288 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 April 1725
(+) Adventurer and sexual athlete Giacomo Giovanni Jacopo Casanova is born in Venice, Italy.
208 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1805
(+) Writer Hans Christian Andersen is born in Odense, Denmark.
173 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 April 1840
(+) Writer Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
141 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1872
(-) Inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse dies at the age of 80 in New York City, 5 West 22nd Street, New York, USA.
122 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 April 1891
(+) Artist Max Ernst is born in Bruhl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 April 1914
(+) Actor Alec Guinnes de Cuffe is born in London, United Kingdom.
85 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 April 1928
(+) Musician, filmmaker and scandaliser Serge Lucien Gainsbourg is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1929
(-) Erna Pinner is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 16 in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.
83 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 April 1930
(x) 59-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, divorces his wife Estelle Wilcox after just 2 months of marriage in Waterloo, Ohio, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 April 1939
(+) Musician Marvin Pentz Gaye aka The Prince of Motown, is born in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1946
(-) Murderer Frank Quarles is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Indiana, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 April 1947
(+) Musician Emmylou Harris is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 April 1947
(+) Protester George Winne is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 April 1962
(-) Murderer Elmo Smith is executed by Old Sparky in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, USA.
It was the last use of the Electric Chair in Pennsylvania.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1968
(x) Arson-attack by 24-year-old Founding member of the Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Bernd Baader and 28-year-old Gudrun Ensslin on Kaufhaus Schneider and Kaufhof shopping-centers in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1974
(-) Prime minister of the French Republic Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou dies of leukemia at the age of 62 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
30 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 April 1983
(x) 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV marries 31-year-old artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Antwerpen, Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1985
(x) 35-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is sentenced to life five times for nine murders in the "Deutsche Herbst" of 1977 in Stuttgart, Germany.
28 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 April 1985
(x) 32-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Christian Georg Alfred Klar is sentenced to life six times for nine murders in the "Deutsche Herbst" of 1977 in Stuttgart, Germany.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 April 1987
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, tries to commit suicide by hanging in his prison-cell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 April 1987
(x) 27-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "L'Age D'Or nr2 / Variation Australis" with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Sydney, The Performance Space, Australia.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 April 1993
(-) Lauren Marquez is strangled and her neck broken by Joel Rifkin at the age of 28 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 April 1997
(-) Murderer David Lee Herman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He tried to commit suicide by slashing his throat the night before, but he was patched up and executed anyway.
15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 April 1998
(x) 87-year-old Collaborator and right wing politician Maurice Papon is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the deportation of 1560 Jews in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
8 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 April 2005
(-) 264th Pope John Paul II Originally Karol Jozef Wojtila, dies of high fever at the age of 84 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.
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