41st year - Nº 108 Saturday, 18 April 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
41st year - Nº 108 Saturday, 18 April 2026

18 April / Today's 24 Events:

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(+) 546 years ago Sunday 18th of April 1480 Duchess of Bisceglie, Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess of Salerno and femme fatale Lucrezia Borgia is born in Subiaco, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 169 years ago Saturday 18th of April 1857 Lawyer Clarence Seward Darrow is born in Kinsman Township, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 114 years ago Thursday 18th of April 1912 Murderer Frederick Henry Seddon is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 102 years ago Friday 18th of April 1924 19-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess marries Dr. William C. Judd in Free Methodist Church, 4002 N 18th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 96 years ago Friday 18th of April 1930 Presumed multiple murderer Henry Colin Campbell aka The Torch Murderer is executed by Old Smokey at the age of 34 in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 86 years ago He Could not Endure this World's Madness Thursday 18th of April 1940 Boxer Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 68 in Hotel Tuller, Adams Avenue West, Bagley Street and Park Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Selby left a note behind ending with "sorry I could not endure this world's madness."

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(x) 85 years ago Friday 18th of April 1941 The body of 59-year-old Writer Virginia Adeline Stephen Woolf is found in River Ouse, Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom. Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself on 28 March 1941.

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(+) 84 years ago Saturday 18th of April 1942 Formula One racer Jochen Karl Rindt is born in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(+) 79 years ago He Was Most Likely to Succeed Friday 18th of April 1947 Serial killer Herbert William Mullin aka The Hippie Killer is born in Salinas, California, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Friday 18th of April 1947 Feminist punk poet Kathy Acker, originally Karen Lehman is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 79 years ago Friday 18th of April 1947 Slovak politician and Roman Catholic priest Jozef Tiso is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slowakia. Tiso was sentenced to death for state treason, betrayal of the antifascist partisan insurrection and collaboration with Nazism.

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(-) 71 years ago Monday 18th of April 1955 Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein dies of the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 76 in Princeton Hospital, 253 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

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(x) 69 years ago Thursday 18th of April 1957 54-year-old Electrician George P. Metesky aka The Mad Bomber is declared "hopeless and incurable both mentally and physically" and committed in Matteawan Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Beacon, New York, United States. Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as "vigorous and healthy looking".

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(+) 51 years ago Friday 18th of April 1975 Mass murderer Joseph Edward Corcoran is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 18th of April 1975 48-year-old Serial killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer aka Harv the Hammer is found guilty on four counts of sodomy and indecent liberties in the attack of Jerri Billings in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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(-) 41 years ago Thursday 18th of April 1985 Spree killer James Dyral Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 29 in Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Boydton, Virginia, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Friday 18th of April 1986 Noise music band Club Moral play their 52nd concert in Hollandse Vrijstraat, Conradstraat, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 39 years ago Saturday 18th of April 1987 Noise music band Club Moral play their 70th concert during the Haters tour in Jazzbunker, Boompjeskade 17, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 29 years ago Friday 18th of April 1997 Three trash bags with two upper legs, a hand and a forearm, presumed victims of Unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer are found in Chemin de Saint-Symphorien, Havré, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(-) 28 years ago Saturday 18th of April 1998 Maria Angela Rubino is shot dead by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Ventimiglia, Liguria, Italy. Rubino was found dead in the toilet of the Genova -Ventimiglia Intercity. Bilancia had masturbated on her corpse.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 18th of April 2002 Murderer Gerald Dwight Casey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 18th of April 2002 Adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl dies of a brain tumour at the age of 88 in Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 18th of April 2005 Modes of construction for (re)building a museum in Museum of Modern Art, ul Aksakovskaya 12, Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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(-) 4 years ago War Er das Osterlamm Monday 18th of April 2022 Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch dies of a serious illness at the age of 84 in Landesklinikum, Liechtensteinstraße 67, Mistelbach, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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