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39th year  -  N° 328                 Saturday, 23 November 2024         Antwerpen		
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19 events for 9 April:

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    541 Years Ago Today

    Monday 9th of April 1483

    King of England Edward IV dies of pneumonia at the age of 41 in Palace of Westminster, London, Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    280 Years Ago Today She Was a Fire Without a Flame

    Thursday 9th of April 1744

    Wife of a fishmonger Grace Pett dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 60 in Ipswich, St. Clement, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

    Pett's body was on the floor, her head against the grate of the fireplace, her torso stretched across the hearth, and her legs on the wood floor, and it was described as "appearing like a Block of Wood burning with a glowing Fire without Flame." Her daughter poured two bowls of water on the body to quench the smolder, which produced a thick and noxious smoke as her neighbours arrived to help. Pett's death is one of the earliest published accounts of a strange fire death being attributed to an internal source of ignition.


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    203 Years Ago Today les Fleurs n'Étaient pas Mal

    Monday 9th of April 1821

    Poet and art critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire known for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ is born in 13 Rue Hautefeuille, Paris, VIe, Île-de-France, France.


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    194 Years Ago Today They didn't Take His Motion-Picture

    Friday 9th of April 1830

    Photographer Eadweard James Muybridge is born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.


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    118 Years Ago Today

    Monday 9th of April 1906

    Artist Victor Vasarely aka The Grandfather of Op Art is born as Vásárhelyi Győző in Pécs, Baranya, Hungary.


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    112 Years Ago Today He Wrote Insulting Notes

    Tuesday 9th of April 1912

    Black business owner Thomas Miles is lynched by hanging from a tree and his body filled with bullets at the age of 29 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

    Miles had been tried in police court the day before on a charge of writing insulting notes to a white girl employed in a department store but was acquitted for lack of proof.


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    98 Years Ago Today

    Friday 9th of April 1926

    Adult magazine publisher Hugh Marston Hefner known for founding Playboy Magazine is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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    92 Years Ago Today He Wore Baby Blue Shoes

    Saturday 9th of April 1932

    Singer-songwriter Carl Lee Perkins known for Blue Suede Shoes is born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, United States.


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    91 Years Ago Today

    Sunday 9th of April 1933

    Actor Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo is born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.


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    89 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 9th of April 1935

    2nd King of Belgium Leopold II known for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture is born as Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor in Brussel, Laeken, Brabant, Belgium.


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    88 Years Ago Today She Wasn't SCUM

    Thursday 9th of April 1936

    Radical feminist writer Valerie Jean Solanas known for shooting Andy Warhol is born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, United States.


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    71 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 9th of April 1953

    Mass murderer Stephen Craig Paddock known for the Route 91 Harvest shooting is born in Clinton, Iowa, United States.


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    65 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 9th of April 1959

    Architect Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright dies shortly after undergoing surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction at the age of 92 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.


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    58 Years Ago Today She Was in the Hog House He Helped Build

    Saturday 9th of April 1966

    32-year-old Mary Kay Pierce is beaten to death by mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.

    Pierce was found on 13 April in an unused hog house behind Frank's Place that Speck had helped build.


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    50 Years Ago Today

    Tuesday 9th of April 1974

    Serial killer Alexander Yuryevich 'Sasha' Pichushkin aka The Chessboard Killer aka The Bitsa Park Maniac is born in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast, Russia.


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    43 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 9th of April 1981

    Mass murderer Eric David Harris aka The Columbine High School Killer is born in Wichita, Kansas, United States.


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    38 Years Ago Today She Had the Bedclothes Pulled up to Her Chin

    Wednesday 9th of April 1986

    78-year-old Nancy Eileen Emms is strangled by serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler in West Hill Road, London, Wandsworth, Greater London, United Kingdom.

    Emms was the first victim of Erskine. She was in bed with the bedclothes pulled up to her chin. When the doctor first examined her he thought she had been dead for about three days and as he had no reason to suspect otherwise he was happy to sign the death certificate to say she had died of natural causes.


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    19 Years Ago Today

    Saturday 9th of April 2005

    Noise music band Club Moral play their 111th concert in 't Ol van Pluto, Stene 14, Sint-Maria-Horebeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.



  • 19 Years Ago Today The Eyes had it

    Saturday 9th of April 2005

    The stage for a Club Moral performance in 't Ol van Pluto, Stene 14, Sint-Maria-Horebeke, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.



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