Sunday, November 25, 2007

25 november 2007 - Borgerhout, Belgium


A sign on a door in Borgerhout.

1746 (-) Robber Henry Sims is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.
1819 (-) Robber James Cassidy is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1819 (-) Robber John Henley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1819 (-) Robber Henry Lovell is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1822 (-) John Holland is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
He was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.
1822 (-) William King is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
He was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.
1823 (-) Burglar Henry Crisp is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1824 (-) Murderer Joseph Moseley is executed by hanging in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Surrey, United Kingdom.
1824 (-) Murderer William Garside is executed by hanging in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Surrey, United Kingdom.
1824 (-) Highwayman Joseph Hayward is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
1844 (+) Autombile designer Karl Friedrich Benz is born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
1878 (-) Child-Murderer Henry Gilbert is executed by hanging in Great Stukeley Prison, United Kingdom.
1881 (+) 261st Pope John XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli aka The Blessed, is born in Sotto Il Monte, Bergamo, Italy.
1883 (-) Murderer Thomas Riley is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.
1895 (+) 8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svoboda is born in Hroznatin, Hungary.
1900 (+) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Höss is born in Baden-Baden, Germany.
1901 (+) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is born in Poznan, Poland.
1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Germany.
1917 (-) Celestine Lavie-Buisson is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 46 in Gambais, France.
1938 (+) Spree Killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
1938 (-) Murderer George Pingley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.
1946 (+) Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
1964 (-) Margaret McGowan aka Frances Brown aka Ann Sutherland aka Susan Edwards aka Frances Quinn, is found naked and dead as victim by Jack the Stripper at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.
1966 (x) 84 Die in Tabso Iljoeshin 18 crash in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.
1967 (-) Artist Ossip Zadkine dies at the age of 77 in Paris, France.
1970 (-) Writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 45 in the headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self Defense Forces, Tokyo, Japan.
The act was to end in his ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.
1974 (-) Singer songwriter Nick Drake commits suicide by an overdose of Tryptizol at the age of 26 in Tanworth, United Kingdom.
1975 (-) Julia Goncalves is shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-sur-Oise, Parc Hébert, France.
1981 (+) Victim of Marc Dutroux Laetitia Delhez is born in Belgium.
1987 (-) Finalteri is attacked and tortured by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 87 in Paris 10th, rue d’Alsace, France.
1987 (-) Rachel Cohen is attacked and tortured by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 79 in Paris 10th, 46 rue du Château d’eau, France.
1993 (x) 10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old James Bulger in Preston, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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