Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 13 April 1982

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Instead of standing trial for two child murders Shawcross made a plea bargain with prosecutors that allowed him to plead guilty to the murder of Karen Hill while the charges of murder for Jack Blake were dismissed. In April 1987 Shawcross was paroled and started killing again less than a year later.
(17 October 1972)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 13th of April 1982 44 years, 3 months and 2 days ago
'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV' by 77-year-old artist Barnett Newman 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".