(+) Composer John Wainwright is born in Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
254 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 14 April 1759
(-) Composer Georg Friedrich Handel dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
148 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 April 1865
(-) 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln dies of gunshot wounds inflicted by John Wilkes Booth the day before at the age of 56 in Washington, Ford's Theatre, District Columbia, United States.
135 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 April 1878
(+) Flemish Nationalist Leader and WWI-collaborator Dr. August Borms is born in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium.
109 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 14 April 1904
(+) Actor John Gielgud is born in London, South Kensington, London City of, United Kingdom.
106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 April 1907
(+) Dictator of Haiti François Duvalier aka Papa Doc, is born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 April 1924
(-) Victim of The Grand Dragon of the Realm of the Indiana Ku-Klux-Klan, Madge Augustine Oberholtzer commits suicide by mercury bichloride-poisoning at the age of 27 in Hamilton, Indiana, United States.
On March 15th she was savagely raped by The Grand Dragon of the Realm of the Indiana Ku-Klux-Klan, David Curtis Stephenson.
88 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 April 1925
(+) Actor Rod Rodney Stephen Steiger is born in West Hampton, New York, United States.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 April 1926
(-) Murderer Andries Van Niekerk is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 April 1926
(-) Murderer Edward Markus is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Pretoria Central Prison, South Africa.
83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 April 1930
(-) Futurist writer Vladimir Vladimirowitsch Mayakovski commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 36 in Moscow, Moscow (City), Russia.
An unfinished poem in his suicide note read, in part: "The love boat has crashed against the daily routine. You and I, we are quits, and there is no point in listing mutual pains, sorrows, and hurts."
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 April 1935
(+) Singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn originally Loretta Webb, is born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, United States.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 April 1935
(+) Writer and Paleocontact pioneer Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is born in Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland.
69 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 April 1944
(x) The first transport of jews - from Athens, Greece - arrives in Auschwitz, Poland.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 April 1953
(x) 53 Die in stampede in Caracas, Venezuela.
They ran due to panic in a supposed fire, while the whole scenario was set up by a pick-pocket.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 April 1965
(-) Mass-murderer Richard Eugene Hickock aka In Cold Blood, is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Lansing, Kansas, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 14 April 1965
(-) Mass murderer Perry Eugene Smith aka In Cold Blood, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Lansing, Kansas, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 14 April 1972
(x) 44-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, marries Alice Johnson in Seattle, Washington, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 April 1974
(-) Terry White is shot dead by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 15 in Fillmore, California, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 April 1975
(x) 21-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, falls in a coma, overdosed on alcohol and barbiturates in Landing, Pennsylvania, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 April 1986
(-) Feminist writer and philosopher Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand De Beauvoir dies of pneumonia at the age of 78 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 14 April 1992
(x) Start of the trial against 55-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Romanowitsch Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, in Rostow, House of Justice, Russia.
(-) Mass Murderer James Dean Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
When he was arrested, the police found that he had retained the bullet that passed through the head of one of his victims as a souvenir. His last meal consisted of Porter House Steak (medium rare), 2 lbs of Large Shrimp and sauce, A-1 Steak Sauce, Baked Potato with sour cream, cole slaw, Banana Cream Pie, Rice Pudding with Raisins, 2 Dinner rolls with butter, and a Strawberry milkshake.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 14 April 1996
(x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is arrested in the house of his girlfriend Anna Kazakh, a 39-year-old hairdresser, in Yavoriv, Ukraïne, Russia.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 14 April 1997
(-) Murderer Billy Joe Woods is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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