April 7, 1917 -90 years ago in the age of 42 Ko Doncker died on his bicycle in Haarlem.
Ko was a peticilair known author and illustrator.



This drawing of man with running nose is out of his postume book
Wezens die je toch nooit ziet - Creatures you will never met
Most famous is his catchphrase
"Piet Pelle op zijn Gazelle" -"Piet Pelle on his Gazelle"
for an advertorial of Gazelle Bicyles

I don't know the brand of his bike on wich he died.

[Edited on 7-4-2007 by DED]

[Edited on 9-4-2007 by DED]

Fortenately my bike is a Locomotive
And when you hear me riding on it, it seem to have a steam engine.

Today it is the day of Jaques Brel

april ninth
not a special day in terms of dying or birthday

Paul McCartney announced this day in 1970 that he is leaving The Beatles

Today in 1895 in GB there was the first Proms concert ever.

Proms is short for Henry Wood Promenade Concert.

today seven years ago
the Koersk sunk
all 118 crewmembers died

august 18

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.

1776 "The republic of 7 Netherlands" accepts as first country in the world de independance of the United States

John Dillinger
Born June 22, 1903(1903-06-22)
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died July 22, 1934 (aged 31)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Charge(s) Bank robbery
Penalty Imprisonment from 1924 to 1933
Spouse Beryl Hovious (divorced)

John Herbert Dillinger Jr. (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Midwest during the early 1930s. He was considered to be a dangerous criminal who was involved in the deaths of several police officers, robbed at least two dozen banks and four police stations, escaped from jail twice and was idolized by some as a modern-day Robin Hood. The exploits of Dillinger and his gang, along with those of other criminals of the Great Depression such as Bonnie and Clyde and Ma Barker, dominated the attention of the American press and its readers during what is sometimes referred to as the public enemy era (1931–1935), a period which led to the development of the modern, more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation.

After spending nearly a year running from police, and hiding out in Florida, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Dillinger was wounded in one escape from police and returned to his father's home to heal. He soon returned to Chicago in July 1934. He was discovered there by police, who were informed of his whereabouts by a madame.

On July 22, the police and Bureau of Investigation closed in on the Biograph Theater in Chicago where Dillinger had gone to see a gangster movie, Manhattan Melodrama, starring Clark Gable. Dillinger was accompanied by Anna Sage the so-called "woman in red," whose dress color supposedly helped police positively identify Dillinger, and girlfriend Polly Hamilton. Bureau of Investigation agents, led by Melvin Purvis, moved to arrest him as he left the theater and he pulled a weapon and attempted to flee, but was shot three times. One bullet entered through the back of his neck and exited from his face, killing him. The crime scene and even Dillinger's autopsy immediately took on a sensationalized, circus-like atmosphere.

Dillinger's crimes were sensationalized across the nation, and his numerous escapes and robberies fed many urban legends in the United States. Several movies have been made about his life and death.