Sunday, November 4, 2012

4 November 1995 - Gilles Deleuze Commits Suicide

1847 (-)  Composer Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn dies of a stroke at the age of 38 in Leipzig, Germany.

1916 (+)   CBS Anchorman Walter Leland Cronkite is born in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

1922 (x)  48-year-old Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.

1935 (x)   In an unsolved bomb-attack, the 2 perpetrators, 23-year-old Hugh Rutkowski and 19-year-old Paul Chovoncee are killed, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

1937 (+)   Actress Loretta Swit aka “Hot Lips” Houlihan, is born in Passaic, New Jersey, USA.

1946 (+)   SM-photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is born in Queens, New York, USA.

1955 (-)  Criminologist and co-inventor of the lie-detector August “Gus” Vollmer commits suicide by suffering of cancer and Parkinson's Disease at the age of 77 in Berkeley, California, USA.

1956 (+)   Playboy John Paul Getty III is born in Rome, Italy.

1972 (-)  Michael Baulch is tortured and shot in the head by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, the Heights, Texas, USA.

1973 (-)  Laura O’Dell is presumably strangled as thirty-ninth victim by Zodiac in San Francisco, California, USA.

1978 (-)  Frank Landigin is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

1979 (x)   67 Americans are taken hostage in the US-embassy in Teheran, Iran.
They will remain there for 444 days.

1985 (x)  Twenty-first bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Charleroi, Brussels-Lambert Bank, Namur, Belgium.

1985 (x)  Twenty-second bomb attack by the Revolutionary Cellules Communistes Combattantes in Brussels, General Bank, Brabant, Belgium.

1988 (-)  The longest ever living woman in the USA Emma Broadwater dies at the age of 117 in Glen Burnie, Maryland, USA.

1989 (-)  William T. Grissom and 24-year-old Julie and 8-year-old Seanis killed by Danny Rolling aka The Gainesville Ripper, at the age of 55 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.


1995 (-)  Philosopher Gilles Deleuze commits suicide by jumping through the window of his apartment at the age of 70 in Paris, France.

1995 (-)  5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzak Rabin is shot dead by 25-year-old Yigal Amir during a peace-demonstration at the age of 73 in Tel Aviv, Kings of Israël square, Israël.

1997 (-)  Stephen Chako is shot dead in the course of a robbery by Louis Peoples at the age of 39 in Stockton, MFL Liquor and Tobacco, California, USA.

1998 (x)  21-year-old Serial Killer Richard Arinaitwe confesses to having killed 8 people in Kampala, Uganda.
After giving his statement to the magistrate he jumped over the bench and tried to strangle magistrate Elizabeth Jane Alividza.

2004 (-)  Murderer Robert Brice Morrow is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

2005 (-)  Mass Murderer Hastings Arthur Wise is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Broad River Correctional Institute, South Carolina, USA.

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