29th year - N° 105 Tuesday, 15 April 2014

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29th year - N° 105 Tuesday, 15 April 2014

15 April / Today's 18 Events:

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(x) 185 years ago Wednesday 15th of April 1829 20-year-old Writer Edgar Allan Poe is discharged from the US Army in Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

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(+) 151 years ago Wednesday 15th of April 1863 Victim of Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais Marie-Angélique Guillin, originally Pelletier is born in Bellavilliers, Basse-Normandie, France.

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(+) 140 years ago Wednesday 15th of April 1874 Physician John Irving Bentley is born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, United States. On 5 December 1966 he died of Spontaneous Human Combustion.

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(+) 106 years ago Wednesday 15th of April 1908 Actress Lita Grey, originally Lillita Louise MacMurray is born in Hollywood, California, United States.

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(x) 102 years ago Monday 15th of April 1912 Between 1.490 and 1.635 die in RMS Titanic and iceberg collision in the North Atlantic Ocean. On her maiden voyage, the RMS Titanic carried 2.224 passengers and crew.

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(-) 90 years ago Tuesday 15th of April 1924 Hermann Bock is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Celler Straße 27, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 89 years ago Wednesday 15th of April 1925 Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 46 in Königliches Zellengefängnis, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. His head is kept in the Kraepelinschen Hirnforschungsinstitut in München, Germany.

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(x) 67 years ago Tuesday 15th of April 1947 581 die in SS Grandcamp explosion and fire in Port of Texas City, Texas City, Texas, United States. The SS Grandcamp's cargo of approximately 2.300 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated due to a fire and caused a subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities. An additional 113 people were classified as missing, for no identifiable parts were ever found.

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(x) 57 years ago Monday 15th of April 1957 23-year-old Serial killer Angelo Anthony Buono aka The Hillside Strangler marries Mary Catherine Castillo in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago She Was Tania and Wanted the Motherfuckers Up Against the Wall Monday 15th of April 1974 20-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst takes part in a bank robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army in Sunset District Hibernia Bank, 1450 Noriega Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 39 years ago She Fitted into the New Dress Tuesday 15th of April 1975 21-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl suffers irreversible brain damage after experiencing an extended period of respiratory failure during a coma in Landing, New Jersey, United States. Quinlan became unconscious after arriving home from a party where she had consumed diazepam, dextropropoxyphene and Gin and Tonics. She was taken to a hospital where she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state for ten years. Around the time of the party Quinlan went on a radical diet in order to fit into a dress that she had bought.

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(-) 39 years ago Tuesday 15th of April 1975 Melanie 'Suzy' Cooley is abducted and bludgeoned to death by serial killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness in Nederland, Colorado, United States. A road maintenance worker found her body in Coal Creek Canyon on 2 May 1975. Bundy was never officially tied to this murder.

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(-) 31 years ago Friday 15th of April 1983 Ervin Gibson is found beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago Sunday 15th of April 1984 Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Cooper was midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre.

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(-) 28 years ago Tuesday 15th of April 1986 Writer, thief and political activist Jean Genet dies of throat cancer at the age of 76 in Jack's Hôtel Room #205, 19 Avenue Stéphen-Pichon, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. He is buried in the Spanish Cemetery in Larache, Morocco.

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(x) 25 years ago Saturday 15th of April 1989 96 die in Liverpool - Nottingham Forest football game stampede in Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 12 years ago Monday 15th of April 2002 129 die in Air China Boeing 767-2J6ER Flight 129 crash in Gimhae Airport, Busan, Yeongnam, South Korea. There were 37 survivors.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 15th of April 2005 The Lenin Mausoleum early in the morning in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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