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

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

30 June 2002 - Oelegem, Belgium

A bunker along our favourite walking path in Oelegem, Belgium.

1882 (-) Assassin Charles Julius Guiteau aka The Man Who Shot President Garfield, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1892 (+) Nazi Administrator of Concentration Camps Oswald Pohl is born in Duisburg-Ruhrort, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1893 (+) East-German leader and builder of the Berlin Wall, Walter Ulbricht is born in Leipzig, Germany.

1900 (x) Over 300 Die in pier fire in Hoboken, New York, USA.

1930 (-) Murderer Frank Tauza is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Pennsylvania, USA.

1933 (+) Cop Killer Derek William Bentley is born in London, United Kingdom.

1936 (-) Murderer Frederick Herbert Charles Field is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.

1956 (x) 128 Die in Trans World Airlines Flight 2 Super Constellation and United Airlines Flight 718 DC-7 collision in Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA.

1962 (-) Helen Blake is strangled and sexually assaulted by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 65 in Lynn, 73 Newhall Street, Massachussets, USA.

1962 (-) Nina Nichols is strangled and sexually assaulted by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 65 in Lynn, 1940 Commonwealth Avenue, Massachussets, USA.

1969 (-) Roxie Phillips is beaten and strangled by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 17 in Salinas, California, USA.

1971 (x) 43-year-old Georgi Dobrovolski, 38-year-old Viktor Patsajef and 37-year-old Vladislav Volokov are found dead upon returning in their Sojoez 2 after breaking the record of staying 23 days in Space.

1974 (-) Mother of Martin Luther Alberta King is shot dead whilst playing the organ by Marcus Chenault at the age of 69 in Atlanta, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Georgia, USA.
Chenault shot King because "all Christians are my enemies".

1991 (-) Matt Turner aka Donald Montrell, is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 21 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

1997 (x) Mass Murderer Josh Jenkins aka The Teenage Annihilator, is sentenced to 112 years to life for killing his adoptive parents, grandparents and sister during a weekend visit to the grandparent's condominium in San Diego, California, USA.
He said he killed his family in revenge for his parents sending him to boarding school.

2004 (-) Murderer David Ray Harris is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2009 (x) 152 Die in Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-324 crash in Moroni, Comoros.
12-year-old Bahia Bakari survived the crash with minor injuries.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

29 June 2003 - Antwerpen, Belgium

An early performance by Dez Mona at the Kaaiman in Antwerpen, Belgium.

67 (-) First Pope Simon Peter aka Simon Cephas, is executed by crucifixion at the age of 66 in Rome, Italy.

1855 (-) Murderer John Schultz is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.

1864 (x) 99 Die in train disaster in St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada.

1900 (+) Writer and pilot Marie Antoine Roger De Saint-Exupéry is born in Lyon, France.

1911 (+) Composer Bernhard Herrmann is born in New York, New York, USA.

1924 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, confesses to a long career of murder, butchering and selling his victims’ meat in Hannover, Germany.

1929 (+) Journalist Oriana Fallaci is born in Florence, Italy.

1933 (-) Actor, filmmaker and womanizer Roscoe Conklin ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist, dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in New York, New York, USA.

1934 (-) Porter Zaro Agha dies of uremia at the age of 164 in Istanbul, Turkey.

1940 (-) Artist Paul Klee dies of scleroderma at the age of 60 in Muralto, Switzerland.

1941 (+) Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panthers Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture, is born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

1956 (x) 30-year-old Actress Marilyn Monroe originally Norma Jean Mortenson Baker, marries writer Arthur Miller in California, USA.
They divorced on 20 january 1961.

1959 (x) 21-year-old Mass murderer Robin Cook is arrested after trying to obtain a car by fraud in Alberta, Stettler, Canada.
When searching his house, police found the bodies of Ray Cook Senior, his second wife Daisy Mae and their children Gerald, Patrick, Christopher, Kathy and Linda in the garage.

1967 (-) Actress Jayne Mansfield originally Vera Jane Palmer, is decapitated in a car crash at the age of 34 in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
The 1966 Buick Electra 225, which was reportedly going 80 miles per hour, crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger.

1969 (-) President of Katanga Moise Kapenda Tshombe dies of heart failure at the age of 49 in Algiers, Algeria.

1973 (x) The members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion end their second hungerstrike in several prisons in Germany.

1975 (-) Musician Tim Buckley dies of a heroin and alcohol overdose at the age of 28 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1993 (-) Multiple Murderer Markham Duff-Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1994 (-) Serial Killer Jack Johann Unterweger aka The Pug Dumper aka The Prison Poet aka Jack the Writer, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 42 in Graz, Karlau prison, Austria.
He was convicted to life-imprisonment for the murders of 9 prostitutes earlier this day.

1995 (x) 53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a letter to Social psychology professor Tom Tyler at University of California in San Francisco, California, USA.

1995 (-) Actress Lana Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner dies of throat cancer at the age of 74 in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

1995 (x) 501 Die in Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul, Seocho-gu, South Korea.

2000 (-) Multiple Murderer Jessy Carlos San Miguel is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Actress Katherine Houghton Hepburn dies of natural causes at the age of 96 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA.

Monday, June 28, 2010

28 June 2002 - Borgerhout, Belgium

An interstellar still life on our window sill in Borgerhout, Belgium.

1476 (+) 223rd Pope Paul IV originally Giovanni Pietro Carafa, is born in Capriglia Irpina, Italy.

1491 (+) King of England Henry VIII is born in Greenwich, Palace of Placentia, United Kingdom.

1577 (+) Artist Peter Paul Rubens is born in Siegen, Germany.

1712 (+) Composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born in Genève, Switzerland.

1880 (x) 25-year-old Australia’s Most Famous Desperado, Edward “Ned” Kelly is captured in Glenrowan Inn, Victoria, Australia.
The other Kelly Gang members died in a shootout with the police.

1883 (+) Politician and Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval is born in Châteldon, Puy-de-Dôme, France.

1891 (+) Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is born in Warren, Minnesota, USA.

1901 (-) Murderer Frank Miller is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

1904 (x) Over 600 Die in Norge shipwreck in Rockall Reef, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1905 (-) Murderer Henri Languille is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
Dr. Beaurieux lifted the head out of the basked and called out Henri’s name upon which the head opened its eyes.

1907 (-) Murderer Holliver Megorden is executed by hanging at the age of 57 in Oregon, USA.

1914 (-) Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen is shot dead by Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, at the age of 50 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
The event triggered the start of World War I.

1918 (-) Harriet Lowe is attacked by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

1926 (+) Filmmaker Mel Brooks originally Melvin Kaminsky, is born in New York, New York, USA.

1935 (+) Actor John Inman aka Mr. Humphries from “Are You Being Served?”, is born in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

1940 (-) Murderer Ruf Satterfield is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 44 in North Carolina, USA.

1947 (+) Black Panther Mark Clark is born in Peoria, Illinois, USA.

1955 (-) Murderer Dr. Dalip Lutchmie Persap is executed by hanging in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

1962 (-) Mary Mullen dies of heart failure in the course of being assaulted by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 85 in Boston, 1435 Commonwealth Avenue, Massachussets, USA.

1971 (x) 56-year-old Mafia-leader Joseph “Joe” Colombo is shot by Jerome Johnson, who was then shot dead by an unidentified man during the second Italian Unity Day rally in New York, New York, USA.
Colombo survived but lingered in a coma for seven years without regaining consciousness.

1971 (-) Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, dies of heart failure in prison at the age of 63 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Austria.

1973 (-) Marlys Townsend is attacked by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
She survived.

1975 (-) Twilight Zone host Rod Rodman Edward Serling dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, New York, USA.

1976 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Satam al-Suqami is born in Riyad, Saudi Arabia.

1980 (-) Roxanne Easlund is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 24 in Anchorage, Northern Lights Boulevard, Alaska, USA.

1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Underground Confrontation" with Ria Pacquée in Antwerpen, Metro Station Meir / ICC, Antwerp, Belgium.

1981 (x) 94 Die in bomb-attack in Teheran, Iran.
Amongst the dead were 73 officials of the Islamitic Democrat Party and party-leader Ayatollah Mohammed Behesti.

1984 (-) Jennie Vincow is raped and stabbed to death by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, Chapman Street, California, USA.

1986 (-) Valentine Gleim is sexually assaulted and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 84 in London, Stockwell Park Road, Somerville Hastings House, United Kingdom.

1988 (x) 33-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Eva Sybille Haule-Frimpong is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Stuttgart, Germany.

1994 (x) 39-year-old Cult Leader of the Aum Shinrikyo aka Aleph religious group Shoko Asahara originally Chizuo Matsumoto, releases Sarin gas in the metro station in Matsumoto, Japan.
Seven people die, 660 are injured.

1995 (x) 53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails letters to the New York Times and Washington Post in San Francisco, California, USA.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

27 June 2002 - Gent, Belgium

Lame discussion in a classroom at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gent, Belgium.

1838 (+) Weapon designer Paul von Mauser is born in Oberndorf-am-Neckar, Germany.

1844 (-) Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is shot dead by an angry mob at the age of 38 in Carthage Jail, Illinois, USA.
His brother Hyrum Smith is also killed.

1869 (+) Feminist and Anarchist Writer Emma Goldman is born in Kovno, Lithuania.

1935 (-) Murderess Eva Coo aka Madame, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1941 (+) Filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski is born in Warsaw, Poland.

1969 (x) 64-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is arrested after a seven-year period of escape from the Arizona State Hospital in Piedmont, California, USA.

1969 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, pleads guilty to 3 charges of first degree murder and is sentenced to 3 consecutive life-sentences in Salem, Marion County Courthouse, Oregon, USA.

1971 (+) Crown Prince and mass murderer Bir Bikram Shah Dipendra is born in Kathmandu, Nepal.

1985 (-) Patty Higgins is killed by throatcutting by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, Arcadia, California, USA.

1986 (-) Frederick Prentice is attacked by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 73 in South London, United Kingdom.
He survived.

1993 (x) 34-year-old Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is arrested after a police-hunt because of a missing number-plate on his Mazda pick-up, in the back arresting police-officers found the body of 22-year-old Tiffany Bresciani in Long Islang, Old Country Road, New York, USA.

1993 (-) Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Wolfgang Werner Grams commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 40 in Bad Kleinen, Germany.
In a shootout at the railway station he had killed special policeman Michael Newrzella.

2001 (-) Actor Jack John Uhler Lemmon dies of colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2005 (x) 60-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer, pleads guilty to 10 counts of murder, giving graphic account of his "Bind, Torture, Kill" crimes in court in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

2006 (-) Serial Killer Angel Leoncio Reyes Maturino Reséndiz aka The Railway Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

26 June 2010 - Borgerhout, Belgium

A burned, closed off, burgled, closed off and abandoned front door in Borgerhout, Belgium.

1284 (x) A Pied Piper lures 120 children out of the village in Hameln, Lower Saxony, Germany.
All of the children were taken to the Weser river and drowned.

1613 (-) Carpenter John Hitchen dies of spontaneous human combustion in Christchurch, Dorset, United Kingdom.
His body was dragged into the street and continued to burn for three days.

1892 (+) Writer Pearl S. (Sydenstricker) Comfort Buck is born in Hilsboro, West Virginia, USA.

1898 (+) Airplane designer and pioneer Wilhelm Emil Messerschmidt is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

1904 (+) Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, is born in Ruzomberok, Hungary.

1909 (+) Elvis Impresario Tom Thomas Andrew Parker originally Andreas Cornelis ‘Dries’ van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, is born in Breda, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands.

1917 (x) 48-year-old Presumed murderess of President Faure Marguerite “Meg” Jeanne Japy-Steinheil aka Lady Abinger aka Mme de Serignac, marries Robert Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger in London, United Kingdom.

1923 (+) Murderess Barbara Graham originally Barbara Eilaine Wood aka Bloody Babs, is born in Oakland, California, USA.

1925 (+) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev is born in Chelistshevo, Vologda Oblast, USSR.

1926 (-) Murderess Louise Calvert is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.

1926 (-) Anna Russel is strangled and raped by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 58 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

1931 (+) Angry Young Writer Colin Henry Wilson is born in Leicester, United Kingdom.

1946 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested whilst prowling around Wayne Manor Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1956 (x) The books of 59-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich at Orgonon are destroyed by FDA officials in Rangely, Maine, USA.

1957 (-) Writer Alfred Döblin known for “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, dies of Parkinson's Disease at the age of 78 in Emmendingen, Germany.

1957 (-) Margaret Harold is raped and shot dead by Melvin Rees aka The Sex Beast, in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

1963 (x) 46-year-old 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin, Germany.

1964 (-) Furniture Designer and Architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld dies at the age of 76 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

1968 (-) Actor and comedian Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock commits suicide by an overdose of drugs and alcohol at the age of 44 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1977 (-) Salvatore Lupo is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.

1977 (-) Jayne McDonald is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 16 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
She was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

1990 (-) Murderer James Smith is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1993 (x) 36-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Birgit Elisabeth Hogefeld is arrested in Bad Kleinen, Germany.

1998 (-) Multiple murderer Leopoldo Narvaiz is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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

2002 (-) Murderer Jeffery Lynn Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, June 25, 2010

25 June 2004 - Berlin, Germany

The wing of an aircraft taking Club Moral to an industrial music festival in Berlin, Germany.

1767 (-) Composer Georg Philipp Telemann dies at the age of 86 in Hamburg, Germany.

1835 (-) Artist Antoine-Jean Gros commits suicide by drowning at the age of 64 in Sèvres, France.
A note hidden in his hat read: "Las de la vie, et trahi par les dernières facultés qui la lui rendaient supportable, il avait résolu de s’en défaire."

1852 (+) Architect Antonio Gaudi is born in Reus, Tarragona, Spain.

1875 (-) Double Murderer Louis Wagner is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Thomaston Prison, United Kingdom.

1900 (+) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten is born in Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

1903 (+) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, is born in Motihari, Bengal, India.

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

1924 (+) Filmmaker Sidney Lumet is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1933 (+) First African American student at the University of Mississippi James H. Meredith is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.

1940 (-) Psychologist Wilhelm Stekel commits suicide by hanging at the age of 72 in London, United Kingdom.

1941 (x) Finland declares war to the USSR in Helsinki, Finland.

1942 (-) Serial Killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.

1945 (+) Musician Carly Simon is born in New York, New York, USA.

1959 (-) Spree Killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 20 in State Penitentiary, Nebraska, USA.

1963 (+) Musician George Michael originally Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1979 (x) Start of the trial against 32-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the Chi-Omega murders in Miami, Dade County Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Florida, USA.

1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Diagonal - 1","Diagonal - 2" with Ria Pacquée and "Installation - 4" in Paris, Galerie Diagonal, France.

1984 (-) Philosopher Michel Foucault dies of AIDS at the age of 57 in Paris, France.

1985 (-) Psychotic Murderer and rapist Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 31 in Virginia, USA.

1985 (-) Murderer Charles Milton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1990 (-) Mass Murderer Gene Ronald Simmons is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Arkansas, USA.

1993 (x) 17 Die in hospital for the mentally deranged fire in Rennes, France.
All the inmates were severely sedated and could not be awakened in time.

1997 (-) Murderer William Lyle Woratzeck is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

2002 (-) Mass-murderer Robert Otis Coulson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2009 (-) Actress Farrah Leni Fawcett dies of cancer at the age of 62 in Santa Monica, Saint John's Health Center, California, USA.

2009 (-) Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, dies of an overdose of propofol, along with two anti-anxiety benzodiazepines: lorazepam and midazolam at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, California, USA.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

24 June 2001 - Borgerhout, Belgium

Jakarta Ruangrupa's Ade Darmawan at a party in his favour at our house in Borgerhout, Belgium.

1374 (x) Due to an outbreak of "Johannestanz" aka St. John's Dance aka Dancing Mania people start hallucinating, jumping and twitching uncontrollable until collapsing in Aachen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1519 (-) Duchess of Bisceglie, Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess of Salerno and Femme Fatale Lucrezia Borgia dies from complications after giving birth to her eighth child at the age of 39 in Ferrara, Italy.

1804 (+) Priest and botanist Stephan L. Endlicher is born in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.

1888 (+) Furniture Designer and Architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

1894 (-) Fourth President of France Sadi Marie François Carnot is stabbed to death by anarchist Santo Geronimo Caserio after delivering a speech at a public banquet at the age of 56 in Lyon, France.

1908 (-) 22nd and 24th president of the USA Grover Stephen Cleveland dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

1909 (+) Engineer of the first British atomic bomb William George Penney is born in Gibraltar, United Kingdom.

1930 (+) Filmmaker Claude Chabrol is born in Paris, France.

1935 (+) Minimal Composer Terry Terrence Mitchell Riley is born in Colfax, California, USA.

1936 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer and leader of the Sala Gang Sigvard Sven Emil Nilsson Thurneman aka The Doctor, is arrested at his parents' house in Stockholm, Sweden.

1941 (+) Mass murderer Charles Whitman aka The Man on the Tower, is born in Lake Worth, Florida, USA.

1942 (+) Psychedelic Musician Arthur Brown originally Arthur Wilton, is born in Whitby, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1949 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is born in Rheinberg, Germany.

1950 (+) Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is born in County Cork, Ireland.

1961 (-) Millionaire George Washington Vanderbilt III commits suicide by leaping from his 10th floor suite at the age of 47 in San Francisco, Mark Hopkins Hotel, California, USA.

1975 (x) 112 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, Kennedy Airport, New York, USA.

1976 (x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Minnesota, USA.

1979 (-) Five members of the Steyaert family are shot dead by Freddy Horion aka Beatle and Roland Feneuille in Gent, St. Amandsberg, East Flanders, Belgium.

1987 (-) Murderer Elliott Johnson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
It took 35 minutes to insert a catheder into his vein.

1993 (x) Professor David Gelernter is badly injured when opening a package sent by 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in New Haven, Yale University, Connecticut, USA.

1994 (-) 46-year-old B-52 Pilot Arthur Holland aka Bud, steers a B-52 Stratofortress beyond operational parameters resulting in a crash, killing all 4 crew members at the age of 46 in Washington, Fairchild Air Force Base, District Columbia, USA.
In an investigation the USAF stated that the crash was entirely attributable to Holland's personality and behaviour.

1995 (x) 53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb threat to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, USA.

1995 (x) Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo are abducted by Marc Dutroux at the age of 8 in Grâce-Hollogne, Liège, Belgium.
They were kept in a dungeon in his basement and died of starvation while Dutroux was in prison from later that year onwards.

2002 (x) 218 Die in passenger train collision in Dodoma, Tanzania.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

23 June 2007 - Vilvoorde, Belgium

The railway station as seen from the window of a train carriage in Vilvoorde, Belgium.

1894 (+) Sexuologist Alfred Charles Kinsey is born in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

1894 (+) Ex-King of England Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Edward VIII aka The Duke of Windsor, is born in Richmond, White Lodge, United Kingdom.

1897 (+) Organiser of the Bayreuth Festspiele Winifred Wagner originally Winifred Williams, is born in Hastings, United Kingdom.

1912 (+) Mathematician and cryptographer Alan Mathison Turing aka The Father of Computer Science, is born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom.

1927 (+) Filmmaker Bob Robert Louis Fosse is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1940 (+) Musician Stuart ‘Stu’ Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe aka The Fifth Beatle, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Writer, poet, musician, actor and engineer Boris Vian aka Vernon Sullivan aka Bison Ravi aka Baron Visi aka Brisavion, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 39 in Paris, Cinema Marbeuf, France.

1960 (-) Rapist and murderer Willar Phillips is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.

1961 (-) Frank Beck is assaulted by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, in Langenberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He survived.

1967 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Oliver Lacy is born in Wisconsin, USA.

1968 (x) 71 Die in stampede at the stadium-entrance for the soccer-game Boca Juniors-Estudiantes in Argentina.

1968 (x) 17-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from St. Jozef reformatory and rapes an unidentified woman in Mortsel, Antwerp, Belgium.

1977 (-) Child murderer Jérôme Carrein is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Douai, France.

1980 (-) Crown-prince Sanjay Gandhi is killed in a plane crash at the age of 34 in India.

1981 (-) Actress Zarah Leander originally Zarah Stina Hedberg, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74 in Stockholm, Sweden.

1985 (x) 329 Die in Air India Flight 182 Boeing 747-237B "Emperor Kanishka" explosion due to a terrorist bomb aboard in Cork, Ireland.

1998 (-) Filmmaker Kurt Kren aka Lord of the Frames, dies of pneumonia at the age of 68 in Vienna, Austria.

2006 (-) TV-series-maker Aaron Spelling dies of a stroke at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

22 June 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Constructing "James Lee Byars' Tomb" in the Bastard Art Gallery in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1815 (x) 45-year-old War leader Napoleon Bonaparte is banned to St. Helena in France.

1903 (+) Bankrobber and outlaw John Herbert Dillinger is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

1903 (-) Black Child-Killer George White is lynched by burning in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.

1906 (+) Filmmaker Billy Wilder is born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria.

1918 (x) 86 Die in Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck in Ivanhoe, Indiana, USA.

1924 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is arrested after a minor fight with Kurt Fromm in Hannover, Hauptbahnhof, Germany.

1928 (-) Murderers Shew Chin, Jew Har, Gee King Long and B. W. L. Sam are executed by hanging in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
They killed Tom King in Kingman on 20 october 1926.

1930 (+) Kidnap-victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr is born in Hopewell, New Jersey, USA.

1941 (x) Nazi Germany attacks the USSR in Operation Barbarossa.

1943 (+) Artist Gordon Matta-Clark is born in New York, New York, USA.

1949 (+) Actress Meryl Mary Louise Streep is born in Summit, New Jersey, USA.

1953 (+) Musician Cyndi Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.

1953 (x) Start of the trial against 55-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, in London, Old Bailey, Nr 1 Court, United Kingdom.

1954 (-) Honora Parker is beaten to death by Pauline Parker aka Heavenly Creature, in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
16-year-old Pauline was involved in a lesbian relationship with 15-year-old Juliet Hulme.

1955 (+) Murderer David Lawson is born in North Carolina, USA.

1961 (+) Murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is born in Missouri, USA.

1962 (x) 113 Die in Air France Boeing 707 crash in Guadeloupe.

1965 (-) Murderer James Douglas Latham is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.

1965 (-) Murderer George Ronald York is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.

1967 (-) Gabrielle Puetman is assaulted by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 10 in Grafenhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

1969 (-) Actress Judy Garland originally Frances Ethel Gumm, dies of an incautious self-overdosage of Seconal at the age of 47 in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.

1973 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure in Portland, Oregon, USA.

1974 (-) Roger Dickinson is found mutilated and strangled by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 18 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.

1977 (-) Musician Peter Ravenscroft Laughner dies of acute pancreatitis due to alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 24 in Bay Village, Ohio, USA.

1980 (x) 48-year-old Mass Murderer Alvin King enters the First Baptist Church with an M1 carabine, an automatic rifle, two revolvers and 240 rounds of ammunition. Within seconds he shot and killed 5 people, leaving 10 more seriously wounded in Dangerfield, Texas, USA.

1981 (x) 27-year-old IRA-member Michael James Devine originally Micheal O Duibhinn, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

1983 (-) Troy Ward is abducted, molested and killed by Arthur Bishop at the age of 6 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

1984 (-) Filmmaker Joseph Losey dies at the age of 75 in London, United Kingdom.

1985 (-) Mark Wallace is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 20 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

1987 (-) Actor Fred Astaire originally Fréderic Austerlitz, dies of pneumonia at the age of 88 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1993 (x) Geneticist Charles Epstein is badly injured when opening a package sent by 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Tiburon, University, California, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer Gary Graham aka Shaka Sankofa, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2007 (-) Arte Povera Artist Luciano Fabro dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Milan, Italy.

Monday, June 21, 2010

21 June 2007 - Lausanne, Switzerland

View upon the Lake from which I used water for my performance "La Rencontre Fortuite sur une œuvre de Donald Judd d'une Montagne de Sable et d'un Lac" at Circuit in Lausanne, Switzerland.

1002 (+) 152nd Pope Leo IX originally Bruno, is born in Egisheim, Alsace, Germany.

1377 (-) King of England Edward III dies of a stroke at the age of 64 in Sheen Palace, Richmond, United Kingdom.

1527 (-) Political philosopher and poet Nicolo di Bernardo del Machiavelli dies at the age of 58 in San Casciano, Italy.

1891 (+) Engineer and inventor of concrete ceilings Piero Luigi Nervi is born in Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy.

1905 (+) Writer, philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre is born in Paris, France.

1908 (-) Composer Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimsky-Korsakov dies of angina pectoris at the age of 64 in Lyubensk, Russia.

1935 (+) Writer Françoise Sagan originally Françoise Quoirez, is born in Cajarc, Lot, France.

1944 (+) Musician Ray Raymond Douglas Davies known from The Kinks, is born in Fortis Green, United Kingdom.

1946 (-) Margery Gardner is beaten to death and mutilated by Neville Heath aka The Sadistic Romeo, at the age of 32 in London, United Kingdom.

1953 (+) Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto is born in Karachi, Pakistan.

1955 (+) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kühnen is born in Bonn, Germany.

1970 (-) First President of Indonesia Achmad Sukarno originally Kusno Sosrodihardjo, dies at the age of 69 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

1970 (x) German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion members Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin fly to Beirut from Berlin, Schönefeld, Germany.
From Beirut they moved on via Syria to Amman in Jordan to get a terrorist training at the "El Fatah" camp.

1975 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, marries 22-year-old Mickey in Ormond Beach, Prince of Peace Catholic Church , Florida, USA.

1979 (-) Ex-Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise dies of starvation and tuberculosis at the age of 41 in Kathmandu, Shanta Bawan Hospital, Nepal.

1981 (-) Ada Court is tortured and killed by Clifford Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, at the age of 13 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

1981 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, is arrested while giving a press-conference proclaiming his innocence in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

1982 (x) 27-year-old Attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan, John Warnock Jr. Hinckley aka Jodie Foster’s Lover Boy, is found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1990 (-) Larry Parham is attacked by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 30 in New York, Central Park, New York, USA.
He survived.

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

2003 (-) Writer Leon Uris dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Long Island, New York, USA.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

20 June 2007 - Geneve, Switzerland

My suitcase filled with earth from the Hole waiting on the platform for the train to Lausanne in Geneve, Switzerland.

537 (-) Pope Silverius dies in Palmarola, Italy.

1819 (+) Composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Köln, Germany.

1883 (+) Composer Giannotto Bastianelli is born in Florence, Italy.

1887 (+) Artist Kurt Schwitters is born in Hannover, Germany.

1893 (x) 32-year-old Presumed hatchet murderess Lizzie Andrew Borden is acquitted in the axe-murder trial about her father and stepmother's death in Bedford, Massachussets, USA.

1899 (+) Hero of the French Resistance Jean Moulin aka Joseph Jean Mercier, is born in Béziers, France.

1900 (-) German ambassador in China Klemens August Freiherr von Ketteler is shot dead in the street by an Imperial Guards Brigade at the age of 46 in Beijing, Xizongbu Hutong, China.

1909 (+) Actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn is born in Hobarth, Tasmania.

1912 (-) Anarchist feminist Voltairine de Cleyre dies of septic meningitis at the age of 45 in Chicago, St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Illinois, USA.

1919 (x) 150 Die in Mayaguez theatre fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1924 (-) Murderer William B. Ward is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1925 (+) Most decorated American soldier of WWII Audie Leon Murphy is born in Kingston, Texas, USA.

1928 (+) Politician Jean-Marie Le Pen is born in Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany, France.

1929 (-) Robert Warne is beaten to death by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, in Leavenworth prison, USA.

1930 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, tries to commit suicide by eating a plate of poisonous-rottened beans and cutting an artery in his leg in Leavenworth prison, USA.

1934 (+) Actor Martin Landau is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1934 (x) The body of Cult figure and first wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Carin Göring originally Carin Frelin von Fock, who died 3 years earlier is transferred from Lovö, Sweden to a new mausoleum in Carinhall, Eberswald, Germany.

1942 (+) Beach Boy Brian Douglas Wilson is born in Hawthorne, California, USA.

1942 (-) Dr. Braunberger is presumably killed by by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, 21 rue Lesueur, France.

1947 (-) Racketeer Bugsy Benjamin Siegel originally Benjamin Siegelbaum, has his eyes blown out and vertebrae smashed by members of the Syndicate at the age of 41 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.

1949 (+) Musician Lionel Brockman Jr Richie is born in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA.

1962 (-) Murderer Marthinus Rossouw is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Kaapstad, South Africa.

1969 (-) Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 28 in Vienna, Austria.

1972 (x) Over 200 Die in shooting in Argentina.
It occured at the arrival of Juan Peron.

1976 (x) 32-year-old Girlfriend of Spree Killer Charles Starkweather, Caril Ann Fugate is paroled from Nebraska Correctional Center for Women after serving 18 years in York, Nebraska, USA.

1977 (x) 22-year-old Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, tries to commit suicide by putting a hose from the exhaust into his car in Hawaï, USA.

1981 (-) James Churchill is stabbed to death by Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, at the age of 38 in Rock Island, the Mississippi River banks, Illinois, USA.

1988 (x) Start of the trial against 44-year-old Serial Killer Gary M. Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, City Hall, Room 653, Pennsylvania, USA.

1989 (-) Aljoscha Makarow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 11 in Koltschugino, Wladimir, Russia.

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

1995 (-) Murderer John Jr. Fearance is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1995 (-) Philosopher Emil Cioran dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 84 in Paris, France.

1998 (-) Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 56 in Kipfenberg, Bavaria, Germany.

2006 (-) Triple murderer Lamont Reese is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

19 June 2004 - Borgerhout, Belgium

The video of my performance "He Who Has No Heart Will Have No Heartaches" at Factor 44 in Borgerhout, Belgium.

1623 (+) Mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal is born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

1699 (-) Murderess Angélique Tinquet is executed by beheading in Paris, Place de Grève, France.
The executioner, Charles Sanson, missed twice because he was so enraved by her beauty.

1891 (+) Collage artist John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, is born in Berlin, Germany.

1896 (+) Governor of East-Prussia and War criminal Erich Koch is born in Elberfeld, Germany.

1906 (+) SS-Colonel and inventor of the “Black Raven” mobile gas chambers Walter Rauff is born in Köthen, Saxony, Germany.

1920 (+) Murderer Manuel E. Silvas is born in Arizona, USA.

1926 (+) Anarchist editor and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is born in Milan, Italy.

1932 (+) Actress Pier Angeli originally Anna Maria Pierangeli, is born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

1936 (-) Cop Killer and outlaw Arthur Gooch is executed by hanging in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
300 people watched the execution.

1936 (x) The Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army is declared unlawful in Ireland.

1936 (-) Elon Petterson is shot dead by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor, at the age of 41 in Sala, Sweden.

1945 (x) 40-year-old Murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is infected with malaria, the infected tissue is later removed and implanted on Dave Siegal and Johnnie Raczynski in order to find a cure. in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.

1947 (+) Writer Salman Rushdie is born in Bombay, India.

1948 (+) Singer songwriter Nick Nicholas Rodney Drake is born in Rangoon, Burma.

1949 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Sigrid Sternebeck is born in Bad Pyrmont, Germany.

1951 (+) al-Qaeda leader and Emir of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri is born in Caïro, Maadi, Egypt.

1953 (-) American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 35 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1953 (-) American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

1963 (+) Murder contractor Luis Ramirez is born in Texas, USA.

1970 (x) 28-year-old Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is paroled from the Iowa Men’s Reformatory where he was sent on a sodomy-conviction in Anamosa, Iowa, USA.

1970 (x) 31-year-old Artist Günter Brus the Viennese Actionist, performs his last aktion, "Zerreißprobe" in München, Aktionsraum 1, Germany.

1971 (-) Betty Cloer is presumably beaten and shot dead by Zodiac at the age of 21 in San Francisco, California, USA.

1979 (x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "A Trip to Mexico" in Gent, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, East Flanders, Belgium.

1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Death-Interruption - 2" in Paris, Galerie Diagonal, France.

1982 (-) Antonella Migliorini is shot dead by Pietro Pacciani aka Il Mostre, at the age of 22 in Florence, Montespertoli, Italy.

1993 (-) Writer Sir William Gerald Golding known for “Lord of the Flies”, dies of heart failure at the age of 81 in Perranarworthal, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

1996 (-) Child Killer Daren L. Bolton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

2001 (-) Triple murderer Juan Raul Garza is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.

Friday, June 18, 2010

18 June 2007 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Filling a suitcase with earth from my Hole to take on a plane and train for a performance in Lausanne, in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1806 (+) Poet Charlotte Stieglitz is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

1897 (-) Pierre Laurent is murdered by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 13 in France.

1909 (-) Murderer Adolf N. Nordstrom is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Oregon, USA.

1928 (-) Explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen disappears while flying on a rescue mission for crew members of the Italia aircraft at the age of 55 in Bjornoya, Norway.

1936 (-) Writer Maxim Alexey Maksimowitsch Peshkow Gorky dies of influenza at the age of 68 in Moscow, Russia.
He was probably killed by kampher-injections and digitaline-strychnine-poisoning.

1942 (+) Beatle Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

1948 (+) Double murderer John Noland is born in North Carolina, USA.

1952 (+) Actress, filmmaker and philantropist Isabella Fiorelle Elettra Giovanna Rosselini is born in Rome, Italy.

1953 (x) 129 Die in US Air Force C-124 crash in Tokyo, Japan.

1963 (-) Actor Pedro Gregorio Hastings Armendariz commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 51 in Los Angeles, UCLA Medical Centre, California, USA.
He learned he had terminal cancer in his hips.

1966 (-) Peter Frase is tortured by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 14 in Langenberg, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
He survived and led to the arrest of Bartsch.

1972 (x) 118 Die in British European Airways Flight 548 Trident 1C crash due to pilot error in Staines, United Kingdom.

1978 (-) Stephen Hicks is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Bath, 4480 West Bath Road, Ohio, USA.

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

1990 (-) Mass Murderer James Edward Pough aka Pop, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 42 in Jacksonville, 7870 Baymeadows Way, Florida, USA.
Minutes before he walked into a General Motors Acceptance Corporation car loan office to buy a new car, but decided to shoot 14 people, leaving 9 dead. The day before he shot and killed prostitute Doretta Drake and her pimp Louis Carl Bacon.

1991 (-) Murderer Jerry Joe Bird is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

1993 (x) 51-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails 2 bombs, to Geneticist Charles Epstein of University of California, Sacramento, and Professor David Gelernter of Yale University, New Haven in Sacramento, California, USA.

1997 (-) Murderer Irineo Tristan Montona is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1998 (-) Rampage Killer Dennis Wayne Eaton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Virginia, USA.

2003 (-) Murderer Ernest Martin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

17 June 1999 - Asperen, Netherlands

True Crime Art fan Maren Hoffmeister came all the way from Germany to see my work on the Jockel project and some other stuff I made for Dante's Inferno in Asperen, Netherlands.

1882 (+) Composer Igor Fyodorowitsch Strawinsky is born in Oraniënbaum, Lomonosov, Russia.

1898 (+) Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher is born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

1900 (+) Nazi-leader Martin Bormann is born in Wegeleben, Halberstadt, Germany.

1924 (+) Serial Killer Archibald Thomson Hall aka Roy Fontaine aka The Monster Butler, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

1933 (-) Raymond Caffrey is shot dead in an ambush by Charles Floyd aka Pretty Boy, at the age of 31 in Kansas City, USA.

1939 (-) Serial Killer Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 31 in Versailles, outside Prison Saint-Pierre, rue Georges Clémenceau, France.
It was the last public execution and the last one before the outbreak of the war.

1940 (x) 84-year-old Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain orders all Frenchmen to lay down their arms against Nazi Germany in Paris, France.

1943 (+) Musician Barry Manilow originally Barry Alan Pincus, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1949 (+) Musician Snakefinger originally Philip Charles Lithman, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1952 (+) Artist John Duncan is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1952 (-) Rocket propulsion researcher and Magick-pupil of Aleister Crowley John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons is blown apart by an explosion of fulminate of mercury in his garage laboratory at the age of 37 in Pasadena, California, USA.
Later he was credited with the creation of solid rocket fuel, a crater on the moon is named after him. Hearing about her son's death, Parsons' mother committed suicide.

1959 (-) Elizabeth Figg aka Ann Philips, is found naked and dead by Jack the Stripper at the age of 21 in London, Thames Banks, United Kingdom.

1959 (-) Frieda Tesmer is strangled and butchered by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 24 in Rheinhausen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

1963 (-) Last Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Richard Baer dies of a heart attack in prison at the age of 51 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

1972 (x) 107 Die in train collision in a tunnel near Soissons, France.

1972 (x) 7 burglars are arrested in the Watergate-building, headquarters of the American Democratic Party in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

1986 (-) Todd Stoops is abducted, tortured and killed by Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, at the age of 21 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

1990 (-) Fashion model and designer Henry Palmira aka Pal, dies of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 44 in New York, New York, USA.

1997 (-) Kidnapper and multiple murderer Eddie J. Johnson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Double murderer Michael Kent Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.

1999 (-) Murderer Joseph S. Faulder is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

16 June 1999 - Asperen, Netherlands

Super Curator Brigitte van der Sande feeding her newborn child while setting up Dante's Inferno at Fort Asperen, Netherlands.

1829 (+) Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, Goyathlay Geronimo aka The One Who Yawns, is born in Gila River, New Mexico, USA.

1883 (x) 183 children Die in Victoria Hall stampede in Sunderland, Toward Road, United Kingdom.
Worried about missing out on treats, many of the estimated 1.100 children in the gallery stampeded toward the staircase leading downstairs.

1890 (+) Actor Stan Laurel originally Arthur Stanley Jefferson, is born in Ulverston, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

1896 (+) Automobile manufacterer Jean Peugeot is born in France.

1913 (x) The first ‘Apartheid’-law is voted, stating that certain lands can only be owned by whites, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1920 (x) Black rapists Elmer Jackson, Isaac McGhie and Nate Green are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, USA.

1920 (+) Journalist John Howard Griffin known from “Black Like Me”, is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.

1923 (-) An unidentified man is murdered "for the fun it gave me" by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, in Kingston, New York, USA.

1925 (+) Viennese Aktionist Otto Mühl is born in Grodnau, Burgenland, Austria.

1935 (+) Pop Artist Jim Dine is born in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.

1937 (+) Actor Erich Wolf Segal is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1959 (-) Actor George Bessolo Reeves originally George Keefer Brewer aka Superman, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 45 in Benedict Canyon, California, USA.

1963 (x) 26-year-old Astronaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova happens to be the first woman in space in a Vostok-6.
She spent three days in space, which was more than the combined time of all american astronauts in space.

1964 (-) Keith Bennet is kidnapped and murdered by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 12 in Manchester, United Kingdom.

1971 (+) Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1976 (x) Over 600 Die in race-riot in Soweto, South Africa.

1976 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Dennis Andrew Nilsen aka Killing For Company, has a gallstone removed by Dr. Kirk in Willesden General Hospital, United Kingdom.

1977 (-) Scientist astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr Von Braun dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

1978 (-) Carol Reeves is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in France.

1987 (-) Policeman and murderer Jimmy Wingo is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 35 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.

1990 (-) Sadist Murderess Gertrude Baniszewski aka Gertrude Wright aka Nadine van Fossan, dies of lung cancer at the age of 60 in Iowa, USA.

1997 (-) Serial Killer Gerd Wenzinger commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 54 in Salvador, Baha, Brazil.
He was facing charges of killing 13 prostitutes in Berlin and Stuttgart, and sexually torturing many more in Germany and Brazil.

1997 (-) Murderer David Stoker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

1999 (-) Musician David Edward Sutch aka Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, commits suicide by hanging at the age of 58 in London, United Kingdom.

2006 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Alexander Pichushkin aka The Bitsevsky Maniac, is arrested in Moscow, Russia.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

15 June 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium

Mounting aluminium shields casted from my chest for a permanent installation in the Police Station of Zone City in Antwerpen, Belgium.

1843 (+) Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway.

1849 (-) 11th president of the USA James Knox Polk dies of cholera at the age of 53 in Nashville, Polk Place, Tennessee, USA.

1904 (x) Over 1000 Die in General Slocum steamer fire in Manhattan, East River, New York, USA.

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

1906 (+) Rexist and Belgian SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Degrelle is born in Bouillon, Belgium.

1914 (+) Soviet leader Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov is born in Stavropol, Russia.

1929 (+) Filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis aka The Godfather of Gore, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

1938 (-) Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner commits suicide by distress after the destruction of approximately 600 of his works by the Nazis because of 'degeneration' at the age of 58 in Davos, Switzerland.

1940 (x) 49-year-old Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond marries his secretary Anne Wilbraham in London, United Kingdom.

1943 (+) Musician Johnny Hallyday originally Jean-Philippe Smet, is born in Paris, Cité Malesherbes, France.

1943 (+) Writer, call girl and madam Xaviera Hollander aka The Happy Hooker originally Vera de Vries, is born in Soerabaja, Indonesia.

1966 (-) Maria G. is attacked by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 55 in Zagorze, Poland.
She survived.

1967 (-) Zofia K. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 40 in Grodziec, Poland.

1970 (-) Unidentified woman is assaulted by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 22 in Soest, Jakob Notenwal, Germany.

1972 (x) 37-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is arrested in Hannover, Langenhagen, Walsroder Strasse, Germany.
To make sure they have captured the feared terrorist they make an X-ray of her head, revealing a metal clip that was left behind during a brain-operation 10 years earlier.

1973 (-) Raymond Blackburn is killed by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 20 in Houston, Pasadena, Texas, USA.

1974 (-) Unidentified boy is abducted and sexually assaulted by Daniël Baron aka The Triangle of Death Killer, at the age of 15 in Limoges, France.

1975 (x) 28-year-old Manson Family-member Tex Charles Denton Watson is born again and baptized by a student chaplain in a large plastic laundry cart outside the prison chapel in Folsom Prison, California, USA.

1982 (-) Debra Smith Taylor is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 23 in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.

1983 (-) 2 unidentified girls is abducted and sexually assaulted by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, in Boynton City, Beach Park, Florida, USA.

1985 (x) Artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn's "Danaë" is attacked with sulfuric acid and a knife by an unidentified man later judged insane in St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum, Russia.

1990 (x) 43-year-old SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ralf Baptist Friedrich is arrested in Schwedt/Oder, Germany.

1994 (-) Murderer David Lawson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 39 in North Carolina, USA.

1996 (-) Musician Ella Jane Fitzgerald aka The First Lady of Song, dies of diabetes at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1998 (-) Murderer Johnny Pyles is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer Paul Selso Nuncio is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, June 14, 2010

14 June 2003 - Gent, Belgium

Club Moral fans lining up to witness the presentation of our 10" vinyl from the supposedly Kapellmeister series at the Crazy Cabaret in Gent, Belgium.

1349 (-) Anti-King Günther Von Schwarzburg dies at the age of 44 in Burg Greifenstein, Bad Blankenburg, Thüringen, Germany.

1497 (-) Second Duke of Gandia Juan Borgia is presumably stabbed to death by his brother at the age of 23 in Rome, Piazza della Giudecca, Italy.

1856 (-) Serial Killer Dr William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Stafford Gaol, United Kingdom.
Some 30.000 people watched the execution.

1864 (+) Neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer is born in Marktbreit, Bavaria, Germany.

1907 (-) Architect William Le Baron Jenney aka The Father of the American Skyscraper, dies at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1924 (-) Erich Devries is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

1928 (+) Revolutionary leader Ernesto De La Serna aka Che Guevara, is born in Rosario, Argentina.

1931 (x) 450 Die in St. Philibert excursion steamer shipwreck in St. Nazaire, France.

1933 (+) Writer Jerzy Kosinski is born in Lodz, Poland.

1945 (+) Artist Jörg Immendorff is born in Bleckede, Germany.

1946 (-) Actor Charles Butterworth commits suicide by a car crash at the age of 49 in California, USA.

1961 (+) Musician Boy George originally George Alan O’Dowd, is born in London, United Kingdom.

1962 (-) Anna Slesers is sexually assaulted and strangled by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 55 in Boston, 77 Gainsborough Street, Massachussets, USA.

1976 (x) Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, in Oxford, United Kingdom.

1980 (-) Regina Barthel is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 14 in Dietzenbach, Heusenstamm Wald, Germany.

1982 (x) Argentina capitulates to the United Kingdom in the Falklands-War.

1986 (-) Ludmilla Liberman is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 86 in Paris 14th, 61 Avenue General Leclerc, France.

1989 (-) Edward Smith aka The Sheik, is drugged, strangled, violated and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 26 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

1989 (x) 72-year-old Actress and Beauty Queen Zsa Zsa Gabor originally Sári Gábor aka Sári Prinzessin von Anhalt, is arrested for slapping a motorcycle police agent in the face in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
She will be sentenced to 72 hours in jail.

1990 (x) 38-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Werner Lotze is arrested in Senftenberg, Germany.

1990 (x) 41-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christine Dümlein is arrested in Senftenberg, Germany.

1991 (-) Leslie Mahaffy is beaten and asphyxiated by Paul Bernardo aka The Scarborough Rapist aka The Schoolgirl Killer, at the age of 16 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
His wife Karla Leanne Homolka, helped him abduct and sexually assault the girl.

1994 (-) Composer Henry Enrico Nicola Mancini dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2000 (-) Murderer John Albert Burks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer Jay D. Scott is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

2007 (-) Secretary General of the United Nations and President of Austria Kurt Josef Waldheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 88 in Vienna, Austria.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

13 June 1999 - Asperen, Netherlands

Hens and cocks preparing for the night in Asperen, Netherlands.

1861 (-) The first ever person to attempt the assassination of an American President, Richard Lawrence dies at the age of 61 in Washington, St. Elisabeth’s Hospital, District Columbia, USA.
On 30 january 1835 he drew his pistol at President Andrew Jackson, but his pistol - as well as a second one - misfired.

1865 (+) Writer William Butler Yeats is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1886 (-) The Mad King of Bavaria, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig II drowns at the age of 40 in Lake Starnberg, Germany.
He took a walk with Professor Bernhard von Gudden, several hours their bodies were found floating dead in the lake.

1910 (+) Moralist campaigner Mary Whitehouse originally Constance Mary Hutcheson, is born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom.

1935 (+) Artist Javacheff Christo originally Hristo Yavashev, is born in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.

1942 (x) 13-year-old Serial Killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is arrested after committing over 50 thrill-burglaries and is sent to the Gibault Correctional School for Catholic Boys in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.

1943 (+) Actor Malcolm McDowell is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

1949 (+) Paris-Dakar rally-organiser Thierry Sabine is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1969 (-) Founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths Clarence 13X originally Clarence Smith aka The Father, is shot dead by persons unknown at the age of 41 in Harlem, New York, USA.

1976 (-) William Carrol is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 16 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1983 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is sentenced to death for two murders in Daytona Beach Courthouse, Florida, USA.

1983 (-) Cindy Paulsen is abducted and raped by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 19 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
She managed to escape afterwards.

1984 (x) 17-year-old Wendy Baribeault is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, Die in in Griswold, Connecticut, USA.

1985 (x) Peter Paul Rubens’ painting "Koning Filip IV" is damaged by persons unknown in Zürich, Kunsthaus, Switzerland.

1985 (x) The bomb mailed by 43-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, to the Fabrication Division of Boeing, is found and succesfully disarmed in Auburn, Washington, USA.

1986 (x) 26-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Ik Daag U Uit" with Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven aka AMVK at the Anti-Chambres exhibition in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.

1986 (-) Musician Benny Benjamin David Goodman dies of a heart attack at the age of 77 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

1988 (-) Murderer Edward Byrnes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Angola, Louisiana, USA.

1995 (x) Tenth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in Lubeck, Germany.
Politician Thomas Rother gets injured.

1997 (-) Murderer Michael Elkins is executed by lethal injection in South Carolina, USA.
Because of Elkins' poor physical condition, the first needle was ultimately inserted in Elkins's neck (attempts to use his arms, legs, feet were not successful) and the second needle was not used.

1998 (x) 63-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is transferred back to Corcoran State Prison after serving time in Pelican Bay State Prison for peddling drugs to fellow inmates in Corcoran, California, USA.

2001 (-) Murderer John L. Wheat is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2002 (-) Murderer Daniel Earl Reneau is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Triple murderer Joseph Trueblood is executed by lethal injection in Indiana, USA.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

12 June 2008 - Kemzeke, Belgium

My installation "The Family" consists of 24 knife wielding machines that randomly switch on and off during an exhibition about art and machinery at Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, Belgium.

816 (-) Pope Leo III dies at the age of 66 in Rome, Italy.

1890 (+) Artist Egon Schiele is born in Tulin-an-der-Tau, Austria.

1924 (+) 41st President of the USA George Herbert Walker Bush is born in Milton, Massachussets, USA.

1929 (+) Writer Anne Annelies Marie Frank is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.

1931 (-) Triple Murderer Stephanus Louis Van Wijk is executed by hanging in Praetoria Prison, South Africa.

1936 (-) Murderer Tyrie Harrell is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

1944 (x) Nazi Germany launches the first V-1 rocket towards London in Peenemunde, Germany.

1948 (+) Double Murderer David Junior Brown is born in North Carolina, USA.

1963 (-) Black Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers is shot in the back by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith at the age of 37 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
De La Beckwith was only convicted of murder three decades later, on 5 February 1994.

1978 (x) 25-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is sentenced to 315 years imprisonment and sent to the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, New York, USA.

1980 (-) Prime Minister Masajoshi Ohira dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Tokyo, Japan.

1982 (-) Ljuba Birjuk is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 12 in Donskaja, Landstraße Nowotscherkassk-Bagajewska, Russia.

1985 (-) Colonel Vicente Romero Calatayud is shot dead by the ETA at the age of 55 in Madrid, Spain.

1987 (-) Murderer Jimmy Glass is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Louisiana, USA.

1987 (x) 66-year-old Military Ruler Jean Bédel Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa is sentenced to death in Bangui, Central Africa.

1990 (x) 46-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Inge Viett is arrested in Magdeburg, Germany.

1993 (-) Emanuel Spitteri is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 42 in London, United Kingdom.

2000 (-) Double Murderer Thomas Wayne Mason is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2003 (-) Actor Gregory Eldred Peck dies of bronchopneumonia at the age of 87 in Torrance, California, USA.

2006 (-) Composer Györgi Sándor Ligeti dies at the age of 83 in Wien, Austria.