BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 328                 Saturday, 23 November 2024         Antwerpen		
Out in the Real World


East Harlem, New York, New York, United States.

Related events:

  1. Tuesday 22nd of September 1903 (+) Gangster Joseph Valachi is born

  2. Monday 21st of February 1910 (+) Mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family Carmine Galante is born
    Galante was rarely seen without a cigar, leading to the nickname 'The Cigar' and 'Lilo' (a Sicilian term for cigar).

  3. Thursday 14th of May 1936 (+) Singer-songwriter Bobby Darin is born
    Darin was raised by his maternal grandmother Vivian Fern Walden aka Polly who he thought was his mother. Darin's birth mother Vanina Juliette 'Nina' Cassotto became pregnant with him in the summer of 1935 when she was 17. Presumably because of the scandalous nature of out-of-wedlock pregnancies in that era Nina and her mother hatched a plan to pass the baby off as her parents' child and for Nina to be passed off as his older sister. He allegedly chose the name Darin because he had seen a malfunctioning electrical sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN DUCK" rather than "MANDARIN DUCK".

  4. Thursday 9th of March 1972 (-) Victim of Charlie Chop-off Douglas Owens is stabbed and sexually mutilated by Charlie Chop-off aka
    Owens' penis had been cut but not severed from his body.