Thursday, April 12, 2007

12 april 2001 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A digging spade in the underground of Antwerp's Central Station where we made a large installation with computer projections and live music during 2 days for an audience of 75.000 people.

1715 (-) Murderer Jeremiah Meacham is executed by hanging in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
1869 (+) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is born in Paris XIX, France.
1885 (+) Artist Robert Delaunay is born in Paris, France.
1895 (-) Minnie Williams is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, in San Francisco, Library of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, California, USA.
1921 (x) Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, United Kingdom.
1932 (+) Musician Herbert Khaury aka Tiny Tim, is born in New York, New York, USA.
1933 (+) Actor Montserrat Caballe is born in Barcelona, Spain.
1940 (+) Musician Herbie Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1945 (-) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Warm Springs, Colorado, USA.
1946 (-) Flemish Nationalist Leader Dr. August Borms is executed by the Firing Squad in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.
1948 (+) Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
1950 (+) Musician David Cassidy is born in New York, New York, USA.
1961 (x) 27-year-old The first man in space, Youri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly around the world in a space-craft.
1967 (-) Cop Killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed under Governor Ronald Reagan and the last man to be executed in California, until the Supreme Court re-installed the death-penalty in 1992.
1977 (x) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to his Cell One in the E-Block of Lakeland Annex in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.
1993 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sergej Rjachowsky aka The Hippopotamus, is arrested on suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old in Moscow, Russia.

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