Sunday, August 12, 2007

12 august 2003 - Jakarta, Indonesia


Indra Ameng at the studio of MTV-Radio Jakarta where I featured as a guest for one hour and performed a fantastic version of "I am Perverse".

30bc (-) Empress Thea Philopator Cleopatra VII commits suicide by the bite of a poisonous snake at the age of -38 in Egypt.

1484 (-) 212th Pope Sixtus IV originally Francesco della Rovere, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.
1689 (-) 240th Pope Innocentus XI originally Benedetto Odescalchi, dies at the age of 78 in Rome, Italy.
1827 (-) Poet and artist William Blake dies at the age of 69 in London, England.
1870 (+) Serial Killer Carl Denke is born in Münsterberg, Silesia, Germany.
1881 (+) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille is born in Ashfield, Massachussets, USA.
1924 (-) Murderer Jean-Pierre Vaquier is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
1927 (-) Murderer John Robinson is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
1928 (-) Composer Leos Janacek dies at the age of 74 in Ostrava, Czechoslowakia.
1952 (x) Statesman Josef Stalin orders the immediate execution of 13 prominent Jewish writers, poets, artists and musicians in Moscow, Lubyanka Prison, Russia.
1955 (-) Writer Thomas Mann dies of athorasclerosis at the age of 80 in Zürich, Switzerland.
1957 (-) Wife murderer William Nicholson is executed by hanging in Kaapstad, South Africa.
1964 (-) Writer Ian Fleming dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
1966 (x) Policemen Christopher Head, David Wombwell and Geoffrey Fox are gunned down by John Edward Whitey, John Duddy and Harry Roberts in the ‘Baybrook Street Massacre’ in London, United Kingdom.
1973 (+) Terrorist Richard Reid aka Abdul Raheem aka The Shoebomber, is born in London, Bromley, United Kingdom.
1981 (-) Jean-Pierre Lacosta is shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 24 in Mondicourt, France.
1982 (-) Actor Henry Fonda dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1983 (-) Artist James G. dies due to burns suffered in an accidental self-immolation at the age of 37 in London, United Kingdom.
He was setting fire to David Mach’s sculpture ‘General Belgrano’, outside the Royal Festival Hall, which was made out of 6000 rubber tyres.
1985 (x) 520 Die in Japan Airlines Flight 123 Boeing 747-SR46 crash in Osutaka Ridge, Japan.
It crashed into Mount Takamagahara. Four people survived.
1988 (-) Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of drug abuse at the age of 27 in New York, New York, USA.
1992 (-) Composer John Cage dies at the age of 79 in New York, New York, USA.
1993 (-) Murderer David Holland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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