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1148 Years Ago Today
105th Pope Nicholaus I aka Saint Nicholas the Great dies of unknown causes at the age of 67 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. -
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1013 Years Ago Today
34-year-old King of the English Æthelred the Unready orders to "slain all the Danish men who are in England" in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
The event is remembered as St. Brice's Day Massacre. -
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703 Years Ago Today
King of England Edward III is born in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
To bolster further the independent prestige of the young prince, king Edward II had Edward III created Earl of Chester at only twelve days of age. -
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297 Years Ago Today Sandwiches Were not Yet Served
4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu known for inventing the Sandwich is born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. -
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166 Years Ago Today
Murderess Marie Manning, originally Marie de Roux aka The Bermondsey Horror is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, London, Southwark, South London, .
Manning's hanging was the first time a husband and wife had been executed together in the United Kingdom since 1700. Supposedly wearing black satin, Manning's hanging drew a crowd of 50.000, including writer Charles Dickens. -
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165 Years Ago Today He Was a Treasure on the Island
Writer Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson known for his novel ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ is born in 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. -
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147 Years Ago Today
Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini is born at the age of 76 in Passy, 2 Avenue Ingres, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France. -
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115 Years Ago Today
Cousin and first wife of Jesse James Zerelda Amanda Mimms dies of pneumonia at the age of 55 in 3402 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, United States. -
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106 Years Ago Today
259 die in St. Paul’s Company mine fire in St. Paul’s Company, Cherry, Illinois, United States. -
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77 Years Ago Today
Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg is born in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. -
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75 Years Ago Today
Wiener Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is born in Wien, Wien, Austria. -
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60 Years Ago Today
Actress and television host Whoopi Goldberg, originally Caryn Elaine Johnson is born in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States. -
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55 Years Ago Today
152 Kurdish schoolchildren die in Amouda Cinema fire in Amuda, Al Hasakah, Syria.
The Egyptian horror film ‘The Midnight Ghost’ was playing. -
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51 Years Ago Today
Serial killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. -
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50 Years Ago Today
92 die in SS Yarmouth Castle fire in Northwest Providence Channel, Atlantic Ocean. -
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45 Years Ago Today
Murderess Maria Groesbeek is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
“My husband wouldn’t give me a divorce, so I poisoned him with arsenic,” Groesbeek told police when they came to arrest her. -
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41 Years Ago Today
Neorealist film director Vittorio De Sica dies of lung cancer at the age of 73 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France. -
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41 Years Ago Today
Chemical technician and labor union activist Karen Gay Silkwood dies in a car accident under unclear circumstances at the age of 28 in South Portland Avenue, Crescent, Oklahoma, United States.
Silkwood's car was rammed from behind by another vehicle with the intent to cause an accident that would result in her death. Skid marks from Silkwood's car were present on the road, suggesting that she was trying to get back onto the road after being pushed from behind. -
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41 Years Ago Today
43-year-old Ronald Sr., 42-year-old Louise, 18-year-old Dawn, 13-year-old Allison, 12-year-old Mark and 7-year-old John are shot dead by their son and brother 23-year-old Mass murderer Ronald Joseph 'Butch' DeFeo aka The Amityville Horror Murderer in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, United States.
"Once I started, I just couldn’t stop. It went so fast." -
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38 Years Ago Today
13-year-old Dolores Ann 'Dolly' Cepeda is raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 703 East Colorado Street, Los Angeles, Glendale, California, United States. -
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29 Years Ago Today The World Was Shocked
Tenor Rudolf Schock aka Der Czárdás-König dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Düren, Gürzenich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Double murderer Dawud Majid Mu'Min, originally David Michael Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Greensville Correctional Center, Jarratt, Virginia, United States. -
16 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
A welcoming act on the launch of the now defunct 'Café Belge' in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. -
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11 Years Ago Today They Got Him in the Bottle
Musician John 'Jhonn' Balance, originally Geoffrey Laurence Burton, later Geoff(rey) Rushton known from the experimental music group Coil falls to his death from a two story balcony under the influence of alcohol at his home at the age of 42 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
A courtyard of the Forbidden City in Beijing, Hebei, China. -
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6 Years Ago Today
47-year-old Anti-government protester Tang Fu-zhen sets herself ablaze in an act of protest against the demolition of a garment processing unit in Chengdu, Jinhua, Sichuan, China.
Four members of Tang Fu-zhen's family ended up wounded and in the hospital. Tang Fu-zhen was officially pronounced dead by the hospital on 29 November 2009. -
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5 Years Ago Today
Serial killer Farid Baghlani is executed by hanging in Ahvāz, Ostān-e Khūzestān, Iran.
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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