Thursday, March 1, 2007

1 march 2004 - Antwerpen, Belgium


AMVK and Mauro at the reception of the Cultural Prizes of the Flemish Community in the Bourla, Antwerpen, Belgium. AMVK won the prize for Visual Arts.

1732 (+) Composer Franz Josef Haydn is born in Rohrau-an-der-Leitha, Austria.
1863 (+) Artist Oskar Kokoschka is born in Pochlarn, Austria.
1863 (-) Meriora Gillibrand aka Mr. Hawarden, dies at the age of 58 in Malmédy, Ligneuville, Belgium.
1904 (+) Musician Glenn Miller is born in Tyron, Nebraska, USA.
1910 (+) Actor David Niven is born.
1927 (+) Musician Harry Belafonte is born in New York, New York, USA.
1932 (x) 2-year-old Kidnap-victim Charles Lindbergh Jr is presumably snatched from his crib by Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1938 (-) Eccentric and writer Gabriele D’Annunzio aka The High Priest of Erotica, dies at the age of 75 in Italy.
1944 (+) Musician Roger Daltrey is born in the United Kingdom.
1953 (-) Waymon Wood dies of spontaneous human combustion in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
He was sitting in the front seat of his closed car, the windscreen had bubbled from the heat, but the tank of petrol, still half full, was not burned.
1954 (x) First US Hydrogen-bomb testing in Eniwetok, the Pacific Ocean.
1954 (x) 4 Gunmen enter the Visitor’s Gallery of the House of Representatives and open fire, 5 congressmen are wounded in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
1956 (-) Cop Killer Danny Metcalf is shot dead in a police fusillade in the Gladwyne Woods, Pennsylvania, USA.
1958 (x) 238 Die in Uskudar ferry shipwreck in Istanbul, Turkey.
1958 (x) Serial Killer Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults and rapes a 20-year-old woman in Trinity, Jersey.
1960 (+) Musician William Bennett is born in United Kingdom.
1962 (x) 95 Die in Boeing 707 crash in Jamaica Bay, New York, USA.
1973 (+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, James Doxtator is born in Wisconsin, USA.
1976 (x) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is found guilty of the abduction of Carol DaRonch in Salt Lake City Metropolitan Justice Hall, Utah, USA.
1981 (x) IRA-member Bobby Sands starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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