Thursday 31st of December 1514 (+) — Anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius is born
Thursday 9th of February 1826 (+) — Murderer Francis Kol is born
Kol was an abandoned child.
Thursday 8th of April 1875 (+) — King of Belgium Albert I is born
Saturday 28th of November 1908 (+) — Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss is born
Saturday 6th of September 1919 (x) — Flemish nationalist leader August Borms is sentenced to death for treason
On 23 January 1920 Borms' death sentence was reduced to a life sentence of hard labour. Borms was released from prison on 17 January 1929.
Saturday 29th of November 1924 (-) — Composer Giacomo Puccini dies of complications after throat cancer surgery
Wednesday 24th of February 1954 (+) — Musician and songwriter Roger Jouret is born
Wednesday 16th of November 1966 (+) — Mass murderess Geneviève Lhermitte is born
Friday 15th of May 1981 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Death-Threat' in 'Echelle 1/1981'
In a room closed for the audience I made an installation with vacuum cleaners and noise music.
Friday 19th of October 1984 (x) — In a nation-wide ‘Mammouth’-operation the authorities try to track down members of the Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes
Sunday 20th of October 1985 (x) — Twentieth bomb attack by Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes on the car of Mr. Galand, chairman of the CNAPD
It was the second action in their Campagne Pierre Akkerman.
Friday 9th of May 1986 (x) — Pierre Carette, Bernard Sassoye, Didier Chevolet and Pascale Vandegeerde of Terrorist organisation Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes start hungerstriking in the prisons of St. Gillis and Vorst
Thursday 16th of October 1997 (x) — Serial killer András Pándy is arrested
Saturday 13th of November 1999 — The Eyes Had it: A welcoming act on the launch of the now defunct 'Café Belge'
Wednesday 6th of March 2002 (x) — Serial killer András Pándy is sentenced to life in prison for killing six family members and dissolving their bodies in chemical drain cleaner
His daughter Agnes Pándy is sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for being an accomplice in five of her father's murders.
Friday 24th of October 2003 — The Eyes Had it: Whitehouse performing
Tuesday 21st of October 2003 — The Eyes Had it: Tables and chairs in the largest restaurant for civil servants that served 2000 people at the same time and is now demolished
Wednesday 29th of January 2003 (-) — Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine dies of unknown causes
Wednesday 10th of March 2004 — The Eyes Had it: Mastering our 'Livingstone' CD in a professional studio
