When I Was Buying You a Drink Where Were You ?: 2010

Friday, December 31, 2010

31 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A young actor in a street theatre play in a back alley of Chinatown/Pahurat in Bangkok, Thailand.

335 (-) 33rd Pope Sylvester I dies in Rome, Italy.

1378 (+) 209th Pope Callixtus III originally Alfons de Borja, is born in Valencia, Xativa, Spain.

1514 (+) Anatomist Andreas Vesalius is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1748 (+) Feminist Olympe de Gouges originally Marie Gouze, is born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.

1869 (+) Artist Henri Emile Benoit Matisse is born in Bohin-en-Vermandois, France.

1877 (-) Artist Gustave Courbet dies at the age of 58 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.

1886 (+) Artist and magician Austin Osman Spare is born in London, Snow Hill, United Kingdom.

1898 (-) Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France.

1908 (+) Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, Ukraïne, Russia.

1922 (x) The Goetheaneum, built by 61-year-old Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, is destroyed by fire in Switzerland.

1937 (+) Actor Anthony Hopkins aka Hannibal Lecter, is born in Wales, United Kingdom.

1943 (+) Musician John Denver originally Henry John Deutschendorf, is born in Roswell, New Mexico, USA.

1943 (+) Actor Ben Kingsley originally Krishna Banji, is born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1948 (+) Musician Donna Summer originally LaDonna Gaines, is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

1959 (+) Actor Val Kilmer is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1960 (+) Spree Killer John Allan Muhammad originally John Allan Williams aka The Beltway Sniper, is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

1962 (-) Patricia Bisette is raped and strangled as eighth victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 24 in Boston Back Bay, 515 Park Drive, Massachussets, USA.

1966 (-) Tuula Hoeoek is battered to death by Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, at the age of 21 in St. Clement, Jersey.

1967 (-) An unidentified woman is raped and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Bonheiden, Kasteel van Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.

1969 (-) United Mine Workers Union Leader Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock, is shot dead by three unidentified hitmen in his house at the age of 59 in Clarkesville, Pennsylvania, USA.
His wife Margaret and 25-year-old daughter Charlotte were also shot dead. Their bodies were found on 5 January 1970 by his son Kenneth.

1976 (x) 82 Die in Libyan airliner crash in Saudi Arabia.

1980 (-) Philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan dies at the age of 69 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1982 (-) Toshimitsu Ozawa is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, United Kingdom.
He survived.

1984 (x) 37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, turns himself in for the shooting of four robbers in a subway train 10 days earlier in Concord, New Hampshire, USA.

1985 (-) Musician Eric Hilliard Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, dies in a plane crash at the age of 45 in De Kalb, Texas, USA.

1986 (x) 96 Die in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1993 (-) President Zviad Gamsachoerdia commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 54 in Georgia.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

30 December 2006 - Berlin, Germany

A blood and oil painting on canvas by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch at an exhibition in Berlin, Germany.

1591 (-) 230th Pope Innocentus IX originally Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, dies at the age of 72 in Rome, Italy.

1865 (+) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling is born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.

1903 (x) Over 600 Die in Iroquis Theatre fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1909 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Heinz Martin is born in Chemnitz, Germany.

1910 (+) Writer Paul Frederic Bowles is born in Queens, New York, USA.

1928 (+) Musician Bo Diddley originally Elias Otha Bates, is born in McComb, Mississippi, USA.

1932 (-) Multiple poisoness Daisy Louisa De Melker Originally Daisy Hancorn-Smith, is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Pretoria, South Africa.
She presumably killed her husband and son. Two more husbands and four children had died suspiciously.

1934 (+) Singer-songwriter Del Shannon originally Charles Wedon Westover, is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

1937 (-) Child-Murderer Frederick Hodder aka Uncle Fred Hudson, is executed by hanging in Nottingham, Lincoln Prison, United Kingdom.

1941 (-) Artist El Ellasar Markowitsch Lissitsky dies at the age of 51 in Moscow, Russia.

1944 (x) 102 Die in train derailment in Mandalay, Myitkyina, Birma.

1946 (+) Musician Patti Patricia Lee Smith is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1947 (-) Painter and forger Han Henricus Antonius Van Meegeren dies of heart-failure at the age of 58 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1956 (x) Art destructor Hugo Unjaga Villegas throws a brick at Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ in Paris, Le Louvre, France.

1959 (+) Actress Tracy Ullman is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

1968 (-) Marina Habe is is presumably stabbed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 18 in Mulholland Drive, California, USA.

1970 (-) World-champion boxing Sonny Liston dies of a probable heroin overdose at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
He was found on 5 January 1971.

1974 (-) Arsonist Murderer Anthony F. Barbaro commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 18 in Olean, New York, USA.

1977 (-) Robert Donnelly is attacked by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 22 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
He survived.

1978 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, escapes from the city jail in Aspen, Colorado, USA.

1978 (-) An unidentified man is strangled and drowned by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, in London, United Kingdom.

1987 (-) Mass Murderer Robert Dreesman commits suicide at the age of 41 in Algona, Iowa, USA.
He first killed his parents, his sister and her three children.

1995 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills a family of four with a hunting rifle and sets the house on fire in Ukraïne, Russia.

1996 (x) Over 300 Die in train explosion in India.
It was a terrorist bomb attack.

2004 (x) 194 Die in Republica Cromagnon nightclub fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Four of the six doors had been wired shut to keep out "people who would not enter without paying".

2004 (-) Musician and bandleader Artie Shaw originally Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 94 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.

2006 (-) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging at the age of 69 in Baghdad, Iraq.

2009 (-) Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, commits suicide by blowing himself up at the age of 32 in Khost, Camp Chapman, Afghanistan.
Seven CIA agents who were organising a birthday party for him were blown to pieces as well.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

29 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

My favourite array of late night foodstalls at the busstop in Taling Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

1610 (x) 50-year-old Serial Killer Erszebeth Bathory aka Die Blutfrau, and her accomplices are arrested in Cachtice, Hungary.

1721 (+) Courtisane Madame De Pompadour originally Jeann-Antoinette Poisson, is born in Paris, France.

1800 (+) Engineer Charles Goodyear is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

1808 (+) 17th president of the USA Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

1825 (-) Artist Jacques-Louis David is hit by a carriage and dies of deformations to the heart at the age of 77 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

1834 (-) Poet Charlotte Stieglitz commits suicide by driving a dagger through her heart at the age of 28 in Berlin, Germany.

1865 (-) Murderer John Hundley is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

1876 (x) 92 Die in Pacific Express Train n° 5 derailment in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA.
The train plunged off a poorly constructed bridge. The two designers of the bridge committed suicide.

1901 (-) Husband Murderess Emily Swan is executed by hanging in Leeds, Armley Gaol, United Kingdom.

1916 (-) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is killed by Prince Joesoepov at the age of 47 in Petrograd, Russia.

1921 (+) Founder of the Solar Lodge division of the Ordo Templis Orientis Georgina Jean Brayton is born in California, USA.

1923 (+) Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is born in Ohio, USA.

1926 (-) Poet Rainer Maria Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Rilke dies of leukemia at the age of 51 in Valmont, Switzerland.

1933 (+) Quaker Norman Morrison is born in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.

1937 (+) Actress Mary Tyler Moore is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1938 (+) Actor Jon Jonathan Vincent Voight is born in Yonkers, New York, USA.

1943 (x) 12-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is charged with burglary and committed to the Lyman School for Boys in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

1945 (x) Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son 39-year-old Serial Killer Ed Edward Theodore Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA.

1946 (+) Actress Marianne Faithfull is born in Hampstead, United Kingdom.

1957 (-) Judy Dull is is found skeletonised, abducted, assaulted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 20 in Thousand Palms, off US Highway 60, California, USA.

1969 (x) 56-year-old Muriel McKay is kidnapped by Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein in Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
She was never found again, probably fed to the Hosein pigs.

1972 (x) 98 Die in Eastern Airlines airliner crash in Miami, Florida, USA.

1973 (-) Cruz Mestas is is found tortured and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 24 in San Bernardino mountains, California, USA.

1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 33 in Isleworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Ambrose Griffin is shot dead by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 52 in Sacramento, Robertson Avenue, California, USA.

1980 (-) Musician Tim Hardin dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1986 (-) Filmmaker Andrei Arseniewitsch Tarkovski dies of lung cancer at the age of 54 in Paris, France.

1987 (x) Over 150 Die in ferry fire in Patvakhali, Bangladesh.

1997 (x) The government starts to kill all 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza in Hong Kong.

2001 (x) 274 Die in massive downtown fire in Lima, Peru.

2009 (-) British Drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is executed by lethal injection at the age of 53 in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

28 December 2002 - Eernegem, Belgium

My hasty self-patched-up leg after my performance "Parels voor de Zwijnen" at a pig farm in Eernegem, Belgium.

1811 (-) Multiple Murderer John Williams commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 27.

1841 (+) Murderess Anna Månsdotter aka The Yngsjö Murderess, is born in Yngsjö, Sweden.

1846 (x) Iowa becomes the 29th United State of America in Iowa, USA.

1856 (+) 28th president of the USA Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia, USA.

1888 (+) Filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau is born in Bielefeld, Germany.

1890 (x) 175 Sioux are massacred in Wounded Knee, USA.

1924 (+) Victim of James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-by Murderer, Michael Gregsten is born in Slough, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Actress and musician Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef is born in Ulm, Germany.

1926 (-) Germania Harpin is raped and strangled as eleventh victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 29 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
He also killed her 8-month-old child.

1931 (+) Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord is born in Paris, France.

1934 (x) X-rays of the pelvic region of 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, reveal 27 needles scattered thoughout the area of his groin and lower abdomen in New York, Grasslands Hospital, New York, USA.

1936 (+) Gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Ennemy n°1, is born in Paris, France.

1937 (-) Composer Maurice Joseph Ravel dies after brain surgery at the age of 62 in Paris, France.

1945 (-) Writer Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser dies at the age of 74 in Hollywood, California, USA.

1963 (-) Composer Paul Hindemuth dies at the age of 68 in Frankfurt, Germany.

1972 (x) The presumed skeleton of Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is found in Berlin, Germany.

1979 (x) USSR military forces attack Afghanistan.

1979 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Interruption - 1" with Frank De Busscher in Antwerpen, Ruimte Z, Antwerp, Belgium.

1983 (-) Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowns after diving off a friend’s boat at the age of 39 in Los Angeles, Marina Del Rei, California, USA.

1984 (-) Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Inglewood, California, USA.

1984 (-) Murderer Robert Lee Willie aka Dead Man Walking, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 27 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.

1987 (x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons drives into town and shoots several people in different offices before surrendering without resistance to the police in Russelville, Arkansas, USA.

2001 (-) Serial Killer Larry Lawrence Singleton dies of cancer at the age of 74 in Florida, USA.

2004 (-) Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, dies of cancer at the age of 71 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Monday, December 27, 2010

27 December 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Candles blown out by the wind after some party at our house in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1717 (+) 250th Pope Pius VI originally Giovanni Angelo Braschi, is born in Cesena, Italy.

1822 (+) Scientist Louis Pasteur is born in Dole, France.

1845 (+) Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, is born in Guterslöh, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1901 (+) Actress Marlene Dietrich originally Maria Magdalena Von Losch, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1923 (-) Architect and engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel dies at the age of 91 in Paris, Rue Rabelais, France.

1925 (-) Writer and lawyer Louis Dosfel dies at the age of 44 in Belgium.

1944 (x) Execution ‘en masse’ of the French Gestapo in Paris, France.

1948 (+) Actor Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is born in Châteauroux, France.

1950 (-) Artist Max Beckmann dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1957 (-) Isabelle Cooke is shot dead by Peter Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, at the age of 17 in Burntbroom, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1960 (+) Multiple Murderer Ricky Lee Green is born in the USA.

1965 (+) Serial Killer Jean-Thierry Mathurin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in St. Laurent de Maroni, Guyana.

1975 (x) Over 750 Die in coal-mine explosion in Bihar, India.

1983 (x) 63-year-old 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, visits his attempted assassin Mehmet Ali Agça in the Rebiba Prison in Rome, Italy.

1983 (-) An unidentified girl is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, Russia.

1986 (-) Steven Fefferman is castrated and stabbed to death by Ricky Green at the age of 29 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto is killed in an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack at the age of 54 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Some 20 bystanders were also killed in the blast.

2007 (-) Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz dies at the age of 85 in Warsaw, Poland.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

26 December 1999 - Ayutthaya, Thailand

The famous Buddha head that was miraculously brought up from the earth by the roots of a Banyan tree in Wat Phra Mahathat in Ayutthaya, Thailand.

1883 (+) Artist Maurice Utrillo is born in Paris, Montmartre, Rue du Poteau, France.

1891 (+) Writer Henry Valentine Miller is born in New York, New York, USA.

1893 (+) Revolutionary leader and architect of the People’s Republic of China Mao Zedong is born in Shao-Shan, Hunan, China.

1899 (+) Punjabi Revolutionary Udham Singh originally Sher Singh Jammu aka Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, is born in Sangrur Dist, Punjab, India.

1916 (-) Anna Collomb is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 45 in Gambais, France.

1920 (+) Daughter of Aleister Crowley aka The Great Beast and Ninette Fraux, Astarte Lulu Panthea Crowley is born in Thelema Abbey, Sicily, Italy.

1939 (+) Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

1950 (+) Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is born in Salem, Oregon, USA.

1957 (-) Film pioneer Charles Pathé dies at the age of 94 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

1964 (-) Lesley Downey is abducted and murdered by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 10 in Manchester, Ancoats, United Kingdom.
Her pleas and screams were recorded on tape, and Brady and Hindley slept a night on a blanket on her grave on Saddleworth Moors.

1972 (-) 33rd president of the USA Harry S. (Shippe or Solomon) Truman dies at the age of 88 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

1972 (x) 34-year-old Multiple Murderer Anthony Jackson is arrested after a fight with the police in Cambridge, Massachussets, USA.

1972 (-) Eddie Moore is is found garotted by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 21 in 7th Street Intersection, California, USA.

1980 (-) Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, commits suicide by drug overdose at the age of 30 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
He saved up his daily dose of Sinequan (doxepin hydrochloride) for 3 weeks.

1983 (-) Martina Volkmann is raped and stabbed to death by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 20 in Bremen, Germany.

1987 (-) Murderer Franciscus V. commits suicide by drowning at the age of 84 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
He first strangled his 79-year-old wife Maria.

1987 (x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his son Billy and wife Renata, their son Trae and daughter, his daughter Sheila and husband Dennis McNulty, his incestuous daughter Sylvia Gail and grandson Michael in Dover, Arkansas, USA.

1996 (-) Child Beauty Queen JonBenet Patricia Ramsey is sexually assaulted and strangled by persons unknown at the age of 6 in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

2006 (-) 38th president of the USA Gerald Rudolph Ford dies of pneumonia at the age of 93 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

25 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A street vendor with a selection of delicious squid near Tha Phrachan Nuea River Express pier in Bangkok, Thailand.

795 (-) 95th Pope Hadrianus I dies in Rome, Italy.

1863 (+) Film pioneer Charles Pathé is born in Paris, France.

1878 (+) Racer and founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company Louis-Joseph Chevrolet is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

1882 (+) Make-up queen Helena Chaja Rubinstein is born in Krakow, Poland.

1885 (+) Actor John Bowers originally John E Bowersox, is born in Garrett, Indiana, USA.

1887 (+) Hotel-magnate Conrad Nicholson Sr. Hilton is born in Socorro County, New Mexico, USA.

1891 (-) Julia Connor is murdered by Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, in Chicago, Holmes Castle, Illinois, USA.

1893 (+) Murderess Edith Jessie Thompson originally Graydon, is born in London, Dalston, United Kingdom.

1897 (-) Mary Spink is poisoned with tartar-emetic by Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, in London, United Kingdom.

1899 (+) Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1908 (+) Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, is born in Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom.

1911 (+) Artist Louise Bourgeois is born in Paris, France.

1914 (+) Murderer Grady B. Cole is born in Arizona, USA.

1918 (+) President Anwar Al Sadat is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt.

1924 (+) Twilight Zone host Rod Rodman Edward Serling is born in Syracuse, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Writer Carlos Castaneda is born in Cajamarca, Peru.

1946 (-) Filmmaker W.C. Fields originally William Claude Dukenfield, dies of a stomach-bleeding at the age of 66 in Pasadena, California, USA.

1949 (+) Actress Sissy Spacek is born in Quitman, Texas, USA.

1952 (x) 47-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, USA.
It’s her sixth attempt to escape, she is recaptured 46 hours later.

1959 (-) Irmgard Feder is attacked and mutilated by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 19 in Freberg, Germany.
She survived.

1961 (+) Son of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, Mike Kallinger is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1971 (x) 163 Die in Taejongak Hotel fire in Seoul, Korea.

1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin dies at the age of 88 in Vaud, Switzerland.

1977 (+) Double agent and Al-Qaida suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi aka Hamman Khalil Mohammed, is born in Kuwait.

1982 (-) John R. Johnson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 25 in Belshaw, Indiana, USA.

1983 (+) Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family and Joan Svege, Benjamin Charles Watson is born in Texas, USA.

1983 (-) Artist Juan Mirò dies of heart-insufficiency at the age of 90 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.

1989 (-) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 71 in Romania.
He and his 70-year-old wife Elena had been sentenced to death by a People’s Court.

1995 (-) Actor Dean Martin originally Dino Crocetti aka The King of Cool, dies of lung cancer at the age of 78 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

1998 (x) 53-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is found drunk in his prison cell in Cambridgeshire, Whitemoor Prison, United Kingdom.
It is thought he had been bingeing on homemade moonshine.

2006 (-) Musician James Joseph Brown aka The Godfather of Soul, dies of pneumonia at the age of 73 in Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

2006 (-) Murderer Yoshimitsu Akiyama is executed by hanging at the age of 77 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2006 (-) Murderer Hiroaki Hidaka is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Hiroshima, Japan.

2006 (-) Murderer Yoshio Fujinami is executed by hanging at the age of 75 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.

2006 (-) Murderer Michio Fukuoka is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Japan.

2009 (x) 23-year-old Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, attempts to detonate PETN and TAPN plastic explosives hidden in his underwear aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Friday, December 24, 2010

24 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

An evening stroll through Chinatown with intriguing foodstalls selling flattened duck and pig heads in Bangkok, Thailand.

1491 (+) Jezuït Ignatius Inigo Lopez De Loyola is born in Loyola, Italy.

1524 (-) Explorer Vasco da Gama dies of malaria at the age of 56 in Kochi, India.

1809 (+) Trapper Christopher “Kit” Houston Carson is born in Madison County, Kentucky, USA.

1885 (-) Mrs Rooney dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ottawa, Illinois, USA.

1886 (+) Aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud, Sergei Konstantonowitch Pankejev aka Der Wolfsmann, is born in Odessa, Russia.

1888 (x) 35-year-old Artist Vincent Van Gogh cuts off the lob of his left ear in France.
He supposedly gave it to a prostitute named Rachel.

1905 (+) Pilot, filmmaker and eccentric Howard Hughes is born in Houston, Texas, USA.

1913 (+) Artist Ad Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt is born in New York, New York, USA.

1922 (+) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner is born in Brogden, North Carolina, USA.

1932 (+) Artist On Kawara is born in Kariya, Japan.

1935 (-) Composer Alban Maria Johannes Berg dies of blood poisoning due to an insect bite at the age of 50 in Vienna, Austria.

1939 (+) Serial Killer Dean Arnold Corll aka The Candyman, is born in Fort Wayne, Waynedale, Indiana, USA.

1941 (+) Murderer Robert Lee Massie is born in California, USA.

1953 (x) 155 Die in North Island Main Trunk express train derailment in Tangiwai, New Zealand.
The train plunged into the Whangaehu River.

1961 (+) Serial Killer Charles Chitat Ng is born in Hong Kong.

1963 (-) Artist Tristan Tzara originally Samuel Rosenstock, dies at the age of 67 in Paris, France.

1966 (-) Janina Kozielska is slashed to ribbons by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 17 in Poland.
The body was found on the night-train from Krakow to Warsaw.

1966 (x) 129 Die in US military CL-44 crash in South Vietnam.

1969 (+) Serial Killer Stephen Griffiths aka The Crossbow Cannibal, is born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1974 (-) Ernst Dorf is is beaten to death with a stone by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 59 in Gifhorn, Germany.

1975 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, attacks 2 unidentified girls with a knife in New York, New York, USA.
They both survived.

1975 (-) Composer Bernhard Herrmann dies of cardio-vascular disease at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1976 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 85 in London, Mayfair, United Kingdom.

1978 (-) Andrew Robinson is stabbed to death by Kurt Steinwegs at the age of 13 in Gifhorn, Germany.

1979 (-) Student-leader Rudi Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke dies of drowning after an epileptic seizure while in his bathtub at the age of 39 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Because of massive brain damage from an assassination attempt on 11 april 1968 he continued to suffer health problems which finally led to his death.

1980 (-) Commander of the Kriegsmarine and successor of the Führer, Karl Donitz dies at the age of 89 in Aumühle, Germany.

1982 (-) Writer Luis Aragon dies at the age of 85 in Paris, France.

1995 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, kills the Zaichenkos, a family of four, with a hunting rifle in Ukraïne, Russia.

2008 (-) Dramatist Harold Pinter dies of liver cancer at the age of 78 in London, United Kingdom.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

23 December 2003 - Berchem, Belgium

The apartment where Club Moral recorded their Livingstone live-cd in Berchem, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1805 (+) Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is born in Sharon, Vermont, USA.

1890 (-) Murderess Mary Pearcey is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.

1925 (+) Ex-Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy is born in Déville-lès-Rouen, France.

1926 (-) Murderer Petrus Stephanus François Hauptfleisch is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He killed his mother.

1926 (-) Bonnie Pace is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 23 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

1928 (+) Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook is born in Joplin, Missouri, USA.

1932 (x) 31-year-old Wife of Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels originally Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend, has a miscarriage in München, Germany.

1941 (+) Musician Tim Hardin is born in Eugene, Oregon, USA.

1948 (-) Prime Minister Hideko Tojo is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Tokyo, Sugamo Prison, Japan.
6 more officals are hanged for war-crimes.

1952 (-) Murderer Leslie Green is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Birmingham, Winson Green Prison, United Kingdom.

1961 (x) 70 Die in train derailment in Italy.

1972 (-) Airplane designer Andrej Toepolev dies at the age of 84 in Moscow, Russia.

1978 (x) Start of the excavations in the house of 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Norwood Park, Summerdale 8213, Illinois, USA.

1979 (-) Art collector Peggy Marguerite Guggenheim dies at the age of 81 in Padua, Italy.
She is buried in the garden of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni next to her beloved dogs.

1984 (x) 15 die in a fascist bomb-attack on the Naples-Milan express in Italy.

1985 (-) Hard Rock lover Ray Belknap commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 18 in Sparks, Nevada, USA.
He engaged in a suicide pact with a friend after listening intensively to Judas Priest albums.

1987 (x) 39-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, escapes from prison in Alderson, West-Virginia, USA.

1987 (x) 15-year-old Adagiso Scioni hi-jacks a KLM Boeing 737 between Amsterdam and Milan, but is arrested on arrival in Rome, Italy.

1989 (-) Darlene Trippi is beaten to death by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 32 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

1995 (x) The charred bodies of 16 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning or had been shot to death in Grenoble, France.

1997 (x) The New Year, a two-story houseboat where Serial Killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho, shot himself through the head, days after killing Gianni Versace in july, sinks to the bottom of Indian Creek in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

22 December 2002 - Eernegem, Belgium

Getting acknowledged with some of the 200 pigs that would witness my performance "Parels voor de Zwijnen" a couple of days later on a farm in Eernegem, Belgium.

1639 (+) Dramatist Jean Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, Aisne, France.

1738 (-) Prostitute Constantia Jones is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Tyburn, United Kingdom.
She had stolen 36 shillings from a client.

1858 (+) Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michale Secondo Puccini is born in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

1876 (+) Artist Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is born in Alexandria, Egypt.

1883 (+) Composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse is born in Paris, France.

1902 (-) Psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing known for “Psychopathia Sexualis”, dies at the age of 62 in Graz, Austria.

1926 (-) John Bernard is raped and strangled as tenth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Council Bluffs, Ohio, USA.

1936 (+) Victim of the Manson Family Wojciech Frykowski is born in Lodz, Poland.

1939 (x) 132 Die in train collision in Magdeburg, Germany.

1946 (+) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison is born in Weed, California, USA.

1949 (+) Musicians Maurice & Robin Gibb aka the Bee Gees, are born in Douglas, Isle of Man.

1953 (-) Rapist and Murderer Alfred Charles Whiteway is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1960 (+) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1963 (x) 128 Die in TSMS Lakonia fire in Madeira, Portugal.

1966 (-) Ilona Harke is abducted and killed by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 5 in Wuppertal-Bredeney, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He also cut some steaks from the body for later consumption.

1969 (-) Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg originally Jonas Stern, dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1971 (x) 66-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is released on parole after 39 year imprisonment in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1971 (-) Ida Van Isacker-Smeets is assaulted, strangled, mutilated and raped by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 47 in Mechelen, Hanswijk, Dijleoever, Antwerp, Belgium.

1971 (x) Four members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypotheken- und Wechselbank at Fackelstrasse of over 100.000 marks in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Policeman Herbert Schoner was shot dead when he tried to stop the getaway car.

1972 (x) 22 survivors of a plane crash are found in the Andes Mountains, Chile.
They survived on cannibalism.

1972 (+) Musician Vanessa Chantal Paradis is born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France.

1973 (-) Teresa Walsh is presumably strangled as forty-fourth victim by Zodiac at the age of 23 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

1975 (x) 431 Die in coal-mine explosion in Tjashalla, India.

1975 (-) Suzanne Bach is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 17 in Weinheim, Germany.
She survived.

1975 (-) Connie Bronzich is drugged and stabbed to death by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, at the age of 28 in Katmandu, Nepal.

1978 (-) Lenotschka Sakotnowa is stabbed and strangled as first victim by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Schachty, Meshewoi 26, Russia.

1982 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, abducts and sexually assaults 2 15-year-old girls on a beach in New South Wales, Australia.
They survived.

1984 (x) 37-year-old Revenger Bernard Hugo Bernie Goetz aka The Subway Vigilante, shoots 19-year-old Troy Canty, 19-year-old Darrel Cabey, 19-year-old Barry Allen and 18-year-old Jimmy Ramseur, who were trying to rob him in the Seventh Avenue 2 subway train in New York, Harlem, New York, USA.

1986 (+) Terrorist Umar Farouk Abulmutallab aka Omar Farooq al-Nigeri aka The Underwear Bomber, is born in Lagos, Nigeria.

1986 (-) Lisa Thomas is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1987 (x) 47-year-old Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons kills his wife Rebecca, his children Gene, 17-year-old Loretta, Eddy, Marianne and Becky, and his granddaughter 3-year-old Barbara by shooting, strangling and drowning them in Dover, Arkansas, USA.

1989 (-) Writer Samuel Beckett dies of respiratory insufficiency at the age of 83 in Paris, France.

1992 (x) 157 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 and helicopter collision in Libya.

1996 (-) Jacqueline Leclercq is presumably abducted as fourth victim by Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, at the age of 33 in Hyon, Rue Malapert, Hainaut, Belgium.

1997 (x) Start of the trial against 43-year-old Serial Killer Ahmad Suraji aka Nasib Datuk Kalewang aka The Sorcerer, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He stands trial for the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried.

1997 (x) 48-year-old Terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez aka Carlos aka The Jackal, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national in Paris, France.

2001 (x) 28-year-old Terrorist Richard Colvin Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, attempts to blow up the American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami Boeing 767 by use of PETN explosives hidden in his shoe.

2007 (x) 61-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is stabbed in the face by a fellow inmate in Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Sutcliffe was already blind in one eye after a previous attack.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

21 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

Sutee, Asarin and Luckana enjoying a gift festival at Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

1682 (+) Pirate John Rackham aka Calico Jack, is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.

1875 (-) Murderer Henry Wainwright is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he shouted: “Come to see a man die, have you, you curs?”.

1906 (-) Murderer Henry Hose is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Oregon, USA.

1911 (x) Bank messenger Ernest Caby is robbed and shot by 35-year-old Gangster Jules Bonnot and his gang in Paris, rue Orderer, France.
It is the first hold-up ever to make use of a getaway-car.

1917 (+) Writer Heinrich Theodor Böll is born in Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1918 (+) Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim is born in Vienna, Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria.

1935 (-) Writer Kurt Tucholski aka Kaspar Hauser aka Peter Panter aka Theobald Tiger, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 45 in Hindas, Gothenburg, Germany.

1936 (x) 31-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse in Tokyo, Japan.

1937 (+) Actress Jane Fonda is born in New York, New York, USA.

1940 (+) Composer Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

1940 (-) Writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California, USA.
He died in the apartment of his friend, Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

1941 (+) Triple murderer Alberto Ignacio Ortiz is born in Arizona, USA.

1942 (-) Murderer Henry John Delves Boughton aka Sir Murder, commits suicide by drug-overdose in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1945 (-) War leader George Patton aka Old Blood and Guts, dies of embolism at the age of 60 in Heidelberg, military hospital, Germany.
He had been thrown forward and smashed his head into a metal part when the Cadillac Model 75 he was sitting in crashed into a 2 1/2 ton military truck.

1951 (x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in West-Frankfurt, Illinois, USA.

1952 (+) Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, is born in Illinois, USA.

1954 (x) 31-year-old Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

1967 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, David C. Thomas is born in the USA.

1967 (-) Heart-patient Louis Washkansky dies at the age of 55 in Cape Town, South Africa.
He was the first man who had a transplanted heart.

1977 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Patrick Kearney aka The Thrash Bag Killer, pleads guilty to three counts of murder and is sentenced to life imprisonment in Riverside, California, USA.

1978 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is placed under arrest as a suspect in the abduction of Robert Piest in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1987 (x) 1586 Die in Dona Paz passenger ferry and Vector oil tanker collision in Tablas Strait, the Philippines.
The ferry was overcrowded and probably over 4000 people died.

1988 (x) 270 Die in Pan Am Flight 103 Boeing 747-121 crash in Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom.
The plane was sabotaged by Libyan terrorists.

2007 (x) The remains of Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan are exhumed for re-burial in Coburg, Pentridge Prison, Victoria, Australia.
He was the last man to be hanged in Australia in 1967. The site of the former prison was redeveloped for commercial and residential use.

Monday, December 20, 2010

20 December 2009 - Antwerpen, Belgium

The view on snow covered buildings from our rooftop terrace in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1800 (+) Philosopher, poet and murderer Pierre François Lacenaire is born in Francheville, Rhône, France.

1876 (-) Murderess Hannah Ocuish aka Omish, is executed by hanging at the age of 12 in New London, Connecticut, USA.
She is the youngest person ever hanged in the USA.

1901 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Bock is born in Hannover, Germany.

1911 (-) Murderer Wade Hood is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in South Carolina, USA.

1920 (-) Eventual Serial Killer Joseph Mumfry is shot dead by Mrs Mike Pepitone in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He was recognised as being the Axe Man of New Orleans by Mrs Pepitone, wife of one of his victims.

1924 (-) Serial Killer Carl Denke commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
He was arrested after attacking Vincenz Oliver with a hackblade during dinner. When police searched his house, they found drums with salted meat and written notes about 20 years of murder and cannibalism.

1924 (x) 35-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving 9 months for his attempt at a coup d’état a year earlier in Berlin, Landsberg Prison, Germany.
While in prison, he wrote "Mein Kampf".

1927 (x) 33-year-old Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess marries 27-year-old Ilse Pröhl in Berlin, Germany.

1941 (x) Belgium declares war to Italy.

1946 (+) Psychic Uri György Geller is born in Tel Aviv, Israël.

1948 (+) Musician Alan Parsons is born in London, United Kingdom.

1958 (-) Mary Hattam is assaulted and battered to death by Rupert Stuart aka The Murderous Aboriginal, at the age of 9 in Ceduna, Australia.

1960 (x) 49-year-old Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer is arrested in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1963 (x) Start of the trial against 21 guards and doctors of Auschwitz-KZ in Frankfurt, Germany.

1968 (-) Writer John Ernst Steinbeck dies of heart disease and congestive heart failure at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

1968 (-) David Faraday and 16-year-old Betty Lou Jensen are shot dead as second and third victim by Zodiac at the age of 17 in Vallejo, California, USA.

1969 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a ‘Happy Christmas’ postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and adds a scrap of eight victim Paul Stine’s bloody shirt in California, USA.

1973 (-) Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco is killed in an ETA bomb-attack in Spain.

1973 (-) Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, dies minutes after initially succesful heart surgery to repair two artificial heart valves at the age of 37 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, USA.

1974 (-) Composer André Jolivet dies at the age of 69 in Paris, France.

1975 (-) Susan Bickrest is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Port Orange, Spruce Creek, Florida, USA.

1976 (x) 41-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Honka is convicted to 15 years imprisonment and sent to a mental asylum for life in Hamburg, Germany.

1979 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Perfectone" in Gent, Zaal Cercle, East Flanders, Belgium.

1981 (-) Beatrix Scheble is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 16 in Frankfurt City Park, Germany.

1982 (-) Composer Arthur Rubinstein dies at the age of 95 in Genève, Switzerland.

1982 (-) Steven Agan is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 23 in Newport, Indiana, USA.

1983 (-) Hedda Buekow is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Tiergarten, Germany.

1985 (-) Estelle Donjoux is tortured and killed as ninth by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 91 in Paris 14th, 14 rue Lacaze, France.

1987 (x) Over 2500 Die in Dona Paz Ferry shipwreck in Tablas Strait, Philippines.

1993 (x) Serial Killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, is sentenced to 5 terms of life-imprisonment in London, United Kingdom.

1995 (x) 160 Die in American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757-223 crash into a mountain in Buga, Colombia.
Four people survived.

1996 (-) Futurologist Carl Edward Sagan dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

19 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A long Dragon decorated with lights carried through the streets by some 60 men in Silom, Bangkok, Thailand.

1370 (-) 200th Pope Urbanus V originally Guillaume de Grimoard, dies at the age of 61 in Rome, Italy.

1848 (-) Writer Emily Jane Brontë dies of a bad cold and tuberculosis at the age of 30 in Haworth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1851 (-) Artist William Joseph Mallord Turner dies at the age of 76 in London, Chelsea, Cheyne Walk, United Kingdom.
He is said to have uttered the last words "The sun is God" before expiring.

1883 (-) Hendrik Frankenhuizen is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, in Leiden, the Netherlands.

1906 (+) Statesman Leonid Ilyitsj Breshnev is born in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraïne, Russia.

1907 (x) 239 Die in coal-mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, USA.

1910 (+) Writer and thief Jean Genet is born in Paris, Maternité de la Rue d’Assas 22, France.

1915 (+) Musician Edith Piaf originally Edith Giovanna Gassion, is born in Paris, France.
Somewhere in the street, on a policeman’s coat.

1915 (-) Neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany.

1925 (-) Black Lindsey Coleman is lynched because he wasn’t guilty of murder in Clarksdale, Missouri, USA.

1925 (-) Composer Jose Ignacio Quinton dies at the age of 44 in Puerto Rico.

1931 (x) 34-year-old Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels marries Johanna Maria Magdalena ‘Engelchen’ Behrend in Severin, Germany.

1934 (-) Husband Murderess Ethel Lille Major is executed by hanging in Hull Prison, United Kingdom.

1946 (-) Mrs. G. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 44 in Braunschweig, Germany.

1956 (x) 57-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested on suspicion of four murders in Lewes, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Jillian Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 22 in Perth, Cottesloe, Stirling Highway, Australia.

1964 (-) Christiane Herreman is raped and strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 21 in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

1968 (-) Nora Wenzl is slashed to ribbons by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 14 in Staffelstein, Germany.

1971 (-) Barbara Fields is abducted, assaulted and raped by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 18 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
She survived.

1975 (x) 27-year-old Manson Family member Lynette Alice Fromme aka Squeaky, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the attempted assassination of president Ford in Sacramento, California, USA.

1977 (-) John Swint is shot dead by Ottis Toole aka The Hand of Death, at the age of 67 in Houston, Texas, USA.

1995 (x) A search of the house of 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux fails to discover 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo who are kept in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle, Hainaut, Belgium.

1996 (-) Actor Marcello Mastroianni dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72 in Paris, France.

1997 (x) 16-year-old Serial Killer Ershov is arrested after a 34-year-old woman managed to escape following an attack in a city park in Moscow, Russia.
During police interrogation, Ershov confessed to killing two of the five women murdered in Losiny Ostrov park over a two-month period.

1997 (x) 104 Die in SilkAir Flight 185 Boeing 737-300 crash in Palembang, Indonesia.
Due to the high speed, the entire aircraft and passengers disintegrated upon impact.

2000 (-) Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

18 December 2004 - Brussels, Belgium

Standing on the corner of Koolmijnenkaai and Vandermaelenstraat where Serial Killer András Pándy killed two of his wives and four of his children and dissolved their bodies in acid in Brussels, Belgium.

1737 (-) Violin craftsman Antonio Stradivari dies at the age of 94 in Cremona, Italy.

1863 (+) Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen is born in Graz, Austria.

1879 (+) Artist Paul Klee is born in Munchen-Buchesee, Switzerland.

1879 (+) Statesman Josef Vissarionowitsch Dzugashvili Stalin is born in Gori, Georgia, Russia.

1890 (+) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong is born in New York, New York, USA.

1892 (x) First performance of the ballet "The Nutcracker" by 52-year-old Composer Peter Ilyitsch Tchaikowsky in St. Petersburg, Marlinsky Theatre, Russia.

1907 (x) Murderer John Lee aka The Man They Couldn’t Hang, is released from prison in the United Kingdom.

1914 (-) Margaret Lofty is drowned by George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, in London, Highgate, United Kingdom.

1916 (+) Pin-up and actress Betty Elizabeth Ruth Grable aka The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs, is born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1943 (+) Rolling Stone Keith Richards is born in Kent, United Kingdom.

1946 (+) Nationalist Leader Steve Stephen Bantu Biko is born in King William's Town, South Africa.

1947 (+) Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

1948 (+) Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is born in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

1948 (-) Janet Fay is hammered to death by Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers, in Long Island, New York, USA.

1964 (+) Actor Brad Pitt is born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.

1967 (-) Child-Murderer Gunther Voltz is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 29 in Metz, France.

1979 (x) 23-year-old Necrophile Karen Greenlee is arrested after an attempt to commit suicide by an overdose of pain-killers in Alleghany, Sierra County, USA.

1980 (-) USSR-prime minister Alexej Kosygin dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Moscow, Russia.

1980 (x) 33-year-old Mass-murderer Freddy Horion aka Beatle and Roland Feneuille are convicted to death in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1986 (-) Murderer Richard Andrade is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1987 (-) Sound engineer Konrad Conny Plank dies at the age of 47 in Köln, Germany.

1997 (x) 55-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, is rushed to a hospital only hours after her appeal against having to spend the rest of her life in jail was turned down in Durham, United Kingdom.

2001 (-) Musician Gilbert Bécaud dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.

Friday, December 17, 2010

17 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

Waiting for a late River Express boat in the company of a monk in Bangkok, Thailand.

1833 (-) Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, dies at the age of 21 in Augsburg, Germany.
He was stabbed in the chest in the Hofgarten by an unidentified man three days earlier.

1877 (+) Chief executioner Jules-Henri Desfourneaux aka Monsieur de Paris, is born in Bar-le-Duc, France.

1903 (+) Writer Erskine Preston Caldwell is born in Moreland, Georgia, USA.

1909 (-) King of Belgium Louis Philippe Marie Victor Leopold II Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha dies of heart failure at the age of 74 in Brussels, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.

1914 (+) Serial Killer Raymond Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with his wife Martha Beck), is born in Hawaï, USA.

1915 (-) Black Cordella Stevenson is abducted, raped and hung from a telephone-pole in Columbus, outside the Mobile & Ohio Railway Station, Missouri, USA.
Her body was left hanging for two days before someone took care of taking it down.

1923 (+) Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is born in Hessen, Germany.

1942 (+) Musician and founder of ‘The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’ Paul Butterfield is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1943 (+) Manson Family member Mary Therese Brunner aka Marioche aka Mother Mary, is born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA.

1947 (-) Criminologist Bernard Henry Spilsbury commits suicide by gas poisoning at the age of 70 in London, Bloomsbury, University College, United Kingdom.

1953 (-) Kidnapper and Murderer Carl Austin Hall is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.

1953 (-) Kidnapper and Murderess Bonnie Brown Heady is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in State Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.

1958 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is sentenced to death in San Diego, California, USA.

1961 (x) 320 Die in circus fire in Niteroi, Brazil.
The fire was started by former employee Adilson Marcelino.

1963 (-) Murderer John Whitty is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.

1963 (-) Murderer Russel Pascoe is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Bristol Prison, United Kingdom.

1968 (x) 11-year-old Serial Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is sentenced to detention for life for the murder of two children in Newcastle, Moot Hall, United Kingdom.
Her accomplice Norma Bell is acquitted.

1978 (-) Jazz composer Don Ellis dies at the age of 44 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He composed the soundtrack for the movie 'The Deadly Tower', about Charles Whitman.

1979 (x) 23-year-old Necrophile Karen Greenlee steals a mortuary hearse and drives off with the body of 31-year-old John Mercure in Sacramento Memorial Lawn Mortuary, California, USA.
She wanted to have sex with the body.

1989 (-) June Cicero is strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 34 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.

2004 (-) Pop artist Tom Wesselman dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in New York, New York, USA.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

16 December 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Sickboy performing with The Parallels at the FreaksendFuture shop in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1485 (+) First wife of Henry VIII Catherine of Aragon is born in Alcala de Henares, Spain.

1770 (+) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven is born in Bonn, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1775 (+) Writer Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire, England.

1790 (+) King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, is born in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany.

1859 (-) Philologist and folklorist Wilhelm Carl Grimm dies at the age of 73 in Berlin, Germany.

1899 (+) Actor Noel Coward is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.

1901 (+) Anthropologist Margaret Mead is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1904 (-) Mrs Cochcrane dies of spontaneous human combustion in Falkirk, Rosehill, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1904 (-) Barbara Bell dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 77 in Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

1917 (+) Writer and Space Odysseyist Arthur C. Charles Clarke is born in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.

1917 (+) Lebanese Statesman Kamal Jumblatt is born in Moukhtara, Lebanon.

1928 (+) Sf-writer Philip K. Kindred Dick is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1935 (-) Actress Thelma Alice Todd aka The Bohemian Girl, dies of coal-monoxide poisoning at the age of 30 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
She was probably murdered by persons unknown.

1938 (+) Actress Liv Ullmann is born in Tokyo, Japan.

1938 (-) Swindler Philip Musica aka Donald Coster, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 61 in New York, New York, USA.

1944 (-) Musician Glenn Alton Miller is permanently lost at sea whilst returning from a mission in Germany at the age of 40 in the Atlantic Ocean.

1944 (x) 597 Die in Rex cinema fire in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
The building was caught in a full hit by a V2 during the showing of the movie "Buffalo Bill".

1956 (+) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux is born in Paris, France.

1960 (x) 134 Die in United Airlines Flight 826 Douglas DC-8 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 Lockheed L-1049 collision in Staten Island, New York, USA.

1965 (-) Writer William Somerset Maugham dies at the age of 91 in Cap-Ferrat, France.

1969 (x) 44-year-old Viennese Aktionist Otto Mühl performs his aktion "O Tannenbaum" in Braunschweig, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Germany.

1970 (x) 16-year-old Religious fanatic Frank Alexander aka The Prophet, is found beating his 39-year-old mother Dagmar and sisters Marina (18) and Petra (15) to death, cutting away their sex organs and nailing them to the walls of Flat 1d at 37 Calle Jesus Nazareno in Santa Cruz, California, USA.
In the meantime his father Harald played the organ.

1976 (x) 36-year-old Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, attempts to commit suicide in State Prison, Utah, USA.

1977 (-) Maryann Carr is suffocated by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 26 in Ledgewood Terrace, Quality Inn Motel parking lot, New Jersey, USA.

1985 (x) The 4 only members of the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes 33-year old Pierre Carette, 30-year-old Didier Chevolet, 28-year-old Pascale Vandegeerde and 23-year-old Bertrand Sassoye are arrested in a fast-food restaurant in Namur, Namur, Belgium.

1989 (-) Actor Lee Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Oxnard, California, USA.

1993 (-) Rapist and murderer David Marion Pruett is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.

1998 (x) Serial Child Killer Pedro Pablo Ramirez Garcia aka Carlos Alberto Woods Salazar aka Pedro Pechuga, is arrested in Pereira, Colombia.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

15 December 1999 - Bangkok, Thailand

A Series III 109" Landrover in the courtyard of Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

37 (+) Fifth and last Emperor of Rome Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Nero originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, is born in Antium, Italy.

1761 (-) Murderer John M’Naughton Esq., is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Strabane, Tyrone, United Kingdom.

1832 (+) Architect and engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel is born in Dijon, France.

1855 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is arrested and charged with the poisoning of John Parsons Cook in the United Kingdom.

1892 (+) Oil-magnata and billionaire Jean Paul Getty aka The Richest Living American, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

1921 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, graduates from the university as a doctor of medicine with the tract ‘Contributions to the study of Acute Progressive Paralysis’ in Paris, France.
Acute Progressive Paralysis is the disease Henri Desiré Landru was suffering from.

1921 (+) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed is born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA.

1930 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is committed to the Bellevue Hospital for a 10-day observation after sending obscenities through the mail in New York, New York, USA.

1930 (+) Victim of the Manson Family Rosemary LaBianca is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1961 (x) 55-year-old Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death in Jerusalem, Ramleh Prison, Israël.

1966 (-) Filmmaker Walt Walter Elias Disney dies of a malignant lung-tumor at the age of 65 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1967 (x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Wuppertal, Germany.

1970 (x) USSR space-craft Venus 7 lands on Venus and transmits 23 minutes of images in Russia.

1970 (x) 308 Die in Namyong Ho capsizing in Korean Strait, South Korea.

1971 (x) 24-year-old Mass Murderer John Linley Frazier is convicted to die in the Gas Chamber in California, USA.

1973 (x) 17-year-old Playboy John Paul Getty III is released after a 5-month kidnap in the USA.
A ransom of 2 million dollars was paid and Getty’s ear had been cut off.

1975 (-) Cornelia Hemker aka Cocky, is drugged, beaten to death and set on fire by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Rangsit, Thailand.

1993 (-) Murderer Clifford Phillips is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-) Murderer James R. Meanes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Sammie Jr. Felder is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

14 December 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

A music concert by Monguito and a ghost appearance at Scheld'apen in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1503 (+) Prophet Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus, is born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France.

1799 (-) 1st president of the USA George Washington dies of acute laryngitis after a ride in snow and rain around his estate at the age of 67 in Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA.

1865 (+) Serial poisoner Severin Antoniovitch Klosowski aka George Chapman, is born in Nagorna, Poland.

1896 (+) Writer Paul Eluard is born in Paris, St. Denis, France.

1903 (-) Wife-murderer William B. Ennis is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
He was the first policeman to be executed on the Electric Chair.

1911 (x) 39-year-old Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen is the first man to reach the South-Pole.

1913 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Friedrich Abeling is born in Hannover, Germany.

1914 (+) Mafia-leader Joseph “Joe” Colombo is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1923 (+) Writer Gerard Kornelis van het Reve is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

1935 (+) Actress Lee Ann Remick is born in Quincy, Massachussets, USA.

1939 (-) Frau Jablinski is stabbed in the head by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, in Berlin, Rummelsburg, Germany.
She survived.

1943 (-) Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg dies at the age of 91 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA.

1946 (+) Actress and musician Jane Mallory Birkin is born in London, United Kingdom.

1947 (-) Erika M. is beaten to death and mutilated by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 37 in Braunschweig, Germany.

1952 (-) Ethel Simpson is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, in London, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Ethel Little is tortured by an unidentified sexual deviate at the age of 53 in Miami, Florida, USA.
She finally died of shock and blood-loss after hours of sexual misdemeanor.

1968 (x) 47-year-old Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys performs "Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee" in Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1973 (-) Kathy Scharf is beaten and strangled by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Merrit Island, Florida, USA.

1976 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, is arrested after 8 years of terror in Nogent-sur-Oise in Montataire, Martinets Estate, France.

1976 (x) SS-executioner Hans Looijen is convicted to life-imprisonment in Roermond, the Netherlands.

1977 (-) Marylin Moore is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Chapeltown, Prince Philip playing fields, United Kingdom.
She survived.

1980 (-) Serial Killer Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Yugoslavia.

1989 (-) Composer and musician Pérez Damaso Prado dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Mexico City, Mexico.

1989 (-) Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.

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

2003 (-) Musician Patrick Miller aka Minimal Man, dies at the age of 51 in Eagle Rock, California, USA.

2005 (-) Murderer-for-hire John B. Sr. Nixon is executed by lethal injection at the age of 77 in State Penitentiary, Mississippi, USA.
For his last meal he requested a well-done T-bone steak, buttered asparagus spears, a baked potato with sour cream, peach pie, vanilla ice cream, and sweet tea.

Monday, December 13, 2010

13 December 2005 - Borgerhout, Belgium

Merry Christmas atmosphere in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

1521 (+) 227th Pope Sixtus V originally Felice Peretti, is born in Grottamare, Italy.

1740 (+) Composer Franz Xaver Schnitzer is born in Urtsbach, Germany.

1782 (-) Cannibal Blaise Ferrage Seye is broken on the wheel and exposed to die on the gibbet at the age of 25 in the United Kingdom.

1797 (+) Poet Heinrich Christian Johann Heine is born in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1863 (+) Serial Killer and presumed cannibal Karl Friedrich Grossmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof, is born in Neuruppin, Germany.

1912 (-) Murderer Mike Morgan is executed by hanging in Oregon, USA.

1912 (-) Murderer Fiaulder Noble is executed by hanging in Oregon, USA.

1912 (-) Murderer Frank Garrison is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Oregon, USA.

1912 (-) Double murderer H. E. Roberts is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, USA.

1913 (x) 32-year-old Thief Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested when he tried to sell the Mona Lisa, stolen by him 2,5 years earlier, to an antique dealer in Paris, France.

1925 (+) Actor Dick Van Dyke is born in West Plains, Montana, USA.

1930 (-) Wife-murderer Charles Chapin aka Sing Sing’s Rose Man, dies at the age of 72 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1934 (-) Murderer Ruf Satterfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in North Carolina, USA.

1937 (x) The Imperial Japanese Army marches into China, slaughtering over 50.000 people in less than 2 months in Nanking, China.

1944 (-) Artist Wassily Vasiliewitsch Kandinsky dies at the age of 78 in Paris, France.

1944 (-) Actress Lupe Maria Guadelupe Villalobos Vélez commits suicide by an overdose of Secobarbital at the age of 36 in Glendale, California, USA.
Instead of dying from the overdose, her stomach got upset and she drowned while vomiting in the toilet.

1945 (-) Guard and Senior Supervisor in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen Irma Grese aka The Beast of Belsen, is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Hameln Gaol, Germany.
Also hanged on this occasion are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Juanna Bormann, Josef Kramer, Dr. Fritz Klein and 8 more leaders of the Belzen-KZ. Her last word to executioner Albert Pierrepoint was: "Schnell!".

1948 (+) Musician Ted Theodore Nugent aka The Atrocious Theodocious, is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

1954 (-) Murderess Styllou Christofi is executed by hanging at the age of 53 in London, Holloway Prison, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Billy Peterson dies of spontaneous human combustion in Michigan, USA.

1967 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Hans Johannes Marinus Van Zon is arrested in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

1970 (-) James Glass is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 14 in Houston, Columbia, Texas, USA.

1971 (x) 46-year-old Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, is convicted to 30 years imprisonment in Winchester, Jersey.

1973 (-) Agnos and Marietta Di Girolamo are shot by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 31 in San Francisco, California, USA.
Agnos survived.

1973 (x) 42-year-old Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim James Warren Jones is arrested for solliciting a vice officer in a cinema-toilet in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He had been watching the movie "Dirty Harry".

1977 (-) Kimberley Martin aka Donna, is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.

1977 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Ahmed Abdullah al-Nami is born in Saudi Arabia.

1984 (-) USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolai Sjetsjelokow commits suicide by a shot in the head after a degradation at the age of 75 in Russia.

1988 (-) Murderer Raymond Landry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
Pronounced dead 40 minutes after being strapped to the execution gurney and 24 minutes after the drugs first started flowing into his arms. Two minutes into the killing, the syringe came out of Landry's vein, spraying the deadly chemicals across the room toward the witnesses. The execution team had to reinsert the catheter into the vein. The curtain was drawn for 14 minutes so witnesses could not see the intermission.

1995 (-) Murderer James Griddle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2008 (-) Actor Horst Tappert aka Stephan Derrick, dies at the age of 85 in Planegg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.