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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, 5 February 2016

20 events for Friday 5 February 2016

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    176 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 5th of February 1840

    Inventor John Boyd Dunlop is born in Dreghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.


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    168 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 5th of February 1848

    Writer Joris-Karl Charles Marie Georges Huysmans is born in 11 Rue Suger, Paris, VIe, Île-de-France, France.


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    168 Years Ago Today
    Saturday 5th of February 1848

    Outlaw Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr aka Belle Star is born in Carthage, Missouri, United States.


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    138 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 5th of February 1878

    Automobile designer and manufacturer André Gustave Citroën is born in 44 Rue Laffitte, Paris, IXe, Île-de-France, France.


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    108 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 5th of February 1908

    Stage actress Peg Millicent Lilian Entwistle is born in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom.


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    108 Years Ago Today
    Wednesday 5th of February 1908

    Kidnapper and multiple murderer Eugen Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil is born in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.


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    102 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 5th of February 1914

    Writer, painter and spoken word performer William Seward Burroughs is born in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.


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    79 Years Ago Today
    Friday 5th of February 1937

    Psychoanalyst and writer Lou Andreas-Salomé, originally Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé dies of uremia at the age of 76 in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany.


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    70 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 5th of February 1946

    Actress Charlotte Tessa Rampling is born in Sturmer, Essex, United Kingdom.


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    68 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 5th of February 1948

    19-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is convicted of auto theft and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.


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    57 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 5th of February 1959

    Model and actress Gwili Andre, originally Gurli Andresen aka Gurlie commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 51 in 2109 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, California, United States.

    Andre surrounded herself with numerous articles and photographs about the career she expected and set it all alight. Another resident of the building, 83-year-old George Katzenberger, is pulled to safety by two neighbors after he broke a bathroom window.


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    55 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 5th of February 1961

    57-year-old Kidnapper and murderer Nathan Freudenthal Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer marries Gertrud 'Trudi' Garcia de Quevedo in Adjuntas, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.


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    43 Years Ago Today
    Monday 5th of February 1973

    24-year-old Rosalind Heather Thorpe is shot in the head by serial killer Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer in University of California, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California, United States.

    Kemper sexually abused her body and the next morning dismembered it and discarded the remains at Eden Canyon near San Francisco, where it was found with the body of Alice Liu a week later.


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    43 Years Ago Today
    Monday 5th of February 1973

    21-year-old Alice Helen Allison Liu is shot in the head by serial killer Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer in University of California, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, California, United States.

    Kemper sexually abused her body and the next morning dismembered it and discarded the remains at Eden Canyon near San Francisco, where it was found with the body of Rosalind Thorpe a week later.


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    42 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 5th of February 1974

    34-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Gudrun Ensslin is transferred from Essen in Justizvollzugsanstalt Ossendorf, Rochusstraße 350, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

    Ensslin is placed in a cell next to Ulrike Meinhof.


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    35 Years Ago Today
    Thursday 5th of February 1981

    22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs as 'David Mark Chapman', murderer of John Lennon with Xavier Rathé at 2e Verzameling in Handelsbeurs, Kouter, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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    21 Years Ago Today
    Sunday 5th of February 1995

    Four gypsies are killed in the seventh bomb attack by 46-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs in Oberwart, Burgenland, Austria.

    40-year-old Josef Simon, 27-year-old Peter Sarközi, 22-year-old Karl and 18-year-old Erwin Horvath were killed by an improvised explosive device which was attached to a sign that read "Roma zurück nach Indien".



  • 12 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
    Thursday 5th of February 2004

    Devotees of all kind gathering for the Thaipoosam Festive Days at the festival grounds in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


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    8 Years Ago Today
    Tuesday 5th of February 2008

    Spiritual leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, originally Mahesh Prasad Varma dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Maharishi European Research University, Station 24, Vlodrop, Limburg, Netherlands.
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