(+) Writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is born in Sorochyntsi, USSR.
198 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 April 1815
(+) First Chancellor of the German Reich Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck is born in Schönhausen, Prussia, Germany.
140 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1873
(+) Composer Sergey Vassiljewitsch Rachmaninov is born in Semyonovo, Russia.
140 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1873
(x) 547 Die in RMS Atlantic sinking in Nova Scotia,
138 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1875
(+) Writer Edgar Richard Horatio Wallace known for ‘King Kong’, is born in Greenwich, United Kingdom.
111 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1902
(-) Child-Murderer Walter Allen is lynched and riddled with bullets in Rome, Georgia, USA.
105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 April 1908
(+) Psychologist Abraham Elijah Maslow is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
91 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 April 1922
(-) Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach dies of peritonitis, probably brought on by a ruptured appendix at the age of 37 in Herisau, Switzerland.
89 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1924
(x) 34-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for conspiracy and high-treason in Berlin, Germany.
85 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 April 1928
(+) Murderer-for-hire John B. Sr. Nixon is born in Humphreys County, Mississippi, USA.
(+) Minimal Artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin is born in New York, New York, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1937
(+) Filmmaker and murderer Yilmaz Guney is born in Adana, Turkey.
74 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 April 1939
(+) Actress Ali MacGraw is born in Pound Ridge, New York, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 April 1942
(+) Murderer Charles Jr Brooks is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
He was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1947
(-) King of the Hellenes George II dies of trombosis at the age of 56 in Athens, Greece.
65 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1948
(+) Andy Warhol Superstar Andrea Feldman aka Whips, is born in New York, New York, USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1965
(-) Make-up queen Helena Chaja Rubinstein dies at the age of 82 in New York, New York, USA.
45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 April 1968
(+) Son of Charles Manson and Mary Therese Brunner, Valentine Michael Manson is born in Topanga, Summit Trail Shack, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 April 1974
(-) Thomas Rainwater is shot by Black Zebra Killers at the age of 19 in San Francisco, outside Maifair Market, California, USA.
Story survived.
37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1976
(-) Artist Max Ernst dies at the age of 85 in Seillans, France.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 April 1977
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails his “I am Son of Sam, I am the Monster - Beëlzebub”-letter to the Daily News in New York, New York, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 April 1979
(x) 76-year-old Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini calls out the Islamitic Republic in Iran.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1980
(x) Serial Killer Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, marries Brigitte Adams in France.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 1980
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is arrested after stabbing 26-year-old Donna Hensley over 35 times in the Tower Motel in Daytona, Mason Avenue, Hampton’s Restaurant, Florida, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1982
(x) Argentina occupies the Malvinas islands, starting the Falklands-War with the United Kingdom.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 April 1984
(-) Musician Marvin Pentz Gaye aka The Prince of Motown, is shot dead by his father at the age of 45 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 April 1984
(-) Michelle Korfman is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
22 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 April 1991
(-) Detlev Rohwedder is murdered by Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, in Germany.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 April 1994
(-) Rexist and Belgian SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Degrelle dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 87 in Malaga, Spain.
14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 April 1999
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, is sentenced to death in Kiev, Ukraïne, Russia.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 April 2003
(-) Musician Leslie Kwok-Wing Cheung originally Cheung Fat Chung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother), commits suicide by jumping from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel at the age of 46 in Central, Hong Kong.
His suicide note read "In my life I did nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?".
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