Thursday 28th of April 1442

King of England Edward IV is born in Rouen, Haute-Normendie, France.

Friday 28th of April 1758

5th President of the United States James Monroe is born in Monroe Hall, Virginia, United States.

Thursday 28th of April 1881

22-year-old Outlaw, gunfighter and folk icon Billy the Kid aka William H. Bonney aka Kid Antrim escapes from the County Jail in Lincoln County Courthouse, Lincoln, New Mexico, United States.

Billy shot and killed deputy James Bell and Bob Olinger, obtained a horse and rode out of town singing.

Friday 28th of April 1882

Doctor and murderer George Henry Lamson aka The Slight-of-Hand Poisoner is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Wandsworth, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Sunday 28th of April 1889

Dictator and Prime Minister of Portugal António de Oliveira Salazar is born in Vimieiro, Dão-Lafões, Portugal.

Saturday 28th of April 1906

Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Adolf Hannappel is born in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Sunday 28th of April 1912

Illegalist Jules Bonnot aka Le Bourgeois known from ‘La Bande à Bonnot’ is riddled with bullets in a shootout with police officers at the age of 36 in Choisy-le-Roi, Île-de-France, France.

After sporadic firing failed to extract Bonnot from his hideout, Paris Police Chief Louis Lépine ordered the building bombed using a dynamite charge. The explosion demolished the front of the building. Barely conscious lying underneath a mattress, Bonnot was shot ten times in the upper-body before Lépine shot him non-fatally in the head. Bonnot was moved to the Hotel-Dieu hospital and pronounced dead at 1:15 pm.

Tuesday 28th of April 1914

183 die in Eccles Mine Nr 5 methane gas explosion in Eccles, West Virginia, United States.

Friday 28th of April 1916

Industrialist Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini is born in House Number 22, Renazzo di Cento, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Sunday 28th of April 1918

Assassin Gavrilo Princip aka The Teenager who Changed the World known for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria dies of tuberculosis at the age of 24 in Terezin, Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia.

At the time of his death Princip weighed around 40 kilograms, weakened by malnutrition and disease. His body had become wracked by skeletal tuberculosis that ate away his bones so badly that his right arm had to be amputated.

Monday 28th of April 1919

40-year-old Serial killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf is sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for insulting Friedel Rothe in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

Rothe was killed by Haarmann on 25 September 1918.

Monday 28th of April 1924

119 die in Wheeling Steel Corporation mine methane gas explosion in Benwood, West Virginia, United States.

The majority of the victims were European immigrants of the early 20th Century from Poland, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, England, Wales and Scotland.

Saturday 28th of April 1928

Artist Yves Klein known for his International Klein Blue is born in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Wednesday 28th of April 1937

Dictator of Iraq Saddam Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Hussein is born in Al-Awja, Salah ad Din, Iraq.

Friday 28th of April 1939

Murderer Archie Lee Short aka James Bailey is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 20 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Short was the last man executed by Potassium Cyanide.

Wednesday 28th of April 1943

Singer-songwriter and actor Jacques Dutronc is born in 67 Rue de Provence, Paris, IXe, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 28th of April 1945

Leader of the Italian National Fascist Party Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini aka Il Duce is executed by Walter Audisio with a machine gun at the age of 62 in Villa Belmonte, Via XXIV Maggio, Giulino di Mezzegra, Lombardia, Italy.

In the evening the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other executed Fascists were loaded onto a van and trucked south to Milan. On arriving in the city in the early hours of 29 April, they were dumped on the ground in the Piazzale Loreto. The corpses were pelted with vegetables, spat at, urinated on, shot at and kicked. Mussolini's face was disfigured by beatings. After a while the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station, and hung upside down on meat hooks.

Saturday 28th of April 1945

Mistress of Benito Mussolini Clara Claretta Petacci is executed by Walter Audisio with a machine gun at the age of 33 in Villa Belmonte, Via XXIV Maggio, Giulino di Mezzegra, Lombardia, Italy.

The next day the bodies of Mussolini, Petacci and others were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station on Piazzale Loreto in Milano and hung upside down on meat hooks.

Friday 28th of April 1950

Television host Jay James Douglas Muir Leno known from The Tonight Show is born in New Rochelle, New York, United States.

Friday 28th of April 1961

Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga known for the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident is born in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Kyushu, Japan.

Sunday 28th of April 1974

Stripper Johanna Nilissen aka Angelique is killed by a lion during a striptease-act at the age of 26 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Angelique was dancing in a cage while the lion was performing under direction of tamer Alfred Burckhardt.

Wednesday 28th of April 1976

Serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder dies of malignant hyperthermia at the age of 30 in Landeskrankenhaus Eickelborn, Eickelbornstraße, Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

An official autopsy and investigation determined that Bartsch had been intoxicated with a Halothane overdose (factor 10) by an insufficiently trained nurse during a chemical castration operation to free him from his compulsive sexual urges.

Thursday 28th of April 1977

Double murderer Derrick Wayne Frazier is born in Dallas, Texas, United States.

Thursday 28th of April 1977

The leaders of die Rote Armee Fraktion aka Baader-Meinhof Gruppe Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are sentenced to life-imprisonment for four murders and over 30 attempted murders in Justizvollzugsanstalt Stammheim, Asperger Straße 60, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Sunday 28th of April 1991

32-year-old Regina Prem is strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Prem's body was found on 16 April 1992.

Sunday 28th of April 1996

29-year-old Mass murderer Martin Bryant kills 35 and wounds 23 people in a shooting spree in Port Arthur Prison Colony, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

Bryant's motivation for the massacre remains a closely guarded secret known only to his lawyer, who is bound not to reveal confidences without his client's consent.

Wednesday 28th of April 1999

Murderer Aaron Christopher Foust aka Ace is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Foust's last words were "Adios, amigos, I'll see ya'll on the other side. I'm ready when ya'll are."

Thursday 28th of April 2005

A streetworker cutting an electric cable with a hacksaw after a storm in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

Saturday 28th of April 2007

Mass murderer Ayub Bulubili is executed by the firing squad at the age of 40 in Palangkaraya, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia.

Wednesday 28th of April 2010

Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng is executed by the firing squad at the age of 42 in Nanping, Fujian, China.

Sunday 28th of April 2013

Greenery and Rietveld furniture on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Tuesday 28th of April 2015

Noise music band Club Moral play their 144th concert on the occasion of the exhibition 'Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum' by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven in Kunstverein München, Galeriestraße 4, München, Bayern, Germany.

Sunday 28th of April 2024

American hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley known for the My Lay Massacre dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 81 in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

Calley's death was not reported until 29 July, when it was uncovered in public records.