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263 Years Ago Today
Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton is born in Bristol, Redcliffe, South West England, United Kingdom. -
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254 Years Ago Today
253rd Pope Pius VIII, originally Francesco Saverio Castiglioni is born in Cingoli, Marche, Italy. -
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138 Years Ago Today
Double murderer Henry March is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Norwich Castle, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. -
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126 Years Ago Today
Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Powell Hubble is born in Marshfield, Missouri, United States. -
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121 Years Ago Today
13-year-old Louise Marcel is murdered by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Vidauban, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. -
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113 Years Ago Today
SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is born in Bad Kissingen, Bayern, Germany. -
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112 Years Ago Today He Was Hanged by Water Power
Old West scout and hired gunman Tom Thomas Horn is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States.
Horn was one of the few people to have been hanged by a water-powered gallows known as the 'Julian Gallows', designed by Cheyenne architect James P. Julian. On the scaffold Horn shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve are you, Joe?”. -
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105 Years Ago Today
Writer Leo Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Lva Tolstogo, Astapovo, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. -
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91 Years Ago Today
Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom. -
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90 Years Ago Today
Politician Robert Francis 'Bobby' Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. -
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84 Years Ago Today
Founder of The Process Church of The Final Judgment Mary Ann DeGrimston, originally Mary Ann MacLean is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. -
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81 Years Ago Today
42-year-old Mass murderer Szilveszter Matuska aka The Orient-Express Wrecker is sentenced to death in Wien, Wien, Austria. -
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79 Years Ago Today
Founder of the Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera is executed by the firing squad at the age of 33 in Alicante, Alicante, Spain. -
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79 Years Ago Today
Arte Povera artist Luciano Fabro is born in Torino, Piedmontese, Italy. -
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64 Years Ago Today
Victim of Dean Corll aka The Candyman Jeffrey Alan Konen is born in Houston, Texas, United States. -
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59 Years Ago Today
Model and actress Bo Derek, originally Mary Cathleen Collins is born in Long Beach, California, United States. -
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59 Years Ago Today
Spree killer David Malcolm Gray known for The Aramoana Massacre is born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. -
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56 Years Ago Today
30-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. -
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55 Years Ago Today
37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer stabs his 37-year-old wife Adele with a penknife in the abdomen and back at a party in their apartment in 250 West 94th Street, New York, New York, United States.
Adele's pericardium was punctured and necessitated emergency surgery. She would not press charges and Mailer later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault and was given a suspended sentence. -
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51 Years Ago Today
37-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is arrested on charges of burglary in Seattle, Washington, United States. -
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40 Years Ago Today
Caudillo de España y de la Cruzada Francisco Bahamonde Franco dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 83 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain. -
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37 Years Ago Today
Surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. -
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25 Years Ago Today
54-year-old Serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper is arrested in Gvardeyskaya ul., Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, Russia. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor Michael Howard that 55-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) would serve her life sentence or tariff in full and die in jail, in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Hindley had requested a judicial review of her sentence. -
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17 Years Ago Today He Felt Like a Very Lucky Man
Double murderer John Thomas Noland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. -
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13 Years Ago Today
Triple murderer William Wesley Chappell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 66 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Chappell was the oldest inmate Texas has put to death. -
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12 Years Ago Today He Went There
Double murderer Robert Lloyd Henry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Henry's last words were "Here I Go". -
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9 Years Ago Today
Film director Robert Bernard Altman dies of leukemia at the age of 81 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States. -
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2 Years Ago Today
White-supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, originally James Clayton Vaughn aka The Racist Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 63 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States.
Franklin's execution was the first lethal injection in Missouri to use only Pentobarbital instead of the conventional three drug cocktail.
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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