31st year - N° 76 Wednesday, 16 March 2016

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31st year - N° 76 Wednesday, 16 March 2016

16 March / Today's 12 Events:

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(-) 118 years ago Wednesday 16th of March 1898 Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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(x) 86 years ago Sunday 16th of March 1930 Marianne dal Santo is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Kürten griff dal Santo von hinten an und würgte sie. Die Frau versuchte auf ihn einzureden und als das nicht funktionierte, trat sie ihn, als er gespreizt über ihr stand. Sie floh und versteckte sich von 22 - 6 Uhr in einem Gebüsch, wo sie 'stundenlang' jemanden vorbeigehen hörte.

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(+) 62 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1954 Serial killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Slayer is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 61 years ago Il s'est Débarrassé de sa Carcasse d'Homme Wednesday 16th of March 1955 Artist Nicolas de Staël, originally Nicolaï Vladimirovitch Staël von Holstein commits suicide by jumping from a building at the age of 41 in Rue du Revely, Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, . Suffering from exhaustion, insomnia and depression, de Staël jumped from his studio terrace on the eleventh floor.

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(x) 54 years ago Friday 16th of March 1962 107 army men die in Flying Tiger Line Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Flight 739 disappearance in the Western Pacific Ocean. A civilian tanker observed what appeared to be an in-flight explosion believed to be the missing Super Constellation, though no trace of wreckage or debris was ever recovered.

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(+) 53 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1963 Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown Robert Jerome Piest is born in Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 16th of March 1969 155 die in Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Flight 742 crash in La Trinidad, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. 71 people were killed on the ground.

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(x) 29 years ago Monday 16th of March 1987 28-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'I Challenge You' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in College of Advanced Education, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.

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(+) 26 years ago Friday 16th of March 1990 Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger is born in Kirkby, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(x) 24 years ago Monday 16th of March 1992 33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'De Guely' in Belgisch Centrum Beeldverhaal, Zandstraat 20, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. During the opening of an exhibition I hung naked from a self-made metal structure in the top-ridge of the building, lighted by a stroboscope.

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(x) 10 years ago Thursday 16th of March 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. During the opening of exhibitions in the Antwerp art galleries I left behind unnoticed plastic ALDI bags filled with earth from my hole between the works of other artists in the galleries.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 16th of March 2006 Some shots from DDV's '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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