(+) Duchess of Bisceglie, Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Princess of Salerno and Femme Fatale Lucrezia Borgia is born in Rome, Roma, Italy.
156 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 April 1857
(+) Lawyer and civil libertarian Clarence Seward Darrow is born in Kinsman Township, Ohio, United States.
132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 April 1881
(x) 21-year-old Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, escapes from the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, United States.
104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 April 1909
(x) Heroine Jeanne D’Arc aka The Maiden of Orleans, is declared Saint in Rome, St. Peters Cathedral, Roma, Italy.
101 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1912
(-) Masonic Murderer Henry Seddon is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Pentonville Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1924
(x) 19-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, marries Dr. William C. Judd in Phoenix, Free Methodist Church, Arizona, United States.
75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 April 1938
(x) The headless body of a woman is found, the second victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1940
(-) Welter-weight world champion Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy, commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 67 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1941
(-) Prime-minister Korysis commits suicide by fear of collaboration with the Nazis in Athens, Greece.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 April 1942
(+) Formule-1 racer Jochen Rindt is born in Mainz, Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1947
(+) Mass-murderer Herbert William Mullin is born in Salinas, Monterey County, California, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1947
(-) Ex-president of Slowakia and Nazi collaborator Jozef Tiso is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1947
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, is arrested in Niedersachsen, Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1947
(+) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker is born in Manhattan, New York, United States.
58 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 April 1955
(-) Scientist Albert Einstein dies of an arterial rupture at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1957
(-) Richard Horan is shot dead by Francis Kolakowski at the age of 35 in Suffield, Connecticut, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1957
(x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is declared insane and committed to Matteawan State Hospital in New York, New York, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1974
(x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is found guilty of the murder of Jerry Billings in Minnesota, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1974
(x) Attorney Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Terrorist Movement Red Brigades in Italy.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 1985
(-) Murderous rapist James Briley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 28 in Virginia, United States.
(x) The body of 192nd Pope Celestinus V originally Pietro di Murrone, (died in 1300) is stolen from the Santa Maria di Colemaggio in L’Aquila and re-buried by persons unknown on the cemetary of Amatrice in Italy.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 April 1997
(x) Three trash bags with human two upper legs, a hand and a forearm are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Havré, Chemin de Saint-Symphorien, Hainaut, Belgium.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 2002
(-) Murderer Gerald Dwight Casey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 April 2002
(-) Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl dies of a brain tumour at the age of 87 in Colla Micheri, Italy.
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