32nd year - N° 96 Thursday, 6 April 2017

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32nd year - N° 96 Thursday, 6 April 2017

6 April / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 534 years ago Friday 6th of April 1483 Painter Raphael, originally Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino is born in Urbino, Marche, Italy.

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(-) 497 years ago It Was a Lovely Way to Burn Tuesday 6th of April 1520 Painter Raphael, originally Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino dies of fever at the age of 37 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Raphael's fever was caused by a night of excessive sex with Margherita Luti and not telling his doctors that this was its cause was given the wrong cure which killed him.

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(+) 125 years ago Wednesday 6th of April 1892 Aircraft designer Donald Wills Douglas is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 122 years ago Saturday 6th of April 1895 41-year-old Poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the 9th Marquess of Queensberry John Sholto Douglas in Cadogan Hotel, Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Wilde was charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.

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(+) 102 years ago Tuesday 6th of April 1915 Theatre director, painter, sculptor and set designer Tadeusz Kantor known for his piece Dead Class is born in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

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(-) 93 years ago Sunday 6th of April 1924 Alfred Hogrefe is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Das Mordhaus, Rote Reihe 4, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 73 years ago He Was Bad Blood Thursday 6th of April 1944 Serial killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, originally Bharat Rajpurohit aka Bad Blood is born in Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam.

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(-) 66 years ago Friday 6th of April 1951 Murderer Preston F. McBride is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 63 years ago Tuesday 6th of April 1954 Child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge is born in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 59 years ago Sunday 6th of April 1958 Triple murderer John Starling Gardner is born in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 19 years ago Monday 6th of April 1998 Musician Wendy O. Orlean Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock known from The Plasmatics commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 49 in Storrs, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 3 years ago Sunday 6th of April 2014 Vaudeville performer and actor Mickey Rooney, originally Joseph Yule dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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