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Pingcognito is a research system that tracks the people in Xanadu, the oldest blockchain in the world. It was discovered by Marie-Lynn, an OSINT and Information Security Researcher from Montreal.

This website tracks over 20,000 performers who move along our narrative. The information shared on this website is not secret. It is simply never promoted to the general public. It’s part of the Great Easter Eggs Hunt of History.

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April 1, 2026

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Playgirl Magazine April 1987

It happened on April 1, 1987


Featuring: Michael Nouri.

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U.S. Army General William R. Bond Killed by Viet Cong Sniper in Vietnam

It happened on April 1, 1970


Featuring: William R. Bond. (more...)

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Hoax History: Tamara Rand predicts that U.S. President Ronald Reagan would be shot by an assassin with the initials "J.H."

It happened on April 1, 1981

On April 1, 1981, a videotape of psychic Tamara Rand's January 6, 1981, appearance on KTNV's Dick Maurice & Company Talk show, with a prediction that U.S. President Ronald Reagan would be shot by an assassin with the initials "J.H." The video was shown


Featuring: Tamara Rand, . (more...)

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 1:7


7 Doppelgängers Today

I track 9,188 doppelgängers out of 21,283 people in my custom software, specializing in look alikes who were born in the same week in history. Public figures are always born within a few days of another public figure who looks just like them. Our storyline requires two people to provide visual redundancy for each role. These people should look more different!

Born within 3 days in 1980


Born on April 4, 1980
(1980 - 2021)

Trevor Moore

American comedian, actor, and writer

Born on April 1, 1980

Stew Peters

American alt-right internet personality

Born within 4 days in 1952


Born on March 28, 1952

Alain Sarde

French film producer and actor

Born on April 1, 1952
(1952 - 2012)

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi

Libyan who was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tripoli, Libya, and an alleged Libyan intelligence officer

Born within 1 day in 1978


Born on March 31, 1978

Louise Woodward

British former au pair, who at the age of 18 was charged with murder, but was subsequently convicted of the involuntary manslaughter

Born on April 1, 1978

Anamaria Marinca

Romanian actress who made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic

Born within 4 days in 1937


Born on April 5, 1937

Jean-Pierre Petit

Spécialiste de la magnétohydrodynamique

Born on April 1, 1937

Jordan Charney

American character actor

Born within 1 day in 1875


Born on April 2, 1875
(1875 - 1940)

Walter Chrysler

American industrial pioneer in the automotive industry, American automotive industry executive and the founder and namesake of American Chrysler Corporation

Born on April 1, 1875

Edgar Wallace

British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure and sci-fi novels, plays and stories

Born within 2 days in 1898


Born on April 3, 1898

George Jessel

American actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer

Born on April 1, 1898
(1898 - 1944)

William James Sidis

American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills

Born within 1 day in 1950


Born on March 31, 1950

Art Levinson

American businessman and is the current chairman of Apple Inc

Born on April 1, 1950

Samuel Alito

Second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

3 Birthdays Today

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Otto von Bismarck   (1815 — 1898)

German statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany and served as its first chancellor from 1871 to 1890

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Debbie Reynolds   (1932 — 2016)

American actress, singer and entrepreneur

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Sophie Germain   (1776 — 1831)

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher

Sophie Germain was a French mathematician born in 1776, in a house on Rue Saint-Denis, in Paris, France. Despite societal barriers against women pursuing academic careers, Germain's passion for mathematics led her to self-educate and make significant cont


3 Events
On This Day

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The New York Times reported that Rameses II, a toad "aged 1,000 years or more", died at the Bronx Zoo. Miners had discovered the toad in 1898 inside a stone near Butte, Montana

It happened on April 1, 1909

From a 1,000-Year-Old Frog to Egyptian Ruins in Arizona: How Two April 1909 Hoaxes Worked Together On April 1, 1909, newspapers ran a humorous story about a toad named “Methuselah,” also called Rameses II, said to be 1,000 years old and discovered (more...)

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Playgirl Magazine April 1987

It happened on April 1, 1987


Featuring: Michael Nouri.

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Samuel Morey patents an internal combustion engine in the United States

It happened on April 1, 1826


Featuring: Samuel Moray.

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3 People Who
Passed On This Day

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Poppy Cannon   (1905 — 1975)

South African-born American author, who at various times the food editor of the Ladies Home Journal and House Beautiful, and the author of several 1950s cookbooks

The Can-Opener Queen of Mid-Century Espionage Cuisine If Julia Child was the high priestess of French culinary technique, Poppy Cannon was the madcap priestess of “just open the damn can.” She didn’t julienne—she jiggled. She didn’t simmer—sh

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William R. Bond   (1918 — 1970)

United States Army brigadier general who was killed by an enemy sniper in 1970 while commanding the 199th Infantry Brigade in South Vietnam

William Ross Bond was a brigadier general in the United States Army who commanded the 199th Infantry Brigade during the Vietnam War. He was killed in action by an enemy sniper in April 1970. Coincidence Bond married Theodora Sedgwick in 1960, a distant (more...)

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Scott Joplin   (1868 — 1917)

American composer and pianist

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