Sunday, March 24, 2013

60 Years Ago He Peeled Back the Wallpaper for a Surprise

1204 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 809
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Caliph of the Abbasid empire Harun Al-Rashid dies at the age of 46 in Tus, Mashhad, Iran.

558 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 March 1455
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208th Pope Nicholas V originally Tommaso Parentucelli, dies at the age of 57 in Rome, Italy.

181 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 March 1832
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26-year-old Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Jr. Smith is beaten up and tarred and feathered by a group of men in Hiram, Ohio, USA.

140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1873
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Serial Poisoner Mary-Ann Cotton originally Robson, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Durham Prison, United Kingdom.
She poisoned over 25 people with arsenic, including her mother, 5 husbands and 10 of her 11 children.

139 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1874
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Magician Harry Houdini is born in Budapest, Hungary.

135 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 March 1878
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Over 300 Die in HMS Eurydice fregate sinking in Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

126 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 March 1887
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Actor, filmmaker and womanizer Roscoe Conklin ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist, is born in Smith Center, Kansas, USA.

120 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 March 1893
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Actress and second wife of Nazi Leader Hermann Göring, Emmy Johanna Henny Göring originally Emma Sonneman aka Die Hohe Frau, is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

116 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 March 1897
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Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich is born in Dobrzynica, Ukraïne, Russia.

108 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 March 1905
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Science-Fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne dies at the age of 77 in Paris, France.

99 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1914
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Murderer William Dorr is executed by Old Sparky in Charlestown, Massachussets, USA.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 March 1922
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Wife-murderer Edward Ernest Black is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Bodmin Prison, United Kingdom.

83 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1930
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Actor Steve McQueen is born in Beech Grove, Indiana, USA.

78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 March 1935
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64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, confesses to the 8-year-old murder of Bill Gaffney, of whose ears, nose and pieces of his face and belly he made into a stew in New York, New York, USA.
He also roasted the boy’s behind with strips of bacon.

68 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 March 1945
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Symbionese Liberation Army member Camilla Christine Hall aka Gabi, is born in Saint Peter, Minnesota, USA.

60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1953
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Queen consort of the United Kingdom Victoria Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes Mary of Teck dies of lung cancer at the age of 85 in London, Marlborough House, United Kingdom.

60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1953
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7 female bodies are discovered behind a plastered door in the house of 54-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, by the new tenant, Beresford Brown in London, United Kingdom.

59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 March 1954
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Double murderer Kelsey Patterson is born in Texas, USA.

54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1959
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Erika is attacked by Joachim Kroll aka The Ruhr Hunter, at the age of 23 in Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Moerser Straße, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1969
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28-year-old Beatle John Winston Lennon and Artist Yoko Ono organise their ‘bed-in’ in Amsterdam, Hilton Hotel, the Netherlands.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 March 1976
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War leader Bernard Law Montgomery dies at the age of 88 in Alton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1980
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Revolutionary Bishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is shot dead by the Right-Wing Orden whilst reading mass at the age of 62 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
At the funeral on 30 March 1980 between 30 and 50 people were killed by gunfire.

30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 March 1983
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Liette Sauteret is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, in Amiens, France.

29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 March 1984
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Susan Logan is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 20 in Oklahoma City, Penn Square Mall, Oklahoma, USA.

25 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 March 1988
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Richard Guerrero is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 22 in Milwaukee, 924 25th North Street, Oxford Apartments, Room 213, Wisconsin, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1997
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Three trash bags with a female torso and belongings are found, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Cuesmes, Chemin de L'Inquiétude, Hainaut, Belgium.

15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1998
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13-year-old Michell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden shoot 4 pupils and a teacher to death and injure 10 more in the Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 24 March 1999
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Nazi Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Scholtz-Klink originally Gertrud Emma Treusch, dies at the age of 97 in Bebenshausen, Germany.

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