blind Cult Leader Ca Van Liem promised them they’d go straight to heaven in Ta He, Vietnam.

1997 (-) Musician John Denver originally Henry John Deutschendorf, crashes into the sea with his private airplane at the age of 53 in Monterey, California, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Alvin Crane is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer David Ward is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

2004 (-) Murderer Donald Aldrich is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

11 october 2005 - Shanghai, China

The chest of a mummified body in the Museum of National History in Shanghai.
Truly, it will not be long
before this body lies in the earth,
bereft of consciousness,
like a useless piece of wood,
which is thrown away.

1492 (x) Explorer Christoffel Columbus lands on the Bahamas and calls it San Salvador.

1885 (+) Writer François Mauriac is born in Bordeaux, France.

1896 (-) Composer Anton Bruckner dies at the age of 72 in Vienna, Austria.

1921 (-) Black Wylie McNeely is lynched by burning for insulting a white woman in Leesburg, Texas, USA.

1925 (+) Writer Elmore Leonard is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1925 (-) FBI-agent Edwin Shanahan is gunned down by Martin Durkin at the age of 31 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1929 (-) Elisabeth Dorrier is bludgeoned to death by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 22 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1940 (-) Ingeborg Gotz is attacked by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Germany.
She survived.

1963 (-) Artist, writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Milly-la-Forêt, France.

1963 (-) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, dies of internal bleeding at the age of 47 in France.

1966 (-) Jolanta G. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 18 in Bedzin, Poland.

1969 (-) Paul Stine is shot dead as eighth victim by Zodiac at the age of 29 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1976 (-) Monika Pfeiffer is killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 18 in Mainz, Germany.

1979 (-) Yvonne Mysliniec is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Ilkley, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1980 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed al-Haznawi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.

1998 (x) Carmelite nun and martyr Edith Stein aka Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is canonized by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

10 october 2005 - Shanghai, China

Broken shards of glass cemented on top of a wall in an off-beaten neighbourhood of Shanghai.

1813 (+) Composer Giuseppe Verdi is born in Roncole, Parma, Italy.

1889 (+) Painter and forger Han Van Meegeren is born in Deventer, the Netherlands.

1894 (-) Howard Pitezel is strangled by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Indianapolis, Irvington, Indiana, USA.

1901 (+) Artist Alberto Giacometti is born in Borgonova, Graubunden, Switzerland.

1903 (-) Murderer Willis Burton is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

1903 (-) Murderer Fred Van Wormer is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

1913 (x) 136 Die in Volturno shipwreck in the Atlantic.

1917 (+) Composer Thelonius Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA.

1923 (-) Child Murderess Susan Newell is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Glasgow, Duke Street Prison, United Kingdom.

1924 (+) Filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr. is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.

1925 (x) 25-year-old Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, marries Anna Schoeffler in New York, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Strongman and eccentric Antonio Barichievich aka The Great Antonio, is born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

1930 (+) Dramatist Harold Pinter is born in London, Hackney, United Kingdom.

1931 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, is arrested in Vienna, Austria.

1933 (+) Hair stylist and Manson Family victim Jay Sebring originally Thomas John Kummer, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

1948 (+) Victim of John Reginald Christie, Geraldine Evans daughter of Beryl and Timothy Evans, The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1949 (x) 20-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for forgery in Maryville, Missouri, USA.

1972 (-) James Willet is shot dead, beheaded and buried on a hikers trail by The Manson Family at the age of 26 in San Francisco, Guerneville, California, USA.

1980 (-) Cherie Ayers is raped and killed by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1985 (-) Actor Yul Brynner dies of lung cancer at the age of 65 in New York, New York, USA.

1985 (-) Actor and filmmaker Orson Welles dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1986 (-) Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gerold Von Braunmuhl is shot dead by Rote Armee Fraktion in Bonn, Germany.
The Ingrid Schubert Kommando claims responsability.

2004 (-) Actor Christopher Reeve aka Superman, dies of heart failure at the age of 52 in New York, New York, USA.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

9 oktober 2004 - Heverlee, Belgium

A visitor on the opening night of "Footnotes & Context", an exhibition that included a huge (now permanent) installation by AMVK in the university library in Heverlee.

1799 (x) 240 Die in HMS Lutine shipwreck in Ijzergat, the Netherlands.

1859 (+) French-Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is born in Mulhouse, Alsace, France.

1890 (+) The world’s most pulchritudinous evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson originally Elisabeth Kennedy, is born in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.

1908 (+) Actor and filmmaker Jacques Tati originally Jacques Tatischeff, is born in Le Pecq, France.

1920 (x) 2-year-old Wolfchild Amala and 8-year-old Kamala are found in Midnapore, India.
They had been nurtured and raised by a wolf family.

1926 (+) Murderess Ruth Ellis is born in Rhyl, Wales, United Kingdom.

1934 (-) King of Yugoslavia, Alexander I and French Minister Louis Barthov are shot dead by Vlada Cheenozamsky in Marseille, France.
Cheenozamsky is shot dead by the police afterwards.

1940 (+) Beatle John Lennon is born in Liverpool, Oxford Street Maternity, United Kingdom.

1947 (x) 18-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is convicted for auto theft in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1948 (+) Musician Jackson Browne is born in Heidelberg, Germany.

1958 (-) 260th Pope Pius XII originally Eugenio Maria Pacelli, dies at the age of 82 in Castelgandolfo, Latium, Italy.

1958 (+) Murderer Ronald Frye is born in North Carolina, USA.

1961 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for arson in Anamosa State Reformatory, Iowa, USA.

1975 (+) Musician and son of Beatle John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon is born in New York, New York, USA.

1978 (-) Musician and actor Jacques Brel dies of lung cancer at the age of 49 in Paris, Bobigny, France.

1980 (x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested as Richard Clark for sodomizing a 17-year-old boy in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

1980 (-) Unidentified girl is assaulted by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 18 in France.
She survived.

1984 (-) Suzanne Foucault is strangled by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, in Paris 18th, 19 rue Nicolet, France.

1985 (-) World famous filatelist and forger Robert Haisman commits suicide by a shot through the head.
He also killed his wife.

1986 (x) Over 200 Die in overloaded ferry capsizing in Kajla River, Bangladesh.

1988 (-) Scientist and engineer Felix Wankel dies at the age of 86 in Lindau, Austria.

1993 (x) Over 250 Die in Soehae ferry shipwreck in Puan, Korea.

Monday, October 8, 2007

8 october 2005 - Shanghai, China

Dennisch Tyfus performing at the NoiShanghai festival in Shanghai.

1871 (x) Over 300 Die in the great fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1881 (+) Thief Vincenzo Peruggia is born in Dumenza, Italy.
He stole the Mona Lisa in 1911.

1895 (+) President Juan Peron is born in Lobos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1899 (+) Egypt’s most famous writer Tawfil El-Hakim is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

1920 (+) Writer Frank Herbert aka ‘Dune’, is born in Tacoma, Washington, USA.

1936 (+) Actor David Carradine aka Kwai Chang Caine, is born in Hollywood, California, USA.

1948 (+) Punk Rocker Johnny Ramone originally John William Cummings, is born in Long Island, New York, USA.

1948 (+) Serial Killer Pedro Lopez aka The Monster of the Andes, is born in Santa Isabel, Colombia.

1949 (+) Actress Sigourney Weaver is born in New York, New York, USA.

1952 (x) 112 Die in three train collision in London, United Kingdom.

1958 (x) 43-year-old Heart-patient Arke Larson is the first man to have a pacemaker implanted in Stockholm, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden.

1962 (x) 57-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from prison for the seventh time in Arizona, USA.
She assumed an other name and lived free for seven years.

1965 (+) Punk Rocker C.J. Ramone originally Christopher Joseph Ward, is born in Queens, New York, USA.

1967 (-) Revolutionary leader Ernesto De La Serna aka Che Guevara, is shot dead by the Bolivian army at the age of 39 in La Higuera, Bolivia.

1981 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Germany.

1981 (x) 39-year-old Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, places a booby trap in the hall of a business classroom in Salt Lake City, University, Utah, USA.
The bomb fails to detonate.

1984 (x) Third bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, Honeywell factory, Brabant, Belgium.

1985 (x) Sixteenth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, Electrabel Company building, Brabant, Belgium.

1997 (-) Multiple Murderer Ricky Green is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He was sentenced to death for the murders of Steven Fefferman, 16-year-old Jeffery Davis and 27-year-old Sandra Bailey. He also confessed to the murder of 28-year-old Betty Jo Monroe and a suspect in 8 more murders in North Texas.

2001 (x) 118 Die in Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines jet collision in Milan, Italy.

2004 (-) Philosopher Jacques Derrida aka The Father of Deconstructionism, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 74 in Paris, France.