Friday, March 16, 2018

33rd year - N° 75 Friday, 16 March 2018

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33rd year - N° 75 Friday, 16 March 2018

16 March / Today's 13 Events:
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120 years ago

Wednesday 16th of March 1898

Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.


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98 years ago

Tuesday 16th of March 1920

Aufseherin in Ravensbrück KZ Dorothea Binz is born in Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.


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88 years ago

Sunday 16th of March 1930

Marianne dal Santo is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Kürten griff dal Santo von hinten an und würgte sie. Die Frau versuchte auf ihn einzureden und als das nicht funktionierte, trat sie ihn, als er gespreizt über ihr stand. Sie floh und versteckte sich von 22 - 6 Uhr in einem Gebüsch, wo sie 'stundenlang' jemanden vorbeigehen hörte.


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64 years ago

Tuesday 16th of March 1954

Serial killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Slayer is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.


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63 years ago Il s'est Débarrassé de sa Carcasse d'Homme

Wednesday 16th of March 1955

Artist Nicolas de Staël, originally Nicolaï Vladimirovitch Staël von Holstein commits suicide by jumping from a building at the age of 41 in Rue du Revely, Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, .

Suffering from exhaustion, insomnia and depression, de Staël jumped from his studio terrace on the eleventh floor.


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56 years ago

Friday 16th of March 1962

107 army men die in Flying Tiger Line Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Flight 739 disappearance in the Western Pacific Ocean.

A civilian tanker observed what appeared to be an in-flight explosion believed to be the missing Super Constellation, though no trace of wreckage or debris was ever recovered.


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55 years ago

Saturday 16th of March 1963

Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown Robert Jerome Piest is born in Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.


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49 years ago

Sunday 16th of March 1969

155 die in Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Flight 742 crash in La Trinidad, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela.

71 people were killed on the ground.


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31 years ago

Monday 16th of March 1987

28-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'I Challenge You' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in College of Advanced Education, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.


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28 years ago

Friday 16th of March 1990

Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger is born in Kirkby, Merseyside, United Kingdom.


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26 years ago

Monday 16th of March 1992

33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'De Guely' in Belgisch Centrum Beeldverhaal, Zandstraat 20, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

During the opening of an exhibition I hung naked from a self-made metal structure in the top-ridge of the building, lighted by a stroboscope.



12 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 16th of March 2006

Some shots from DDV's '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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12 years ago

Thursday 16th of March 2006

47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

During the opening of exhibitions in the Antwerp art galleries I left behind unnoticed plastic ALDI bags filled with earth from my hole between the works of other artists in the galleries.


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