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Friday on Your Mind is a one-year project by Danny Devos aka DDV for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerpen. Every Friday DDV will visit various Master Programme Studios to discuss the work of participating students. Students are invited to participate to Friday on Your Mind by creating works in any discipline that are inspired by historic events listed for that day in DDV’s Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar, an ongoing project since 1985. Leaflets will be handed out every Friday and the listings will also be online here. The works will be featured in an exhibition that will show a timeline of events and inspired works created for this project.

Friday 25 March 2016

3 Sad events for Friday 25 March 2016


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33 events for Friday 25 March 2016

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    215 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 25th of March 1801

    Romantic poet and writer Novalis dies of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Weißenfels, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.


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    149 Years Ago Today
    Monday 25th of March 1867

    Conductor Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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    141 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 25th of March 1875

    Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, United States.


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    135 Years Ago Today
    Friday 25th of March 1881

    Composer Béla Viktor János Bartók is born in Nagyszentmiklós, Timiș, Austria-Hungary.


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    125 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 25th of March 1891

    Writer Filip De Pillecyn aka De Prins der Nederlandse Letteren known for his novel ‘Monsieur Hawarden’ is born in Plezantstraat, Hamme aan de Durme, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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    106 Years Ago Today
    Friday 25th of March 1910

    Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging from a water tank at the age of 27 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States.


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    105 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 25th of March 1911

    Nightclub operator Jack Ruby is born as Jacob Leon Rubenstein in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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    105 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 25th of March 1911

    146 die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Greene Street and Washington Place, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

    A large crowd of bystanders gathered on the street, witnessing 62 people jumping or falling to their deaths from the burning building.


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    98 Years Ago Today
    Monday 25th of March 1918

    Presumed illegitimate son of Adolf Hitler Jean-Marie Loret is born as Jean-Marie Lobjoie in Seboncourt, Aisne, France.


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    98 Years Ago Today
    Monday 25th of March 1918

    Composer Claude Achille Debussy dies of rectal cancer at the age of 56 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

    In December 1915 Debussy underwent one of the earliest colostomy operations ever performed.


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    97 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 25th of March 1919

    Sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide due to distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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    95 Years Ago Today
    Friday 25th of March 1921

    Actress Simone Signoret is born as Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.


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    81 Years Ago Today
    Monday 25th of March 1935

    65-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States.


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    74 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 25th of March 1942

    Singer and musician Aretha Louise Franklin aka The Queen of Soul is born in 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.


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    74 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 25th of March 1942

    55-year-old Marthe Khait is presumably murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France.


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    70 Years Ago Today
    Monday 25th of March 1946

    Serial killer Gerard John Schaefer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

    Schaefer's actual birth place is unknown.


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    69 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 25th of March 1947

    111 die in No. 5 coal mine dust explosion in Centralia, Illinois, United States.


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    69 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 25th of March 1947

    Singer-songwriter and composer Elton Hercules John is born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex, United Kingdom.


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    59 Years Ago Today He Didn't Howl
    Monday 25th of March 1957

    The poem 'Howl' by 31-year-old Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg being imported from the printer in London is seized by customs as obscene in San Francisco, California, United States.

    On 3 October 1957 Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.


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    41 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 25th of March 1975

    King of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is shot point-blank and killed by his half-brother's 28-year-old son Faisal bin Musaid at the age of 69 in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia.


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    40 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 25th of March 1976

    Artist Josef Albers dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.


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    32 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 25th of March 1984

    35-year-old Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage in Leuven Centraal, Geldenaaksevest 64, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

    Carlier surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police snipers.


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    29 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 25th of March 1987

    44-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer is arrested in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.


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    27 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 25th of March 1989

    24-year-old Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in 2357 South 57th Street, West Allis, Wisconsin, United States.

    Dahmer cleaned the Sears' skull and kept the scalp because he liked his ponytail and wanted to keep it. Sears' skull and scalp were found three years later in Dahmer’s apartment. 


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    26 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 25th of March 1990

    87 die in Happy Land unlicensed social club fire in Happy Land, 1959 Southern Boulevard, New York, Bronx, New York, United States.

    The evening of the fire, unemployed Cuban refugee Julio González had argued with his former girlfriend Lydia Feliciano, a coat check girl at the Happy Land, urging her to quit. She claimed that she had had enough of him and did not want anything to do with him anymore. González tried to fight back into the club but was ejected by the bouncer. González returned to the establishment with a plastic container of gasoline. He spread the fuel on a staircase, the only access into the club, and then ignited the gasoline. González was charged with 174 counts of murder - two for each victim - and was found guilty on 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder on 19 August 1991. For each count he received the sentence maximum of 25 years to life (a total of 4,350 years).


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    23 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 25th of March 1993

    Cop killer Ramon Montoya Facundo is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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    19 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 25th of March 1997

    Murderer Pedro Luis Medina is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States.

    With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room.


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    17 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 25th of March 1999

    Double murderer Charles Henry Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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    10 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 25th of March 2006

    Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke commits suicide by jumping in front of a train at the age of 56 in London, Barnes, Greater London, United Kingdom.

    Clarke checked himself out of the Priory Hospital just minutes before.


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    10 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 25th of March 2006

    Film director Richard O. Fleischer dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Woodland Hills, California, United States.



  • 10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
    Saturday 25th of March 2006

    A bright lit corridor in a U-Bahn station in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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    9 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 25th of March 2007

    58-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years in Zuchthaus, Aichach, Bayern, Germany.

    Mohnhaupt was the longest ever imprisoned member of the Rote Armee Fraktion.



  • 6 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
    Thursday 25th of March 2010

    Spring time on our back terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Friday 18 March 2016

2 Sad events for Friday 18 March 2016


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27 events for Friday 18 March 2016

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    702 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 18th of March 1314

    23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 71 in Paris, IVe, Île-de-France, France.


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    227 Years Ago Today She Was Dead Before the Fire Was Lit
    Wednesday 18th of March 1789

    Counterfeiter Catherine Murphy is executed by burning at the stake in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

    Murphy was the last woman to be officially burned at the stake. Murphy and her husband Hugh Murphy were executed along with seven other men who had been convicted of various offences. The eight men were executed by hanging. But as a woman the law provided that Murphy should be burnt at the stake. She was made to stand on a foot high 10-inch-square platform in front of the stake and secured to the stake with ropes and an iron ring. Murphy was reportedly tied with one rope around her neck after which the platform was removed from under her feet and 30 minutes passed before the fire was lit.


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    179 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 18th of March 1837

    22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Stephen Cleveland is born in Caldwell Presbyterian Church Manse, 207 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.


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    174 Years Ago Today
    Friday 18th of March 1842

    Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé is born as Étienne Mallarmé in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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    172 Years Ago Today
    Monday 18th of March 1844

    Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov is born in Tikhvin, Leningradskaya Oblast, Russia.


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    158 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 18th of March 1858

    Inventor and mechanical engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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    151 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 18th of March 1865

    38-year-old Mary Pritchard is poisoned by doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.


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    148 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 18th of March 1868

    Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel is born in Boiany, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.


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    110 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 18th of March 1906

    Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Robert Witzel is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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    106 Years Ago Today
    Friday 18th of March 1910

    Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.


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    88 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 18th of March 1928

    Poet and writer Paul Leopold Andreas Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830 dies of tuberculosis at the age of 32 in Le Vallon, Miavoye-Anthée, Namur, Belgium.


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    84 Years Ago Today
    Friday 18th of March 1932

    Writer John Hoyer Updike is born in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.


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    84 Years Ago Today Was the Last Morning for the Hunter
    Friday 18th of March 1932

    Serial killer Harry Powers aka Cornelius O. Pierson aka A. R. Weaver is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.


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    79 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 18th of March 1937

    295 die in New London Junior-Senior High School explosion in New London Junior-Senior High School, New London, Texas, United States.

    In 1961, 41-year-old William Estel Benson is arrested for theft and confesses he unscrewed some gaspipes at the time.


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    75 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 18th of March 1941

    Singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett aka The Wicked Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama, United States.


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    70 Years Ago Today
    Monday 18th of March 1946

    Start of the trial against 49-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Paris, Ier, Île-de-France, France.


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    69 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 18th of March 1947

    Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sidney Sinclair is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 46 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    67 Years Ago Today
    Friday 18th of March 1949

    Alex Alexander Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.


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    65 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 18th of March 1951

    22-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate escapes from the State Penitentiary in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.


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    59 Years Ago Today
    Monday 18th of March 1957

    Start of the trial against 58-year-old General practitioner and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    50 Years Ago Today
    Friday 18th of March 1966

    39-year-old Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen is sentenced to life imprisonment in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.


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    36 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 18th of March 1980

    Social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and humanistic philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm dies of natural causes at the age of 80 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.


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    34 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 18th of March 1982

    53-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is committed to the Iowa Lunatic Asylum in Mental Health Institute, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States.

    Posing as Richard Clark, Hatcher attempted to abduct Todd Peers.


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    33 Years Ago Today
    Friday 18th of March 1983

    47-year-old Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset is sentenced to 21 years in prison for poisoning at east 22 elderly people with the muscle relaxing suxamethonium chloride drug Curacit in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

    Nesset was released after serving 12 years of this sentence for good behaviour.


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    32 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 18th of March 1984

    22-year-old Terry Theresa Anne Wait Ferguson is abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Merritt Square Mall, 777 E Merritt Island Causeway, Merritt Island, Florida, United States.


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    29 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 18th of March 1987

    23-year-old Deborah Dudley is electrocuted by serial killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

    Heidnik disposed of Dudley's body in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.


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    20 Years Ago Today
    Monday 18th of March 1996

    162 die in Ozone Disco Club fire in Ozone Disco Club, Timog Avenue corner Tomas Morato Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

    At the time of the fire, it was estimated that there were around 350 patrons and 40 club employees inside Ozone Disco, though it had been approved for occupancy for only 35 persons.
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