(x) The "Great Fire" destroys 349 buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
243 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 20 March 1770
(+) Romantic Poet Friedrich Johann Christian Hölderlin is born in Lauffen-am-Neckar, Württemberg, Germany.
(+) Writer Henrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Vestfold, Norway.
134 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1879
(+) IRA-member Terence Joseph MacSwiney is born in Cork, Ireland.
118 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1895
(+) Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham is born in Nürnberg, Germany.
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.
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.
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.
84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1929
(-) Murderer John Clark is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
67 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1946
(x) 185 Die in train derailment in Aracuju, Brazil.
58 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 20 March 1955
(+) Rapist and murderer Thomas Martin Thompson is born in California, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 20 March 1957
(+) Actor and filmmaker Spike Shelton Jackson Lee is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1958
(+) Actress Holly Hunter is born in Conyers, Georgia, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 20 March 1969
(x) 28-year-old Beatle John Winston Lennon marries artist Yoko Ono in Gibraltar, Spain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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