Sunday, August 19, 2007

19 august 2001 - Oostende, Belgium


A model resembling very much artist Joseph Beuys in a War Memorial Museum in Oostende, Belgium.

1662 (-) Mathematician and philisopher Blaise Pascal dies of tuberculosis at the age of 39 in Paris, France.
1692 (x) Susannah Martin, John Willard, George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr., and John Proctor are executed on accusation of witchcraft in Salem, Oregon, USA.
1871 (+) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright is born in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
1889 (-) Writer Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam aka Le Comte, dies of stomach cancer at the age of 50 in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France.
1895 (-) Outlaw and gunman John Hardin is shot in the back by John Selman at the age of 42 in El Paso, Acme Saloon, Texas, USA.
1922 (-) Murderer Thomas Allaway is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.
1936 (-) Poet and dramatist Frederico Garcia Lorca is executed by Nationalist Francists of the Falanga Militia at the age of 38 in Granada, Spain.
One of them fired 2 bullets in his behind because he was a homosexual.
1947 (+) 42nd President of the USA Bill Clinton originally Blythe, is born in Hope, Arkansas, USA.
1960 (x) 31-year-old US Spy Pilot Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for spying in Moscow, Russia.
1962 (-) Ida Irga is strangled raped and left indecently exposed by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 75 in Boston West End, 7 Grove street, Massachussets, USA.
1964 (-) C. is attacked and raped by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 44 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.
1968 (-) Child Actress Sara Roberts dies after surgery at the age of 44 in the USA.
1975 (x) 128 Die in Iljoesjin 62 crash in Damascus, Syria.
1977 (-) Actor and filmmaker Groucho Marx dies of pneumonia at the age of 86 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1978 (x) 370 Die in cinema fire in Abadan, Persia.
1980 (x) 301 Die in Saudia Flight 163 Lockheed L1011-200 Tristar crash in Riad, Saudi Arabia.
1982 (-) Christian Klein is raped and shot dead by Pascal Bertrand aka The Back-Packer Murderer, at the age of 16 in Lons-le-Saunier, France.
1984 (-) Daniel Bridges is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Chicago, 1628 West Sherwin Avenue, Illinois, USA.
1987 (-) Spree Killer Michael Ryan aka The Rambo Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 27 in Hungerford, United Kingdom.
He first killed his mother and 13 others in a shooting spree.
1989 (-) Jelena Warga is stabbed to death and part of her face cut away by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 19 in Krasnosnamenka, Russia.
1995 (-) Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 85 in Aix-en-Provence, France.

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