BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 310                 Tuesday, 5 November 2024         Antwerpen		
The Eyes Have it


Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Related events:

  1. Wednesday 24th of November 1632 (+) Philosopher Baruch Spinoza is born

  2. Friday 4th of October 1669 (-) Painter and printmaker Rembrandt dies of unknown causes

  3. Sunday 8th of September 1901 (+) Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd is born

  4. Saturday 21st of April 1934 (+) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Huges is born

  5. 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

  6. Wednesday 31st of May 1967 (-) Victim of Hans van Zon Jan Donse is stabbed to death by Hans van Zon aka

  7. Saturday 29th of April 1967 (-) Victim of Hans van Zon Coby van der Voort is beaten to death by Hans van Zon aka

  8. Saturday 28th of November 1970 (x) Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion Mit Einer Gans'

  9. 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.

  10. Wednesday 9th of March 1994 (-) Musician Xavier Rathé dies in an accidental fall off a building

  11. 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

  12. Monday 30th of August 2004 (-) Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Huges dies of a heart disease