Sunday, April 30, 2017

32nd year - N° 120 Sunday, 30 April 2017

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32nd year - N° 120 Sunday, 30 April 2017

30 April / Today's 9 Events:
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205 years ago

Thursday 30th of April 1812

Foundling Kaspar Hauser aka The Wild Child is born in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.


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147 years ago War Er Sehr Lustig

Saturday 30th of April 1870

Composer Franz Lehár known for Die lustige Witwe is born in Komárom, Közép-Dunántúl, Hungary.


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134 years ago

Monday 30th of April 1883

Painter Édouard Manet dies of untreated syphilis and rheumatism at the age of 51 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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87 years ago

Wednesday 30th of April 1930

Charlotte Ullrich is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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87 years ago

Wednesday 30th of April 1930

Psychotherapist, philosopher and semiologist Félix Pierre Guattari is born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France.


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71 years ago He Was Not Caught

Tuesday 30th of April 1946

18-year-old Serial killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More is arrested for carrying a gun, but is released in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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51 years ago

Saturday 30th of April 1966

36-year-old Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey, originally Howard Stanton Levey announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan in San Francisco, California, United States.


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39 years ago

Sunday 30th of April 1978

43-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker starts hungerstriking to secure medical treatment in State Correctional Institution, 1100 Pike Street, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.


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30 years ago

Thursday 30th of April 1987

42-year-old Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is paroled and released from prison after serving 14 of a 25-year sentence for the murder of 10-year-old Jack Owen Blake in Watertown on 7 May 1972 in Green Haven Correctional Facility, Route 216, Stormville, New York, United States.

In March 1988 Shawcross began murdering again, primarily prostitutes in the area, before his capture less than two years later.


Saturday, April 29, 2017

32nd year - N° 119 Saturday, 29 April 2017

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32nd year - N° 119 Saturday, 29 April 2017

29 April / Today's 29 Events:
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247 years ago

Sunday 29th of April 1770

42-year-old Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook lands with the HMB Endeavour in Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.


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154 years ago

Wednesday 29th of April 1863

Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States.


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136 years ago

Friday 29th of April 1881

Murderer Royal S. Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, 546 State Farm Road, Windsor, Vermont, United States.


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118 years ago

Saturday 29th of April 1899

Bandleader and composer Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.


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116 years ago

Monday 29th of April 1901

Emperor of Japan Hirohito aka Emperor Shōwa is born in Aoyama Palace, Moto-Akasaka, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.


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110 years ago He Was a Baby for All Seasons

Monday 29th of April 1907

Film director Fred Alfred Zinneman is born in Rzeszów, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.


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110 years ago

Monday 29th of April 1907

Singer and actor Tino Constantin Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.


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100 years ago She Was Transfigured in Time

Sunday 29th of April 1917

Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, originally Eleanora Derenkowskaia is born in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.


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98 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 1919

Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper note to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.


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74 years ago

Thursday 29th of April 1943

Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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72 years ago

Sunday 29th of April 1945

Musician Hugh Colin Hopper known from the band ‘Soft Machine’ is born in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom.


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72 years ago

Sunday 29th of April 1945

Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is born in Führerbunker, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


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68 years ago

Friday 29th of April 1949

Murderer Andrew Martin Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, United States.


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66 years ago

Sunday 29th of April 1951

Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies of prostate cancer at the age of 62 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.


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59 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 1958

Double murderer Robert Wayne Vickers aka Bonzai Bob is born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.


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59 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 1958

Actress Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, United States.


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50 years ago

Saturday 29th of April 1967

Coby van der Voort is beaten to death by serial killer Hans van Zon in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.


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47 years ago

Wednesday 29th of April 1970

Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


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46 years ago

Thursday 29th of April 1971

Edna Terry MacDonald is strangled by serial rapist and killer Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States.


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40 years ago

Friday 29th of April 1977

Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland.


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40 years ago

Friday 29th of April 1977

Marie-Therese Majer is murdered by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer in Schriesheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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37 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 1980

Film director Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense dies of renal failure at the age of 81 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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37 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 1980

Darin Lee Kendrick is strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Stanton, California, United States.

Bonin and Vernon Butts picked up Kendrick near Knott's Berry Farm, tied him up and forced him to drink chloral hydrate.


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20 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 1997

David Samuel Madson is shot dead by serial killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Madson's body was found on the east shore of Rush Lake.


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19 years ago

Wednesday 29th of April 1998

Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.


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19 years ago

Wednesday 29th of April 1998

Murderer Frank Basil McFarland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.


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14 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 2003

Murderer David Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.

Brewer's last meal request was for fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, apple pie and root beer.



12 years ago The Eyes had it

Friday 29th of April 2005

A carboot sale of fresh pig meat outside our apartment in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.


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3 years ago

Tuesday 29th of April 2014

Kidnapper and murderer Clayton Darrell Lockett dies of a heart attack after a botched execution by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.


Friday, April 28, 2017

32nd year - N° 118 Friday, 28 April 2017

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32nd year - N° 118 Friday, 28 April 2017

28 April / Today's 28 Events:
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575 years ago

Thursday 28th of April 1442

King of England Edward IV is born in Rouen, Haute-Normendie, France.


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259 years ago

Friday 28th of April 1758

4th President of the United States James Monroe is born in Monroe Hall, Virginia, United States.


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135 years ago

Friday 28th of April 1882

Doctor and murderer George Henry Lamson aka The Slight-of-Hand Poisoner is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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128 years ago

Sunday 28th of April 1889

Dictator and Prime Minister of Portugal António de Oliveira Salazar is born in Vimieiro, Dão-Lafões, Portugal.


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111 years ago

Saturday 28th of April 1906

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Adolf Hannappel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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105 years ago

Sunday 28th of April 1912

Illegalist Jules Bonnot aka Le Bourgeois known from ‘La Bande à Bonnot’ is riddled with bullets in a shootout with police officers at the age of 36 in Choisy-le-Roi, Île-de-France, France.

After sporadic firing failed to extract Bonnot from his hideout, Paris Police Chief Louis Lépine ordered the building bombed using a dynamite charge. The explosion demolished the front of the building. Barely conscious lying underneath a mattress, Bonnot was shot ten times in the upper-body before Lépine shot him non-fatally in the head. Bonnot was moved to the Hotel-Dieu hospital and pronounced dead at 1:15 pm.


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103 years ago

Tuesday 28th of April 1914

183 die in Eccles Mine Nr 5 methane gas explosion in Eccles, West Virginia, United States.


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101 years ago

Friday 28th of April 1916

Industrialist Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini is born in House Number 22, Renazzo di Cento, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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99 years ago

Sunday 28th of April 1918

Assassin Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World known for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria dies of tuberculosis at the age of 24 in Terezin, Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia.

At the time of his death Princip weighed around 40 kilograms, weakened by malnutrition and disease. His body had become wracked by skeletal tuberculosis that ate away his bones so badly that his right arm had to be amputated.


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98 years ago

Monday 28th of April 1919

40-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Rothe was killed by Haarmann on 25 September 1918.


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93 years ago

Monday 28th of April 1924

119 die in Wheeling Steel Corporation mine methane gas explosion in Benwood, West Virginia, United States.


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89 years ago

Saturday 28th of April 1928

Artist Yves Klein known for his International Klein Blue is born in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.


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88 years ago

Sunday 28th of April 1929

Eccentric painter Olive Edith May Branson is shot dead and dumped in a cistern by persons unkown in Les Baux-de-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.


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80 years ago

Wednesday 28th of April 1937

Dictator of Iraq Saddam Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Hussein is born in Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq.


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78 years ago

Friday 28th of April 1939

Murderer Archie Lee Short aka James Bailey is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 20 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Short was the last man executed by Potassium Cyanide.


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74 years ago Il était Cinq Heures, Paris s'éveillait

Wednesday 28th of April 1943

Singer-songwriter and actor Jacques Dutronc is born in 67 Rue de Provence, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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72 years ago

Saturday 28th of April 1945

Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce is executed by Walter Audisio with a machine gun at the age of 38 in Villa Belmonte, Via XXIV Maggio, Giulino di Mezzegra, Lombardia, Italy.

In the evening the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other executed Fascists were loaded onto a van and trucked south to Milan. On arriving in the city in the early hours of 29 April, they were dumped on the ground in the Piazzale Loreto. The corpses were pelted with vegetables, spat at, urinated on, shot at and kicked. Mussolini's face was disfigured by beatings. After a while the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station, and hung upside down on meat hooks.


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72 years ago

Saturday 28th of April 1945

Mistress of Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is executed by Walter Audisio with a machine gun at the age of 33 in Villa Belmonte, Via XXIV Maggio, Giulino di Mezzegra, Lombardia, Italy.

The next day the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station on Piazzale Loreto in Milano and hung upside down on meat hooks.


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67 years ago

Friday 28th of April 1950

Television host Jay James Douglas Muir Leno known from The Tonight Show is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.


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56 years ago

Friday 28th of April 1961

Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga known for the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident is born in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Kyushu, Japan.


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41 years ago

Wednesday 28th of April 1976

Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder dies of malignant hyperthermia at the age of 30 in Landeskrankenhaus Eickelborn, Eickelbornstraße, Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

An official autopsy and investigation determined that Bartsch had been intoxicated with a Halothane overdose (factor 10) by an insufficiently trained nurse during a chemical castration operation to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.


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40 years ago

Thursday 28th of April 1977

The leaders of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for four murders and over 30 attempted murders in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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21 years ago

Sunday 28th of April 1996

29-year-old Mass murderer Martin Bryant kills 35 and wounds 23 people in a shooting spree in Port Arthur Prison Colony, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

Bryant's motivation for the massacre remains a closely guarded secret known only to his lawyer, who is bound not to reveal confidences without his client's consent.


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18 years ago

Wednesday 28th of April 1999

Murderer Aaron Christopher Foust is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Foust's last words were "Adios, amigos, I'll see ya'll on the other side. I'm ready when ya'll are."



12 years ago The Eyes had it

Thursday 28th of April 2005

A streetworker cutting an electric cable with a hacksaw after a storm in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.


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10 years ago

Saturday 28th of April 2007

Mass murderer Ayub Bulubili is executed by the firing squad at the age of 40 in Palangkaraya, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia.


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7 years ago

Wednesday 28th of April 2010

Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng is executed by the firing squad at the age of 42 in Nanping, Fujian, China.



4 years ago The Eyes had it

Sunday 28th of April 2013

Greenery and Rietveld furniture on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.