29th year - N° 59 Friday, 28 February 2014

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29th year - N° 59 Friday, 28 February 2014

28 February / Today's 3 Events:

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(x) 67 years ago Friday 28th of February 1947 Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team in Tianma teahouse, Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more.

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(-) 58 years ago Tuesday 28th of February 1956 Gangster and French public enemy No. 1 for 1950 Émile Buisson aka Mimile is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 43 years ago Sunday 28th of February 1971 31-year-old Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci performs 'Security Zone' with Lee Jaffe in Pier 18, New York, New York, United States.

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29th year - N° 58 Thursday, 27 February 2014

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29th year - N° 58 Thursday, 27 February 2014

27 February / Today's 4 Events:

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(-) 127 years ago Sunday 27th of February 1887 Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies of poor health at the age of 54 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 27th of February 1970 32-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 7th 'Abreaktionsspiel' in Aktionsraum 1, Waltherstraße 25, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(x) 10 years ago Friday 27th of February 2004 116 die in SuperFerry 14 bomb explosion in Manila Bay, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. Redondo Cain Dellosa later admitted to planting the bomb on board for the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group. Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr. was arrested in Bahrain on 24 July 2008 as the mastermind behind the bombing.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of February 2005 Dorothea Olkowski's impressive high heels during her lecture at AMVK's 'HeadNurse' booklaunch in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 57 Wednesday, 26 February 2014

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29th year - N° 57 Wednesday, 26 February 2014

26 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 168 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1846 Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill is born in Napsinekee Hollow, Le Claire, Iowa, United States.

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(-) 100 years ago Thursday 26th of February 1914 Murderer George Ball aka George Sumner aka The Sack Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He killed his employer Christina Catherine Bradfield in her shop at 86 Old Hall Street in Liverpool on 10 December 1913.

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(x) 71 years ago Friday 26th of February 1943 The first transport of Gypsies arrives in Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.

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(-) 43 years ago Friday 26th of February 1971 Actor and singer Fernandel, originally Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin dies of lung cancer at the age of 68 in Avenue Foch, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 28 years ago Wednesday 26th of February 1986 50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito is arrested only a few minutes after he had murdered a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador. Barbosa was charged with the rape, mutilation and murder of 71 women in 15 months after he escaped from Gorgona prison in Colombia in November 1984.

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1 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 26th of February 2013 James Chance and Les Contortions playing live in Magasin 4, Avenue du Port, 51b, Brussels, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 56 Tuesday, 25 February 2014

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29th year - N° 56 Tuesday, 25 February 2014

25 February / Today's 5 Events:

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(+) 141 years ago Tuesday 25th of February 1873 Tenor Enrico Caruso is born in Via San Giovannello agli Ottocalli 7, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(-) 92 years ago Saturday 25th of February 1922 Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 53 in Prison Saint Pierre, Place des Tribunaux, Versailles, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 83 years ago Wednesday 25th of February 1931 Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare is born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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(x) 32 years ago Thursday 25th of February 1982 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Resonantiepunctie' in an exhibition of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Zeno X Gallery, Leopold De Waelplaats, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 25th of February 2007 My 'Bastard Art' piece 'Erd-Ecke' in  'The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience' exhibition in NICC, Museumstraat, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 55 Monday, 24 February 2014

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29th year - N° 55 Monday, 24 February 2014

24 February / Today's 5 Events:

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(+) 514 years ago Sunday 24th of February 1500 Holy Roman Emperor Karl V is born in Prinsenhof, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 139 years ago Wednesday 24th of February 1875 102 die in SS Gothenburg shipwreck in Holbourne Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

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(x) 47 years ago Friday 24th of February 1967 36-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler ake The Measuring Man aka The Green Man escapes in Bridgewater State Hospital, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. He was arrested 30 hours later in West Lynn, Massachusetts.

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(-) 41 years ago Saturday 24th of February 1973 Carol Anne Baglin is beaten to death to purify her of lusting sexual thoughts by 27-year-old Robert William Jacobson aka David Phipps, 24-year-old Toni Antoinette Denise White, 21-year-old James Cyril Cendrillon and 17-year-old Alphons Joseph Klimek at the age of 20 in Raynes Park Road, Hampton, Australia. "After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor."

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8 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 24th of February 2006

The Rue Le Sueur where Serial Killer Dr. Marcel Petiot killed about 63 people at n° 21 (the original building however was torn down) in his infamous 'Triangular Chamber of Death', before and during WWII in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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29th year - N° 54 Sunday, 23 February 2014

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29th year - N° 54 Sunday, 23 February 2014

23 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(x) 84 years ago Sunday 23rd of February 1930 Hildegard Eid is attacked and raped by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. She survived and met Kürten again on 3 March 1930.

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(x) 41 years ago Friday 23rd of February 1973 25-year-old Member of the 'Manson Family' Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz is baptised by Chaplain Sargent Wright in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Monday 23rd of February 1981 Gabriella Bohn is beaten to death and raped by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer in Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(x) 29 years ago Saturday 23rd of February 1985 Over 100 die in express train fire in Rajnandgaon, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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(x) 24 years ago Friday 23rd of February 1990 31-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Body Art' in Galerie Lydia Megert, Münstergasse 6, Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. I was hanging naked upside down on a tree which I had brought into the gallery. Between my body and the door a long stick was stuck.

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1 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 23rd of February 2013 James Chance and the Contortions playing live in Petrol Club, d'Herbouvillekaai 25, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 53 Saturday, 22 February 2014

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29th year - N° 53 Saturday, 22 February 2014

22 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 118 years ago Saturday 22nd of February 1896 Poet and writer Paul Leopold Andreas Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830 is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 99 years ago Monday 22nd of February 1915 The right leg of 71-year-old Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt, originally Rosine Bernardt aka The Divine Sarah is amputated because of gangrene due to an accident in 1905 in Clinique Saint-Augustin, 114 Avenue d'Ares, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Bernhardt reportedly refused a $10.000 offer by a showman to display her amputated leg as a medical curiosity. In December 2008 the leg was found in the basement of the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux.

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(x) 54 years ago Monday 22nd of February 1960 134 die in Karl Marx coal mine explosion and fire in Steinkohlenwerk Karl Marx, Zwickau, Sachsen, Germany.

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(-) 46 years ago Thursday 22nd of February 1968 Patricia Docker is raped and strangled by serial killer The Bible John Killer in Carmichael Place, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 41 years ago Thursday 22nd of February 1973 Over 200 die in ferry and Japanese Bombary Maru cargo ship collision in Rangoon, Yangon, Burma.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 22nd of February 2004 Probably not very obvious, but yet a homecoming from Asia party at our house in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 52 Friday, 21 February 2014

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29th year - N° 52 Friday, 21 February 2014

21 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(-) 111 years ago Saturday 21st of February 1903 Ida Launer is killed, cut to pieces and eaten by serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke aka Papa Denke in Teichstraße 10, Münsterberg, Niederschlesien, Germany. According to Denke's well kept diaries Launer was his first victim. He even painstakingly noted his victim's weight.

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(+) 111 years ago Saturday 21st of February 1903 Writer Anaïs Nin, originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell known for Delta of Venus is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 107 years ago Thursday 21st of February 1907 142 die in SS Berlin shipwreck in Hoek van Holland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 89 years ago Saturday 21st of February 1925 Inauguration of a monument in memory of the victims of 46-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Stadtfriedhof Stocken, Abteilung 49D/189-192, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(x) 41 years ago Wednesday 21st of February 1973 105 die in Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727-224 Flight 114 crash in Ismailiya, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The plane was lost and entered Israeli-controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula, where it was intercepted by two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs, and was shot down after refusing to co-operate. There were six survivors.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 21st of February 2002 A metal stairway in a school, location of an international exhibition of contemporary art in Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 51 Thursday, 20 February 2014

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29th year - N° 51 Thursday, 20 February 2014

20 February / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 119 years ago Wednesday 20th of February 1895 Henri Valéry is born in Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, France. Valéry was an identity used by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer at the time of his arrest.

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(-) 88 years ago Saturday 20th of February 1926 Clara Newman is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Francisco, California, United States. Newman was Nelson's first victim.

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(-) 73 years ago Thursday 20th of February 1941 Lisa Nowak is beaten to death by serial killer Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 60 years ago Saturday 20th of February 1954 Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 27 years ago Friday 20th of February 1987 45-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber places bomb #20, a booby trap disguised as a piece of lumber behind the CAAMS computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Store owner Gary Wright is badly injured when he picks up the package. Based on a witness description a widely spread sketch of a man in a hooded sweatshirt wearing aviator glasses was made up.

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(x) 11 years ago Thursday 20th of February 2003 100 die in The Station night club fire in The Station, 211 Cowesett Avenue, West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States. The fire was caused by pyrotechnics set off by 29-year-old tour manager Daniel Biechele of the evening's headlining band, Jack Russell's Great White, which ignited flammable sound insulation foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. Among those who perished in the fire were Great White's lead guitarist, Ty Longley and the show's emcee, DJ Mike 'The Doctor' Gonsalves. More than one survivor later stated that a bouncer stopped people trying to escape via the stage exit, stating that that door was "for the band only."

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(x) 8 years ago He Went Deeper and Down Monday 20th of February 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV starts 'Diggin' for Gordon' at an undisclosed location in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 20th of February 2007 A rusty gas pipe in desperate need of replacement in our basement in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 50 Wednesday, 19 February 2014

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29th year - N° 50 Wednesday, 19 February 2014

19 February / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 541 years ago Thursday 19th of February 1473 Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in ul. Kopernika 15, Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Poland.

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(-) 289 years ago Monday 19th of February 1725 Innkeeper Mme Millet dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Reims, Marne, France. Late at night 'Lion d'Or' innkeeper Jean Millet woke to the smell of fire. He rushed through the hallways to warn his guests, who followed him downstairs and came upon a horrifying sight of his wife. Parts of Mme Millet's head, backbone and legs lay smoldering on the kitchen floor. The rest of her was reduced to ash. Her chair by the fireplace was only slightly scorched, and there were burn marks under her remains.

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(+) 116 years ago Saturday 19th of February 1898 Cult leader Louwrens Lou Voorthuyzen aka Lou De Palingboer is born in Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 29 years ago Tuesday 19th of February 1985 148 die in Iberia Airlines Boeing 727–256 Flight 610 crash in Mount Oiz, Amorebieta-Etxano, Bizkaia, Spain.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 19th of February 2007 Chinese New Year in Chinatown in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 5 years ago Thursday 19th of February 2009 50-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Oprichting en Manifest van het Bastardisme' at a literary event in Passa Porta, Dansaertstraat 46, Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

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