(+) Saint King Louis IX is born in Poissy, France.
418 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1595
(-) Poet Torquato Tasso dies of feeble health at the age of 51 in Sant'Onofrio, Italy.
269 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 April 1744
(-) Astronomer Anders Celsius dies of tuberculosis at the age of 42 in Uppsala, Sweden.
222 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1791
(-) Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, Place de Grève, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
It is the first ever execution by the Guillotine.
154 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1859
(x) British and French engineers start digging the Suez Canal in Port Said, Egypt.
139 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 April 1874
(+) Inventor Guglielmo Marchese Marconi is born in Bologna, Palazzo Marescalchi, Italy.
129 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1884
(+) Racer and automobile manufacterer Arthur Chevrolet is born in La-Chaux-De-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1901
(-) Train robber Tom Thomas Edward Ketchum aka Black Jack Ketchum, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Clayton, Union County, New Mexico, United States.
On the trapdoor he shouts “I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast, boys!”, then he drops and his head is torn off due to a mistied rope.
111 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1902
(+) Nazi-Doctor Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade, is born in Forst, Germany.
96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1917
(+) Musician Ella Jane Fitzgerald aka The First Lady of Song, is born in Newport News, Virginia, United States.
92 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1921
(+) Artist Karel Christiaan Appel is born in Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.
78 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1935
(x) A recently caught tiger-shark swimming in a public aquarium regurgitates the tattood arm of 40-year-old James Smith, victim of Murderer Patrick Brady in Sydney, Coogee Beach, New South Wales, Australia.
73 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1940
(+) Actor Al Pacino is born in New York, New York, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1945
(x) 52-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is arrested and sentenced to death for treason by the SS in München, Bayern, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1946
(-) Murderer Abraham Gold is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, United States.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1951
(-) Murderer Joseph Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
62 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1951
(-) Murderer Edward Charles Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1966
(x) 81 Army cadets Die in Lockheed Elektra crash in Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1972
(-) Jeanette Kamahele is presumably murdered by Zodiac at the age of 20 in Sahoma County, California, United States.
40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 1973
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on a boy in San Francisco, California, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1974
(-) Wife of Jim, Pam Susan Courson Morrison dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1975
(-) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ulrich Wessel due to an unintended explosion at the age of 29 in Stockholm, West German Embassy, Sweden.
Siegfried Hausner was severely burned in the explosion and died 10 days later in Stammheim Prison.
37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 April 1976
(-) Sniper Moses Pearson commits suicide by a shot through the head in Georgia, United States.
He was closed in by the police.
35 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1978
(x) 25-year-old PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the hi-jacking of the "Landshut" Boeing in an attempt to liberate imprisoned Rote Armee Fraktion members in Mogadishu, Somalia.
She was the only one of four terrorists to survive the action.
33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 April 1980
(x) 8 US-soldiers die in a helicopter-crash in an attempt to free the American hostages in their embassy in Teheran, Iran.
25 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 1988
(x) 68-year-old John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is sentenced to death for the mass-murders in the Treblinka concentration-camp in Jeruzalem, Israël.
(-) Radical Feminist and founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men, Valerie Jean Solanas dies of emphysema at the age of 52 in San Francisco, Tenderloin, Bristol Hotel, California, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 1991
(-) Neo-Nazi Leader Michael Kühnen dies of aids at the age of 35 in Kassel, Germany.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 1995
(-) Actress Ginger Rogers originally Virginia McMath, dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Rancho Mirage, California, United States.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 April 2000
(-) Nguyen Thi Hiep is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 44 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
In 1997 she tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin through Hanoi Airport.
12 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 2001
(-) Murderer David Lee Goff is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 April 2002
(x) 225 Die in China Airlines Flight 611 Boeing 747-200 crash in Taiwan Strait.
The plane broke into pieces in mid-air due to metal fatigue.
8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 April 2005
(x) 107 Die in a crowded Rapid Service train derailment in Amagasaki, Japan.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 April 2007
(-) Musician Bobby Boris Pickett aka The Guy Lombardo of Halloween, dies of leukemia at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, Veterans Hospital, California, United States.
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