Thursday, June 7, 2007

7 june 2002 - Antwerpen, Belgium


The Beat Set with two-headed Dylan playing live at the Kaaiman in Antwerpen.

1692 (x) Port Royal disappears into the sea in Jamaïca.
1848 (+) Artist Paul Gauguin is born in Paris, France.
1904 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Sonnenfeld is born in Hannover, Germany.
1917 (+) Actor Dean Martin originally Dino Crocetti, is born in Steubenville, Ohio, USA.
1937 (-) Actress and Sex-Queen Jean Harlow originally Harlenean Carpenter, dies of uremic poisoning due to abortion complications at the age of 26 in Hollywood, California, USA.
1940 (+) Musician Tom Jones originally Thomas Woodward, is born in Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom.
1954 (-) Mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing aka The Father of Computer Science, commits suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide at the age of 42 in Hollymeade, Wilmslow, United Kingdom.
In 1952, Turing was convicted of acts of gross indecency after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man in Manchester. He was placed on probation and required to undergo hormone therapy. The Apple logo is an homage to him.
1958 (+) Musician Prince originally Prince Rogers Nelson, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
1965 (x) 108 Die in natural gas explosion in Kakanj, Yugoslavia.
1965 (+) Artist Damien Hirst is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.
1966 (-) Artist Hans Arp dies at the age of 72 in Basel, Switzerland.
1967 (x) 22-year-old Frances Shea, bride of 33-year-old Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, commits suicide by barbiturate-overdose in London, United Kingdom.
1968 (-) ETA-member Txabi Etxebarrieta is the first to be shot dead by the Guardia Civil at the age of 23 in Spain.
1977 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, opens a window of the Law Library, drops 30 feet and escapes in Aspen, Colorado, USA.
He will be recaptured 8 days later.
1980 (-) Writer Henry Miller dies at the age of 88 in Big Sur, California, USA.
1985 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, is sentenced to life-imprisonment in Berlin, Germany.
1993 (-) Andrew Collier is strangled by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 33 in London, United Kingdom.
His pet cat is also strangled.
2005 (-) Murderer Alexander Martinez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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