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35th year - N° 81 Saturday, 21 March 2020

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35th year - N° 81 Saturday, 21 March 2020

21 March / Today's 29 Events:
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195 years ago

Monday 21st of March 1825

    Anna Lucia Meyerholz is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.


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181 years ago

Thursday 21st of March 1839

Composer Modest Pyotrovich Mussorgsky is born in Karevo, Pskov Oblast, Russia.


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121 years ago

Tuesday 21st of March 1899

Physician and murderer Buck Ruxton, originally Bukhtyar Chompa Rustomji Ratanji Hakim is born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.


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119 years ago

Thursday 21st of March 1901

Murderer John Herbert Bennett known for The Yarmouth Beach Murder is executed by hanging by James Billington at the age of 21 in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.


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98 years ago He was Breast Fed

Tuesday 21st of March 1922

Film director Russ Russell Albion Meyer aka The King of the Nudies known for his big breast fixation is born in San Leandro, California, United States.


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97 years ago

Wednesday 21st of March 1923

Mystery writer Muriel Davidson, originally Muriel Friedland aka The Thursday Woman is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.


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94 years ago

Sunday 21st of March 1926

Film director André Delvaux is born in Heverlee, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.


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82 years ago

Monday 21st of March 1938

Kidnapper and murderer Arnett Booth is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.


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82 years ago

Monday 21st of March 1938

Kidnapper and murderer John Travis is executed by hanging in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.


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82 years ago The Trap Was Tested and Retested

Monday 21st of March 1938

Kidnapper and murderer Orville Adkins is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.

As Adklns stepped up to the gallows trap he collapsed and fell into the concrete pit 12ft below. The guards dashed down the steps and carried him on a stretcher to the platform where Adklns smilingly waited for the damage to be repaired. The trap was then tested and retested.


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77 years ago

Sunday 21st of March 1943

Singer-songwriter, musician and poet Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall known from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band is born in Radcliffe Maternity Home, Shillingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.


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76 years ago

Tuesday 21st of March 1944

42-year-old Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl marries Peter Jacob in Kitzbühel, Tirol, Austria.

Riefenstahl and Jacob divorced in 1947.


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74 years ago

Thursday 21st of March 1946

Serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff aka The Broomstick Murderer is born in Rosebud, Texas, United States.


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72 years ago

Sunday 21st of March 1948

Serial killer Jerry Walter McFadden aka Animal is born in Haskell County, Texas, United States.


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65 years ago

Monday 21st of March 1955

Wilhelmina Susanna Uhde Sailer is shot in the head by serial killer Leslie Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer in Mount Vernon, Indiana, United States.


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57 years ago They Were about to Witness the Damaging Effect of Electricity on Wood

Thursday 21st of March 1963

Triple murderer Frederick Charles Wood is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 51 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

As he stood in the death chamber waiting to be strapped into the electric chair Wood grinned at the witnesses and said, "Gents, this is an educational project. You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood. Enjoy yourselves."


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47 years ago

Wednesday 21st of March 1973

Vaudeville performer Gummo Milton Marx known from the Marx Brothers dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80 in Palm Springs, California, United States.


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47 years ago

Wednesday 21st of March 1973

Janine M. Ligotino is abducted and stabbed to death by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Gainesville, Florida, United States.


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47 years ago

Wednesday 21st of March 1973

Ann C. Arceneaux is abducted and stabbed to death by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Gainesville, Florida, United States.


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45 years ago He Observed the Color Change

Friday 21st of March 1975

Anthony Joseph Crean is hacked to death by serial killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First in Shorne, Kent, United Kingdom.

Mackay on and off returned to the bathroom and the bloody tub with Crean's body, filling it with water and observing its color change and the bloods affect on the water.


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44 years ago Love was Blue

Sunday 21st of March 1976

Vladimir Peter Sabich aka Spider is shot dead by singer, actress and murderess Claudine Longet in Starwood, Aspen, Colorado, United States.

Longet claimed the gun discharged accidentally when Sabich was showing her how it worked. Sabich was hit by a single gunshot in the abdomen and lost a significant amount of blood before an ambulance arrived. He died on the way to Aspen Valley Hospital with Longet at his side.


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41 years ago

Wednesday 21st of March 1979

33-year-old Artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Send Me Your Money' in KPFK Radio, 3729 Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Send Me Your Money.


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34 years ago He Was not Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue

Friday 21st of March 1986

'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III' by 81-year-old Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is attacked with a knife by 33-year-old artist Gerard Jan van Bladeren in Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

The restoration by Daniel Goldreyer initially cost some $400.000, but was heavily attacked by critics who claimed that subtle nuances in the three monochrome sections had been lost and that Goldreyer had used house paints and a roller. According to critics, the painting had been destroyed twice: first during the attack, and again during the restoration. Although the painting is stil l in the Stedelijk Museum's collection, it is no longer on display. Van Bladeren was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and sentenced to eight months in prison.


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33 years ago

Saturday 21st of March 1987

Noise music band Club Moral play their 63rd concert in The Organ Factory, 6-10 Page Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.


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31 years ago

Tuesday 21st of March 1989

33-year-old Rampage killer Marciano Contaoe is sentenced to 30 years in prison for nine murder counts and another 30 years for three injuries in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Contaoe was a member of President Corazon C. Aquino's elite guards who went on a drunken shooting spree on 21 May 1988.


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29 years ago

Thursday 21st of March 1991

Guitar amplification pioneer Leo Clarence Leonidas Fender dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82 in Fullerton, California, United States.


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18 years ago

Thursday 21st of March 2002

52-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man known for organising his own disappearance and presumed death goes paddling out to sea in his canoe in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, North East, United Kingdom.

On 1 December 2007 Darwin walked into the West End Central police station in London claiming to have no memory of the past five years.



15 years ago The Eyes had it

Monday 21st of March 2005

Obvious signology during a hefty mountain walk in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland.


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12 years ago

Friday 21st of March 2008

Mass murderer John Emil List aka The Bogeyman of Westfield dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.


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