Edgar Ray Killen, once one of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, died in his cell on Thursday night. That makes the prison known Friday. He sat there from the age of eighty, a long sentence for complicity in the death of three activists in the struggle for civil rights for blacks.
Toots Thielemans gets its own metro station in Brussels. The current station Anneessens, in the south of the city, will kick off in 2019 and is then named after the Belgian jazz musician, who died in 2016.
Ukraine is penalized by the organization behind the Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), due to an event for this year's festival. Host country Ukraine blocked the arrival of Russian singer Joelia Samojlova, thus interfering with Russian participation in the festival this year.
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday at the age of 88 deceased in a hospital in Bangkok. "His royal highness is peacefully asleep in Siriraj-hospital", the Thai government said, adding that his death had occurred at 15:52 am local time.
Call in a community the word harmonica and many will think of Toots Thielemans. He died Monday at the age of 94. The 'roll' as he called his instrument is therefore inextricably linked to the well-known Fleming, who was born Jean Baptiste Thielemans in Brussels in 1922. Later, he was nicknamed Toots, a reference to the musicians Toots Mondello and Toots Camarata.
Four occupants of an ambulance were killed Saturday when the aircraft crashed near Goodman in the US state of Alabama. Among them was a patient who was brought to the hospital.
