Tuesday, April 9, 2013

80 Years Ago Il Etait le Copain du Dimanche

530 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 April 1483
(-)
King of England Edward IV dies at the age of 40 in Westminster, United Kingdom.

269 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1744
(-)
Grace Pett dies of spontaneous human combustion in Ipswich, St. Clement, United Kingdom.

192 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 April 1821
(+)
Writer Charles Pierre Baudelaire aka The Flower of Evil, is born in Paris, France.

183 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 April 1830
(+)
Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge is born in Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom.

178 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1835
(+)
King of Belgium Louis Philippe Marie Victor Leopold II Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha is born in Brussels, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.

107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 April 1906
(+)
Artist Victor Vasarely is born in Pecs, Hungary.

101 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 April 1912
(-)
Black Tom Miles is lynched for writing insulting letters to a white girl in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

87 YEARS AGO - on Friday 9 April 1926
(+)
Playboy-pioneer Hugh Hefner is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

81 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 9 April 1932
(+)
Musician Carl Lee Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, is born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, USA.

80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 9 April 1933
(+)
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1936
(+)
Radical Feminist and founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men, Valerie Jean Solanas is born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA.

73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 April 1940
(x)
Nazi-Germany attacks Norway.

73 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 April 1940
(x)
Denmark capitulates for Nazi-Germany.

68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 9 April 1945
(x)
360 Die in USS Liberty steamer explosion in Bari, Italy.

54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1959
(-)
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies at the age of 91 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

49 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1964
(-)
Irene Lockwood aka Sandra Russel, is found naked and dead, choked to death by Jack the Stripper at the age of 26 in London, United Kingdom.

39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 9 April 1974
(+)
Serial Killer Alexander Pichushkin aka The Bitsevsky Maniac, is born in Moscow, Mytishchi, Russia.

32 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1981
(+)
Mass Murderer Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killer, is born in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 9 April 1986
(-)
Eileen Emms is raped and strangled by Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, at the age of 78 in London, Wandsworth, West Hill Road, United Kingdom.

15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 9 April 1998
(x)
32-year-old Serial Killer Alfred J. Gaynor is arrested in Springfield, Massachussets, USA.

No comments: