33rd year - N° 117 Friday, 27 April 2018

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33rd year - N° 117 Friday, 27 April 2018

27 April / Today's 11 Events:

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(-) 413 years ago Wednesday 27th of April 1605 232nd Pope Leo XI, originally Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici aka Papa Lampo dies as a result of fatigue and cold in the ceremony of taking possession of the Arcibasilica Papale di San Giovanni in Laterano at the age of 330 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Leo XI's pontificate is one of the briefest in history having lasted under a month.

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(x) 351 years ago Wednesday 27th of April 1667 The blind and impoverished 59-year-old Poet, polemicist, man of letters and civil servant John Milton known for Paradise Lost sells the copyright of his epic poem for ten Pounds in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 227 years ago Wednesday 27th of April 1791 Painter and inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse known for developing the Morse code is born in 195 Main Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 153 years ago Thursday 27th of April 1865 Over 1800 die in SS Sultana side-wheel steamboat explosion and sinking in The Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Three of the Sultana's four boilers exploded.

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(-) 91 years ago Wednesday 27th of April 1927 Mary McConnell is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Saturday 27th of April 1974 40-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Stammheim prison for the trial considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 41 years ago Harvey Stopped Barking Wednesday 27th of April 1977 24-year-old Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz, originally Richard David Falco aka Son of Sam shoots Harvey, the dog of his neighbour Sam Carr in 35 Pine Street, Yonkers, New York, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Tuesday 27th of April 1982 112 die in CAAC Hawker Siddeley Trident Flight 3303 crash in Yangshuo, Guangxi, China.

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15 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of April 2003 A concert by Suicide in Hof ter Lo, Noordersingel, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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6 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 27th of April 2012 The U-bahn track in Stadtmitte, Friedrichstraße, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 1 years ago Thursday 27th of April 2017 Performance artist Vito Hannibal Acconci dies of a stroke at the age of 77 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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