Saturday, March 16, 2013

115 Years Ago His Aim for the Grotesque Ended

262 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 March 1751
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3rd president of the USA James Madison is born in Port Conway, King George County, Virginia, USA.

242 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 March 1771
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Artist Antoine-Jean Gros is born in Paris, France.

226 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 March 1787
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Physicist Georg Simon Ohm is born in Erlangen, Germany.

115 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 March 1898
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Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 25 in Menton, France.

102 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 March 1911
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Nazi-doctor Josef Mengele aka The White Angel, is born in Günzborg, Bavaria, Germany.

93 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 March 1920
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Adolf Hitler’s private secretary Traudl Junge originally Gertraud Humps, is born in München, Bavaria, Germany.

87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 March 1926
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Actor Jerry Lewis is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 March 1927
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Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to die during a space mission Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov is born in Moscow, USSR.

83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 March 1930
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Marianna Dal S. is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Grafenberger Wald, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 March 1949
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Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christine Dümlein is born in Bamberg, Germany.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 March 1955
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Artist Nicolas de Staël commits suicide by depression at the age of 41 in Antibes, France.
He jumped from his studio terrace on the eleventh floor.

58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 16 March 1955
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Actress Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is born in Paris, France.

57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 March 1956
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Cop Killer Robert Carpenter is executed by Old Sparky in Joliet State Prison, Illinois, USA.

56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 March 1957
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Artist Constantin Brancusi dies at the age of 81 in Paris, France.

51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 March 1962
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107 Die in Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation crash in the West Pacific.

50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 March 1963
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Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, Robert Piest is born in Illinois, USA.

48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 16 March 1965
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Protester Alice Herz commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 82 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
She was protesting the US involvement in the war in Vietnam. Rescued by passers-by she died ten days later in the hospital.

45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 16 March 1968
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A US military division under command of 24-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley massacres all the villagers in My Lai, Vietnam.

44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 16 March 1969
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154 Die in DC-9 crash in La Coriba, Venezuela.

35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 March 1978
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61-year-old Politician Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Rome, Via Fani, Italy.
His 5 body-guards are shot dead.

29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 March 1984
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Triple murderer James W. Hutchins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.
He was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.

26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 March 1987
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27-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "I Challenge You" with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Newcastle, College of Advanced Education, Australia.

23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 16 March 1990
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Murder victim James Patrick Bulger is born in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 16 March 1992
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32-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "De Guely" in Brussels, Belgisch Centrum Beeldverhaal, Brabant, Belgium.

7 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 16 March 2006
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46-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "13 Galleries and only One DDV in Town" in Antwerpen, various art galleries, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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