32nd year - N° 82 Thursday, 23 March 2017

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32nd year - N° 82 Thursday, 23 March 2017

23 March / Today's 9 Events:

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(+) 142 years ago He Was Born to Be Black Tuesday 23rd of March 1875 Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip is born in Säter, Dalarna, Sweden.

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(+) 124 years ago Thursday 23rd of March 1893 Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India is born in Kalangal, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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(+) 117 years ago Friday 23rd of March 1900 Social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and humanistic philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm is born in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 81 years ago Monday 23rd of March 1936 Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis is born in Piraeus, Attica, Greece.

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(+) 58 years ago Monday 23rd of March 1959 Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown Gregory Godzik is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Monday 23rd of March 1964 Actor Peter Lorre, originally László Löwenstein dies of a stroke at the age of 60 in Hollywood, California, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Lou Did not Come Back Saturday 23rd of March 1968 Cult leader Louwrens Lou Voorthuyzen aka Lou De Palingboer dies of pneumonia at the age of 30 in Agimont, Namur, Belgium. Believed to be immortal his followers attempted to bring Voorthuyzen back to life when he died by lying on him in order to keep him warm and calling for several hours "Lou come back!"

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(x) 23 years ago Wednesday 23rd of March 1994 75 die in Aeroflot Airbus A310-304 Flight 593 crash in Kuznetsk Alatau, Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Pilot Yaroslav Kudrinsky had given the controls of the plane to his 15-year-old son Eldar for amusement. Eldar pushed the control column for 30 seconds causing the autopilot to switch to manual.

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(x) 20 years ago Sunday 23rd of March 1997 48-year-old Serial killer Robert William 'Willie' Pickton aka The Pig Farmer Killer is charged with the attempted murder of prostitute Wendy Lynn Eistetter in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Eistetter informed police that Pickton handcuffed her but that she escaped after suffering several lacerations, disarming him and stabbing him with his weapon. Pickton was released on $2,000 bond but the charge was dismissed in January 1998. Pickton was arrested on 22 February 2002 and confessed to 49 murders.

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