(-) Joseph Carey Merrick aka The Elephant Man, dies of of a dislocation of the vertebrae of the neck at the age of 29 in London, The London Hospital, United Kingdom.
105 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 April 1908
(+) President of Panama José Antonio Remón Cantera is born in Panama.
98 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 April 1915
(-) Serial poisoner Maria Catharina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie, dies at the age of 75 in Gorinchem, the Netherlands.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 April 1930
(+) Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey originally Howard Stanton Levey, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 April 1936
(-) Composer Mitya Stillman dies at the age of 44 in Russia.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 April 1945
(x) Buchenwald-KZ is liberated by the American Armed Forces in Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 April 1947
(-) Prostitute cum serial killer Louise Lofie Peete is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 66 in San Quentin, California, USA.
She was the second woman to be executed in the Gas Chamber.
61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 April 1952
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Karl-Heinz Dellwo is born in Opladen, Germany.
55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 April 1958
(-) Murderer John McMiller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Louisiana, USA.
(x) 28-year-old Student-leader Rudi Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke is attacked and shot in the head and shoulder by 24-year-old Josef Bachmann in Berlin, Kurfürstendamm, Germany.
Bachmann got inspired by the murder of Martin Luther King a week earlier.
42 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 11 April 1971
(+) Murderer Raymond Dale Rowsey is born in North Carolina, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 April 1975
(x) 29-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Doomed" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 April 1977
(-) Writer Jacques Prévert dies at the age of 77 in Omonville-la-Petite, France.
28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 April 1985
(-) Leader of Albania Enver Hoxha dies of heart-failure at the age of 76 in Tirana, Albania.
26 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 April 1987
(-) Writer Erskine Preston Caldwell dies of emphysema and lung cancer at the age of 83 in Ashland, Oregon, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 April 1989
(x) 12 victims of the Satanic Cult Palo Mayombe are found tortured and hacked to death on a ranch in Matamaros, Mexico.
Several days later, 5 members of the cult are captured.
11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 April 2002
(-) Murderer William Kendrick Burns is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 April 2007
(-) Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies of brain damage due to a fall at the age of 84 in New York, New York, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 April 2007
(-) Double murderer and rapist James Lee Clark is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
His last word was “Howdy".
1 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 April 2012
(x) 77-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is denied parole for the twelfth time in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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