(-) Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, dies of the plague at the age of 46 in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.
223 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 April 1790
(-) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin dies of pneumonia at the age of 84 in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, United States.
129 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 April 1884
(+) Alleged child-murderer Leo Max Frank aka Max the Jew, is born in Cuero, Texas, United States.
128 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 April 1885
(-) Murderer Carmine Santore is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maine, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 April 1915
(-) Black meat-thief Caesar Sheffield is lynched by shooting in Valdosta, Georgia, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 April 1918
(+) Actor William Holden originally William Beedle, is born in O’Fallon, Illinois, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 April 1923
(+) Filmmaker and leading light of the Free Cinema Lindsay Gordon Anderson is born in Bangalore, India.
89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 April 1924
(-) Wilhelm Apel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 15 in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 April 1930
(-) Murderer Colin Campbell is executed by Old Sparky in New Jersey, United States.
(+) Serial Killer Joachim Georg ‘Jockel’ Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, is born in Hindenburg, Ober-Schlesiën, Germany.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 April 1941
(x) Yugoslavia capitulates for Nazi-Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 April 1946
(+) Spree Killer Paul John Knowles aka Lester Daryl Gates aka Daryl Golden aka The Casanova Killer aka Killing Time, is born in Orlando, Florida, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 April 1960
(-) Musician Eddie Edward Ray Cochran dies after his Ford Consul taxi crashed into a lamp post at the age of 21 in Bath, Rowden Hill, Somerset, United Kingdom.
The taxi driver, George Martin, was convicted of dangerous driving, fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years, and sent to prison for six months.
39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 April 1974
(-) Susan Rancourt is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 18 in Ellensburg, Washington, United States.
38 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 April 1975
(-) Lilian Dresch is attacked by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 28 in Neckarau, Germany.
She survived.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 April 1977
(-) Alexander Esau is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, United States.
30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 April 1983
(-) Terry Milligan is strangled by The Green River Killer in Seattle, Washington, United States.
27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 April 1986
(-) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault dies at the age of 94 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 April 2007
(-) Maire of Nagasaki Iccho Ito is shot dead by Yamaguchi-Gumu gangster Tetsuya Shiroo at the age of 59 in Nagasaki, Japan.
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