(+) Prince and Count of Nassau Willem Van Oranje aka Willem De Zwijger aka William The Silent, is born in Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany.
(x) 15-year-old Queen of Scots Mary Stuart marries the Dauphin of France, 14-year-old François II in Paris, Notre Dame, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
282 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1731
(-) Writer and journalist Daniel Defoe known for “Robinson Crusoe”, dies at the age of 71 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
226 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1787
(+) Criminologist and founder of toxicology Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila is born in Mahon, Minorca, Spain.
160 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1853
(+) Criminologist Alphonse Bertillon is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
157 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1856
(+) Marshall Philippe Henri Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain is born in Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Pas-de-Calais, France.
138 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 April 1875
(x) 27-year-old Outlaw Jesse Woodson James marries his niece, Zerelda ‘Zee’ James in Missouri, United States.
110 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1903
(+) Founder of the Fascist Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Saenz De Heredia is born in Madrid, Spain.
109 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1904
(+) Artist Willem De Kooning is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
91 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1922
(-) Murderer Colin Ross is executed by hanging in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 April 1929
(-) Multiple Murderer Vernon Booher is executed by hanging in Alberta, Fort Saskatchewan jail, Canada.
79 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1934
(+) Actress Shirley MacLaine originally Shirley Beaty, is born in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1942
(+) Actress Barbara Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1950
(x) 46-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, plants his first bomb in a phone booth in New York, Fifth Avenue, outside the public library, New York, United States.
49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1964
(-) Helen Catherine Barthelemey Helene Paul Thompson,, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 23 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1967
(-) Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to die during a space mission Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov dies in a crash with Soyoez I at the age of 40 in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1973
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Ed Emil Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, gives himself up, confessing to a career of murder and mutilation in Pueblo, Colorado, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 April 1974
(-) Actor Bud William Alexander Abbott dies of prostate cancer at the age of 73 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1975
(x) 113 Die in Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crash in New York, New York, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1975
(x) The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Kommando Holger Meins featuring several members of the Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv attack the West German embassy, set it on fire and take 13 hostages in Stockholm, Sweden.
Four people die, including two of the terrorists.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1977
(-) Tina Atkinson aka Mitra McGhee, is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 32 in Bradford, Manningham, 9 Oak Avenue, United Kingdom.
35 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1978
(x) Serial Killer Zodiac writes an ‘I am back’-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 1983
(-) Paula Golding is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1984
(-) Westland New Post leader Paul Latinus commits suicide by hanging in Court-Saint-Etienne, Brabant, Belgium.
29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 1984
(x) 45-year-old Serial Killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, is taken on a flight to locate some of his victims’ graves. 3 days later he found 7, all near the Knik River in Anchorage, Alaska, United States.
18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 April 1995
(x) Gilbert Murray is killed by a bomb mailed by 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Sacramento, Forest Association Office, California, United States.
Kaczinski also mails more letters to the New York Times, Washington Post and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, containing his “Industrial Society and its Future” manifesto.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 1997
(-) Murderer John A. Jr. Brown is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1998
(x) 50-year-old Radical Hutu-Power-leader Froduald Karamira and 21 other Hutu-leaders are publicly executed by the firing squad on market-squares and in football-stadions in five main cities where they have been responsible for the 1994 genocides in Nyamata and in Kigali, Rwanda.
15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1998
(-) Murderer Joseph Cannon is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 April 1998
(-) Murderess Lesley Lee Gosch is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 April 2003
(-) Murderer Gary Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Alabama, United States.
8 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 April 2005
(+) The world’s first cloned dog Snuppy is born in Seoul, South Korea.
The puppy was created using the cell of an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 April 2007
(-) Murderer James Filiaggi is executed by lethal injection in Ohio, United States.
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