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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