(+) Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is born in York, United Kingdom.
318 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 April 1695
(-) Poet and fabulist Jean de La Fontaine dies at the age of 73 in Paris, France.
270 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 April 1743
(+) 3rd president of the USA Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, USA.
153 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1860
(+) Artist James Sydney Ensor is born in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.
128 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 April 1885
(+) Philosopher György Szegedy Bernát Lukács is born in Budapest, Hungary.
113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1900
(+) Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Bordeaux, France.
112 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 13 April 1901
(+) Psychoanalist Jacques Marie Emile Lacan is born in Paris, France.
107 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1906
(+) Writer Samuel Beckett is born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland.
96 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1917
(-) Murderer Chester Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in McAlester, State Penitentiary, Oklahoma, USA.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 April 1919
(x) British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in the Jallianwala Bagh Garden in Amritsar, India.
93 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 April 1920
(-) Murderer Frederick Rothwell Holt is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1923
(-) Murderer Paul V. Hadley aka W.M. Estaver, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 April 1930
(-) Frau Hau is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 13 April 1931
(x) Start of the trial against 47-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
(-) Artist Oskar Schlemmer dies of heart failure at the age of 54 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1945
(-) Murderer U. L. Holley is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
He had been drinking, entered a saloon in Globe to purchase more beer, and was told that negroes were not served. Whereupon he went home and embarked on a shooting spree, killing one and injuring two.
66 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 13 April 1947
(-) Herr Bennen is hacked to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 52 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1956
(-) Artist Emil Hansen Nolde dies at the age of 88 in Seebull, Germany.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 April 1961
(-) Private First Class and child rapist John Arthur Bennett is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
He was convicted to death for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl in 1954.
46 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 13 April 1967
(-) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Nicaragua.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1973
(x) 27-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Icarus" in Venice, California, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 April 1982
(x) ‘Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by an unidentified 29-year-old student in Berlin, NationalGalerie, Germany.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 13 April 1983
(-) Joe Rapini is shot dead by Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 42 in Rochester, Greece, New York, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 1984
(-) Serial Killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with state-trooper Chuck Ellison at the age of 39 in Colebrook, Vic’s Getty Oil-Station, Connecticut, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 April 1993
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Sergej Rjachowsky aka The Hippopotamus, is arrested on suspicion of killing 19 men and women between 14 and 78 years old in Moscow, Russia.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 13 April 1999
(x) 70-year-old Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for his assistance in the videotaped suicide of 52-year-old Thomas Youk, a Lou Gehrig's disease patient in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 13 April 2007
(x) 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "The Red Dragon" in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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