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250 Years Ago Today
254th Pope Gregorius XVI, originally Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari aka Mauro is born in Belluno, Veneto, Italy. -
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166 Years Ago Today
Murderess Martha Place, originally Martha 'Mattie' Garretson is born in Readington Township, New Jersey, United States. -
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147 Years Ago Today
Horse thief and murderer Melvin E. Baughn is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in Seneca, Kansas, United States.
Baughn's execution was conducted inside of a canvass enclosure in front of the jail in Seneca. A rope was stretched on stakes about twenty feet from the enclosure and twenty guards armed with muskets and bayonets were stationed on the outside of the rope to keep back the crowd. -
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109 Years Ago Today
Actress Greta Garbo, originally Greta Lovisa Gustafsson is born in Stockholm, Södermalm, Södermanland, Sweden. -
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109 Years Ago Today
Murderer John C. Barnes is executed by hanging at the age of 47 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. -
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84 Years Ago Today She Couldn't Breathe
Adolf Hitler's half-niece and supposed lover Geli Angela Maria Raubal commits suicide by a shot in her lung at the age of 23 in Prinzregentenplatz 16, München, Bayern, Germany.
Raubal shot herself in Hitler's apartment with Hitler's Walther 7.65 pistol. -
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82 Years Ago Today
Actor Robert Blake, originally Michael James Gubitosi is born in Nutley, New Jersey, United States. -
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72 Years Ago Today
40-year-old Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce calls out the Repubblica Sociale Italiana in Salò, Lombardia, Italy.
The Repubblica Sociale Italiana, informally known as the Repubblica di Salò, was a satellite state of Nazi Germany during the later part of World War II -
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63 Years Ago Today
Musician Dee Dee Ramone, originally Douglas Glenn Colvin is born in Fort Lee, Virginia, United States. -
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62 Years Ago Today
Murderess Louisa May Merrifield, originally Louisa Highway is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 47 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
Merrifield was the fourth and last woman to be executed at the prison. -
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56 Years Ago Today
Serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. -
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54 Years Ago Today
Second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld dies in a Douglas DC-6B plane crash at the age of 56 in Ndola, Zambia.
Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The circumstances of the incident are still not clear. There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down. -
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50 Years Ago Today
38-year-old Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen kills four police officers while escaping in a stolen car from a burglary in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.
Sørensen was captured three days later. -
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47 Years Ago Today
Murderer Charles Daniel Thacker is born in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. -
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45 Years Ago Today
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jimi James Marshall Hendrix, originally Johnny Allen Hendrix dies of a drug overdose at the age of 28 in Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, London, Notting Hill, Greater London, United Kingdom.
A post-mortem concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Hendrix had taken nine Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage. -
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41 Years Ago Today
18-year-old Sally Versoi and 17-year-old Diane Flynn are picked up by 47-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Carignan forced them to perform oral sex and would beat them if they didn’t follow a command. The two girls were able to escape when Carignan stopped for fuel. -
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41 Years Ago Today
28-year-old Serial killer Paul John Knowles aka The Casanova Killer shoots elderly campers Emmett and Lois Johnson to death on a campground in Nevada, United States. -
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40 Years Ago Today
40-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker is found guilty of robbery, burglary and kidnapping, and sentenced to 30 to 80 years imprisonment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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40 Years Ago Today
21-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst is arrested by the FBI and SFPD in San Francisco, California, United States.
Hearst and another SLA member, Wendy Yoshimura were arrested by FBI Agent Thomas Padden. -
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34 Years Ago Today
24-year-old Malcolm Barlow is strangled by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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19 Years Ago Today
Spree killer Raymond Lee Stewart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois, United States. -
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19 Years Ago Today
Murderer Joe Fedelfido Gonzales is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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14 Years Ago Today
Murderer James Roy Knox is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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13 Years Ago Today He Requested Spicy Stuff
Murderer Ron Scott Shamburger is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Shamburger's last meal request was for Nachos with chili and cheese, one bowl of sliced jalapenos, one bowl of picante sauce, two large onions (sliced and grilled), tacos (with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and cheese) and toasted corn tortilla shells. -
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11 Years Ago Today
Film director Russ Russell Albion Meyer aka The King of the Nudies known for his big breast fixation dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in 3121 Arrowhead Drive, Hollywood Hills, California, United States.
Monday morning feels so bad
Everybody seems to nag you
Comin' Tuesday you feel better
Even your old man looks good
Wednesday just don't go
Thursday goes too slow
You've got Friday on your mind
Description
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.
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