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.

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