41st year - Nº 92 Thursday, 2 April 2026

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41st year - Nº 92 Thursday, 2 April 2026

2 April / Today's 28 Events:

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(+) 301 years ago Monday 2nd of April 1725 Adventurer, writer and sexual athlete Giacomo Casanova is born in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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(+) 221 years ago Tuesday 2nd of April 1805 Writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen is born in Bangs Boder 29, Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark.

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(+) 186 years ago Thursday 2nd of April 1840 Writer Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola is born in 10 Rue Saint-Joseph, IIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 154 years ago Tuesday 2nd of April 1872 Painter and inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse known for developing the Morse code dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in 5 West 22nd Street, New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 140 years ago Friday 2nd of April 1886 Serial killer Johann Mayer aka Stumpfarm is born in Uersfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(+) 135 years ago Thursday 2nd of April 1891 Surrealist artist Max Ernst is born in Brühl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 112 years ago Thursday 2nd of April 1914 Actor Alec Guinnes, originally Alec Guinness de Cuffe is born in 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 2nd of April 1924 Serial killer Leslie 'Joe Goebbels' Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer is born in Evansville, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Monday 2nd of April 1928 Singer-songwriter, actor and poet Serge Gainsbourg, originally Lucien Ginsburg is born in Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, 1 Parvis Notre-Dame, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Gainsbourg had a faux twin sister named Liliane.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 2nd of April 1939 Singer-songwriter and musician Marvin Gaye, originally Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. aka The Prince of Motown is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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(-) 80 years ago Tuesday 2nd of April 1946 Murderer Frank Quarles is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Indiana State Prison, 1 Park Row, Michigan City, Indiana, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Wednesday 2nd of April 1947 Singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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(+) 79 years ago Wednesday 2nd of April 1947 Anti-war protester George Winne is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 71 years ago Saturday 2nd of April 1955 Mass murderer Mark Orrin Barton is born in Stockbridge, Georgia, United States.

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(-) 64 years ago He Was the Last to Spark Monday 2nd of April 1962 Murderer Elmo Smith is executed by Old Smokey at the age of 41 in Rockview Penitentiary, Benner Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Smith was the last man to die in the electric chair in Pennsylvania.

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(x) 58 years ago War es ein Politischer Akt Tuesday 2nd of April 1968 Arson-attack by 25-year-old Leader of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion Andreas Bernd Baader and Gudrun Ensslin with Thorwald Proll und Horst Söhnlein on two shopping-centers in Kaufhaus M. Schneider, Zeil 98, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany. They were inspired by the fire in 'L'Innovation' in Brussels on 22 May 1967. The event marks the birth of the Baader-Meinhof Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion.

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(-) 52 years ago Tuesday 2nd of April 1974 President of the French Republic Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou dies of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia at the age of 63 in Hôtel d'Asselin, 24 Quai de Béthune, IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(x) 43 years ago Saturday 2nd of April 1983 Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV dies of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 2nd of April 1985 33-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Christian Klar is sentenced to life six times for nine murders in the 'Deutsche Herbst' of 1977 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 41 years ago Tuesday 2nd of April 1985 36-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is sentenced to life five times with a minimum 24-year mandatory sentence for nine murders during the 'Deutsche Herbst' of 1977 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(x) 41 years ago He Didn't Have a Gun Tuesday 2nd of April 1985 24-year-old Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner attempts to escape during trial proceedings for the Otterstrom murder in Metropolitan Hall of Justice, 400 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Gardner was immediately shot in the chest by guard Luther Hensley. After running to the courtroom archives, Gardner confronted attorneys Robert Macri and Michael Burdell and shot them both. Gardner made his way outside the building, where he was surrounded by dozens of police officers. Gardner threw the gun away, dropped and yelled: "Don't shoot, I don't have a gun."

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(x) 39 years ago He Had an Abrasion around His Neck Thursday 2nd of April 1987 44-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer tries to commit suicide by hanging from a shower pipe at the Philadelphia Detention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 39 years ago Thursday 2nd of April 1987 28-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'L'Age D'Or nr2 / Variation Australis' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in The Performance Space, 199 Cleveland Street, Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A variation on the L'Age d'Or nr 2 performance, where my feet were tied to the floor, and I tried to pull myself off the ground via a pulley and a rope around my neck. Using a throat-microphone I repeated "I wanna be injured", the sound was electronically distorted by AMVK.

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(-) 33 years ago Friday 2nd of April 1993 Lauren Marquez is strangled and her neck broken by serial killer Joel Rifkin aka The Long Island Ripper in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Marquez' body was found in June hidden by brush in a location Rifkin pinpointed for the police in a confession after his arrest.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 2nd of April 1997 Murderer David Lee Herman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Herman tried to kill himself on the day before by slashing his throat and wrist, but he was patched up and executed anyway.

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(x) 28 years ago Thursday 2nd of April 1998 88-year-old Prefect of Paris and Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the deportation of 1560 Jews during WWII in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.

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(-) 21 years ago Saturday 2nd of April 2005 Ioannes Paulus II, originally Karol Józef Wojtyła dies of heart failure from profound hypotension and complete circulatory collapse from septic shock at the age of 85 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 2nd of April 2007 Abandoned communication systems and electrical equipment in an abandoned office in Kattenberg 79, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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41st year - Nº 91 Wednesday, 1 April 2026

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41st year - Nº 91 Wednesday, 1 April 2026

1 April / Today's 33 Events:

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(+) 263 years ago Friday 1st of April 1763 Robber Joseph Hugues Nicolas Lesurques known for the ‘Courrier de Lyon’ case is born in Douai, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(+) 211 years ago Saturday 1st of April 1815 1st Reichskanzler of Germany Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck is born in Schönhausen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 200 years ago Saturday 1st of April 1826 Victim of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin Jean Kinck is born in Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France.

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(x) 153 years ago Tuesday 1st of April 1873 535 die in RMS Atlantic transatlantic ocean liner shipwreck in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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(+) 153 years ago Tuesday 1st of April 1873 Romantic composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff is born in Veliky Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

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(-) 124 years ago 1000 Bullets Entered His Body Tuesday 1st of April 1902 Black Walter Allen is lynched and riddled with bullets in Rome, Georgia, United States. Allen was taken from the city jail by a mob of 4000 and hung from an electric light pole. A volley was fired and 1000 bullets entered Allen's body.

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(+) 118 years ago Wednesday 1st of April 1908 Psychologist Abraham Harold Elijah Maslow is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 104 years ago He Left the Ink in the Ink Pot Saturday 1st of April 1922 Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach known for the Rorschach inkblot test dies of peritonitis, probably brought on by a ruptured appendix at the age of 38 in Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.

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(x) 102 years ago Tuesday 1st of April 1924 35-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for conspiracy and high-treason in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 98 years ago Sunday 1st of April 1928 Murderer John B. Nixon is born in Midnight, Mississippi, United States.

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(+) 93 years ago He Was Beginning to See the Light Saturday 1st of April 1933 Minimal artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin is born in Jamaica, New York, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Thursday 1st of April 1937 Film director and murderer Yılmaz Güney is born in Yenice, Adana, Turkey.

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(+) 87 years ago Saturday 1st of April 1939 Actress Ali Elizabeth Alice MacGraw is born in Pound Ridge, New York, United States.

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(+) 86 years ago Monday 1st of April 1940 Murderer Gwynne Owen Evans, originally John Robson Walby is born in Maryport, Cumberland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 79 years ago His Death Was Not a Joke Tuesday 1st of April 1947 King of the Hellenes Geórgios II dies of arteriosclerosis at the age of 57 in Athens, Attica, Greece. When the news of Geórgios' death was announced some thought it to be an April Fool's Day joke.

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(+) 78 years ago Thursday 1st of April 1948 Andy Warhol Superstar Andrea Feldman aka Whips is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 75 years ago Sunday 1st of April 1951 Double murderer Earl Carl Heiselbetz is born in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

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(+) 61 years ago Thursday 1st of April 1965 Victim of Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer Marie Mary-Jane Annette Malvar is born in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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(-) 61 years ago Thursday 1st of April 1965 Cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Chaja Rubinstein dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago She Pleaded Guilty Monday 1st of April 1974 32-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) appears in the dock of the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, charged with 'conspiracy to effect the escape of a prisoner from lawful custody' along Patricia Cairns and Maxine Croft in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Hindley pleaded guilty.

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(-) 52 years ago Monday 1st of April 1974 Thomas Rainwater is shot dead by murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in Salvation Army School for Officers' Training Center, 1450 Laguna Street, San Francisco, California, United States. Rainwater's 21-year old companion Linda Story was also shot but survived.

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(x) 47 years ago Sunday 1st of April 1979 77-year-old Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini calls out the Islamitic Republic in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 1st of April 1984 Singer-songwriter and musician Marvin Gaye, originally Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. aka The Prince of Motown is shot in the heart and on his left shoulder by his 70-year old father Marvin Gaye Sr. at the age of 45 in 2101 South Gramercy Place, West Adams, Los Angeles, California, United States. The bullet penetrated Marvin's vital organs, including his heart.

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(-) 42 years ago Sunday 1st of April 1984 Michelle Korfman is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Meadows Mall, 4300 Meadows Ln, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Korfman remained undiscovered near a southern California roadside rest stop until 11 May, although she lay unclaimed until mid-June in a Los Angeles morgue as Jane Doe #39 until being identified via dental X-rays.

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(-) 35 years ago Monday 1st of April 1991 Präsident der Treuhandanstalt Detlev Karsten Rohwedder is shot and killed through a window on the first floor of his house by the Rote Armee Fraktion Kommando Ulrich Wessel at the age of 59 in Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 71, Niederkassel, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. In 2001 a DNA analysis found that hair strands from the crime scene belonged to RAF member Wolfgang Grams.

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(-) 32 years ago Friday 1st of April 1994 Rexist and Belgian Waffen SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 88 in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.

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(x) 27 years ago Thursday 1st of April 1999 40-year-old Serial killer Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko aka The Terminator aka Citizen O is sentenced to death in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.

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(-) 23 years ago He Did Nothing Bad Tuesday 1st of April 2003 Singer-songwriter Leslie Cheung, originally Cheung Fat Chung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother) commits suicide by leaping from the 24th floor of a hotel at the age of 47 in Mandarin Oriental, Central, Hong Kong, China. Cheung's suicide note read "In my life I did nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?"

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 1st of April 2006 Our cat Harry sunbathing on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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14 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 1st of April 2012 Rietveld furniture and tulips on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 1st of April 2015 A ruin church in Híjar, Teruel, Spain.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 1st of April 2019 A front door in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.

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(-) 1 years ago Tuesday 1st of April 2025 Actor Val Edward Kilmer dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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