31st year - N° 100 Saturday, 9 April 2016

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31st year - N° 100 Saturday, 9 April 2016

9 April / Today's 12 Events:

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(-) 272 years ago She Was a Fire Without a Flame Thursday 9th of April 1744 Wife of a fishmonger Grace Pett dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 60 in St. Clement, Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom. Pett's body was on the floor, her head against the grate of the fireplace, her torso stretched across the hearth, and her legs on the wood floor, and it was described as "appearing like a Block of Wood burning with a glowing Fire without Flame." Her daughter poured two bowls of water on the body to quench the smolder, which produced a thick and noxious smoke as her neighbours arrived to help. Pett's death is one of the earliest published accounts of a strange fire death being attributed to an internal source of ignition.

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(+) 195 years ago les Fleurs n'Étaient pas Mal Monday 9th of April 1821 Poet and art critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire known for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ is born in 13 Rue Hautefeuille, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 186 years ago They didn't Take His Motion-Picture Friday 9th of April 1830 Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge is born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 110 years ago Monday 9th of April 1906 Artist Victor Vasarely, originally Vásárhelyi Győző aka The Grandfather of Op Art is born in Pécs, Baranya, Hungary.

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(+) 90 years ago Friday 9th of April 1926 Adult magazine publisher Hugh Marston Hefner known for founding Playboy Magazine is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 84 years ago He Wore Baby Blue Shoes Saturday 9th of April 1932 Singer-songwriter Carl Lee Perkins known for Blue Suede Shoes is born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Sunday 9th of April 1933 Actor Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 80 years ago She Wasn't SCUM Thursday 9th of April 1936 Radical feminist writer Valerie Jean Solanas known for shooting Andy Warhol is born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 57 years ago Thursday 9th of April 1959 Architect Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright dies shortly after undergoing surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction at the age of 92 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

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(+) 42 years ago Tuesday 9th of April 1974 Serial killer Alexander Yuryevich 'Sasha' Pichushkin aka The Chessboard Killer aka The Bitsa Park Maniac is born in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 35 years ago Thursday 9th of April 1981 Mass murderer Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killer is born in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 9th of April 2005 The stage for a Club Moral performance in 't Ol van Pluto, Stene 14, Sint-Maria-Horebeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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