30th year - N° 98 Wednesday, 8 April 2015

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
30th year - N° 98 Wednesday, 8 April 2015

8 April / Today's 12 Events:

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(+) 122 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1893 Actress Mary Pickford, originally Gladys Marie Smith aka The Girl with the Curls is born in 211 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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(+) 117 years ago Friday 8th of April 1898 Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is born in Black Boy House, Turner Lane, Claremount, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 104 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1911 128 die in Banner Mine of Pratt Consolidated Coal Company explosion in Littleton, Alabama, United States.

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(+) 104 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1911 Philosopher Emil Mihai Cioran is born in Rășinari, Sibiu, Romania.

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(+) 86 years ago Monday 8th of April 1929 Singer-songwriter Jacques Romain Georges Brel is born in Schaerbeek, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(+) 74 years ago Tuesday 8th of April 1941 Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, originally Vivienne Isabel Swire is born in Tintwistle, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 65 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1950 Ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, originally Wacław Niżyński dies of a kidney disease at the age of 61 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 54 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1961 238 die in MV Dara passenger liner explosion in the Persian Gulf. The explosion was probably caused by a deliberately placed explosive device planted by an Omani rebel group or individual insurgents.

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(-) 34 years ago Wednesday 8th of April 1981 War leader Omar Nelson Bradley aka The G.I. '​s General dies of cardiac arrhythmia at the age of 88 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 33 years ago Thursday 8th of April 1982 49-year-old Serial killer Joachim Georg Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale is sentenced to life imprisonment in Landgericht Saal 201, König-Heinrich-Platz 1, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Kroll's trial lasted 151 days.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 8th of April 1983 Gustavo Herrera is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. In the course of the fight Eyler's hand is badly cut between the thumb and forefinger.

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8 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 8th of April 2007 Solitary situation in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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