(-) 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.
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.
271 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1742
(+) Revolutionary Leader Túpac Amaru II originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui, is born in Tinta, Cusco, Peru.
(+) Explorer David Livingstone is born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom.
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.
142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1871
(+) Lover of Crown Prince Rudolf Mary Vetsera is born in Vienna, Austria.
142 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1871
(+) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg is born in Vienna, Austria.
140 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 19 March 1873
(+) Composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger is born in Brand, Germany.
125 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1888
(+) Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
112 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 March 1901
(-) George Henry Parker is executed by hanging in ….
108 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1905
(+) Nazi-architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer is born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany.
107 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1906
(+) Nazi-leader Adolf Eichmann is born in Solingen, Germany.
92 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 19 March 1921
(+) Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper is born in Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom.
80 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1933
(+) Writer Philip Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 19 March 1936
(+) Actress Ursula Andress is born in Bern, Switzerland.
69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 19 March 1944
(+) Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is born in Jerusalem, Israël.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 19 March 1945
(+) Serial Killer Randy Stephen Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, is born in Long Beach, California, USA.
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.
45 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 19 March 1968
(-) Filmmaker Theodor Carl Dreyer dies at the age of 79 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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.
20 YEARS AGO - on Friday 19 March 1993
(-) Murderer Fred Brown is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Maryland, USA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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