32nd year - N° 60 Wednesday, 1 March 2017

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32nd year - N° 60 Wednesday, 1 March 2017

1 March / Today's 17 Events:

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(-) 154 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1863 Meriora Gillibrand aka Mr. Hawarden dies of a lung disease at the age of 58 in Ligneuville, Liège, Belgium.

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(+) 138 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1879 Prime Minister of Bulgaria Aleksandar Stamboliyski is born in Slavovitsa, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.

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(+) 124 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1893 Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 85 years ago the German Got the Baby Tuesday 1st of March 1932 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. is snatched from his crib by kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in Lindbergh Family Home, East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. The body of Lindbergh Jr. was found two months later in a township nearby.

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(-) 79 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1938 Writer, poet, journalist and soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio aka Principe di Montenevoso aka The High Priest of Erotica dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Vittoriale Degli Italiani, Via Vittoriale, Gardone Riviera, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 73 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1944 Musician Roger Harry Daltrey is born in Hammersmith, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 66 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1951 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Susanne Albrecht is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 64 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1953 Waymon Wood dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Bypass Route 291, Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Wood was sitting in the front seat of his closed car, the windscreen had bubbled from the heat, but the tank of petrol, still half full, was not burned.

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(-) 59 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1958 Artist Giacomo Balla dies of unknown causes at the age of 87 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 59 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1958 33-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults a 20-year-old unidentified woman in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(x) 56 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1961 24-year-old Horst Otto is sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the murder of Manuela Knodt in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Knodt was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale. Otto was released from prison on 3 April 1965.

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(+) 47 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1970 Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Alexander Nikolayevich Spesivtsev aka The Siberian Tiger is born in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 44 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1973 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal James Doxtator is born in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 41 years ago Monday 1st of March 1976 30-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is found guilty of the abduction of Carol DaRonch in Metropolitan Hall of Justice, 400 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1981 27-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Robert Gerard Sands, originally Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals to maximise publicity with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. The hunger strike centred on five demands: the right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits; the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week; full restoration of remission lost through the protest. Sands died on 5 May 1981 in Maze Prison Hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 1st of March 2004 Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven receiving the Cultural Prize 2004 of the Flemish Government in Bourla, Komedieplaats, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 3 years ago Saturday 1st of March 2014 Film director Alain Resnais dies of unknown causes at the age of 92 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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