(-) Murderer Jeremiah Meacham is executed by hanging in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
144 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 April 1869
(+) Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is born in Paris XIX, France.
142 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 April 1871
(+) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas is born in Ithaca, Greece.
128 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 April 1885
(+) Artist Robert Delaunay is born in Paris, France.
118 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 April 1895
(-) Minnie Williams is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, in San Francisco, Library of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, California, USA.
92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 April 1921
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, United Kingdom.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 April 1932
(+) Musician Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka Tiny Tim, is born in New York, New York, USA.
80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 April 1933
(+) Soprano Montserrat Concepción Bibiana Caballé i Folch is born in Barcelona, Spain.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 April 1940
(+) Musician Herbie Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 12 April 1945
(-) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Warm Springs, Colorado, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 12 April 1946
(-) Flemish Nationalist Leader and WWI-collaborator Dr. August Borms is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 68 in Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.
(+) Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 April 1950
(+) Musician David Cassidy is born in New York, New York, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 April 1961
(x) 27-year-old Cosmonaut and the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first man to fly around the world in a space-craft.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 April 1965
(+) Family murderess Frances Elaine Newton is born in Texas, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 April 1965
(x) 21-year-old Musician Johnny Hallyday originally Jean-Philippe Smet, marries 21-year-old Sylvie Vartan in Loconville, France.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 April 1967
(-) Cop Killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin, California, USA.
He was the first man to be executed under Governor Ronald Reagan and the last man to be executed in California, until the Supreme Court re-installed the death-penalty in 1992.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 April 1975
(-) Musician Josephine Baker originally Freda Josephine McDonald aka The Bronze Venus aka The Black Pearl, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 68 in Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 12 April 1977
(x) 40-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, sets fire to his Cell One in the E-Block of Lakeland Annex in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA.
24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 12 April 1989
(-) Anarchist Abie Abbott Howard Hoffman commits suicide by an overdose of Phenobarbital at the age of 52 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 12 April 1997
(x) Two trash bags with a foot, part of a leg and a head are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Havré, Rue du Dépot, Hainaut, Belgium.
14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 12 April 1999
(-) Serial Killer Marion Albert Pruett aka The Mad Dog Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Varner, Department of Corrections, Cummins Unit, Arkansas, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 12 April 2009
(-) Pornographic actress Marilyn Chambers originally Marilyn Ann Briggs, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in Santa Clarita, California, USA.
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