Friday 29 April 2016
Wednesday 27 April 2016
29 events for Friday 29 April 2016
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246 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of April 1770
42-year-old Explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain James Cook lands with the HMB Endeavour in Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. -
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153 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of April 1863
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is born in San Francisco, California, United States. -
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135 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of April 1881
Murderer Royal S. Carr is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in State Prison, 546 State Farm Road, Windsor, Vermont, United States. -
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117 Years Ago Today
Saturday 29th of April 1899
Bandleader and composer Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington is born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. -
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115 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of April 1901
Emperor of Japan Hirohito aka Emperor Shōwa is born in Aoyama Palace, Tokyo, Moto-Akasaka, Kantō, Japan. -
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109 Years Ago Today He Was a Baby for All Seasons
Monday 29th of April 1907
Film director Fred Alfred Zinneman is born in Rzeszów, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland. -
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109 Years Ago Today
Monday 29th of April 1907
Singer and actor Tino Constantin Rossi is born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. -
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99 Years Ago Today She Was Transfigured in Time
Sunday 29th of April 1917
Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren is born as Eleanora Derenkowskaia in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia. -
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97 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 1919
Black George Holden is lynched for writing an improper note to a white woman in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. -
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73 Years Ago Today
Thursday 29th of April 1943
Murderer August Sangret aka The Wigwam Murderer is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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71 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of April 1945
Musician Hugh Colin Hopper known from the band ‘Soft Machine’ is born in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom. -
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71 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of April 1945
56-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler marries 33-year-old Eva Braun in Führerbunker, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. -
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67 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of April 1949
Murderer Andrew Martin Berry is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, United States. -
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65 Years Ago Today
Sunday 29th of April 1951
Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein dies of prostate cancer at the age of 62 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. -
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58 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 1958
Double murderer Robert Wayne Vickers aka Bonzai Bob is born in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. -
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58 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 1958
Actress Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is born in Santa Ana, California, United States. -
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49 Years Ago Today
Saturday 29th of April 1967
37-year-old Coby van der Voort is beaten to death by serial killer Hans van Zon in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. -
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46 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of April 1970
Actress Uma Karuna Thurman is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. -
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45 Years Ago Today
Thursday 29th of April 1971
52-year-old Edna Terry MacDonald is strangled by serial rapist and killer Mike DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States. -
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39 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of April 1977
Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland. -
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39 Years Ago Today
Friday 29th of April 1977
21-year-old Marie-Therese Majer is murdered by serial killer Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer in Schriesheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 1980
Film director Alfred Joseph Hitchcock aka The Master of Suspense dies of renal failure at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, Bel Air, California, United States. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 1980
19-year-old Darin Lee Kendrick is strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Stanton, California, United States.
Bonin and Vernon Butts picked up Kendrick near Knott's Berry Farm, tied him up and forced him to drink chloral hydrate. -
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19 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 1997
33-year-old David Samuel Madson is shot dead by serial killer Andrew Cunanan aka American Gigolo/American Psycho in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Madson's body was found on the east shore of Rush Lake. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of April 1998
Murderer Arthur Martin Ross is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 29th of April 1998
Murderer Frank Basil McFarland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. -
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13 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 2003
Murderer David Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States.
Brewer's last meal request was for fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, apple pie and root beer. -
11 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Friday 29th of April 2005
A carboot sale of fresh pig meat outside our apartment in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. -
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2 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 29th of April 2014
Kidnapper and murderer Clayton Darrell Lockett dies of a heart attack after a botched execution by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.
Friday 22 April 2016
41 events for Friday 22 April 2016
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292 Years Ago Today Hatte Er Gar Keinen Vernunft
Saturday 22nd of April 1724
Philosopher Immanuel Kant is born in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. -
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250 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of April 1766
Writer Germaine Anne Louise de Staël aka Madame de Staël is born as Anne Louise Germaine Necker in 28 Rue Michel-le-Comte, Paris, IIIe, Île-de-France, France. -
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176 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1840
Symbolist painter Odilon Bertrand-Jean Redon is born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. -
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163 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of April 1853
Law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher Alphonse Bertillon is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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146 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of April 1870
Political theorist and communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simbirsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. -
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125 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1891
Anarchist Nicola Sacco is born in Torremaggiore, Apulia, Italy. -
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117 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of April 1899
Writer Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov aka Vladimir Sirin known for Lolita is born in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia. -
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112 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of April 1904
Theoretical physicist Robert Julius Oppenheimer aka The Father of the Atomic Bomb is born in New York City, New York, United States. -
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100 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of April 1916
Violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin is born as Yehudi Mnuchin in New York City, New York, United States. -
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94 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of April 1922
Musician, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona, United States. -
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93 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of April 1923
Television producer Aaron Spelling is born in Dallas, Texas, United States. -
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93 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of April 1923
Pin-up model Bettie Mae Page aka The Queen of Pinups is born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. -
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91 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1925
Murderer John Norman Holmes Thorne aka The Chicken Run Murderer is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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86 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of April 1930
Murderer William Henry Podmore aka William F. Thomas is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in Winchester Prison, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom. -
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83 Years Ago Today He Wished He Had Spent More Time in the Office
Saturday 22nd of April 1933
Automobile designer and manufacturer Henry Frederick Royce dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Elmstead, Elms Lane, West Wittering, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Royce's last words were reported to be "I wish I had spent more time in the office." -
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82 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of April 1934
30-year-old Carter W. Baum is shot dead by gangster Baby Face Nelson in Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, United States.
On 20 April 1934 John Dillinger's gang, consisting of Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, and John "Red" Hamilton settled at Little Bohemia Lodge after Dillinger's escape from the jail in Crown Point, Indiana on 3 March 1934. They were tracked down by FBI agents Melvin Purvis, W. Carter Baum and Jay Newman among others. -
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79 Years Ago Today He Wasn't Found in a Cuckoo's Nest
Thursday 22nd of April 1937
Actor Jack John Joseph Nicholson is born in Neptune City, New Jersey, United States. -
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74 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1942
16-year-old Alice Porter is crucified by murderer Donald Fern in Pueblo, Colorado, United States.
Fern lured the girl to an abandoned church to fulfill his sadistic urges. -
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71 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of April 1945
Artist Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz dies of natural causes at the age of 78 in Moritzburg, Sachsen, Germany. -
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70 Years Ago Today He Didn't Use Hairspray
Monday 22nd of April 1946
Film director John Samuel Waters aka The Pope of Trash is born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. -
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64 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of April 1952
Porn actress Marilyn Chambers is born as Marilyn Ann Briggs in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. -
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57 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1959
Murderer David Brewer is born in Butler County, Ohio, United States. -
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56 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of April 1960
Murderer Lawrence Wade is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 32 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States. -
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56 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of April 1960
Valeska Eder and her fiancée Ernst Hering are shot dead by 20-year-old Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder in Tuchgartenstraße, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. -
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46 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1970
Mass murderer Harry Kecinski commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 43 in Lundbarg 27, Fahrdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
In depair over the loss of his job and heavy debts Kecinsky shot his wife Lisa and seven children and took his own life. -
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44 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of April 1972
27-year-old Serial killer Arthur John Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer marries his third wife, Penny Sherbino in Watertown, New York, United States. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of April 1980
Over 100 die in Don Juan ferry and Tacloban City oil tanker collision in Manila Bay, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. -
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33 Years Ago Today There Was Smoke from Burning Flesh
Friday 22nd of April 1983
Robber, kidnapper and murderer John Louis Evans is executed by Yellow Mama at the age of 33 in Holman Correctional Facility, Ross Road, Atmore, Alabama, United States.
After the first jolt of electricity, sparks and flames erupted from the electrode attached to Evans' leg. The electrode then burst from the strap holding it in place and caught on fire. Smoke and sparks came out from under the hood. Two physicians entered the chamber and found a heartbeat. The electrode was reattached to his leg. More smoke and burning flesh. Again doctors found a heartbeat. Ignoring the pleas of Evans' lawyer Russ Canan, a third jolt was applied. The execution took 14 minutes and left Evans' body charred and smoldering. -
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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of April 1984
14-year-old April Brunais is raped and strangled by serial killer Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler in Griswold, Connecticut, United States. -
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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 22nd of April 1984
14-year-old Leslie Shelley is raped and strangled by serial killer Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler in Griswold, Connecticut, United States. -
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30 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 22nd of April 1986
Double murderer David Livingston Funchess is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Florida State Prison, 7819 N.W. 228th Street, Raiford, Florida, United States. -
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22 Years Ago Today
Friday 22nd of April 1994
37th President of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon dies of cerebral edema at the age of 81 in NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, New York, United States.
Nixon was the only president to resign without completing an elected term. -
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18 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 22nd of April 1998
Murderer Jose Roberto Villafuerte is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.
Villafuerte's last meal request was for one broiled chicken, nine corn tortillas, two tomatoes, one can of jalapenos, two cans of Pepsi, one four-ounce plate of rice. -
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14 Years Ago Today
Monday 22nd of April 2002
Porn actress Linda Lovelace known from Deep Throat dies of massive trauma and internal injuries after a car accident on 3 April at the age of 53 in Denver, Colorado, United States. -
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13 Years Ago Today It Was Working
Tuesday 22nd of April 2003
Multiple murderer Juan Rodriguez Chavez aka The Thrill Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.
Chavez' last words were "Is it working?" -
11 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Friday 22nd of April 2005
Striking local celebrities at the opening of an art exhibition in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. -
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10 Years Ago Today
Saturday 22nd of April 2006
47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Discovery of James Lee Byars' Tomb' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.
While looking for places to get rid of the earth from my hole I accidently found the empty tomb of James Lee Byars. I filled it completely with earth so it was kept secret.
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