Friday, March 2, 2007

2 march 2007 - Wijnegem, Belgium


The trunk of a tree in a park in Wijnegem near Antwerpen, Belgium. In the same park remains part of a 1685 castle, the "Vlemincktoren". In 1989 we applied to renovate the building and were eligible for a grant to cover 80% of the cost, but the town of Wijnegem refused. Until today nothing has happened and the building keeps deteriorating....

986 (-) King Lotharius dies at the age of 44 in France.
1755 (+) Composer Antoine Gresnick is born in Liège, Liège, Belgium.
1773 (-) Mary Clues dies of spontaneous human combustion in Coventry, Gosford Street, United Kingdom.
1810 (+) 255th Pope Leo XIII originally Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, is born in Italy.
1876 (+) 259th Pope Pius XII originally Eugenio Maria Pacelli, is born in Rome, Italy.
1880 (+) Swedish ‘Lucifer-king’ Ivan Kreuger is born in Kalmar, Sweden.
1900 (+) Composer Kurt Weill is born in Dessau, Germany.
1905 (-) Georgette is strangled by Jeanne Weber at the age of 1 in Paris, France.
1915 (x) 112 Die in coal-mine explosion in Layland, USA.
1918 (-) Murderer Louis Voisin aka Blodie Belgium, is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1926 (-) Laura Beale is strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in San Jose, California, USA.
1930 (-) Writer David Herbert Lawrence dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in a sanatorium, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
1931 (+) Soviet-reformer Mikhail Gorbachev is born in Russia.
1939 (x) An unidentified young man and woman are whipped to death by the Ku Klux Klan for violating the Moral Kode in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
1942 (+) Musician Lou Reed is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1943 (-) Actor Tyler Brooke commits suicide by coal-monoxide-poisoning at the age of 51 in California, USA.
1944 (x) 526 Die in train derailment in Salerno, Italy.
They suffocated in a tunnel due to exhaust gases from a stalled train.
1961 (x) 79-year-old Artist Pablo Picasso marries 35-year-old Jacqueline Roques in Vallauris, France.
1973 (-) Susan McLaughlin is presumably stabbed to death by Zodiac at the age of 26 in California, USA.
1978 (x) The coffin of actor and filmmaker Charles Chaplin is stolen from the cemetary in Corsier-sur-Vevey, France.
1979 (-) Ann Rooney is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Norsforth, United Kingdom.
She survived.
1982 (-) Sf-writer Philip K. Dick dies in the USA.
1983 (-) John Bartlett is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1991 (-) Musician, filmmaker and scandaliser Serge Gainsbourg dies of a heart-attack at the age of 62 in Paris, Rue de Verneuil, France.

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