29th year - N° 94 Friday, 4 April 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 94 Friday, 4 April 2014

4 April / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 168 years ago He Embarked on a Dangerous Philosophical Journey Saturday 4th of April 1846 Poet Isidore Ducasse de Lautréamont, originally Isidore-Lucien Ducasse known for Les Chants de Maldoror is born in Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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(+) 82 years ago Monday 4th of April 1932 Actor Anthony Perkins aka Norman Bates is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Monday 4th of April 1932 Film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky is born in Zavrazhye, Ivanovo Industrial Oblast, Russia.

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(x) 78 years ago Saturday 4th of April 1936 39-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is caught in flagrante delicto stealing a book in Librairie Gibert, 26 Boulevard Saint-Michel, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Petiot spent a month in asylum in Ivry.

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(x) 68 years ago Thursday 4th of April 1946 49-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is sentenced to death in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 57 years ago He Still Had a Past Thursday 4th of April 1957 Film director Aki Olavi Kaurismäki is born in Orimattila, Päijänne Tavastia, Finland.

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(-) 46 years ago His Dream Ended Thursday 4th of April 1968 Martin Luther King, originally Michael King is shot dead by assassin James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King in Lorraine Motel, 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony when the bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. After emergency chest surgery, King was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7.05 pm.

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(x) 39 years ago Friday 4th of April 1975 153 die in Lockheed C-5A Galaxy crash in Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam. There were 175 survivors. The flight was part of 'Operation Babylift', in which American caregivers were paired with South Vietnamese orphans.

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