(-) King of England Richard I aka Richard the Lionheart, is fatally wounded by a crossbow-shot at the age of 41 in Châlus, France.
530 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1483
(+) Artist Raphael originally Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, is born in Urbino, Italy.
493 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1520
(-) Artist Raphael originally Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, dies after a night of excessive sex with Margherita Luti, after which he fell into a fever at the age of 37 in Rome, Italy.
485 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1528
(-) Artist Albrecht Dürer dies at the age of 56 in Nürnberg, Germany.
121 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 April 1892
(+) Airplane designer Donald Wills Douglas is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
119 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1894
(+) Alfred Arthur Rouse aka The Body in the Car Murderer, is born in London, United Kingdom.
118 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 April 1895
(x) 40-year-old Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas in London, Cadogan Hotel, United Kingdom.
104 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1909
(x) Explorer Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson reach the Northpole.
98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1915
(+) Artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor is born in Wielopole Skrzy skie, Poland.
96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1917
(x) The United States declare war to Germany.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 April 1919
(x) 49-year-old Indian Leader Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, orders a general strike in India.
89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 April 1924
(-) Alfred Hogrefe is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 April 1930
(+) Cop Killer Jacques Fesch is born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 April 1944
(+) Serial Killer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, is born in Saigon, Vietnam.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1945
(-) Murderer Lee Albert Smith is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 62 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 April 1946
(-) Murderer Patrick ‘Paddy’ Carraher is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Glasgow, Barlinnie Prison, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 April 1950
(x) 108 Die in train derailment in Tangua, Brazil.
It drove off a viaduct.
62 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1951
(-) Murderer Preston McBride is executed by hanging in Lansing Prison, Kansas, USA.
60 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 April 1953
(x) 13-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, attempts to shoot Major-General Edwin Walker in the USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1954
(+) Child murderer Christian Ranucci is born in Avignon, France.
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 April 1955
(+) Serial Killer Keith Hunter Jesperson aka The Happy Face Killer, is born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 April 1970
(-) Murderer Sam Samuel Holmes Sheppard commits suicide by an overdose of drugs and alcohol at the age of 46 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1971
(-) Composer Igor Fyodorowitsch Strawinsky dies at the age of 88 in New York, New York, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1973
(x) After an occupation of 37 days, Wounded Knee is taken over by United States Government Forces.
38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 April 1975
(-) Denise Olverson is abducted by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 25 in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA.
She is never found again.
37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1976
(-) Darrel Sampson is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 April 1990
(x) 31-year-old P.G. attacks Rembrandt’s ‘Nightwatch’ with sulphuric acid in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 April 1992
(-) SF-writer Isaac Asimov dies of heart failure at the age of 72 in New York, New York, USA.
21 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 April 1992
(-) Double murderer Donald E. Harding is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 43 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the first execution in 29 years in Arizona, and the last one in the Gas Chamber.
18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 April 1995
(-) Murderer Noble Mays is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
(-) Musician Wendy O. Orlean Williams aka The Queen of Shock Rock, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 48 in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 April 1998
(-) Musician Tammy Wynette originally Virginia Wynette Pugh aka the First Lady of Country Music, dies of a blood clot in her lung at the age of 55 in Pennsylvania, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 1999
(x) 56-year-old Serial Killer Gary Beach is arrested after the police found five decomposed bodies in his house in Kansas City, Montana, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 April 2010
(-) First female Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Pearl Mankiller dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Adair County, Oklahoma, USA.
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