Monday, April 9, 2012

9 April 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright Dies

1483 (-)  King of England Edward IV dies at the age of 40 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

1744 (-)  Grace Pett dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ipswich, St. Clement, United Kingdom.

1821 (+)   Writer Charles Pierre Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, is born in Paris, France.

1830 (+)   Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge is born in Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom.

1835 (+)   King of Belgium Louis Philippe Marie Victor Leopold II Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha is born in Brussels, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.

1906 (+)   Artist Victor Vasarely is born in Pecs, Hungary.

1912 (-)  Black Tom Miles is lynched for writing insulting letters to a white girl in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

1926 (+)   Playboy-pioneer Hugh Hefner is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1932 (+)   Musician Carl Lee Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, is born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, USA.

1933 (+)   Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1936 (+)   Radical Feminist and founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men Valerie Jean Solanas is born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA.

1940 (x)   Nazi-Germany attacks Norway.

1940 (x)   Denmark capitulates for Nazi-Germany.

1945 (x)   360 Die in USS Liberty steamer explosion in Bari, Italy.



1959 (-)  Architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies at the age of 91 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

1964 (-)  Irene Lockwood aka Sandra Russel, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 26 in London, United Kingdom.

1974 (+)   Serial Killer Alexander Pichushkin aka The Bitsevsky Maniac, is born in Moscow, Mytishchi, Russia.

1981 (+)   Mass Murderer Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killer, is born in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

1986 (-)  Eileen Emms is raped and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 78 in London, Wandsworth, West Hill Road, United Kingdom.

1998 (x)  32-year-old Serial Killer Alfred J. Gaynor is arrested in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.

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