Wednesday, April 3, 2013

45 Years Ago He Went to the Mountaintop and Never Came Back

150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 April 1863
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Architect Henry Clemens Van De Velde is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

131 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 April 1882
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Outlaw Jesse Woodson James is ‘accidently’ shot in the head by Bob Ford at the age of 34 in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.

125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 April 1888
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Emma Smith is stabbed to death by Jack the Ripper in London, United Kingdom.

118 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1895
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Blanche Lamont is raped and strangled by William Durrant aka The Demon in the Belfry, at the age of 21 in San Francisco, in the clocktower of the Emmanuel Baptist church, California, USA.

116 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 April 1897
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Composer Johannes Brahms dies of cancer of the liver at the age of 63 in Vienna, Austria.

105 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 April 1908
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Serial Killer Bruno Ludke is born in Köpenick, Germany.

98 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 April 1915
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War-criminal Paul Touvier is born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Alpes de Haute Provence, France.

94 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 April 1919
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Black ex-soldier William Little is lynched by battering because he continued to wear his uniform in Blakely, Georgia, USA.

93 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 April 1920
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John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, is born in Dubovye Makharintsy, USSR.

89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 April 1924
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Actor Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

89 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 April 1924
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Actress Doris Day is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1929
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Frau Flake is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 April 1936
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Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Trenton State Prison, New Jersey, USA.

72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 April 1941
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Prime-minister of Hungary Pal Count de Szék Teleki commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 61 in Budapest, Hungary.
He wanted to avoid collaboration with the Nazis.

63 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 April 1950
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Composer Kurt Julian Weill dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 in New York, New York, USA.

58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 April 1955
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Over 300 Die in train derailment in Guadalajaro, Mexico.
It crashed into a canyon.

56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1957
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Murderer Ernest L. Ranson is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 April 1958
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Photographer Francesca Woodman is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 3 April 1961
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Actor Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 April 1962
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Murderess Brenda Spencer is born in San Diego, California, USA.

51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 April 1962
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Psychopatic killer Roberto Succo aka ‘André’, is born in Venice, Treviso, Italy.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1968
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Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll and Horst Sohnlein are arrested for an arson-attack on Kaufhaus Schneider in Frankfurt-am-Main the day before, in Berlin, Germany.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1968
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39-year-old Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., delivers his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop" in Memphis, Mason Temple, Tennessee, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 April 1970
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The 'Crashed Cars' exhibition by 39-year-old Writer James Graham Ballard opens at the Institute for Research in Art and Technology (IRAT) in 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.

42 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 April 1971
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Chief informer against the Cosa Nostra Joseph ‘Joe Cargo’ Valachi aka Charles Chanbano aka Anthony Sorge, dies of a heart attack at the age of 67 in El Paso, La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution, Texas, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1974
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20-year-old Patty Patricia Campbell Hearst aka The Born-again Terrorist, joins the Symbionese Liberation Army in California, USA.

32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 April 1981
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21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Lift Off" with Etat Brut at the Underground on Stage Festival in Brussels, Beursschouwburg, Brabant, Belgium.

22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1991
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Writer Graham Henry Greene dies of a blood-disease at the age of 86 in Vevey, Switzerland.

17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 1996
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53-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, is arrested in his forest cabin in Lincoln, Montana, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 April 1997
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Triple Murderer David Spence is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 April 1998
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Artist Wolf Vostell dies of a heart attack at the age of 65 in Berlin, Germany.

12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 April 2001
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Murderer Jason Eric Massey is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 April 2002
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Musician Frank Tovey aka Fad Gadget, dies of a heart attack at the age of 45 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 April 2010
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Founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is hacked and beaten to death at his farm by his black labourers, 28-year-old Chris Mahlangu and a 15-year-old boy at the age of 69 in Ventersdorp, South Africa.

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