Thursday, November 18, 2010

18 November 2005 - Yang Zhen, China


Happy visitors at Art Farm in Yang Zhen, China.

1307 (x) Legendary hero William Tell shoots an apple of his son Walter's head in Altdorf, Switzerland.
1784 (-) Murderer Alexander White is executed by hanging in Long Island, New York, USA.
1825 (-) Murderer James Reynolds is executed by hanging in New York, New York, USA.
1878 (-) Multiple Murderer Garcia is executed by hanging in Usk Prison, Wales, United Kingdom.
1886 (-) 21st president of the USA Chester Alan Arthur dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in NewYork, New York, USA.
1922 (-) Writer Marcel Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Proust dies of pneumonia at the age of 51 in Paris, France.
1922 (+) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle is born in Nicaragua.
1926 (-) Wilhelmina Edmunds is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 56 in San Francisco, California, USA.
1940 (x) Bomb attack by 37-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York, New York, USA.
1945 (+) First female Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Pearl Mankiller is born in Tahlequah, Rocky Mount, Oklahoma, USA.
1952 (-) Writer Paul Eluard dies at the age of 55 in Paris, France.
1952 (+) Murderer Ernest West Basden is born in North Carolina, USA.
1959 (+) Multiple Murderess Karla Faye Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess, is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
1962 (-) Physicist Niels Hendrik David Bohr dies at the age of 77 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966 (-) Automobile manufacterer Jean Peugeot dies at the age of 70 in France.
1974 (-) Spree Killer Paul John Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, is shot dead by FBI-agent Ron Angel after making a grab for the Sheriff’s gun on transport to a maximum security jail at the age of 28 in Georgia, USA.
1976 (-) Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, dies at the age of 86 in Paris, France.
1977 (-) Tommy Boling is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
1978 (-) Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim James Warren Jones commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 47 in Jonestown, Guyana.
Earlier that day he ordered his cult-members to drink cyanide-laced juice, killing all 928 present.
1978 (-) Mike Inderbieten is emasculated and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 21 in San Diego, California, USA.
1981 (-) Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham dies at the age of 86 in Lynn Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
1997 (-) Yu Besun is shot dead in the course of a robbery by Louis Peoples at the age of 56 in Stockton, Village Oaks Market, California, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer Jose Guttierrez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1999 (-) Writer Paul Frederic Bowles dies of heart failure at the age of 88 in Tangier, Italian Hospital, Morocco.
2002 (-) Actor James Harrison Coburn dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 74 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

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