Saturday, April 7, 2007

7 april 2005 - Antwerpen, Belgium


A performance by Merlin Spie in Antwerpen.

30 (-) Jesus Christ is executed by crucification at the age of 30.
1699 (+) Composer Andreas Praelisauer is born in Corsini, Italy.
1903 (-) Mass-Poisoner Severin Klosowski aka George Chapman, is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he confessed to being Jack the Ripper.
1915 (+) Musician Billie Holiday aka Lady Day, originally Eleonor Gogh McKay, is born in the USA.
1920 (+) Musician Ravi Shankar is born in Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India.
1926 (x) Fascist leader Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce, is hit in the nose by a bullet, fired by an unidentified Irish woman in Rome, Italy.
1939 (+) Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
1939 (+) TV-host David Frost is born in Tenterden, United Kingdom.
1947 (-) Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 83 in Greenfield, Illinois, USA.
1947 (+) Serial Killer Herbert Baumeister is born in Westfield, Indiana, USA.
1968 (-) Formula-1 racer Jim Clark crashes into a tree in what was to be his last race before retiring on his sheep-farm at the age of 32 in Hockenheim, Germany.
1971 (x) President Richard Nixon orders the release from prison of American Hero and Mass-murderer William Caley who was serving a life-term for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in the USA.
1972 (-) Isobel Watson is attacked by Zodiac at the age of 33 in San Francisco, Pine Hill, California, USA.
She survived.
1977 (-) Attorney-General Siegfried Buback is shot dead by the Ulrike Meinhof Aktion Gruppe at the age of 57 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
1979 (-) Ex-prime Minister of Persia Abbas Hoveida is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 60 in Iran.
1991 (-) Errol Lindsey is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
1997 (-) Mass Murderer Mohammed Nazari is executed by the Firing Squad in San’a, Yemen.
As crowds yelled "God is greatest", the vengeful father who killed six people was executed with a single bullet from a sharpshooter in front of the two schools were the rampage took place. His corpse was then nailed to a cross and will be displayed in public for three days.

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