29th year - N° 103 Sunday, 13 April 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 103 Sunday, 13 April 2014

13 April / Today's 8 Events:

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(+) 114 years ago Friday 13th of April 1900 Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Aquitaine, France.

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(x) 83 years ago Monday 13th of April 1931 Start of the trial against 48-year-old Serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 67 years ago Sunday 13th of April 1947 Hermann Bennen is hacked to death by serial killer Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher in Zorge, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 64 years ago Thursday 13th of April 1950 White-supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, originally James Clayton Vaughn aka The Racist Killer is born in Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago Friday 13th of April 1973 27-year-old Artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Icarus' in Venice, California, United States.

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(x) 32 years ago Tuesday 13th of April 1982 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV' by 77-year-old Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is attacked by 29-year-old student Josef Nikolaus Kleer in Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Kleer claimed that the painting was a "perversion of the German flag".

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(-) 30 years ago Friday 13th of April 1984 Serial killer Christopher Bernard Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with a state-trooper at the age of 39 in Vic's Getty Oil-Station, corner of Main and Bridge Streets, Colebrook, New Hampshire, United States. When the troopers approached Wilder, he retreated to his car to arm himself with a .357 Magnum. Trooper Leo Jellison grabbed Wilder from behind and subdued his arms. In the scuffle two shots were fired; the first bullet passed through Wilder's body, exited through his back and into Jellison. The second also went into Wilder's chest - both bullets went through Wilder's heart, killi ng him instantly.

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(x) 7 years ago Friday 13th of April 2007 48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'The Red Dragon' in Ernest van Dijckkaai 8, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs on I stood on the edge of the top balcony ramp of the house on Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8 in Antwerp dressed in a shiny red cape rubber boots blindfolded and with my 'Diggin' for Gordon' shovel like a rifle in my hands. While I counted from 1 till 1978 Sofie Pepermans read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had - apart from casual passers-by below - one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.

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