29th year - N° 93 Thursday, 3 April 2014

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29th year - N° 93 Thursday, 3 April 2014

3 April / Today's 6 Events:

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(x) 184 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1830 18-year-old Foundling Kaspar Hauser aka The Wild Child is found bleeding from a wound to the right side of his head in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. Hauser quickly revived and stated that he climbed on a chair to get some books, the chair fell and while trying to hold on to something he accidentally tore down a pistol hanging on the wall, causing a shot to go off.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 3rd of April 1924 Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day, originally Doris Von Kappelhoff is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1965 28-year-old Horst Otto is released from prison after serving 5 years for the murder of Manuela Knodt in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Knodt was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1970 40-year-old Writer James Graham Ballard opens his 'Crashed Cars' exhibition in Institute for Research in Art and Technology, Gordon Street, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The wrecks of a white Pontiac, a Mini and an Austin Cambridge A60 were on show while a topless woman interviewed guests about their reactions.

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(x) 40 years ago She became Tania Wednesday 3rd of April 1974 20-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst announces on an audiotape that she joined the Symbionese Liberation Army and assumed the name 'Tania' in San Francisco, California, United States. 'Tania' was inspired by the nom de guerre of Che Guevara's comrade Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider.

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(x) 33 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1981 22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Lift Off' with Etat Brut at the Underground on Stage festival in Beursschouwburg, Auguste Ortsstraat 22, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. During a concert by Etat Brut I was standing before a filmscreen and threw my right leg as high as I could several times. To my left foot a rope was fastened at which somebody pulled at a non-defined moment. I suffered a concussion of the brain.

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