Friday, January 8, 2010

8 January 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand


A row of foodstalls in Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand.
1601 (+) Moralist, philosopher and Jesuit Baltasar Gracian y Morales is born in Belmonte de Calatayud, Aragon, Spain.
1642 (-) Scientist Galileo Galilei dies of fever and heart palpitations at the age of 77 in Arcetri, Tuscany, Italy.
1896 (-) Writer Paul Verlaine dies of a kidney and stomach-disease at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
1904 (+) Nazi-doctor Karl Brandt is born in Mulhouse, France.
1926 (-) Murderer William Lawrence is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1935 (+) Musician Elvis Presley aka The King, is born in East Tupelo, Missouri, USA.
1937 (+) Musician Shirley Bassey is born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
1937 (-) Murderer Frank Duarte is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer Grady Cole is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer J. Levice is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 22 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1943 (-) Murderer Charles Sanders is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 21 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1947 (+) Musician and actor David Bowie originally David Robert Jones, is born in London, United Kingdom.
1947 (+) Serial Killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, is born in California, USA.
1948 (-) Artist Kurt Schwitters dies at the age of 60 in Kendal, Cumbria, United Kingdom.
1958 (+) Musician Marc Moreland is born in California, USA.
He was the founder of 'Wall of Voodoo'.
1962 (x) 92 Die in two-train-collision in Harmelen, the Netherlands.
1973 (-) Cynthia Schall is shot dead and cut to pieces by Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, in Freedom, California, USA.
He hid the body and went back the next day to have sex with it and cut off the head.
1974 (-) Josette Routier is shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l'Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-sur-Oise, 19 rue du Docteur Roux, France.
1975 (-) Maria Fasching is stabbed to death by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, at the age of 22 in Leonia, New Jersey, USA.
1989 (x) 47 Die in British Midland Flight 92 Boeing 737-400 crash onto the M1 motorway embankment in Kegworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
1996 (-) President of France François Mitterand dies at the age of 79 in Paris, France.
1996 (x) Over 350 Die in Antonov 32 cargo plane crash in Kinshasa Central Market, Zaïre.

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