Hakamada was sentenced to death for the stabbing to death of his boss, his boss' wife and two children. A 2008 DNA test suggested the blood on the clothing used as evidence did not match Hakamada's. (27 March 2014)
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Thursday 26th of April 1798 (+) — Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix is born. There is reason to believe that Delacroix' father Charles-François was infertile at the time of Eugène's conception and that his real father was Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord who was a friend of the family and successor of Charles Delacroix as Minister of Foreign Affairs and whom the adult Eugène resembled in appearance and character.