Tuesday, March 5, 2019

34th year - N° 64 Tuesday, 5 March 2019

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34th year - N° 64 Tuesday, 5 March 2019

5 March / Today's 28 Events:
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204 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1815

Physician and inventor of animal magnetism Franz Anton Mesmer known for Mesmerism dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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192 years ago

Monday 5th of March 1827

Physicist, chemist and pioneer of electricity and power Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta known for SI unit of electric potential dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Camnago, Como, Lombardia, Italy.


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148 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1871

Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg aka Rote Rosa is born in Zamość, Województwo Lubelskie, Poland.


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143 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1876

Would-be assassin John Flammang Schrank known for attempting to assassinate former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is born in Erding, Bayern, Germany.


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141 years ago

Tuesday 5th of March 1878

Mathematician and esotericist Peter Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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111 years ago

Thursday 5th of March 1908

Film and stage actor Rex Reginald Carey Harrison is born in Derry House, Tarbock Road, Huyton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.


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109 years ago He Instantly Saw the Light

Saturday 5th of March 1910

Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō, originally Wu Pai-fu is born in Kagi, Jiāyì Xiàn, Taiwan.


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103 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1916

445 die in Príncipe de Asturias ocean liner shipwreck in Ponta do Boi, Sao Sebastiao, São Paulo, Brazil.


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101 years ago

Tuesday 5th of March 1918

Economist James Tobin known for the Tobin Tax is born in Champaign, Illinois, United States.


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97 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1922

Writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is born in Via Borgonuovo 4, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.


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80 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1939

Actress Samantha Victoria Louise Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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74 years ago

Monday 5th of March 1945

Murderess Lena Baker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Georgia State Prison, Georgia Highway 147, Reidsville, Georgia, United States.

Baker was held as a 'slave woman' by her employer Ernest Knight and she shot him in self-defense during a struggle. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.


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72 years ago

Wednesday 5th of March 1947

Serial killer and companion to Henry Lee Lucas Ottis Elwood Toole is born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.


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66 years ago

Thursday 5th of March 1953

Composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 62 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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66 years ago

Thursday 5th of March 1953

General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, originally Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74 in Volynskoe Dacha, Kuntsevo, Moscow Oblast, Russia.


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65 years ago

Friday 5th of March 1954

Kidnapper, rapist and murderer Barry Lee Fairchild is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.


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62 years ago He Was Totally Wired

Tuesday 5th of March 1957

Musician Mark E. Edward Smith known from The Fall is born in Broughton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.


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59 years ago

Saturday 5th of March 1960

Double murderer Windell Broussard is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.


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53 years ago

Saturday 5th of March 1966

124 die in British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707-436 Flight 911 aka Speedbird 911 crash in Mount Fuji, Honshu Island, Japan.

Several booked passengers decided to cancel their tickets at the last moment in order to see a ninja demonstration. They were in Japan scouting locations for the fifth James Bond film, 'You Only Live Twice'.


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46 years ago

Monday 5th of March 1973

30-year-old Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Donald David DeFreeze aka Field Marshal Cinque Mtume escapes from prison in Soledad State Prison, Soledad, California, United States.


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39 years ago

Wednesday 5th of March 1980

Organiser of the Bayreuther Festspiele Winifred Wagner, originally Winifred Marjorie Williams dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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37 years ago

Friday 5th of March 1982

Comedian and actor John Adam Belushi dies of a drug overdose of cocaine and heroin at the age of 33 in Chateau-Marmont Hotel, Bungalow #3, 8221 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.


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36 years ago

Saturday 5th of March 1983

Elizabeth Ann Kenyon is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Pompano Beach, Florida, United States.


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33 years ago He Was Possessed by Ezurate

Wednesday 5th of March 1986

17-year-old Triple murderer Sean Richard Sellers aka The Schoolboy Night Stalker aka The Night Roomer shoots his 32-year-old mother Vonda and his 43-year-old stepfather Lee Bellofatto while they are sleeping in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

Sellers claimed he was a practicing Satanist at the time of the murders and that demonic possession by the demon 'Ezurate' caused him to murder his victims.


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24 years ago

Sunday 5th of March 1995

Singer-songwriter, musician and poet Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall known from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band dies in a fire caused by faulty wiring near his bed at the age of 52 in 21 Hillfield Park, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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19 years ago She Was Mechanically Suffocated

Sunday 5th of March 2000

Dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer Lolo Ferrari, originally Eve Valois known for her ‘largest breasts in the world’ is presumably suffocated by her 59-year-old husband Eric Vigne at the age of 37 in Sainte-Anne, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

The original autopsy determined that Ferrari had died of an overdose of antidepressants and tranquilizers. A second autopsy two years later found that mechanically-induced suffocation could not be ruled out. Vigne was suspected of causing her death, was arrested and spent 13 months in prison.


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12 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 5th of March 2007

A pile of DVD's waiting to be processed into a multiple edition by AMVK in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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7 years ago

Monday 5th of March 2012

Serial killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More dies of unknown causes at the age of 84 in University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States.


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