40th year - N° 103 Sunday, 13 April 2025

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40th year - N° 103 Sunday, 13 April 2025

13 April / Today's 30 Events:

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(+) 455 years ago Monday 13th of April 1570 Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes known planning the Gunpowder Plot is born in Stonegate, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 363 years ago He Was a Very Cold Meikle Blak Roch Man Thursday 13th of April 1662 Isobel Gowdie confesses to having had an encounter with the Devil after she arranged to meet him in the 'kirk' at night in Auldearn, Scotland, United Kingdom. The Devil put his mark on Gowdie's shoulder then sucked blood from it. Gowdie touched on having sexual intercourse with the Devil who she described as a very cold "meikle, blak, roch man".

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(-) 330 years ago Wednesday 13th of April 1695 Fabulist Jean de La Fontaine dies of natural causes at the age of 74 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 282 years ago Saturday 13th of April 1743 Founding Father and 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 165 years ago Friday 13th of April 1860 Artist James Sidney Edouard Ensor is born in Langestraat 26B, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(+) 140 years ago Monday 13th of April 1885 Marxist philosopher György Lukács, originally Löwinger György Bernát is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(+) 125 years ago Friday 13th of April 1900 Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Aquitaine, France.

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(+) 124 years ago Saturday 13th of April 1901 Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Émile Lacan is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 119 years ago He Kept Nobody Waiting Friday 13th of April 1906 Writer and playwright Samuel Barclay Beckett known for Waiting for Godot is born in Cooldrinagh, Kerrymount Avenue, Foxrock, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

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(-) 108 years ago Friday 13th of April 1917 Murderer Chester Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

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(x) 106 years ago Sunday 13th of April 1919 Over 400 people are shot dead by troops of the British Indian Army in Jallianwala Bagh Garden, Amritsar, Punjab, India. Over 1.000 people were injured as troops continued to fire into the fleeing civilians until their ammunition was almost exhausted.

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(-) 105 years ago Tuesday 13th of April 1920 Murderer Frederick Rothwell Holt is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Strangeways Prison, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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(-) 102 years ago Friday 13th of April 1923 Double murderer Paul V. Hadley aka Dr. William E. Estaver aka The Claw is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 94 years ago Monday 13th of April 1931 Start of the trial against 48-year-old Serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 82 years ago Tuesday 13th of April 1943 Painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer known for Das Triadisches Ballett dies of heart failure at the age of 55 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 80 years ago Friday 13th of April 1945 Murderer U.L. Holley is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 38 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 78 years ago Sunday 13th of April 1947 Hermann Bennen is hacked to death by serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher in Zorge, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 75 years ago Thursday 13th of April 1950 White-supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, originally James Clayton Vaughn aka The Racist Killer is born in Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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(-) 69 years ago Friday 13th of April 1956 Expressionist painter Emil Nolde, originally Emil Hansen dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Seebüll, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(-) 64 years ago Thursday 13th of April 1961 Rapist John Arthur Bennett is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. Bennett was the last person executed by the U.S. military.

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(-) 58 years ago Thursday 13th of April 1967 Dictator of Nicaragua Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle dies of a heart attack at the age of 45 in Managua, Managua, Nicaragua.

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(x) 52 years ago Friday 13th of April 1973 27-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Icarus' in Venice, California, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Tuesday 13th of April 1982 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV' by 77-year-old Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is attacked by 29-year-old student Josef Nikolaus Kleer in Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Kleer claimed that the painting was a "perversion of the German flag".

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(-) 42 years ago Wednesday 13th of April 1983 Joe Rapini is shot through the heart by serial rapist and murderer Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow in Greece, New York, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Friday 13th of April 1984 Serial killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with a state-trooper at the age of 39 in Vic's Getty Oil-Station, corner of Main and Bridge Streets, Colebrook, New Hampshire, United States. When the troopers approached Wilder, he retreated to his car to arm himself with a .357 Magnum. Trooper Leo Jellison grabbed Wilder from behind and subdued his arms. In the scuffle two shots were fired; the first bullet passed through Wilder's body, exited through his back and into Jellison. The second also went into Wilder's chest - both bullets went through Wilder's heart, killing him i nstantly.

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(x) 32 years ago Tuesday 13th of April 1993 31-year-old Serial killer Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky aka The Hippopotamus aka The Balashikha Ripper is arrested in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. Ryakhovsky was under suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old.

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(x) 26 years ago Tuesday 13th of April 1999 71-year-old Pathologist and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian, originally Murad Jacob Kevorkian aka Doctor Death is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for his assistance in the videotaped suicide of 52-year-old Lou Gehrig's disease patient Thomas Youk in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Kevorkian was sent to a prison in Coldwater, Michigan to serve his sentence. After his conviction and subsequent losses on appeal Kevorkian was denied parole repeatedly until 2007.

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(x) 18 years ago Friday 13th of April 2007 48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Red Dragon' in Ernest van Dijckkaai 8, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs on I stood on the edge of the top balcony ramp of the house on Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8 in Antwerp dressed in a shiny red cape rubber boots blindfolded and with my 'Diggin' for Gordon' shovel like a rifle in my hands. While I counted from 1 till 1978 Sofie Pepermans read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had - apart from casual passers-by below - one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.

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(-) 10 years ago Hielt er die Trommel Monday 13th of April 2015 Writer and playwright Günter Wilhelm Grass known for Die Blechtrommel dies of a lung infection at the age of 88 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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(-) 7 years ago Friday 13th of April 2018 Film director Miloš Jan Tomáš Forman dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 86 in Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

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40th year - N° 102 Saturday, 12 April 2025

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40th year - N° 102 Saturday, 12 April 2025

12 April / Today's 31 Events:

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(-) 310 years ago Friday 12th of April 1715 Double murderer Jeremiah Meacham is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Meacham killed his wife and her sister on 21 March 1715. Meacham was executed in front of several thousand spectators and his body was hung in gibbets.

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(+) 156 years ago Monday 12th of April 1869 Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is born in 41 Rue Puebla, XIXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 154 years ago Wednesday 12th of April 1871 General and dictator Ioannis Metaxas is born in Ithakē, Ionian Islands, Greece.

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(+) 140 years ago Sunday 12th of April 1885 Painter Robert Delaunay known for founding the Orphism art movement is born in Rue Boissière, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 130 years ago Friday 12th of April 1895 Minnie Flora Williams is raped, strangled and mutilated by double murderer Theodore Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry in Emanuel Baptist Church, Bartlett Street, San Francisco, California, .

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(-) 108 years ago Thursday 12th of April 1917 Andrée-Anne Babelay is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France. The entry in Landru's black notebook for that day was "4h 3'."

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(x) 106 years ago She Fainted Stark Naked Saturday 12th of April 1919 50-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is arrested as Lucien Guillet in 76 Rue de Rochechouart, IXe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. At Guillet's house a drivers license with the name of Henri Désiré Landru and a little black book with eleven names of disappeared women in it was found by arresting officers Jean Belin and Riboulet. In the bedroom Landru's mistress Fernande Segret fainted and was found stark naked on the floor.

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(x) 104 years ago Tuesday 12th of April 1921 22-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, Harrison Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 93 years ago He Came Tiptoeing Through the Tulips Tuesday 12th of April 1932 Falsetto singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim, originally Herbert Khaury is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Wednesday 12th of April 1933 Soprano Montserrat Caballé, originally María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch is born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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(+) 85 years ago Friday 12th of April 1940 Musician, bandleader and composer Herbie Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 80 years ago He Had a Terrific Pain Thursday 12th of April 1945 32nd President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia, United States. Roosevelt said "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head" and then slumped forward in his chair.

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(-) 79 years ago Friday 12th of April 1946 Flemish nationalist leader August Borms is executed by the firing squad at the age of 68 in Etterbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 77 years ago Monday 12th of April 1948 Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Wednesday 12th of April 1950 Actor and singer David Bruce Cassidy is born in Flower Hospital, 1249 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 64 years ago He Went Round and Round Wednesday 12th of April 1961 27-year-old Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin known for becoming the first man in space becomes the first man to fly around the world in a Vostok 1 3KA-3 in Geocentric Orbit, Space.

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(+) 60 years ago Monday 12th of April 1965 Triple murderess Frances Elaine Newton is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago Monday 12th of April 1965 Singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Hallyday, originally Jean-Philippe Smet aka The French Elvis is born in Église Saint-Lucien, Loconville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Hallyday and Vartan divorced in 1980.

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(-) 58 years ago He Was Jesus Christ Wednesday 12th of April 1967 Cop killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. Mitchell was the only person to be executed in California during the term of Governor Ronald Reagan. Mitchell's last words were "I'm Jesus Christ."

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(-) 50 years ago Saturday 12th of April 1975 Dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, originally Freda Josephine McDonald aka The Bronze Venus or The Black Pearl dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 69 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. On 8 April 1975 Baker starred in a retrospective revue at the Bobino in Paris, 'Joséphine à Bobino 1975', celebrating her 50 years in show business. Four days later she was found lying peacefully in her bed surrounded by newspapers with glowing reviews of her performance. She was in a coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.

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(x) 48 years ago Tuesday 12th of April 1977 42-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker sets fire to his cell in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 41 years ago Thursday 12th of April 1984 Fashion model Luisel Ramos is born in Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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(x) 38 years ago Sunday 12th of April 1987 Noise music band Club Moral play their 69th concert during the Haters tour in Kijkhuis, Denneweg 56, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 36 years ago Wednesday 12th of April 1989 Political and social activist and anarchist Abbie Abbot Howard Hoffman commits suicide by swallowing 150 phenobarbital tablets and liquor at the age of 53 in 3424 Sugan Road, Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 28 years ago Saturday 12th of April 1997 Two trash bags with a foot, part of a leg and a head are found, presumed victims of Unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Rue du Dépot, Havré, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(-) 27 years ago Sunday 12th of April 1998 Elisabetta Zoppetti is shot dead by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Chiavari, Liguria, Italy. Bilancia boarded the Intercity La Spezia - Venice because he "wanted to kill a woman". He broke into the bathroom of the wagon and shot Zopetti.

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(-) 26 years ago Monday 12th of April 1999 Spree killer Marion Albert Pruett aka The Mad Dog Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States.

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(-) 16 years ago Sunday 12th of April 2009 Porn actress Marilyn Chambers, originally Marilyn Ann Briggs dies of a cerebral hemorrhage and an aneurysm related to heart disease at the age of 57 in Santa Clarita, California, United States.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 12th of April 2014 Musician Aldo Struyf aka Aldolino and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Frans Masereel Centrum, Masereeldijk 5, Kasterlee, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 12th of April 2016 A large cargo ship on the horizon in Cadzand, Zeeland, Netherlands.

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(-) 5 years ago Sunday 12th of April 2020 Formula One racer Sterling Craufurd Moss dies of a long illness at the age of 91 in Mayfair, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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