29th year - N° 120 Wednesday, 30 April 2014

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29th year - N° 120 Wednesday, 30 April 2014

30 April / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 202 years ago Thursday 30th of April 1812 Foundling Kaspar Hauser aka The Wild Child is born in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 131 years ago Monday 30th of April 1883 Painter Édouard Manet dies of untreated syphilis and rheumatism at the age of 51 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 84 years ago Wednesday 30th of April 1930 Charlotte Ullrich is attacked with a hammer by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 48 years ago Saturday 30th of April 1966 36-year-old Founder of the Satanic Church Anton Szandor LaVey, originally Howard Stanton Levey announces the establishment of the one and only Church of Satan in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 30th of April 1978 43-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger, originally Joseph Lee Brenner III aka The Shoemaker starts hungerstriking to secure medical treatment in State Correctional Institution, 1100 Pike Street, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 27 years ago Thursday 30th of April 1987 42-year-old Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer is paroled and released from prison after serving 14 of a 25-year sentence for the murder of 10-year-old Jack Owen Blake in Watertown on 7 May 1972 in Green Haven Correctional Facility, Route 216, Stormville, New York, United States. In March 1988 Shawcross began murdering again, primarily prostitutes in the area, before his capture less than two years later.

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29th year - N° 119 Tuesday, 29 April 2014

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29th year - N° 119 Tuesday, 29 April 2014

29 April / Today's 3 Events:

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(x) 244 years ago Sunday 29th of April 1770 42-year-old Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook lands with the HMB Endeavour in Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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(-) 95 years ago Tuesday 29th of April 1919 Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper note to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 29th of April 2005 A carboot sale of fresh pig meat outside our apartment in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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29th year - N° 118 Monday, 28 April 2014

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29th year - N° 118 Monday, 28 April 2014

28 April / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 108 years ago Saturday 28th of April 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Adolf Hannappel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 102 years ago Sunday 28th of April 1912 Illegalist Jules Bonnot aka Le Bourgeois known from ‘La Bande à Bonnot’ is riddled with bullets in a shootout with police officers at the age of 36 in Choisy-le-Roi, Île-de-France, France. After sporadic firing failed to extract Bonnot from his hideout, Paris Police Chief Louis Lépine ordered the building bombed using a dynamite charge. The explosion demolished the front of the building. Barely conscious lying underneath a mattress, Bonnot was shot ten times in the upper-body before Lépine shot him non-fatally in the head. Bonnot was moved to the Hotel-Dieu hospital and pronounced dead at 1:15 pm.

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(x) 95 years ago Monday 28th of April 1919 40-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. Rothe was killed by Haarmann on 25 September 1918.

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(-) 38 years ago Wednesday 28th of April 1976 Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch, originally Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski aka Der Kirmesmörder dies of malignant hyperthermia at the age of 30 in Landeskrankenhaus Eickelborn, Eickelbornstraße, Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. An official autopsy and investigation determined that Bartsch had been intoxicated with a Halothane overdose (factor 10) by an insufficiently trained nurse during a chemical castration operation to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 28th of April 2005 A streetworker cutting an electric cable with a hacksaw after a storm in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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1 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 28th of April 2013 Greenery and Rietveld furniture on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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29th year - N° 117 Sunday, 27 April 2014

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29th year - N° 117 Sunday, 27 April 2014

27 April / Today's 6 Events:

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(x) 149 years ago Thursday 27th of April 1865 Over 1800 die in SS Sultana side-wheel steamboat explosion and sinking in The Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Three of the Sultana's four boilers exploded.

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(-) 87 years ago Wednesday 27th of April 1927 Mary McConnell is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Saturday 27th of April 1974 40-year-old Ulrike Marie Meinhof is transferred from Stammheim prison for the trial considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Königliche Untersuchungsgefängnis, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 32 years ago Tuesday 27th of April 1982 112 die in CAAC Hawker Siddeley Trident Flight 3303 crash in Yangshuo, Guangxi, China.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 27th of April 2003 A concert by Suicide in Hof ter Lo, Noordersingel, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 27th of April 2012 The U-bahn track in Stadtmitte, Friedrichstraße, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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29th year - N° 116 Saturday, 26 April 2014

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29th year - N° 116 Saturday, 26 April 2014

26 April / Today's 8 Events:

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(-) 149 years ago Wednesday 26th of April 1865 Actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln is tracked down shot dead by Sergeant Boston Corbett in Richard H. Garrett's tobacco barn at the age of 27 in Port Royal, Virginia, United States. In Booth's pockets were found a compass, a candle, pictures of five women (actresses Alice Grey, Helen Western, Effie Germon, Fannie Brown and Booth's fiancée Lucy Hale), and his diary, where he had written of Lincoln's death, "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment".

(-) 90 years ago Saturday 26th of April 1924 Robert Witzel 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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(x) 81 years ago He Founded a Reign of Terror Wednesday 26th of April 1933 The Gestapo is founded by 40-year-old Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Gestapo was an abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei.

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(x) 72 years ago Sunday 26th of April 1942 1.549 die in coal mine dust explosion in Honkeiko Colliery, Benxi, Liaoning, China.

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(x) 62 years ago Saturday 26th of April 1952 176 die in USS Hobson destroyer and USS Wasp aircraft carrier collision in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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(x) 43 years ago Monday 26th of April 1971 25-year-old Artist Chris Christopher Burden starts his 'Five Day Locker Piece' performance in University of California, Irvine, California, United States.

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(x) 20 years ago Tuesday 26th of April 1994 264 die in China Airlines Airbus A300B4-622R Flight 140 crash in Nagoya Airfield, Nagoya, Chūbu, Japan. There were 7 survivors. 31-year-old Noriyasu Shirai said that a flight attendant announced that the plane would crash after the aircraft stalled.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 26th of April 2005 Scenes of daily life in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

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29th year - N° 115 Friday, 25 April 2014

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29th year - N° 115 Friday, 25 April 2014

25 April / Today's 7 Events:

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(x) 69 years ago Wednesday 25th of April 1945 52-year-old Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring is arrested and sentenced to death by the SS for treason in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 63 years ago Wednesday 25th of April 1951 Murderer Joseph Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 41 years ago Wednesday 25th of April 1973 44-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is sentenced to one year imprisonment for an attack on an unidentified boy in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 34 years ago Friday 25th of April 1980 8 US-soldiers die in RH-53 Bluebeard 3 helicopter crash in Tehran, Tehran, Iran. 'Operation Eagle Claw' was an aborted attempt to free the American hostages in their embassy.

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(-) 26 years ago Monday 25th of April 1988 Radical feminist writer Valerie Jean Solanas known for shooting Andy Warhol dies of pneumonia at the age of 52 in Bristol Hotel, 56 Mason Street, Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, United States.

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(x) 12 years ago Thursday 25th of April 2002 225 die in China Airlines Boeing 747-209B Flight 611 crash in Makung, Penghu Islands, Taiwan.

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(x) 9 years ago Monday 25th of April 2005 107 die in Rapid commuter train derailment in Amagasaki Station, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan. The front two carriages rammed into an apartment building. Investigators have focused on speeding by the 23-year-old driver, Ryūjirō Takami (who was among the dead), as being the most likely cause of the accident.

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29th year - N° 114 Thursday, 24 April 2014

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29th year - N° 114 Thursday, 24 April 2014

24 April / Today's 5 Events:

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(+) 118 years ago Friday 24th of April 1896 Victim of Louise Masset Manfred Louis Masset is born in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 72 years ago Friday 24th of April 1942 Start of the trial against 28-year-old Serial killer Gordon Frederick Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Cummins' trial had to be restarted with new jury on 27 April due to a legal technicality.

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(x) 36 years ago Monday 24th of April 1978 Unidentified serial killer Zodiac writes an 'I am back'-letter to The San Francisco Chronicle in San Francisco, California, United States.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 24th of April 2001 Excavations for an underground railway line in Centraal Station, Astridplein, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 1 years ago Wednesday 24th of April 2013 1.129 die in Rana Plaza building collapse in Rana Plaza, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Approximately 2.515 injured people were rescued from the building alive.

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29th year - N° 113 Wednesday, 23 April 2014

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29th year - N° 113 Wednesday, 23 April 2014

23 April / Today's 13 Events:

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(+) 223 years ago Saturday 23rd of April 1791 15th President of the United States James Buchanan is born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Monday 23rd of April 1928 Actress Shirley Temple is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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(x) 74 years ago Tuesday 23rd of April 1940 209 die in Rhythm Club dance hall fire in Rhythm Club, Natchez, Mississippi, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Sunday 23rd of April 1961 36-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey abducts and rapes an unidentified 11-year-old girl in Saint Martin, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 52 years ago Monday 23rd of April 1962 Petra Giese is sexually assaulted and strangled by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Stollbach, Dinslaken, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 23rd of April 1967 39-year-old Assassin James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King escapes in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. Ray was captured a few days later.

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(x) 40 years ago Tuesday 23rd of April 1974 28-year-old Artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Trans-fixed' in Venice, California, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago Tuesday 23rd of April 1974 Start of the trial against 23-year-old Serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Assisenhof, Britselei 55-57, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 34 years ago Wednesday 23rd of April 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Installation - 3' at the Symposium d'Art Performance in Maison des Avocats, 60 Rue Saint-Jean, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France. After the audience had entered the cellar, I closed the door and fastened a rope to my neck and the door, then I tied my feet and hands. The audience could watch my actions on a closed TV-circuit on the other side of the door. Then someone had to open the door -and pull me over- in order to get out.

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(x) 21 years ago Friday 23rd of April 1993 34-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Murder of Petra Giese' in Jockel Headquarters, Lothringer Straße 36, Gerthe, Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. On exactly the same day that, 21 years earlier, 13-year-old Petra Giese was killed by Joachim 'Jockel' Kroll, the Ruhr Hunter, I sat on a chair and cut off all the clothes off my body. To my left hand a rope was tied, leading to an electric winch at the other end of the room, slowly dragging my body over the concrete floor.

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(-) 16 years ago Thursday 23rd of April 1998 Assassin James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King dies of complications related to kidney disease and liver failure caused by hepatitis C at the age of 70 in Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital, 3443 Dickerson Pike Ste 430, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 16 years ago Thursday 23rd of April 1998 42-year-old Kidnapper, serial killer and child molester Marc Dutroux escapes from the courthouse, where he was consulting the records for his defence, by knocking down a state trooper and running out of the building in Neufchateau, Luxemburg, Belgium. Dutroux was found by forest watcher Stéphane Michaux about three hours later in a wood, where his stolen car got stuck in the mud.

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