(-) Pope Clementius V originally Raymond Bertrand de Got, dies at the age of 50 in Roquemaure, Gard, France.
182 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 1831
(-) Mass murderess Margaretha Gottfried Gesche Timm is executed in Germany.
She killed over 15 relatives.
124 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1889
(+) Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau, Gasthof zum Pommer, Germany.
120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1893
(+) Artist Juan Mirò is born in Barcelona, Spain.
120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1893
(+) Actor and filmmaker Harold Clayton Lloyd is born in Burchard, Nebraska, United States.
106 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1907
(x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder, is court-martialed for stealing government-property and is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment in United States.
105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1908
(+) Musician Lionel Leo Hampton is born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1912
(-) Writer Bram Abraham Stoker known for "Dracula", dies of tertiary syphilis at the age of 64 in London, St George’s Square 26, London City of, United Kingdom.
96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1917
(-) Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett vanishes into the Matto Grossi Jungle, probably killed and eaten by the Kalapolos Indians at the age of 49 in Brazil.
96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1917
(-) Andrée Babelay is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, in Gambais, France.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1928
(-) Murderer Ellisworth Kelley is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Oregon, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1928
(-) Murderer James Willos is executed by hanging at the age of 27 in Oregon, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1936
(x) 30-year-old Geisha, prostitute, actress and murderess Sada Abe is arrested walking around the street with the cut off penis and testicles of her lover Kichizo Ishida in her handbag in Shinagawa, Japan.
After her arrest, Ishida's penis and testicles were moved to Tokyo University Medical School's pathology museum. They were put on public display not long after the end of World War II, but they have since disappeared.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1940
(+) Writer Jan ‘I’ Cremer is born in Enschede, Netherlands.
70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1943
(+) Actress Edie Edith Minturn Sedgwick is born in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 1949
(+) Actress Jessica Lange is born in Cloquet, Minnesota, United States.
(+) Musician James Siegfried aka James White aka James Chance, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
59 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1954
(-) Mme Pirotte is beaten to death by Nestor Pirotte in Belgium.
55 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 April 1958
(x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, marries Elisabeth ‘Betty’ Baumgard in Elkton, Maryland, United States.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1965
(x) 31-year-old Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, marries 21-year-old Frances Shea in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1965
(x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for burglary in Walla Walla, Washington, United States.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1967
(x) 126 Die in Swissair Airliner crash in Nicosia, Cyprus.
45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1968
(x) 123 Die in SuidAfrikaanse Lugdiens Boeing 707 crash in Windhoek, South Africa.
43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1970
(x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends a diagram how to blow up a schoolbus to the San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1972
(-) Jimmy Wallace is stabbed and his penis cut off by Charlie Chopoff at the age of 10 in New York, West Side, New York, United States.
He survived, the penis was found the next day while some kids were playing with it.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1978
(x) 48-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the St. Paul mental hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1978
(x) Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Boeing 707 is shot at with R-60 missiles by Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon' fighters after violating Soviet airspace in Loukhi, Murmansk, Russia.
Two passengers died.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 April 1984
(-) Caecili Hidde is strangled by Waldemar Stepinski aka The Doorbell Killer, at the age of 83 in Berlin, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.
27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 April 1986
(x) Over 1000 Die in Ekhlas Star ferry shipwreck in Dacca, Dhaleswhari River, Bangladesh.
25 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 1988
(x) Albrecht Dürer's "Lamentation for Christ", "Paumgartner Altar" and "Mater Dolarosa" are attacked with acid by 50-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in München, Alte Pinakothek, Bayern, Germany.
22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 20 April 1991
(-) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott dies in a fire due to smoking in bed while falling asleep at his 16th century house at the age of 44 in Arkesden, Essex, United Kingdom.
18 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 April 1995
(x) 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to the Sacramento Forest Association Office in Oakland, California, United States.
He also mails letters to the New York Times, Professor David Gelernter at Yale University, Research director of New England Biolabs Richard J. Roberts and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s biology department Phillip A. Sharp.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 April 1998
(x) German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion announce their dissolution after 28 years of Stadtguerilla in Germany.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1999
(-) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is executed by the Firing Squad in Bejing, China.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1999
(-) Mass Murderer Dylan Bennet Klebold aka The Columbine High School Killer, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 17 in Columbine, Colorado, United States.
With Eric Harris he killed 15 people in the Columbine High School
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 1999
(-) Mass Murderer Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killer, commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 18 in Columbine, Colorado, United States.
With Dylan Klebold he killed 15 people in the Columbine High School
9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 April 2004
(-) Musician Lizzy Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux dies of cancer at the age of 47 in Saint-Florent, Corsica, France.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 April 2005
(-) Murderer Douglas Alan Roberts is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
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