Tuesday, April 3, 2007

3 april 2007 - nowhere special


Nothing to take pictures of on this day in history.

1863 (+) Architect Henry Van De Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
1882 (-) Outlaw Jesse James is ‘accidently’ shot in the head by Bob Ford at the age of 34 in the USA.
1888 (-) Emma Smith is stabbed to death by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.
1895 (-) Blanche Lamont is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, at the age of 21 in San Francisco, in the clocktower of the Emmanuel Baptist church, California, USA.
1897 (-) Composer Johannes Brahms dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 64 in Vienna, Austria.
1919 (-) Black ex-soldier William Little is lynched by battering because he continued to wear his uniform in Blakely, Georgia, USA.
1924 (+) Actor Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1924 (+) Actress Doris Day originally Doris Von Kappelhoff, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
1929 (-) Frau Flake is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
1936 (-) Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 24 in Trenton State Prison, New Jersey, USA.
1941 (-) Prime-minister of Hungary Pal Teleki commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 61 in Budapest, Hungary.
He wanted to avoid collaboration with the Nazis.
1950 (-) Composer Kurt Weill dies of a heart-attack at the age of 50 in New York, New York, USA.
1955 (x) Over 300 Die in train derailment in Guadalajaro, Mexico.
It crashed into a canyon.
1961 (+) Actor Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1974 (x) Patty Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, joins the Symbionese Freedom Army in California, USA.
1975 (x) Mass-murderer James Ruppert kills 11 members of his family in order to obtain the family fortune in Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
1991 (-) Writer Graham Greene dies of a blood-disease at the age of 86 in Vevey, Switzerland.
1997 (-) Triple Murderer David Spence is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
1998 (-) Artist Wolf Vostell dies of a heart-attack in Germany.
2001 (-) Murderer Jason Massey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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