Wednesday, March 14, 2007

14 march 2006 - Antwerpen, Belgium


Preparing for the openings at the Antwerp art galleries I went to the ALDI supermarket (after all they sell art), and got me a bunch of plastic bags. Shoveled some dirt from my "Diggin' for Gordon" hole in all of them and got ready to leave them unsuspiciously in the exhibitions of other artists.

1681 (+) Composer Georg Telemann is born in Magdeburg, Germany.
1879 (+) Scientist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
1883 (-) Economist Karl Marx dies of pleurisy at the age of 63 in London, United Kingdom.
1904 (-) Psychotic Murderer Thomas Tobin is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
1908 (+) Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty is born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France.
1923 (+) Photographer Diane Arbus is born in New York, New York, USA.
1932 (-) Photography pioneer George Eastman commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 77 in Rochester, New York, USA.
He left a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?"
1933 (+) Actor Michael Caine is born in London, United Kingdom.
1951 (-) Murderer Jim Patterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Texas, USA.
1963 (-) Murderer Manuel Silvas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1964 (-) Kitty Genovese is tortured to death outside her apartment while most of her neighbours watched without any reaction in New York, New York, USA.
1972 (x) 112 Die in Danish charter crash in Arabia.
1980 (-) Ronald Gatlin is sodomised and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Van Nuys, California, USA.
1984 (-) Murderer James Autry aka Cowboy, is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He remained conscious and in great pain for about 10 minutes.
1989 (-) Boxer David Thio dies in the ring after being punched in a coma by Terence Ali during the light-weight championship at the age of 22 in Lyon, France.
1997 (-) Filmmaker Fred Zinneman dies of a heart-attack at the age of 89 in London, United Kingdom.
2004 (-) Muslim prisoner Abd Narzullaev dies in custody under suspicious circumstances after participating in a hunger strike at the age of 44 in Uzbekistan.

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