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31 events for 12 April:

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    309 Years Ago Today

    Friday 12th of April 1715

    Double murderer Jeremiah Meacham is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

    Meacham killed his wife and her sister on 21 March 1715. Meacham was executed in front of several thousand spectators and his body was hung in gibbets.


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    155 Years Ago Today

    Monday 12th of April 1869

    Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is born in 41 Rue Puebla, Paris, XIXe, Île-de-France, France.


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    153 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 12th of April 1871

    General and dictator Ioannis Metaxas is born in Ithakē, Ionian Islands, Greece.


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    139 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 12th of April 1885

    Painter Robert Delaunay known for founding the Orphism art movement is born in Rue Boissière, Paris, XVIe, Île-de-France, France.


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    129 Years Ago Today

    Friday 12th of April 1895

    22-year-old Minnie Flora Williams is raped, strangled and mutilated by double murderer Theodore Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry in Emanuel Baptist Church, Bartlett Street, San Francisco, California, .


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    107 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 12th of April 1917

    19-year-old Andrée-Anne Babelay is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

    The entry in Landru's black notebook for that day was "4h 3'."


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    105 Years Ago Today She Fainted Stark Naked

    Saturday 12th of April 1919

    50-year-old Serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais is arrested as Lucien Guillet in 76 Rue de Rochechouart, Paris, IXe, Île-de-France, France.

    At Guillet's house a drivers license with the name of Henri Désiré Landru and a little black book with eleven names of disappeared women in it was found by arresting officers Jean Belin and Riboulet. In the bedroom Landru's mistress Fernande Segret fainted and was found stark naked on the floor.


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    103 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 12th of April 1921

    22-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, Harrison Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.


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    92 Years Ago Today He Came Tiptoeing Through the Tulips

    Tuesday 12th of April 1932

    Falsetto singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim is born as Herbert Khaury in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.


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    91 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 12th of April 1933

    Soprano Montserrat Caballé is born as María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.


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    84 Years Ago Today

    Friday 12th of April 1940

    Musician, bandleader and composer Herbie Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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    79 Years Ago Today He Had a Terrific Pain

    Thursday 12th of April 1945

    32nd President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia, United States.

    Roosevelt said "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head" and then slumped forward in his chair.


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    78 Years Ago Today

    Friday 12th of April 1946

    Flemish nationalist leader August Borms is executed by the firing squad at the age of 68 in Brussel, Etterbeek, Brabant, Belgium.


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    76 Years Ago Today

    Monday 12th of April 1948

    Astrologer Howard Sasportas is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.


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    74 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 12th of April 1950

    Actor and singer David Bruce Cassidy is born in Flower Hospital, 1249 Fifth Avenue, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.


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    63 Years Ago Today He Went Round and Round

    Wednesday 12th of April 1961

    27-year-old Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin known for becoming the first man in space becomes the first man to fly around the world in a Vostok 1 3KA-3 in Geocentric Orbit, Space.


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    59 Years Ago Today

    Monday 12th of April 1965

    22-year-old Singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Hallyday aka The French Elvis marries 21-year-old Sylvie Vartan aka La Collégienne du Twist in Église Saint-Lucien, Loconville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

    Hallyday and Vartan divorced in 1980.


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    59 Years Ago Today

    Monday 12th of April 1965

    Triple murderess Frances Elaine Newton is born in Houston, Texas, United States.


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    57 Years Ago Today He Was Jesus Christ

    Wednesday 12th of April 1967

    Cop killer Aaron Mitchell is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 37 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

    Mitchell was the only person to be executed in California during the term of Governor Ronald Reagan. Mitchell's last words were "I'm Jesus Christ."


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    49 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 12th of April 1975

    Dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker aka The Bronze Venus or The Black Pearl dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 69 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, XIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

    On 8 April 1975 Baker starred in a retrospective revue at the Bobino in Paris, 'Joséphine à Bobino 1975', celebrating her 50 years in show business. Four days later she was found lying peacefully in her bed surrounded by newspapers with glowing reviews of her performance. She was in a coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.


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    47 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 12th of April 1977

    42-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker sets fire to his cell in Trenton State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.


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    40 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 12th of April 1984

    Fashion model Luisel Ramos is born in Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.


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    37 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 12th of April 1987

    Noise music band Club Moral play their 69th concert during the Haters tour in Kijkhuis, Denneweg 56, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.


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    35 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 12th of April 1989

    Political and social activist and anarchist Abbie Abbot Howard Hoffman commits suicide by swallowing 150 phenobarbital tablets and liquor at the age of 53 in 3424 Sugan Road, Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, United States.


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    27 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 12th of April 1997

    Two trash bags with a foot, part of a leg and a head are found, presumed victims of Unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Rue du Dépot, Havré, Hainaut, Belgium.


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    26 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 12th of April 1998

    32-year-old Elisabetta Zoppetti is shot dead by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Chiavari, Liguria, Italy.

    Bilancia boarded the Intercity La Spezia - Venice because he "wanted to kill a woman". He broke into the bathroom of the wagon and shot Zopetti.


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    25 Years Ago Today

    Monday 12th of April 1999

    Spree killer Marion Albert Pruett aka The Mad Dog Killer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Cummins Unit, Varner, Arkansas, United States.


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    15 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 12th of April 2009

    Porn actress Marilyn Chambers dies of a cerebral hemorrhage and an aneurysm related to heart disease at the age of 57 in Santa Clarita, California, United States.



  • 10 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Saturday 12th of April 2014

    Musician Aldo Struyf aka Aldolino and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Frans Masereel Centrum, Masereeldijk 5, Kasterlee, Antwerpen, Belgium.



  • 8 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Tuesday 12th of April 2016

    A large cargo ship on the horizon in Cadzand, Zeeland, Netherlands.


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    4 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 12th of April 2020

    Formula One racer Sterling Craufurd Moss dies of a long illness at the age of 91 in London, Mayfair, Greater London, United Kingdom.



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