Friday, January 6, 2012

6 January 1993 - Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev Dies

1412 (+) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is born in Domrémy, Bar, France.
This is an educated guess, some scholars suggest that the actual birthdate is the 7th.
1540 (x) 48-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his fourth wife Anne of Cleves in Greenwich, Palace of Placenta, United Kingdom.
1852 (-) Inventor Louis Braille dies of tuberculosis at the age of 43 in Paris, France.
1872 (+) Composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scrjabin is born in Moscow, Russia.
1884 (-) Biologist Gregor Johann Mendel dies of chronic nephritis at the age of 61 in Brno, Czechoslowakia.
1912 (x) New Mexico becomes the 47th of the United States in the USA.
1919 (-) 26th president of the USA Theodore Roosevelt dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Oyster Bay, New York, USA.
1938 (+) Singer and actor Adriano Celentano is born in Milan, Italy.
1946 (+) Musician Syd Roger Keith Barrett is born in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1950 (-) Double Murderer Daniel Raven is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom.
1955 (+) Actor Rowan Sebastian Atkinson aka Mr. Bean, is born in Consett, Durham, United Kingdom.
1960 (x) 32-year-old Mass Murderer Julian Andrew Frank detonates a bomb on a National Airlines flight in Bolivia, North Carolina, USA.
He had taken a life insurance for almost one million dollars, payable to his wife, to take care of a money deal that went wrong. All other 33 on board were killed as well.
1965 (x) 30-year-old Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges performs a self-trepanation with a Black & Decker power drill, a surgical knife and a hypodermic syringe for local anesthetic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1967 (x) 84 Die in bus collision in Terpate, the Philippines.
1972 (x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, is arrested in Siemanowice, Poland.
1975 (-) Mary Rudolph is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Dumont, New Jersey, USA.
His son Michael Kallinger also takes part in the attack.
1976 (-) Françoise Jakubowska is battered, shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 20 in Villers-Saint-Paul, France.
1982 (x) Over 100 Dolphins commit suicide by hitting the coast-line in Kioesjoe, Japan.
1982 (x) Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial Killer Wayne Bertram Williams aka The Atlanta Child Murderer, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
1986 (-) Andrée Ladam is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 14th, rue Baillou, France.
1989 (-) Murderer George C Mercer aka Tiny, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.
He was the first person to be executed after the re-installment of the death penalty in Missouri in 1971.


1993 (-) Choreographer Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev dies of AIDS at the age of 54 in Paris, France.
1993 (-) Musician Dizzy John Birks Gillespie dies of cancer at the age of 75 in New Jersey, USA.
1999 (-) Murderer John Glenn Moody is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2004 (-) Mentally deranged murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Cummins Prison, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
He lived on Death Row longer than any Arkansas prisoner.
2004 (-) Murderer Ynobe Katron Matthews is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
2006 (-) Musician Lou Allen Rawls dies of lung and brain cancer at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, USA.

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