Monday, February 29, 2016

31st year - N° 60 Monday, 29 February 2016

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31st year - N° 60 Monday, 29 February 2016

29 February / Today's 6 Events:
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224 years ago

Wednesday 29th of February 1792

Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini is born in Pesaro, Marche, Italy.


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152 years ago

Monday 29th of February 1864

Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.


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108 years ago

Saturday 29th of February 1908

Artist Balthasar Kłossowski, originally Kłossowski de Rola aka Balthus is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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60 years ago

Wednesday 29th of February 1956

Serial killer Aileen Carol Wuornos, originally Pittman aka The Florida Highway Killer is born in Rochester, Michigan, United States.


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56 years ago The Bullet Traced his Head

Monday 29th of February 1960

FBI Special Agent Melvin Horace Purvis aka Little Mel commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 57 in Florence, South Carolina, United States.

Purvis died from a gunshot wound to the head fired from the pistol given to him by fellow agents when he resigned from the FBI. A later investigation suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally while trying to extract a tracer bullet jammed in the pistol.


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20 years ago

Thursday 29th of February 1996

123 die in Faucett Boeing 737-222 Flight 251 crash in Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru.


Sunday, February 28, 2016

31st year - N° 59 Sunday, 28 February 2016

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31st year - N° 59 Sunday, 28 February 2016

28 February / Today's 11 Events:
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1530 years ago

Thursday 28th of February 0486

46th Pope Hilarius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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136 years ago

Saturday 28th of February 1880

Victim of John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer Olive Henrietta Olivia Robarts Durand-Deacon is born in Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.


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110 years ago

Wednesday 28th of February 1906

Mobster Bugsy Benjamin Siegel, originally Benjamin Siegelbaum is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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74 years ago

Saturday 28th of February 1942

Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkins Jones is born in Park Nursing Home, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.


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69 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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66 years ago

Tuesday 28th of February 1950

Irish republican hunger striker Francis Hughes, originally Proinsias Ó hAodha is born in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.


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60 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 by André Olbrecht at the age of 54 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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56 years ago

Sunday 28th of February 1960

Serial killer Richard Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez aka The Night Stalker is born in El Paso, Texas, United States.


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56 years ago

Sunday 28th of February 1960

Playmate of the Year 1980 Dorothy Stratten, originally Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


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45 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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30 years ago

Friday 28th of February 1986

26th Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Sven Joachim Palme is shot dead by an unidentified assassin at the age of 59 in Sveavägen, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

Although more than 130 people have confessed to Palme's murder the case remains unsolved.


Friday, February 26, 2016

31st year - N° 57 Friday, 26 February 2016

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31st year - N° 57 Friday, 26 February 2016

26 February / Today's 23 Events:
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214 years ago

Friday 26th of February 1802

Romantic poet and writer Victor Marie Hugo is born in 140 Grande Rue, Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.


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187 years ago

Thursday 26th of February 1829

Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss, originally Löb Strauß known for Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans is born in Marktstraße 33, Buttenheim, Bayern, Germany.


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170 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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164 years ago

Thursday 26th of February 1852

Serial poisoner Hélène Jégado is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 49 in Champ-de-Mars, Rennes, Bretagne, France.

Jégado is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years.


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164 years ago

Thursday 26th of February 1852

Advocate of dietary reform John Harvey Kellogg is born in Tyrone, Michigan, United States.


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108 years ago

Wednesday 26th of February 1908

Animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director Tex Frederick Bean Avery is born in Taylor, Texas, United States.


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107 years ago

Friday 26th of February 1909

Murderer Cyrus Y. Timmons is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.


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102 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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88 years ago

Sunday 26th of February 1928

Singer-songwriter and musician Fats Antoine Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.


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84 years ago

Friday 26th of February 1932

Singer-songwriter Johnny R. Cash aka The Man in Black is born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States.


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73 years ago

Friday 26th of February 1943

The first transport of Gypsies arrives in KZ Buchenwald, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany.


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73 years ago

Friday 26th of February 1943

SS-Obergruppenführer and first commander of Dachau-KZ Theodor Eicke dies as his Fieseler Fi 156 Storch aircraft is shot down by Soviet troops at the age of 51 in Artelnoje, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.


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73 years ago

Friday 26th of February 1943

Murderer William E. Wallace is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 54 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

Wallace was the oldest man executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary Gas Chamber.


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58 years ago

Wednesday 26th of February 1958

Writer Michel Houellebecq, originally Michel Thomas is born in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion, France.


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57 years ago

Thursday 26th of February 1959

Peter Paul Rubens' 'Der Höllensturz der Verdammten' is attacked with acid by 53-year-old Art vandal Walter Menzl in Alte Pinakothek, München, Bayern, Germany.


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52 years ago

Wednesday 26th of February 1964

39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 3 / Klarsichtpackung / Versumpfung in Einer Truhe – Panierung Eines Weiblichen Gesäßes – Wälzen im Schlamm' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.


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45 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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32 years ago

Sunday 26th of February 1984

Rosario Teresa Gonzales aka Chary is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Grand Prix Race Track, Miami, Florida, United States.


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30 years ago

Wednesday 26th of February 1986

50-year-old Serial killer Daniel Camargo Barbosa aka The Beast of Ecuador aka The 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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29 years ago She Came Out from the Cold

Thursday 26th of February 1987

Serial poisoner Audrey Marie Hilley, originally Audrey Marie Frazier dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Anniston, Alabama, United States.

Hilley escaped from prison and had been crawling around in the woods for four days of frequent rain and numb from temperatures dropping to the low 30s. She was taken to a local hospital and underwent emergency treatment for hypothermia.


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18 years ago

Thursday 26th of February 1998

Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil Isabel Dorsett dies of breast cancer at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.


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16 years ago

Saturday 26th of February 2000

Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 51 in Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau, Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.



3 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, Brussel, Belgium.


Thursday, February 25, 2016

31st year - N° 56 Thursday, 25 February 2016

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31st year - N° 56 Thursday, 25 February 2016

25 February / Today's 12 Events:
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143 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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99 years ago

Sunday 25th of February 1917

Writer Anthony Burgess, originally John Anthony Burgess Wilson known for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange is born in 91 Carisbrook Street, Harpurhey, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.


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94 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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85 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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59 years ago

Monday 25th of February 1957

Irish republican hunger striker Raymond McCreesh, originally Réamonn Mac Raois is born in Camlough, Armagh, Ireland.


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57 years ago

Wednesday 25th of February 1959

Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is born in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States.


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52 years ago

Tuesday 25th of February 1964

Artist Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko dies of unknown causes at the age of 77 in New York City, New York, United States.


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47 years ago

Tuesday 25th of February 1969

Revolutionary student Jan Zajíc commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 19 in Wenceslas Square, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Around 1:30 in the afternoon Zajíc walked into the passageway of the building at No. 39 on Wenceslas Square and ignited his chemical-soaked clothes. Zajíc was unable to run out of the door and collapsed and died in the hallway. "Mother, father, brother, little sister! – When you read this letter, I will already be dead or close to death. I know what a severe blow my act will be to you, but don't be angry at me. Unfortunately, we are not alone in this world. I am not doing this because I would be tired by life, on the contrary, because I cherish it too much. Hopefully my act will make life better. I know the price of life and I know it is the most precious thing. But I want a lot for you, for everyone, so I have to pay a lot. Do not lose your heart after my sacrifice, tell Jacek to study harder and Marta too. You must never accept injustice, be it in any form, my death will bind you. I am sorry that I will never see you or that, which I loved so much. Please forgive me that I fought with you so much. Do not let them make me a madman. – Say hi to the boys, the river and the forest."


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46 years ago

Wednesday 25th of February 1970

Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, originally Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz commits suicide by slashing his arms at the age of 67 in 118 E. 95th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

Rothko's body was found by his assistant Oliver Steindecker when Steindecker arrived in the morning for work. Rothko was lying face-up on the kitchen floor of his studio in a pool of blood, his arms outstretched. He was dressed in an undershirt, long johns and long black socks. He had removed his glasses, shoes and trousers (which were found folded over the back of a chair) before slitting his arms with a double-edged razor. He first took the razor in his right hand (after ca refully wrapping a tissue over one one side of the razor) and made a cut in his left arm. He then switched the razor to his left hand and made an even deeper cut in his right arm. Both cuts were made just below the bend of the elbow. The autopsy revealed that Rothko had also overdosed on anti-depressants.


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34 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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33 years ago

Friday 25th of February 1983

Writer and playwright Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams chokes to death on the cap from a bottle of eye drops he frequently used in his suite at the age of 72 in Hotel Elysee, 60 East 54th Street, New York City, New York, United States.

Williams' use of drugs and alcohol may have contributed to his death by suppressing his gag reflex.



9 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.