(+) King of England Edward IV is born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
255 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1758
(+) 4th president of the USA James Monroe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.
243 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1770
(x) 41-year-old Explorer Captain James Cook lands on Botany Bay in Australia.
131 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1882
(-) Murderer George Henry Lamson is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in London, Wandsworth Prison, London City of, United Kingdom.
124 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1889
(+) Prime minister Antonio De Oliveira Salazar is born in Santa Comba Dao, Portugal.
107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Adolf Hannapel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
101 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1912
(-) Gangster Jules Bonnot is riddled with bullets in a police-siege at the age of 35 in Choisy-le-Roi, Dubois Garage, France.
99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 April 1914
(x) 183 Die in coal-mine explosion in Eccles, United States.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1916
(+) Car designer Ferrucio Elio Arturo Lamborghini is born in Renazzo di Cento, Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
95 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1918
(-) Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 23 in Terezin, Czechoslowakia.
94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 April 1919
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe, who he presumably killed in the meantime in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 April 1924
(x) 119 Die in coal-mine explosion in Benwood, United States.
85 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1928
(+) Artist Yves Klein is born in Nice, France.
84 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1929
(-) British eccentric painter Edith May Olive Branson is shot dead by persons unknown in Les Baux, France.
76 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1937
(+) Ruler of Iraq Saddam Hussein is born in Al-Awja, Iraq.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1939
(-) Murderer James Bailey aka Archie Lee Short, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
73 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1940
(x) 39-year-old Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is installed in Auschwitz, Poland.
(+) Musician and actor Jacques Dutronc is born in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 1945
(-) Fascist leader Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 61 in Dongo, Italy.
His mistress, Claretta Pettaci is also executed.
63 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1950
(+) TV-host Jay Leno is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1957
(+) Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, United States.
52 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 April 1961
(+) Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga is born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1974
(-) Stripper Johanna Nilsen is killed by a lion during a striptease-act in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1976
(-) Serial Killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, dies of heart-failure at the age of 29 in Eickelsborn, Germany.
He was under surgery for a full castration, which was to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.
36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 April 1977
(x) The leaders of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for four murders and over 30 attempted murders in Stuttgart, Stammheim Prison, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 April 1992
(-) Artist Francis Bacon dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Madrid, Spain.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 April 1992
(x) The grave of 67-year-old Actor Benny Hill is robbed following rumours that he was buried with large amounts of gold jewellery in Southampton, Hollybrook Cemetary, United Kingdom.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 April 1996
(x) 28-year-old Mass murderer Martin John Bryant kills 35 people in a shooting-spree in a tourist-resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 1999
(-) Murderer Aaron Foust is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 April 2007
(-) Mass murderer Ayub Bulubili is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 40 in Palangkaraya jail, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
3 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 April 2010
(-) Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 42 in Nanping, China.
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