Seress actually survived jumping out of his window, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire. His song 'Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)' sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933. (11 January 1968)
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Friday 7th of October 1977 (x) — Four paintings are attacked with acid by Serial art vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann . The paintings were Rembrandt's 'Der Jakobssegen - Jakob segnet Ephraim und Manasse' and 'Selbstbildnis mit Barett und Goldener Kette', Nicolaus Maes’ 'Der Apostel Thomas' and Willem Drost's 'Noli Me Tangere (Christus erscheint Maria Magdalena als Gärtner)'.