(-) 231st Pope Clementius VIII originally Ippolito Aldobrandini, dies at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.
182 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 March 1831
(+) Inventor and ruthless industrialist George Mortimer Pullman known for the Pullman Sleeping Car, is born in Brocton, New York, USA.
166 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 March 1847
(+) Scientist, inventor and engineer Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
110 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1903
(-) Triple murderer Edgar Edwards is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.
“I’m looking forward to this lot.”
103 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 March 1910
(+) United Mine Workers Union Leader Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
102 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 March 1911
(+) Actress and Sex-Queen Jean Harlow aka The Blonde Bombshell, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
96 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 3 March 1917
(x) 34-year-old Revolutionary Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, is released from prison after serving 11 years in prison in Nerchinsk, Siberia, Russia.
She was arrested in Kiev because of an accidental explosion of terrorist bombs in her possession.
70 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 March 1943
(x) 173 Die in a stampede while trying to enter an air-raid shelter in London, Bethnal Green tube station, United Kingdom.
60 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1953
(-) Hectorina McLennan is strangled by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 26 in London, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1959
(+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Elena Rytka is born in the United Kingdom.
She was part of a twin with sister Rita.
54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1959
(-) Actor and comedian Lou Costello known from Abbott and Costello, dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Beverley Hills, Doctor's Hospital, California, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1970
(-) Cosette Ellison is presumably murdered by Zodiac in California, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Friday 3 March 1972
(+) Eleventh victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Errol Lindsey is born in Wisconsin, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 March 1974
(x) 345 Die in Turkish Airlines Flight 981 DC10 crash in Paris, Ermenonville, France.
37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 March 1976
(-) Artist Pierre Molinier commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 75 in Bordeaux, France.
On his door he wrote in chalk the following words: "Je prends ma vie. La clef est avec le concierge".
(-) Artist Georges Prosper Remi aka Hergé, dies of leukemia or a form of porphyria at the age of 75 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brabant, Belgium.
His death was ultimately hastened by the HIV he had acquired during his weekly blood transfusions.
30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 March 1983
(-) Elisabeth Kenyon is abducted, tortured and murdered by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 23 in Miami, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 3 March 1983
(x) 23-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Cet Obscur Objet du Désir" in an installation by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Antwerpen, Montevideo, Antwerp, Belgium.
26 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1987
(-) Actor and comedian Danny Kaye dies of internal bleeding due to yellow fever at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
22 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 March 1991
(-) Engineer of the first British atomic bomb William George Penney dies at the age of 81 in London, United Kingdom.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1992
(x) 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Kozlu, Turkey.
21 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 3 March 1992
(-) Murderer Edward Ellis is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 March 1993
(-) Murderer and necrophile John George Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
It was the first execution by lethal injection in Arizona.
17 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 3 March 1996
(-) Writer Marguerite Donnadieu Duras dies of throat cancer at the age of 81 in Paris, France.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 March 1999
(-) Murderer Walter Burnhart LaGrand is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 3 March 2004
(-) Murderer Marcus Bridger Cotton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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