41st year - Nº 94 Saturday, 4 April 2026

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41st year - Nº 94 Saturday, 4 April 2026

4 April / Today's 38 Events:

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(+) 1838 years ago He Was a Gallic Hoodie Friday 4th of April 0188 Roman Emperor Caracalla, originally Lucius Septimius Bassianus aka Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus is born in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France. At the time Lyon was called Lugdunum, Gaul. According to Aurelius Victor in his 'Epitome de Caesaribus', Antoninus became known by the agnomen 'Caracalla' after a Gallic hooded tunic that he habitually wore and made fashionable.

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(x) 351 years ago Thursday 4th of April 1675 10-year-old Soldier and adventurer Francis Charteris aka The Rape-Master General is baptised in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Charteris was born in Edinburgh in about 1665, the exact date is unknown.

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(+) 180 years ago He Embarked on a Dangerous Philosophical Journey Saturday 4th of April 1846 Poet Isidore Ducasse de Lautréamont, originally Isidore-Lucien Ducasse known for Les Chants de Maldoror is born in Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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(-) 138 years ago She Was the First of Eleven Wednesday 4th of April 1888 Emma Elizabeth Smith is possibly attacked by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper in The London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Smith was assaulted at the junction of Osborn Street and Brick Lane the night before. She was taken to the hospital, fell into a coma and died. Medical investigation by duty surgeon Dr G. H. Hillier revealed that a blunt object had been inserted into her vagina rupturing her peritoneum. The case was listed as the first of eleven Whitechapel murders in Metropolitan Police files.

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(x) 130 years ago Saturday 4th of April 1896 59-year-old Baby farm murderess Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, originally Hobley aka The Ogress of Reading is arrested in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 112 years ago Saturday 4th of April 1914 Writer and experimental filmmaker Marguerite Duras, originally Marguerite Donnadieu is born in Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam.

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(-) 97 years ago Thursday 4th of April 1929 Automobile designer and manufacturer Carl Benz, originally Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant dies of bronchial inflammation at the age of 85 in Dr.-Carl-Benz-Platz 2, Ladenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 94 years ago Monday 4th of April 1932 Actor Anthony Perkins known for portraying Norman Bates in the movie ‘Psycho’ is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 94 years ago Monday 4th of April 1932 Film director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky is born in Zavrazhye, Ivanovo Industrial Oblast, Russia.

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(x) 90 years ago Saturday 4th of April 1936 39-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is caught in flagrante delicto stealing a book in Librairie Gibert, 26 Boulevard Saint-Michel, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Petiot spent a month in an asylum in Ivry.

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(-) 85 years ago Friday 4th of April 1941 Murderer Samuel Morgan is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 29 in Walton Prison, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(+) 84 years ago Saturday 4th of April 1942 Serial killer Michel Paul Fourniret aka The Ogre of the Ardennes is born in Sedan, Ardennes, France.

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(+) 83 years ago Sunday 4th of April 1943 Murderer Peter Anthony Allen is born in Wallasey, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 83 years ago Sunday 4th of April 1943 Presumed multiple murderess Judy Judias V. Buenoano, originally Judias Welty aka Florida's Black Widow is born in Quanah, Texas, United States.

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(x) 80 years ago Thursday 4th of April 1946 49-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is sentenced to death in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 72 years ago Sunday 4th of April 1954 Multiple murderer Michael Eugene Sharp is born in Eastland, Texas, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago He Still Had a Past Thursday 4th of April 1957 Film director Aki Olavi Kaurismäki is born in Orimattila, Päijänne Tavastia, Finland.

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(-) 64 years ago Wednesday 4th of April 1962 Murderer James Hanratty aka The A6 Lay-By Murderer is executed by hanging by Harry Allen at the age of 26 in Bedford Gaol, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 61 years ago Sunday 4th of April 1965 Presumed murderer Gaston Dominici known from L’Affaire Dominici dies of unknown causes at the age of 88 in Digne-les-Bains, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(x) 59 years ago Tuesday 4th of April 1967 A group of soldiers of the Korps Mariniers and the Royal Marine clears the main hall of 'thugs', hippies and assembled youngsters in Centraal Station, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 58 years ago Thursday 4th of April 1968 30-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 28. Aktion 6. Abreaktionsspiel im Rahmen des Spring Art Festivals in University Great Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 58 years ago His Dream Ended Thursday 4th of April 1968 Martin Luther King, originally Michael King is shot dead by assassin James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King in Lorraine Motel, 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony when the bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. After emergency chest surgery, King was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7.05 pm.

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(x) 58 years ago Thursday 4th of April 1968 Members of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein are arrested for an arson-attack on Kaufhaus Schneider in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 56 years ago Saturday 4th of April 1970 27-year-old Leader of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe aka Rote Armee Fraktion Andreas Bernd Baader is arrested during a traffic control in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Baader was using a fake ID in the name of Peter Chotjewitz but was placed under arrest when he failed to answer personal questions like the names and ages of Chotjewitz's children.

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(x) 53 years ago Wednesday 4th of April 1973 13-year-old Son and victim of Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker Joey Kallinger is arrested and charged with vandalism, trespassing and conspiracy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago Friday 4th of April 1975 153 die in Lockheed C-5A Galaxy crash in Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam. There were 175 survivors. The flight was part of 'Operation Babylift', in which American caregivers were paired with South Vietnamese orphans.

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(-) 47 years ago Wednesday 4th of April 1979 Josephine Whitaker is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Saville Park, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Whitaker was hit from behind with a ball-pein hammer. Sutcliffe then proceeded to stab her twenty-one times with the screwdriver in the chest and stomach, and six times in the right leg, and also thrust the screwdriver into her vagina. Her skull had been fractured from ear to ear.

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(-) 47 years ago Wednesday 4th of April 1979 Founder of the Pakistan People's Party Zulfikar Ali Buttho is executed by hanging at the age of 51 in Central Jail, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.

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(+) 47 years ago Wednesday 4th of April 1979 Actor Heath Andrew Ledger is born in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

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(-) 43 years ago Monday 4th of April 1983 Actress Gloria May Josephine Swanson dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in New York Hospital, New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago He Gave Her a Ticket to Ride Wednesday 4th of April 1984 Tina Marie Risico is abducted, raped and tortured by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Del Amo Fashion Center, Torrance, California, United States. After 9 days of torture Risico was taken to Logan Airport in Boston where Wilder bought her a ticket to Los Angeles.

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(-) 38 years ago Monday 4th of April 1988 An unidentified woman is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Krasny Sulin, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Her body was found on 6 April in the grounds of a metals factory near the railway station.

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(+) 38 years ago Monday 4th of April 1988 Spree killer Jakrapanth Thomma known for the Nakhon Ratchasima shooting is born in Chaiyaphum, Chaiyaphum, Thailand.

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(-) 36 years ago Wednesday 4th of April 1990 Lyubov Zuyeva is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Donleskhoz, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Zuyeva encountered Chikatilo while travelling from Novocherkassk to Shakhty. Zuyeva's skeletonized body was found in woodland close to Donleskhoz station on 24 August.

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(-) 32 years ago Monday 4th of April 1994 Murderer Richard Lee Beavers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Beavers' last meal request was for six pieces of french toast with syrup, jelly, butter, six barbecued spare ribs, six pieces of well-burned bacon, four scrambled eggs, five well-cooked sausage patties, french fries with ketchup, three slices of cheese, two pieces of yellow cake with chocolate fudge icing, and four cartons of milk.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 4th of April 2015 An early morning procession during the Holy Week in Calanda, Teruel, Spain.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 4th of April 2019 A sturdy metal gate in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.

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(-) 2 years ago He Was Good Thursday 4th of April 2024 Triple murderer Michael Dewayne Smith aka The Hoover Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. Smith's last words were "Nah, I'm good."

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41st year - Nº 93 Friday, 3 April 2026

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41st year - Nº 93 Friday, 3 April 2026

3 April / Today's 37 Events:

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(x) 196 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1830 18-year-old Foundling Kaspar Hauser aka The Wild Child is found bleeding from a wound to the right side of his head in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. Hauser quickly revived and stated that he climbed on a chair to get some books, the chair fell and while trying to hold on to something he accidentally tore down a pistol hanging on the wall, causing a shot to go off.

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(+) 163 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1863 Painter, architect and interior designer Henry Clemens Van de Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 144 years ago The Dust Was Cleaned with His Blood Monday 3rd of April 1882 Outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber and murderer Jesse Woodson James is 'accidently' shot in the head by Robert Ford while cleaning a dusty picture above the mantle at the age of 35 in Jesse James Home, St. Joseph, Missouri, United States.

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(-) 131 years ago Wednesday 3rd of April 1895 Blanche Lamont is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by double murderer Theodore Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry in Emanuel Baptist Church, Bartlett Street, San Francisco, California, . Lamont's body was found on 13 April in the belfry.

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(-) 129 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1897 Romantic composer Johannes Brahms dies of liver cancer at the age of 64 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 118 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1908 Serial killer Bruno Lüdke is born in Köpenick, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 111 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1915 Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier is born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(-) 107 years ago Thursday 3rd of April 1919 Black soldier William Wilbert Little is lynched by battering because he refused to take off his army uniform in Blakely, Georgia, United States.

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(+) 106 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1920 Guard at Sobibór KZ John Demjanjuk, originally Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk is born in Dubovi Makharyntsi, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 102 years ago Thursday 3rd of April 1924 Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day, originally Doris Von Kappelhoff is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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(+) 102 years ago He Was a Wild One Thursday 3rd of April 1924 Actor and film director Marlon Brando known from the movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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(x) 97 years ago Wednesday 3rd of April 1929 Frau Flake is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The next day Frau Flake was not able to swallow properly. On her neck she had a large red swelling 70mm long by 7,5mm wide, on the left a painful reddish mark 50mm long and 30mm wide. The skin of the whole face was covered with contusions in size from a pin point to a pea. The conjuntivae of both eyes were partly congested. In the mucuous membrane of the mouth were numerous abrasions.

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(x) 96 years ago Thursday 3rd of April 1930 Frau Hau is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Hofgarten, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 90 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1936 Kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 37 in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 85 years ago He Was Guilty Thursday 3rd of April 1941 Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary Pál Teleki, originally Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 62 in Sándor Palace, Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary. Teleki wanted to avoid collaboration with the Nazis. In his suicide note he wrote "We will become body-snatchers! A nation of trash. I did not hold you back. I am guilty."

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(-) 76 years ago Monday 3rd of April 1950 Composer Kurt Julian Weill dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 71 years ago Sunday 3rd of April 1955 300 die in night train derailment in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The train plunged into a canyon.

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(-) 69 years ago Wednesday 3rd of April 1957 Murderer Ernest L. Ranson is executed by hanging in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 68 years ago Thursday 3rd of April 1958 Photographer Francesca Woodman is born in Denver, Colorado, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago She Waited until Tuesday Tuesday 3rd of April 1962 Murderess Brenda Spencer known for Not Liking Mondays is born in San Diego, California, United States.

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(+) 64 years ago Tuesday 3rd of April 1962 Serial killer Roberto Succo aka L'Assassino della Luna Piena aka Il Mostro di Mestre aka Roberto il Folle is born in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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(x) 61 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1965 28-year-old Horst Otto is released from prison after serving 5 years for the murder of Manuela Knodt in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Knodt was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale.

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(x) 58 years ago Longevity Has its Place Wednesday 3rd of April 1968 39-year-old Activist and African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, originally Michael King delivers his last speech 'I've Been tot the Mountaintop' in Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. At the end of the speech King discusses the possibility of an untimely death. On the following day King was assassinated.

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(x) 56 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1970 40-year-old Writer James Graham Ballard opens his 'Crashed Cars' exhibition in Institute for Research in Art and Technology, Gordon Street, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The wrecks of a white Pontiac, a Mini and an Austin Cambridge A60 were on show while a topless woman interviewed guests about their reactions.

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(-) 55 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 1971 Gangster Joseph Michael 'Joe Cargo' Valachi aka Anthony Sorge aka Charles Charbano known for disclosing information about the Italian-American Mafia dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution, Anthony, Texas, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago She became Tania Wednesday 3rd of April 1974 20-year-old Newspaper heiress, kidnap victim and member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst announces on an audiotape that she joined the Symbionese Liberation Army and assumed the name 'Tania' in San Francisco, California, United States. 'Tania' was inspired by the nom de guerre of Che Guevara's comrade Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider.

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(x) 46 years ago She Woke up Thursday 3rd of April 1980 119-year-old Karolina Olsson aka The Sleeper of Oknö known for remaining in hibernation for 32 years wakes up, 32 years and 42 days after she had fallen asleep. in Oskarshamn, Småland, Sweden. On 22 February 1876 she complained of a toothache and was ordered to go to bed.

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(x) 45 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1981 22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Lift Off' with Etat Brut at the Underground on Stage festival in Beursschouwburg, Auguste Ortsstraat 22, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. During a concert by Etat Brut I was standing before a filmscreen and threw my right leg as high as I could several times. To my left foot a rope was fastened at which somebody pulled at a non-defined moment. I suffered a concussion of the brain.

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(-) 35 years ago Wednesday 3rd of April 1991 Writer Graham Henry Greene dies of leukemia at the age of 87 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

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(x) 30 years ago Wednesday 3rd of April 1996 54-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber is arrested in his forest cabin in Unabomber Cabin, Lincoln, Montana, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Thursday 3rd of April 1997 Triple murderer David Wayne Spence is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Friday 3rd of April 1998 Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(-) 25 years ago Tuesday 3rd of April 2001 Double murderer Jason Eric Massey is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. On 26 July 1993 Massey viciously murdered two teenagers: 14-year-old Brian King and his 13-year-old stepsister Christina Benjamin. Benjamin's death had been particularly gruesome; her head, hands and nipples had been cut off, her genitals mutilated and her intestines removed.

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(-) 24 years ago Wednesday 3rd of April 2002 Musician Frank Francis John Tovey aka Fad Gadget dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 16 years ago Saturday 3rd of April 2010 Founder and leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche is beaten to death with pipes and pangas at the age of 69 in Ventersdorp, Transvaal Province, South Africa. Two workers on Terre'Blanche's farm 28-year-old Chris Mahlangu and 15-year-old Patrick Ndlovu were arrested.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 3rd of April 2015 The bloodied drum and mallet from a fierce female drummer at the Ruta del Tambor y el Bombo in Calanda, Teruel, Spain.

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9 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 3rd of April 2017 A Frigidaire electric cooking stove up for sale in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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