Wednesday 24th of November 1632 (+) — Philosopher Baruch Spinoza is born
Friday 4th of October 1669 (-) — Painter and printmaker Rembrandt dies of unknown causes
Sunday 8th of September 1901 (+) — Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd is born
Saturday 21st of April 1934 (+) — Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Huges is born
Wednesday 6th of January 1965 (x) — Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Huges performs a self-trepanation with a Black & Decker power drill, a surgical knife and a hypodermic syringe for local anesthetic
Wednesday 31st of May 1967 (-) — Victim of Hans van Zon Jan Donse is stabbed to death by Hans van Zon aka
Saturday 29th of April 1967 (-) — Victim of Hans van Zon Coby van der Voort is beaten to death by Hans van Zon aka
Saturday 28th of November 1970 (x) — Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion Mit Einer Gans'
Saturday 13th of September 1980 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Simpletones in de Bajes' with The Simpletones in an old prison
The performance happened in a cell of an old prison and the audience had to look through the spy-hole to see anything. While the Simpletones played their music I tried to pull myself upside down all the time by use of a pulley. After about one and a half hour the door of the cell opened and I threw up in the hallway.
Wednesday 9th of March 1994 (-) — Musician Xavier Rathé dies in an accidental fall off a building
Tuesday 9th of February 1999 — The Eyes Had it: Returning from Bangkok into Schiphol airport at 7am in the morning I took up my teaching job at the Rietveld Academie
Monday 30th of August 2004 (-) — Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Huges dies of a heart disease
