Wednesday, June 9, 2010

9 June 1999 - Venezia, Italy


A chance meeting with Luisa Rabbia at the Biennale in Venezia, Italy.
53 (x) 15-year-old Fifth and last Emperor of Rome Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Nero originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, marries Claudia Octavia in Rome, Italy.
62 (-) First wife of Emperor Nero, Claudia Octavia is executed by opening her veins at the age of 23 in Rome, Italy.
Her terror was so great that the flow of blood was retarded and so she was suffocated in an exceedingly hot vapor bath. Octavia’s head was cut off and sent to Poppaea Sabina, Nero's second wife.
68 (-) Fifth and last Emperor of Rome Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Nero originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, commits suicide by cutting his throat at the age of 30 in Rome, Italy.
1572 (-) Queen of Navarra Jeanne d’Albret dies of a fever attack at the age of 44 in Pau, France.
1870 (-) Writer Charles John Huffam Dickens aka Boz, dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, United Kingdom.
1892 (+) Musician Cole Albert Porter is born in Peru, Indiana, USA.
1896 (-) Murderer Albert Milsom is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
1896 (-) Murderer Henry Fowler is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
1908 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hermann Wolf is born in Hannover, Germany.
1916 (-) Murderer N. B. Chavez is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1924 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, moves to Rote Reihe 4 in Hannover, Germany.
1927 (-) Emily Patterson is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Winnipeg, Canada.
1940 (+) Victim of Jack The Stripper, Helen Catherine Barthelemey Helene Paul Thompson, is born in Edinburgh, Ormiston, Meadowbank Crescent, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1940 (x) Norway capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
1945 (+) Cyclist Luis Jesús Ocaña Pernía is born in Priego, Cuenca, Spain.
1946 (-) 8th King of Thailand Rama VIII originally Ananda Mahidol aka Phra Paramenthara Maha Ananda Mahidol Phra Athama Ramathibodinthra, dies of a gunshot in the forehead at the age of 20 in Bangkok, Grand Palace, Boromphiman Throne Hall, Thailand.
The circumstances of his death and his eventual murderer have never been clear.
1956 (x) 27-year-old Murderer James Rowe is arrested in Los Angeles, Westlake, California, USA.
1959 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, is arrested in a tailorshop where he left behind a suitcase full of pornography and a sawn-off shotgun in Karlsruhe, Hornberg, Germany.
1963 (+) Actor Johnny John Christopher Depp is born in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA.
1969 (-) Alice Kalom is is found raped, shot and her throat cut by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Northfield Township, Michigan, USA.
1972 (x) Members of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Bernard Braun are arrested in Berlin, Germany.
1973 (-) Yvone Quilantang is presumably strangled by Zodiac at the age of 15 in San Francisco, California, USA.
1975 (-) Monika Sorn is raped and killed by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 17 in Hemsbach, Germany.
1981 (x) Start of the trial against 30-year-old Serial Killer Randy Randall Brent Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, in Salem, Oregon, USA.
1983 (-) Cop Killers Thelle Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Semano Mosololi and Marcus Thabo Motaung are executed by hanging in Praetoria Prison, South Africa.
1986 (-) Janet Cockett is strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 67 in London, Stockwell, Overton Road Estate, United Kingdom.
1986 (-) Murderer Rudy Esquivel is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
1995 (x) Ninth bomb attack by 45-year-old Xenophobic Serial Bomber Franz Fuchs in München, Austria.
Two people get injured, one of the targeted victims was a TV-host for channel 'Pro 7'.
2000 (-) Artist George Segal dies at the age of 75 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

No comments: