(+) 224th Pope Pius IV originally Gian Angelo De Medici, is born in Milan, Italy.
417 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1596
(+) Philosopher René Descartes is born in La Haye en Touraine now Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France.
338 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1675
(+) 247th Pope Benedictus XIV originally Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, is born in Bologna, Italy.
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.
176 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 March 1837
(-) Romantic painter John Constable dies of indigestion at the age of 60 in Hampstead, United Kingdom.
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.
(+) 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.
104 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 31 March 1909
(+) Fascist writer Robert Brasillach is born in Perpignan, France.
97 YEARS AGO - on Friday 31 March 1916
(-) Black Jeff Brown is lynched for bumping into a white woman in Cedar Bluff, Missouri, USA.
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.
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.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1935
(+) Musician Herb Alpert is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 31 March 1935
(+) Actor Richard Chamberlain is born in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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.
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.
44 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 March 1969
(x) 180 Die in coal-mine explosion in Barrotean, Mexico.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
27 YEARS AGO - on Monday 31 March 1986
(x) 166 Die in Mexicana de Aviacion Boeing 727 crash in Sierra Madre.
19 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 31 March 1994
(-) Murderer Freddie Webb is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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.
15 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 31 March 1998
(-) Serial Killer Daniel Remeta is executed by Old Sparky in Starke, Florida, USA.
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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