Wednesday, March 27, 2013

50 Years Ago a Reservoir Puppy Saw the Light

704 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1309
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45-year-old Pope Clementius V originally Raymond Bertrand de Got, excommunicates the entire population of Venice in Rome, Italy.

168 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 March 1845
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Scientist William Konrad Röntgen is born in Lennep, Germany.

150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 March 1863
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Automobile pioneer Henry Frederick Royce is born in Alwalton, United Kingdom.

135 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1878
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Composer Dobri Voynikov dies at the age of 44 in the USSR.

127 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 March 1886
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Architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe is born in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 1899
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Actress Gloria May Josephine Swanson is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1910
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312 Die in barn dance fire in Ököritófülpös, Hungary.

53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1960
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Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 14-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.

50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1963
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Filmmaker Quentin Jerome Tarantino is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1968
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Cosmonaut and the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin dies in a MiG-15UTI jet crash at the age of 34 in Kirzhach, Russia.

44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 March 1969
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Karen Spinker is sexually assaulted, strangled and one breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.
He used the cut-off breast as a paper-weight.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 March 1970
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Iranian Princess Leila Pahlavi is born in Teheran, Iran.

41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 1972
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Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher dies at the age of 73 in Laren, Rosa Spier home, the Netherlands.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1977
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Child-murderer Al Marjek is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Damascus, Syria.

36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1977
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582 Die in KLM Boeing 747 and Panam Boeing 747 collision in Tenerife, Spain.
Neither airline was originally due to be at the airport but both were diverted from the much bigger Las Palmas on nearby Gran Canaria island after a terrorist bomb blast near the departure lounge.

33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 March 1980
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123 Die in Alexander Kielland oilplatform capsizing in Ekofisk, the North Sea.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 March 1984
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is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, in Tampa, Ponderosa Street, Florida, USA.

28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1985
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Vincent Zazzara is stabbed, shot dead and mutilated by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, San Gabriel, California, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 2000
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Musician Ian Dury dies of colorectal cancer at the age of 57 in Upminster, United Kingdom.

12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 March 2001
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Murderer Robert Lee Massie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
While on parole for a murder he committed in 1965, he robbed a liquor store and shot two employees, killing one.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 2002
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Filmmaker Billy Wilder dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 2006
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Serial Killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, dies of skin cancer at the age of 58 in Kingston Regional Hospital, Ontario, Canada.

7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 2006
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Science Fiction writer Stanislaw Lem known for “Solaris”, dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Krakow, Poland.

6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 March 2007
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Murderer Stephen Netheny is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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