(+) Artist Eugène Victor Ferdinand Delacroix is born in Charenton-Saint-Meurice, Île-de France, France.
148 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1865
(-) Murderer John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln, is shot dead by Sergeant Boston Corbett at the age of 26 in Port Royal, Virginia, United States.
"Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment."
124 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1889
(+) Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
119 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1894
(+) Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
113 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1900
(+) Seismologist Charles Francis Richter is born in Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
108 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1905
(+) Filmmaker Jean Vigo is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
103 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1910
(+) Actress Lingyu Fenggeng Ruan is born in Shanghai, China.
101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1912
(+) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt is born in Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1924
(-) Robert Witzel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 18 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1933
(x) The Gestapo is founded by 40-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 1937
(x) Over 200 Die in a Nazi-Germany bombing by the Luftwaffe's Condor-Legion in Guernica, Spain.
75 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1938
(+) Guitarist Duane Eddy is born in Corning, New York, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 April 1942
(x) 1549 Die in coal-mine explosion in Manchuria, Honkeiko Gallery, China.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1944
(-) Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
He was first extensively experimented upon by the SS.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1950
(+) Serial Killer Thomas Quick originally Sture Ragnar Bergwall, is born in Korsnäs, Falun, Sweden.
61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1952
(x) 176 Die in US Hobson destroyer and US Wasp aircraftcarrier collision in the Atlantic.
54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 April 1959
(+) Mass-murderer Dirk De Winne is born in Belgium.
(-) Collage artist John Heartfield originally Helmut Jozef Hertzfeld, dies at the age of 76 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1969
(+) Double murderess Teresa Lewis is born in Virginia, United States.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 1971
(x) 25-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden starts his performance "Five Day Locker Piece" at the University of California in Irvine, California, United States.
It lasted until 1 March 1972.
39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1974
(x) 19 Old Masters are stolen from the house of millionaire Sir Alfred Beit by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army serving as ransom for money and the freedom of some of their imprisoned members in Dublin, Wicklow, Ireland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 1982
(x) 112 Die in Trident crash in Guilin, China.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 1984
(-) Bandleader William “Count” Basie dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 79 in Hollywood, Florida, United States.
28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1985
(x) 25-year-old Serial Killer Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, is sentenced to life imprisonment in an asylum for the criminally insane in Bremen, Germany.
27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1986
(x) An unknown number of people die and thousands are infected with radiation due to a fire in a nuclear reactor in Tsjernobyl, Russia.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1989
(-) Secretary to the Prime Minister, Ihei Aoki commits suicide by a scandal in Tokyo, Japan.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 April 1989
(-) Actress Lucille Désirée Ball dies of a dissecting aortic aneurysm at the age of 77 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
22 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 1991
(-) Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, dies at the age of 76 in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1994
(x) 264 Die in China Airlines Flight 140 Airbus A-300-600 crash in Nagoya Airport, Japan.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 April 1994
(-) Murderer Larry Anderson is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 April 1997
(-) Double Murderer Ernest Baldree is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 2002
(-) Spree Killer Alton Coleman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Lucasville, Southern Correctional Facility, Ohio, United States.
He had standing death sentences in Indiana and Illinois resulting from a 54-day rampage of rape, abduction and murder which left eight dead.
11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 April 2002
(-) Mass murderer Robert Steinhäuser commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 19 in Erfurt, Germany.
He shot and killed 16 people in the Gutenberg-Gymnasium before.
9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 2004
(-) Writer Hubert Jr. Selby dies of tuberculosis at the age of 75 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He took the Last Exit to Brooklyn.
9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 2004
(-) Murderer Song Baoliang is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Beijing, China.
He was executed for paying 10.000 yuan ($1.204) to hire a killer to murder his mistress' husband.
9 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 April 2004
(-) Murderer Li Yong is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Beijing, China.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 April 2007
(-) Murderer Ryan Dickson is executed by lethal injection in Texas, United States.
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