135 Years Ago the Galveston Giant Saw the Light

514 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 March 1499
(+) 224th Pope Pius IV originally Gian Angelo De Medici, is born in Milan, Italy.

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417 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1596
(+) Philosopher René Descartes is born in La Haye en Touraine now Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France.

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338 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1675
(+) 247th Pope Benedictus XIV originally Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, is born in Bologna, Italy.

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286 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 March 1727
(-) Scientist Isaac Newton dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in London, Kensington, United Kingdom.

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176 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 March 1837
(-) Romantic painter John Constable dies of indigestion at the age of 60 in Hampstead, United Kingdom.

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158 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 March 1855
(-) Writer Charlotte Brontë known for ‘Jane Eyre’, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 38 in Haworth, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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135 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1878
(+) First Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World Jack John Arthur Johnson aka ‘Li’l Artha aka The Galveston Giant, is born in Galveston, Texas, USA.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 March 1909
(+) Fascist writer Robert Brasillach is born in Perpignan, France.

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97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 March 1916
(-) Black Jeff Brown is lynched for bumping into a white woman in Cedar Bluff, Missouri, USA.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 March 1926
(+) Writer John Robert Fowles known for “The Collector”, is born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom.

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81 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 March 1932
(x) 24-year-old Writer and Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach marries Henriette Hoffmann in München, Den Alten Peter, Germany.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1935
(+) Musician Herb Alpert is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1935
(+) Actor Richard Chamberlain is born in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 March 1953
(x) 55-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, is arrested, posing as John Waddington in London, near Putney Bridge, United Kingdom.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 March 1962
(-) Klaus Jung is abducted and killed by Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder, at the age of 18 in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 March 1969
(x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Barrotean, Mexico.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 March 1970
(x) 62-year-old German ambassador Karl Maria von Spreti is kidnapped by FAR guerillas in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 March 1970
(x) Nine members of the Revolutionary Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 wielding Samurai swords and carrying bombs in Tokyo International Airport, Japan.
After releasing the hostages they felw to Pyongyang's Mirim Airport, where they surrendered to North Korean authorities, who offered the whole group asylum.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 March 1971
(x) 27-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley is sentenced to life imprisonment of hard labour for the murder of the inhabitants of the Vietnamese village of My Lay in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 March 1980
(-) Olympic legend Jesse James Cleveland Owens dies of lung cancer at the age of 66 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 31 March 1984
(-) Murderer Ronald Clark O’Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
He killed his son Timothy on Halloween, 1974 with a cyanide-laced Giant-sized Pixy Stix, in order to claim $20,000 in life insurance.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 March 1986
(x) 166 Die in Mexicana de Aviacion Boeing 727 crash in Sierra Madre.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 March 1994
(-) Murderer Freddie Webb is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 March 1995
(-) Singer Selena originally Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka Queen of Tejano Music, is shot dead by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club at the age of 23 in Corpus Christi, Days Inn hotel, Texas, USA.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 March 1998
(-) Serial Killer Daniel Remeta is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Florida, USA.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 March 1999
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Sipho Agmatir Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper, is sentenced to 506 years imprisonment in Durban, South Africa.

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100 Years Ago the Lord Gave Him a Mountain

267 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 March 1746
(+) Artist Francisco Goya originally Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes de todos los santos difuntos, is born in San Francisco, Aragon, Spain.

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206 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1807
(-) Murderer George Allen is executed by hanging in Stafford Gaol, United Kingdom.

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202 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 March 1811
(+) Chemist and inventor Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen known for the Bunsen Burner, is born in Göttingen, Germany.

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173 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1840
(-) Men’s fashion pioneer Beau George Bryan Brummel dies of a series of strokes rendering him insane at the age of 61 in Caen, France.

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169 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 March 1844
(+) Writer Paul Marie Verlaine is born in Metz, France.

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160 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 March 1853
(+) Artist Vincent Van Gogh is born in Groot Zundert, the Netherlands.

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130 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 March 1883
(-) Murderess Emeline Meaker is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Vermont, USA.

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119 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 March 1894
(+) Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin is born in Dilialevo, Russia.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 March 1905
(+) British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint is born in Clayton, Bradford, United Kingdom.

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105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1908
(-) Murderer Chester Gillette aka An American Tragedy, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 24 in Auburn, Texas, USA.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 March 1912
(-) Writer Karl Friedrich May known for Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, dies at the age of 70 in Radebeul, Germany.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 March 1913
(+) Musician Frankie Laine is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1925
(-) Philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy, dies at the age of 64 in Dornach, Switzerland.

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83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 March 1930
(-) Sybilla Wil is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, at the age of 29 in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
She survived.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1931
(+) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin is born in Bobroye, Kursk, USSR.

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76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 March 1937
(+) Actor Warren Beatty is born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 March 1943
(-) Murderer William Hedden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 March 1945
(+) Musician Eric Patrick Clapton aka Slowhand, is born in Ripley, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 March 1963
(x) 69-year-old Murderer Mathias Kindlinger aka The Austrian Bluebeard, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for the murder of his 5 wives and girlfriends in Vienna, Austria.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1970
(x) The Manson Family members Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel and leader Charles Manson are sentenced to death in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 March 1975
(x) The entire Ruppert family are shot dead by 41-year-old Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert in Hamilton, 635 Minor Avenue, Ohio, USA.
The victims are 65-year-old Charity, 42-year-old Leonard, 38-year-old Alma, 17-year-old Leonard Jr., 16-year-old Michael, 15-year-old Thomas, 13-year-old Carol, 12-year-old Ann, 11-year-old David, 9-year-old Teresa and 4-year-old John.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1981
(-) Ronald Reagan is attacked by Aenne Burda originally Anna Magdalene Lemminger, at the age of 70 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 March 1986
(-) Actor James Francis Cagney dies of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, USA.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 March 1998
(-) Murderess Judy Buenoano is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Trinidad.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 March 1999
(-) Triple murderer Robert Excell White is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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9 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 March 2004
(-) Murderer William D. Wickline is executed by lethal injection in Southern Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, USA.

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10 Years Ago Ouroboros Got the Doctor

330 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1683
(-) Arsonist Yaoya Oshichi is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 16 in Suzugamori, Japan.
She had hoped to meet Ikuta Shōnosuke, a boy she fell in love with, again by starting a fire.

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223 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1790
(+) 10th president of the USA John Tyler is born in Greenway, Charles City County, Virginia, USA.

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124 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1889
(x) 28-year-old Murderer William Kemmler aka John Hurt, kills his wife Tilly Ziegler with a hatchet in New York, USA.
He was sentenced to death and will be the first man to be executed by use of the electric chair.

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122 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 March 1891
(-) Artist Georges Seurat dies of meningitis at the age of 31 in Paris, France.

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112 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1901
(-) Family-murderer Franz Theodore Wallert is executed by hanging in Gaylord, Minnesota, USA.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1912
(-) Explorer Robert Falcon Scott is lost in a snowstorm at the age of 43 in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

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96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1917
(-) Murderer Leo O’Donnel is executed by hanging in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1922
(+) Victim of John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, Ruth Marguerite Christine Fuerst is born in Vienna, Austria.

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79 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1934
(+) Mass-murderer James Urban Ruppert is born in Ohio, USA.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1939
(+) Actor Terence Hill is born in Venice, Italy.

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74 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1939
(+) Actor James Caan is born in New York, New York, USA.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1944
(+) Singer, songwriter and environmentalist Terry Jacks known for “Seasons in the Sun”, is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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64 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1949
(+) Murderer John Arthur Spenkelink is born in Le Mars, Iowa, USA.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1951
(x) 32-year-old American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage in New York, New York, USA.

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62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1951
(x) 35-year-old American Communist and Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg originally Ethel Greenglass, is convicted to death for conspiracy to commit espionage in New York, New York, USA.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1954
(+) Karen Ann Quinlan aka The Coma Girl, is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 29 March 1959
(+) Mentally deranged murderer Charles Laverne Singleton is born in Arkansas, USA.

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52 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1961
(-) Murderer Jack Day is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Bedford, United Kingdom.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1963
(-) Carola Hannwacker is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Nürnberg, Bavaria, Germany.
Her son Helmut is also shot in the same event.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1973
(x) The last US-soldier, Max Bielke leaves the battlefield in Vietnam.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1974
(x) Start of the trial against 46-year-old Serial Killer Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, who is accused of strangling 15 and attacking 6 women in Katowice, Poland.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 March 1975
(-) Keith Crotwell is poisoned and mutilated by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 19 in Long Beach Marina, California, USA.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1977
(x) Paul Klee's "Der Goldene Fisch" is attacked by 39-year-old Serial Vandal Hans-Joachim Bohlmann aka The Acid Assassin, in Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Germany.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 1978
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, marries 21-year-old Tai-Fun Fanny Leung in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 29 March 1982
(-) Composer Carl Orff dies at the age of 86 in München, Germany.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1983
(-) Jacqueline Croiset is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 20 in Amiens, France.
She survived.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1984
(-) Sheryl Bonaventura is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 18 in Grand Junction, Mesa Mall, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Friday 29 March 1985
(-) Dominican nun and musician Jeanine Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers aka Sœur Sourire aka The Singing Nun, commits suicide by a depression after being harrassed for years by the Belgian tax-services at the age of 51 in Belgium.
She committed suicide together with her friend Annie Pechler.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 1990
(-) Montenesdro is attacked by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 29 March 1994
(x) 34-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Wurger's Droom" in Antwerpen, Linkeroever, Antwerp, Belgium.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 March 1997
(-) Murderer Joseph O’Dell is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.
Hours before his execution he marries law-student Lori Urs. After his death his body is shipped to Palermo, Italy where he is buried as a local hero, presumed innocent.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 2000
(x) 40-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Thai Boy Slim Foodstall" in Borgerhout, Factor 44, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 29 March 2003
(-) Physician Carlo Urbani known for first identifying Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome aka SARS, dies of SARS at the age of 46 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 2006
(-) Murderer Kevin Kincy is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 29 March 2006
(-) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, dies of liver cancer at the age of 67 in Salem Prison, Oregon, USA.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 29 March 2007
(-) Murderer Roy Pippin is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.

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70 Years Ago His Hands Were Laid to Rest

429 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1584
(-) Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible, dies of mercury poisoning at the age of 53 in Moscow, USSR.

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164 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1849
(-) Priest and botanist Stephan L. Endlicher dies at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.
He formulated a major system of plant classification.

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145 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1868
(+) Writer Maxim Alexey Maksimowitsch Peshkow Gorky is born in Nizhni (now Gorky), Novgorod, Russia.

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132 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 March 1881
(-) Composer Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky dies of a seizure at the age of 42 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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93 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 March 1920
(+) Actor Dirk Bogarde is born in London, Hampstead, United Kingdom.

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89 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1924
(+) Writer Gerhart Fritsch is born in Vienna, Austria.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1941
(-) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf commits suicide by drowning at the age of 59 in Rodmell, Sussex, United Kingdom.
"I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work"

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71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1942
(+) Soldier Conrad Hans Schumann aka The First Man to Jump the Berlin Wall, is born in Leutewitz, Germany.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1942
(+) Philosopher Daniel Clement Dennett is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 March 1943
(-) Composer Sergey Vassiljewitsch Rachmaninov dies at the age of 70 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 28 March 1953
(+) PFLP member Souhalia Andrawes aka Soraya Ansari, is born in Hadath, Lebanon.

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59 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 28 March 1954
(+) Psychotic Murderer and rapist Morris Odell Mason aka The Killer for the Eastern Shore, is born in Virginia, USA.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1958
(+) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
"I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced."

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45 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 March 1968
(+) Historian and author Iris Chang is born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1969
(-) 34th president of the USA Dwight David Eisenhower aka Ike, dies of a heart attack at the age of 78 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 28 March 1972
(-) Linda Ohlig is presumably strangled and beaten to death by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Half Moon Bay, California, USA.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 March 1977
(-) Sylvia Lauterbach is beaten to death by Bernd Bopp aka The Hammer Murderer, at the age of 23 in Mainz, Germany.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1979
(x) The cooling-system of a nuclear plant fails and an explosion is prevented on the limit in Harrisburg, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 1979
(x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Thriller" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Friday 28 March 1980
(-) Marsha Weatter is presumably assaulted and shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 19 in Spokane, Washington, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 28 March 1985
(-) Artist Marc Chagall originally Moishe Shagal, dies at the age of 97 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Monday 28 March 1994
(-) Writer Eugene Ionesco dies at the age of 84 in Paris, France.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 28 March 2007
(-) Murderer Vin Gutierrez is executed by lethal injection in Texas, USA.

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50 Years Ago a Reservoir Puppy Saw the Light

704 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1309
(x) 45-year-old Pope Clementius V originally Raymond Bertrand de Got, excommunicates the entire population of Venice in Rome, Italy.

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168 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 March 1845
(+) Scientist William Konrad Röntgen is born in Lennep, Germany.

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150 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 March 1863
(+) Automobile pioneer Henry Frederick Royce is born in Alwalton, United Kingdom.

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135 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1878
(-) Composer Dobri Voynikov dies at the age of 44 in the USSR.

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127 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 27 March 1886
(+) Architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe is born in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 1899
(+) Actress Gloria May Josephine Swanson is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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103 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1910
(x) 312 Die in barn dance fire in Ököritófülpös, Hungary.

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53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1960
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, abducts and rapes an unidentified 14-year-old girl in St. Martin, Jersey.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1963
(+) Filmmaker Quentin Jerome Tarantino is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1968
(-) Cosmonaut and the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin dies in a MiG-15UTI jet crash at the age of 34 in Kirzhach, Russia.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 March 1969
(-) Karen Spinker is sexually assaulted, strangled and one breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.
He used the cut-off breast as a paper-weight.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 27 March 1970
(+) Iranian Princess Leila Pahlavi is born in Teheran, Iran.

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41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 1972
(-) Artist Maurits Cornelius Escher dies at the age of 73 in Laren, Rosa Spier home, the Netherlands.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1977
(-) Child-murderer Al Marjek is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in Damascus, Syria.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 27 March 1977
(x) 582 Die in KLM Boeing 747 and Panam Boeing 747 collision in Tenerife, Spain.
Neither airline was originally due to be at the airport but both were diverted from the much bigger Las Palmas on nearby Gran Canaria island after a terrorist bomb blast near the departure lounge.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 27 March 1980
(x) 123 Die in Alexander Kielland oilplatform capsizing in Ekofisk, the North Sea.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 March 1984
(-) is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, in Tampa, Ponderosa Street, Florida, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 1985
(-) Vincent Zazzara is stabbed, shot dead and mutilated by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 64 in Los Angeles, San Gabriel, California, USA.

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13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 2000
(-) Musician Ian Dury dies of colorectal cancer at the age of 57 in Upminster, United Kingdom.

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12 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 March 2001
(-) Murderer Robert Lee Massie is executed by lethal injection at the age of 59 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
While on parole for a murder he committed in 1965, he robbed a liquor store and shot two employees, killing one.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 27 March 2002
(-) Filmmaker Billy Wilder dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 2006
(-) Serial Killer Wayne Clifford Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, dies of skin cancer at the age of 58 in Kingston Regional Hospital, Ontario, Canada.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Monday 27 March 2006
(-) Science Fiction writer Stanislaw Lem known for “Solaris”, dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Krakow, Poland.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 27 March 2007
(-) Murderer Stephen Netheny is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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90 Years Ago She Lay Down Without Her Wooden Prosthetic Limb

199 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1814
(-) Physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin dies of natural causes at the age of 75 in Paris, France.

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186 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1827
(-) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven dies of lead poisoning at the age of 56 in Vienna, Austria.

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164 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1849
(+) Automobile manufacterer Armand Peugeot is born in Hérimoncourt, Montbelliard, France.

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121 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1892
(-) Poet and humanist Walt Walter Whitman aka the Father of Free Verse, dies of pleurisy of the left side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis at the age of 72 in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1904
(-) Robber and Murderer George Collins is executed by hanging in St. Louis, Illinois, USA.
His neck doesn’t break and he’s slowly strangled to death before the eyes of the appalled executioner and jurors.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 26 March 1904
(x) 5 Blacks are lynched for no apparent reason in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1905
(-) Germaine Weber is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 1 in Paris, France.

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105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1908
(+) Camp-commander Franz Stangl aka The Bully of Treblinka, is born in Altmünster, Austria.

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102 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1911
(+) Writer Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams is born in Columbus, Missouri, USA.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 March 1913
(-) Murderer Henry Clark is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Agra, India.

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97 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1916
(-) Prison guard Andrew Turner is stabbed to death by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 March 1918
(-) Wachtmeester Emile Verfaille is executed by the Guillotine in Belgium.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1922
(+) ALDI founder Theodor Paul Albrecht is born in Essen, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1923
(-) Actress Sarah Henrietta Rosine Bernhardt dies of uremia following kidney failure at the age of 78 in Paris, France.

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88 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1925
(+) Composer Pierre Boulez is born in Montbrison, Loire, France.

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84 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 March 1929
(+) Triple murderer James W. Hutchins is born in North Carolina, USA.
He was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1931
(+) Actor Leonard Nimoy aka Mr. Spock, is born in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1942
(+) Writer Erica Jong originally Mann, is born in New York City, New York, USA.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1943
(+) Sole survivor of the Richard Speck massacre in Chicago, Corazon Amurao is born in Durangao, Batangas, the Filippines.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1944
(+) Musician Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1944
(-) Black Minister Isaac Simmons is lynched in Missouri, USA.
All his bones are broken, his tongue is cut out and he’s shot dead because he had oil-deposits under his farm.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 26 March 1944
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Lutz Taufer is born in Kirchheim, Germany.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1953
(x) 84 die and 31 are mutilated in an attack by the Terrorist Movement Mau-Mau in Kikuya, Lari, Rift Valley, Kenya.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1959
(-) Writer Raymond Thornton Chandler dies of pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia at the age of 70 in La Jolla, California, USA.

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54 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1959
(-) Karin Walde is raped and beaten to death by Heinrich Pommerencke aka The Beast of the Black Forest, at the age of 18 in Hornberg, Germany.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1965
(x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is sentenced to death in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Monday 26 March 1973
(-) Actor Noel Coward dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in Blue Harbor, Jamaïca.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 26 March 1996
(-) Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, dies of a seizure at the age of 59 in Waymart, hospital for the criminally insane, Pennsylvania, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 March 1997
(x) Police find the bodies of 39 members of the Higher Source sect, who have comitted suicide by an overdose of phenobarbital and wodka in San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 26 March 1998
(x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, is arrested in Paris, Metro Blanche, France.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1999
(x) Serial Killer Fernando Hernandez Leyva aka Pancho Villa, is arrested on charges of kidnapping and assault. in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Once in custody, he confessed to killing more than 100 people.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Friday 26 March 1999
(-) Murderer James Rich is executed by lethal injection at the age of 26 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 26 March 2003
(-) Murderer James Blake Colburn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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95 Years Ago the Butcher's Daughter Bore Someone's Illegitimate Son

251 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1762
(-) Murderer James Lowry aka The Captain, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.

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212 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1801
(-) Writer and philosopher Novalis originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28 in Weißenfels, Germany.

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146 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1867
(+) Composer Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Italy.

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138 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1875
(+) Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA.

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132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1881
(+) Composer Bela Viktor Janos Bartok is born in Nagy-Szentmiklos, Hungary.

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132 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1881
(+) Writer and lawyer Louis Dosfel is born in Belgium.

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122 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1891
(+) Writer Filip De Pillecijn is born in Hamme-aan-de-Durme, East Flanders, Belgium.

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108 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1905
(-) Murderer Lewis W. Lyons is executed by hanging in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

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103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1910
(-) Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.

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102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1911
(x) 147 Die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, New York, USA.

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102 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1911
(+) Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1918
(+) Presumed son of Adolf Hitler, Jean-Marie Loret is born in Seboncourt, Picardie, France.

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95 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1918
(-) Composer Claude Achille Debussy dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 55 in Paris, France.

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94 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1919
(-) Artist Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide by distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Duisburg, Germany.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1921
(+) Actress Simone Signoret is born in Wiesbaden, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1935
(x) 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in New York, New York, USA.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1940
(+) Actress Anita Bryant is born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1942
(+) Musician Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1942
(-) Mme Khait is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 55 in Paris, France.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1946
(+) Serial Killer Gerard John Schaefer is born in Wisconsin, USA.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1947
(+) Musician Elton John is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.

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66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1947
(x) 111 Die in coal-mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois, USA.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1957
(-) Filmmaker Max Ophuls originally Maximilian Oppenheimer, dies of rheumatic heart disease at the age of 54 in Hamburg, Germany.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 25 March 1957
(x) 30-year-old Beat Generation poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg 's poem "Howl" being imported from the printer in London is seized by customs as obscene in San Francisco, California, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1969
(-) Maralynn Skelton is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 16 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1975
(-) King Faisal Ibn Abd Al-Aziz is shot dead by his 28-year-old nephew Faisal Ibn Musa’id in Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1976
(-) Artist Josef Albers dies at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1980
(-) Literary critic Roland Barthes succumbs to his injuries after being hit by a laundry van at the age of 64 in Paris, France.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 25 March 1983
(-) Teresa Watson aka Nicole, is hunted down and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 22 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 March 1984
(x) 35-year-old Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage, he surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police-snipers in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 25 March 1987
(x) 43-year-old Serial Killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1989
(-) Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 24 in West Allis, 2357 South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 1989
(-) Letter carrier Donald Mace walked in the post office, put a 38-caliber revolver to his head and killed himself at the age of 44 in Poway, California, USA.

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23 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 March 1990
(x) 87 Die in Happy Land Club fire in New York, New York, USA.
The fire was deliberately started by the rejected lover of the cloakroom-attendant.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1993
(-) Murderer Ramon Montoya is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 25 March 1997
(-) Murderer Pedro Medina is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.
With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke, and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 25 March 1999
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Charles Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 2006
(-) Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke is hit by a train at the age of 55 in Barnes, United Kingdom.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 25 March 2006
(-) Filmmaker Richard O. Fleischer dies of natural causes at the age of 89 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

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6 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 25 March 2007
(x) 57-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years in Aichach, Germany.
She was the longest ever imprisoned RAF member.

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60 Years Ago He Peeled Back the Wallpaper for a Surprise

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

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

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181 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 March 1832
(x) 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.

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140 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1873
(-) 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.

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

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

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

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120 YEARS AGO - on Friday 24 March 1893
(+) 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 24 March 1935
(x) 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.

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

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60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1953
(-) 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.

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60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1953
(x) 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.

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

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54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1959
(-) 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.

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

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

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33 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1980
(-) 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.

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

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29 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 24 March 1984
(-) 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.

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25 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 24 March 1988
(-) 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.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 24 March 1997
(x) 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.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 24 March 1998
(x) 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.

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

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120 Years Ago a Motorcycle Genius Saw the Light

458 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1555
(-) 221st Pope Julius III originally Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Italy.

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171 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1842
(-) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, dies of a seizure at the age of 59 in Paris, France.

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153 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1860
(-) Poisoner Ann Bilansky is executed by hanging at the age of 34 in Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA.
She was the first person and only woman hanged by the State of Minnesota.

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138 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1875
(+) Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip, is born in Säter, Sweden.

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136 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1877
(-) The Mountain Meadows Massacre Perpetrator, John Doyle Lee is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 64 in Mountain Meadows, Utah, USA.

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120 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 March 1893
(+) Inventor and engineer Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu aka The Edison of India, is born in Kalangal, India.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1900
(+) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm is born in Frankfurt, Germany.

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113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1900
(-) Black Louis Rice is lynched because he testified in favor of another black man, accused of murdering a white man in Ripley, Tennessee, USA.

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109 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1904
(+) Actress Joan Crawford is born in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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103 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1910
(+) Filmmaker Akira Kurosawa is born in Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan.

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101 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 March 1912
(+) Scientist astronautics engineer and space architect Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr Von Braun is born in Wirsitz, Poland.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 March 1933
(+) Psychologist Philip George Zimbardo known for the Stanford Experiment, is born in New York City, New York, USA.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 March 1941
(+) Minimal composer Michael Laurence Edward Nyman is born in Stratford, United Kingdom.

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65 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1948
(+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Irene Richardson is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1962
(-) Murderer Vincent Ciucci is executed by Old Sparky in the USA.

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49 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 March 1964
(-) Actor Peter Lorre originally Ladislav Löwenstein, dies of a stroke at the age of 59 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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48 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1965
(x) 47-year-old Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is called out as secretary-general in Bukarest, Romania.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 March 1968
(-) Sect-leader Lauwrens ‘Lou’ Voorthuyzen aka De Palingboer, dies at the age of 70 in Agimont, Belgium.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1971
(-) Writer Simon Vestdijk dies at the age of 72 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1976
(x) Actor Sjimotjiro Maeno crashes into the house of Lockheed-corrupter Yoshio Kodama in a self-styled kamikaze-act with his private plane in Tokio, Japan.

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36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1977
(-) Barbara Young is presumably murdered by a Yorkshire Ripper-copycat in Doncaster, United Kingdom.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 23 March 1978
(-) Karen Schilt is sexually tortured by Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, at the age of 22 in New York, Third Avenue Hotel, New York, USA.
She was found alive in the Ledgewood Terrace Apartments parking lot.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1983
(-) The first man with an artificial heart, Barney Clark dies of general insufficiency at the age of 62 in Utah, USA.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1983
(-) Innocent Murderer Alexander Krawtschenko is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 29 in Rostow, Russia.
He was sentenced to death for the murder of 10-year-old Lenotschka Sakotnowa, who was actually killed by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1984
(-) Terry Walden is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 24 in Beaumont, USA.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Friday 23 March 1984
(-) Nude model and pornographic performer Shauna Grant originally Colleen Marie Applegate aka Callie Aimes, commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 20 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

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28 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 23 March 1985
(x) Over 400 Die in ferry shipwreck in Bangladesh.

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26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 March 1987
(-) Agnes Adams is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1993
(-) Murderer Carlos Santana is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 23 March 1994
(x) 75 Die in Aeroflot Flight 593 Airbus crash in Siberia, Russia.
The pilot had given the controls of the plane to his 15-year-old son for amusement.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 23 March 1997
(x) In a burned-out house the bodies of 5 members of the Organisation Internationale Chevaleresque, Tradition Solaire, are found. They have committed suicide by cyanide-poisoning in Saint Casimir, Quebec, Canada.

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15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 23 March 1998
(-) Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 46 in Starke, Raiford Prison, Florida, USA.

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14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 1999
(x) Serial Killer Yuhui Li is sentenced to death for poisoning five Hong Kong women and stealing HK$1.2 million in Bejing, China.

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3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 23 March 2010
(x) 42-year-old Mass murderer Zheng Minsheng stabs eight young children to death at the Leicheng First Primary School in Leizhou, Guangdong, China.

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100 Years Ago He Hit the Streets of San Francisco

414 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1599
(+) Painter Sir Anthony van Dyck is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.

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181 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 March 1832
(-) Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies of pneumonia at the age of 82 in Weimar, Germany.

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156 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1857
(+) 13th President of the Third Republic and 14th President of France Paul Joseph Athanase Doumer is born in Aurillac, France.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1913
(+) Actor Karl Malden is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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100 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1913
(-) Murderers Charles and George Humphery are executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Oregon, USA.
George was 52.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1921
(+) Writer Jean Bruce originally Jean Brochet known from OSS117, is born in Beauvoir, Sarthe, France.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 March 1923
(+) Actor Marcel Marceau is born in Strasbourg, France.

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82 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1931
(+) Actor William Shatner aka Captain Jim Kirk, is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1936
(+) Singer-songwriter and whistling talent Roger Whittaker is born in Nairobi, Kenya.

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76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1937
(+) Composer Angelo Badalamenti is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.

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72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1941
(+) Actor Bruno Ganz is born in Zurich, Switzerland.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1942
(-) Jean-Pierre Van Beveren is presumably murdered by Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, at the age of 42 in Paris, France.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1943
(x) 195 inhabitants including 75 children are burned alive or gunned down by German 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion in Khatyn, Belarus.

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50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 22 March 1963
(-) Multiple Murderer Charles Wood is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1969
(-) Writer Gerhart Fritsch dies at the age of 45 in Vienna, Austria.

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43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1970
(-) Kathleen Johns is attacked by Zodiac in Bakersfield, California, USA.
She survived.

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35 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 March 1978
(-) Jeffrey Rignall is sodomised and battered to death by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 27 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 22 March 1979
(-) Sir Richard Sykes British Ambassador, is shot dead by the IRA at the age of 58 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Footman Karel Straub was also killed, both being shot in the head as they left the ambassador's residence for the short trip to the embassy.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1981
(x) 24-year-old IRA-member Raymond Peter McCreesh originally Réamann Mac Raois, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 22 March 1981
(x) 23-year-old IRA-member Patrick Patsy O’Hara originally Padraig or Peatsai O hEadra, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 22 March 1982
(-) Jay Reynolds is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 26 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1983
(-) Veronique Dubois is attacked by Philippe Pacque aka The Werewolf of Amiens, at the age of 18 in Amiens, France.

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24 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 March 1989
(-) Murderer Leon Ruthe King is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1994
(-) Cartoonist and creator of 'Woody Woodpecker' Walter Lantz dies of heart failure at the age of 94 in Burbank, California, USA.

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19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 22 March 1994
(x) 75 Die in Aeroflot Airbus A310 crash in Mezjdoeretsjensk, Siberia, Russia.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 22 March 1997
(x) State policeman Olivier Motte discovers eight trash bags with female torsos, arms and legs, presumed victims of Serial Killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer, in Cuesmes, Rue Emile Vandervelde, Hainaut, Belgium.

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7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 22 March 2006
(-) Murderer Robert Madrid Jr. Salazar is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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70 Years Ago the Urban Spaceman Landed

328 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1685
(+) Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.

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174 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1839
(+) Composer Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky is born in Karewo, Pskow, Russia.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 March 1899
(+) Parsi Doctor and murderer Buck Ruxton is born in Bombay, India.

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112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1901
(-) Wife-murderer John Herbert Bennet is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.

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104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1909
(+) Gangster Clyde Chestnut Barker is born in Teleco, Texas, USA.

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91 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 March 1922
(+) Filmmaker Russel Albion Meyer aka King of the Nudies, is born in Oakland, California, USA.

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87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1926
(+) Filmmaker André Delvaux is born in Heverlee, Brabant, Belgium.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 March 1938
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Arnett Booth is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 March 1938
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Orville Adkins is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.

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75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 March 1938
(-) Kidnapper and murderer John Travis is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.

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70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1943
(+) Founder of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall is born in Shillingford, Radcliffe Maternity Home, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 March 1944
(x) 41-year-old Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl marries Peter Jacob in Germany.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1946
(+) Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff aka The Broomstick Murderer, is born in Rosebud, Texas, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 March 1969
(-) Jane Mixer is shot dead by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Denton Cemetary, Michigan, USA.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1973
(-) Janine Ligotino is beaten and stabbed by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 19 in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

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40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1973
(x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, picks up two teenage girls, both of whom he stabbed and strangled in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

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38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 March 1975
(-) Anthony Crean is stabbed to death and mutilated by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.

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37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1976
(-) Vladimir Sabich aka Spider, is shot dead by Claudine Longet at the age of 30 in Aspen, Colorado, USA.

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34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1979
(x) 33-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs 'Send Me Your Money' on KPFK Radio in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1982
(+) Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Joshua Denton Watson is born in Texas, USA.

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27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 March 1986
(x) ‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by 33-year-old frustrated artist G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands.

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22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1991
(-) Guitar manufacterer Leo Clarence Leonidas Fender dies at the age of 81 in Fullerton, California, USA.

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11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 2002
(x) 51-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, goes on a trip on the North Sea and disappears in Hartlepool, Seaton Carew, United Kingdom.
On 1 dec 2007 he walked into a London police station and claimed loss of memory.

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185 Years Ago Hedda Gabler Saw the Light in All Her Misery

253 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1760
(x) The "Great Fire" destroys 349 buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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243 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 March 1770
(+) Romantic Poet Friedrich Johann Christian Hölderlin is born in Lauffen-am-Neckar, Württemberg, Germany.

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185 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1828
(+) Writer Henrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Vestfold, Norway.

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134 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1879
(+) IRA-member Terence Joseph MacSwiney is born in Cork, Ireland.

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118 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1895
(+) Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham is born in Nürnberg, Germany.

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114 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 March 1899
(-) Murderess Martha Place is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
She was the first woman to be executed by The Electric Chair.

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90 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 March 1923
(-) Wilhelm Schulze is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 16 in Hannover, Germany.

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86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 March 1927
(-) Albert Snyder is murdered by Ruth Snyder aka The Granite Woman, in the USA.
She committed the crime to please her lover Judd Gray.

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84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1929
(-) Murderer John Clark is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 March 1933
(-) Assassin Joseph Zangara is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 32 in Raiford, Florida, USA.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 March 1933
(x) The first concentration-camp is inaugurated by 32-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in Dachau, Germany.

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73 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1940
(+) Serial Killer Mike James Mitchell DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

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71 YEARS AGO - on Friday 20 March 1942
(-) Triple murderer John Anthony Soto is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 17 in Oregon, USA.

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67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1946
(x) 185 Die in train derailment in Aracuju, Brazil.

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58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 March 1955
(+) Rapist and murderer Thomas Martin Thompson is born in California, USA.

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56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1957
(+) Actor and filmmaker Spike Shelton Jackson Lee is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1958
(+) Actress Holly Hunter is born in Conyers, Georgia, USA.

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44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1969
(x) 28-year-old Beatle John Winston Lennon marries artist Yoko Ono in Gibraltar, Spain.

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39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1974
(x) 26-year-old Psychotic Ian Ball attacks Princess Anne and Mark Philips in a kidnap-attempt to gain ransom for curing his mental illness in London, United Kingdom.

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33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1980
(-) Harry Turner is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 14 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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30 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 March 1983
(-) Richard Wayne is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 21 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

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29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 March 1984
(-) Unidentified girl is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 19 in Bainbridge, Glen Oaks Motel, Georgia, USA.

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18 YEARS AGO - on Monday 20 March 1995
(x) 12 die and thousands are paralysed by a Sarin-gas-attack on one of the busiest metro-lines by Aum Shinrikyo in Tokio, Japan.

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17 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1996
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Marc Dutroux is released from prison in Belgium.
While he was in prison 8-year-old Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo starved to death in a dungeon in his basement in Marcinelle.

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10 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 2003
(-) Murderer Keith Bernard Clay is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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200 Years Ago it Was Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

727 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 March 1286
(-) King of Scotland Alexander III dies at the age of 44 in Pettycur, Kinghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.
After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol, he was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone everyone advised him to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching, he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck, having been thrown off his horse.

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292 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 March 1721
(-) 243rd Pope Clementius XI originally Giovanni Francesco Albani, dies at the age of 71 in Urbino, Italy.

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271 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1742
(+) Revolutionary Leader Túpac Amaru II originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui, is born in Tinta, Cusco, Peru.

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200 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 March 1813
(+) Explorer David Livingstone is born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.

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182 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 March 1831
(x) Bank Robber Edward Smith and an accomplice break into the City Bank in what is thought to be the first U.S. bank robbery in New York, New York, USA.
They stole $228,000 in coin and currency, of which only $175,000 was ever recovered.

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142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1871
(+) Lover of Crown Prince Rudolf Mary Vetsera is born in Vienna, Austria.

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142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1871
(+) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg is born in Vienna, Austria.

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140 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 March 1873
(+) Composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger is born in Brand, Germany.

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125 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1888
(+) Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 March 1901
(-) George Henry Parker is executed by hanging in ….

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108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1905
(+) Nazi-architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer is born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany.

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107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1906
(+) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.

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92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 March 1921
(+) Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper is born in Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom.

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80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1933
(+) Writer Philip Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

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77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 March 1936
(+) Actress Ursula Andress is born in Bern, Switzerland.

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69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1944
(+) Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is born in Jerusalem, Israël.

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68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1945
(+) Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is born in Long Beach, California, USA.

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63 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1950
(-) Creator of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs dies of a heart attack at the age of 74 in Encino, California, USA.

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45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 March 1968
(-) Filmmaker Theodor Carl Dreyer dies at the age of 79 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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42 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 March 1971
(-) Lutgarde Van Der Wilt is raped, strangled and mutilated by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 19 in Bonheiden, Wielewaalreservaat Zellaar, Antwerp, Belgium.

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20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 March 1993
(-) Murderer Fred Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maryland, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 March 1997
(-) Artist Willem De Kooning dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 92 in Long Island, New York, USA.

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16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 March 1997
(-) Barbara Bourgeois is stabbed to death as second victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 58 in Paulina, Texas, USA.

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12 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 2001
(x) Start of the trial against 38-year-old Serial Killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.

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8 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 March 2005
(x) Start of the trial against 64-year-old Musician and record producer Phil Harvey Philip Spector aka The Wall of Sound, for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and B movie-actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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5 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 March 2008
(-) Writer and Space Odysseyist Arthur C. Charles Clarke dies of respiratory failure at the age of 90 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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