(-) Jesus Christ is executed by crucifixion in Rome, Italy.
361 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 April 1652
(+) 246th Pope Clementius XII originally Lorenzo Corsini, is born in Florence, Italy.
314 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 April 1699
(+) Composer Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer is born in Corsini, Italy.
243 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 April 1770
(+) Romantic poet William Wordsworth is born in Cockermouth, Wordsworth House, United Kingdom.
153 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 April 1860
(+) Industrialist Will Keith Kellogg is born in Michigan, USA.
143 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 April 1870
(+) Advocate of Communist Anarchism Gustav Landauer is born in Karlsruhe, Germany.
110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 7 April 1903
(-) Serial poisoner Severin Antoniovitch Klosowski aka George Chapman, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
On the scaffold he confessed to being Jack the Ripper.
98 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 April 1915
(+) Musician Billie Holiday originally Eleanora Fagan aka Lady Day, is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
93 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 April 1920
(+) Musician Ravi Shankar is born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 April 1926
(x) 42-year-old Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is hit in the nose by a bullet, fired by an unidentified Irish woman in Rome, Italy.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 April 1939
(+) Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 April 1939
(+) TV-host David Frost is born in Tenterden, United Kingdom.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 April 1947
(-) Automobile manufacterer Henry Ford dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 83 in Greenfield, Illinois, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 April 1947
(+) Serial Killer Herbert Baumeister is born in Westfield, Indiana, USA.
(-) Formula-1 racer Jim Clark crashes into a tree in what was to be his last race before retiring on his sheep-farm at the age of 32 in Hockenheim, Germany.
42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 7 April 1971
(x) President Richard Nixon orders the release from prison of 27-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley who was serving a life-term for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.
Calley is given house arrest at Fort Benning instead.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 7 April 1972
(-) Isobel Watson is attacked by Zodiac at the age of 33 in San Francisco, Pine Hill, California, USA.
She survived.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 April 1973
(x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Gerard John Schaefer is arrested in Florida, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 7 April 1977
(-) Attorney-General Siegfried Buback is shot dead by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 57 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The Ulrike Meinhof Commando claims responsability.
34 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 7 April 1979
(-) Ex-prime Minister of Persia Abbas Hoveida is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 60 in Iran.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 7 April 1991
(-) Errol Lindsey is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 19 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 7 April 1997
(-) Mass Murderer Mohammed Nazari is executed by the Firing Squad in San’a, Yemen.
As crowds yelled "God is greatest", the vengeful father who killed six people was executed with a single bullet from a sharpshooter in front of the two schools were the rampage took place. His corpse was then nailed to a cross and displayed in public for three days.
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