31st year - N° 116 Monday, 25 April 2016

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31st year - N° 116 Monday, 25 April 2016

25 April / Today's 15 Events:

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(x) 458 years ago Friday 25th of April 1558 Queen of Scots Mary Stuart in IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 272 years ago He Was Getting a Temperature Saturday 25th of April 1744 Astronomer, physicist and mathematician Anders Celsius dies of tuberculosis at the age of 43 in Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden.

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(+) 142 years ago He Was Transmitted Succesfully Saturday 25th of April 1874 Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi known for inventing radio is born in Palazzo Dall'Armi Marescalchi, Via Quattro Novembre 5, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 132 years ago Friday 25th of April 1884 Racecar driver and automobile manufacturer Arthur Chevrolet is born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

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(+) 114 years ago Friday 25th of April 1902 Nazi psychiatrist Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade known for organizing the T-4 Euthanasia Program is born in Forst, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(+) 95 years ago Monday 25th of April 1921 Artist Karel Christiaan Appel is born in Dapperstraat 7, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(+) 76 years ago Thursday 25th of April 1940 Actor Al Alfredo James Pacino is born in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(x) 71 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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(-) 65 years ago Wednesday 25th of April 1951 Murderer Edward Charles Smith is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 33 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 65 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) 43 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) 36 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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(-) 28 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) 14 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) 11 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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