Friday, May 14, 2010

14 May 2005 - Antwerpen, Belgium


An impressive plate of sushi ready to be served at our house in Antwerpen, Belgium.
1643 (x) 4-year-old King of France Louis XIV originally Louis-Dieudonné aka The Sun King, becomes King upon the death of his father, Louis XIII in Paris, France.
1832 (+) Charles Frederick Peace aka The Murderous Musician, is born in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
1856 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the Old Bailey, London, United Kingdom.
1868 (+) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld is born in Kolberg, Poland.
1897 (+) Musician Sidney Bechet is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
1912 (-) Writer August Johann Strindberg dies of pneumonia at the age of 63 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1930 (-) Maria Butlies is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1931 (+) Composer Alvin Lucier is born in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA.
1935 (-) Sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Nice, France.
1936 (+) Musician Bobby Darin originally Walden Robert Cassotto, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
He allegedly chose the name Darin because he had seen a malfunctioning electrical sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN DUCK" rather than "MANDARIN DUCK".
1939 (x) 5-year-old The World’s Youngest Mother Lina Medina gives birth to a son in Lima, Peru.
The boy was named Gerardo after her doctor. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.
1940 (-) Feminist and Anarchist Writer Emma Goldman dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Toronto, Canada.
1944 (+) Filmmaker George Lucas is born in Modesto, California, USA.
1952 (+) Musician David Byrne is born in Dumbarton, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1959 (-) Musician Sidney Bechet dies of lung cancer at the age of 62 in Garches, France.
1962 (+) Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil aka The Collector, is born in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria.
1965 (-) Irena St. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 16 in Grodziek, Poland.
1968 (-) Mr Delisse is shot in the head by Nestor Pirotte in Genval, Belgium.
Pirotte, sentenced to death 13 years earlier, was out on parole.
1970 (x) 35-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof assists with Gudrun Ensslin in the escape of Andreas Baader from the Deutschen Zentralinstitut für Soziale Fragen while on leave from Tegel Prison in Berlin, Dahlem, Miquelstrasse 83, Germany.
By following Baader in his jump through the window, Meinhof gave up her intellectual fight and went in the underground. This event marks the official foundation of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion.
1972 (-) National Hero Romas Kalanta aka The Young Man with the Mesmerizing Eyes, commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
It was a protest against the occupation of Lithuania by the USSR.
1973 (x) 7 members of the Alday family are raped, sodomised, beaten and shot dead by escaped prisoners Wayne Coleman, George Dungee and Carl and Billy Isaacs in Seminole County, Georgia, USA.
1976 (-) Samuel Stapleton is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 14 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
1977 (x) Unknown Master’s ‘Heimkehr des Verlorenen Sohnes’ is attacked with acid by Hans-Dieter Muller in Lubeck, St. Agidien church, Germany.
1983 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is arrested for drunk driving, while the body of 25-year-old Terry Lee Gambrel was found garotted in the passenger seat in San Diego, Interstate 5, California, USA.
1984 (-) SS-Colonel and inventor of the “Black Raven” mobile gas chambers Walter Rauff dies of lung cancer at the age of 77 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
1985 (-) William Doi is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, Monterey Park, California, USA.
1986 (-) Aline Peres is stabbed to death by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer, at the age of 49 in Brest, France.
1987 (-) Actress Rita Hayworth originally Marguerita Carmen Cansino, dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 68 in New York, Manhattan, New York, USA.
1988 (-) Aljoscha Woronko is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 9 in Artjomowsk, Russia.
1991 (-) First Lady of the People’s Republic of China Jiang Qing originally Li Shuméng aka Madame Mao, commits suicide by hanging in her hospital bathroom at the age of 77 in China.
1993 (-) Gangster and kidnapper Patrick Haemers commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 40 in Brussels, Vorst Prison, Brabant, Belgium.
1997 (-) Joan Brock is beaten to death as sixth victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 55 in LaPlace, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Singer and actor Frank Francis Albert Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes aka The Voice, dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
2003 (-) Actor Robert Langford Modini Stack dies of a heart attack at the age of 84 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

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