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201 Years Ago Today
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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143 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 1st of April 1873
535 die in RMS Atlantic transatlantic ocean liner shipwreck in Nova Scotia, Canada. -
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143 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 1st of April 1873
Romantic composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff is born in Veliky Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. -
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114 Years Ago Today 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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108 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 1st of April 1908
Psychologist Abraham Harold Elijah Maslow is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States. -
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94 Years Ago Today 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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92 Years Ago Today
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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88 Years Ago Today
Sunday 1st of April 1928
Murderer John B. Nixon is born in Midnight, Mississippi, United States. -
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83 Years Ago Today
Saturday 1st of April 1933
Minimal artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin is born in Jamaica, New York, United States. -
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79 Years Ago Today
Thursday 1st of April 1937
Film director and murderer Yılmaz Güney is born in Yenice, Adana, Turkey. -
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77 Years Ago Today
Saturday 1st of April 1939
Actress Ali Elizabeth Alice MacGraw is born in Pound Ridge, New York, United States. -
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69 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 1st of April 1947
King of the Hellenes Geórgios II dies 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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68 Years Ago Today
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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51 Years Ago Today
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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42 Years Ago Today
Monday 1st of April 1974
20-year-old 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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37 Years Ago Today
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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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 1st of April 1984
17-year-old 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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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 1st of April 1984
Singer-songwriter and musician Marvin Gaye 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, Los Angeles, West Adams, California, United States.
The bullet penetrated Marvin's vital organs, including his heart. -
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22 Years Ago Today
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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17 Years Ago Today
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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13 Years Ago Today He Did Nothing Bad
Tuesday 1st of April 2003
Singer-songwriter Leslie Cheung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother) commits suicide by leaping from the 24th floor of a hotel at the age of 47 in Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, Central, China.
Cheung's suicide note read "In my life I did nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?" -
10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Saturday 1st of April 2006
Our cat Harry sunbathing on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium. -
4 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it
Sunday 1st of April 2012
Rietveld furniture and tulips on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Monday morning feels so bad
Everybody seems to nag you
Comin' Tuesday you feel better
Even your old man looks good
Wednesday just don't go
Thursday goes too slow
You've got Friday on your mind
Description
Friday on Your Mind is a one-year project by Danny Devos aka DDV for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerpen. Every Friday DDV will visit various Master Programme Studios to discuss the work of participating students. Students are invited to participate to Friday on Your Mind by creating works in any discipline that are inspired by historic events listed for that day in DDV’s Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar, an ongoing project since 1985. Leaflets will be handed out every Friday and the listings will also be online here. The works will be featured in an exhibition that will show a timeline of events and inspired works created for this project.
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