469 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 March 1544
(+) Poet Torquato Tasso is born in Sorrento, Italy.
149 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 March 1864
(x) 270 Die in Dale Dyke Dam flood in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 March 1921
(+) Composer Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla aka El Gran, is born in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 March 1931
(+) Media Mogul Rupert Keith Murdoch is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
82 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 March 1931
(-) Filmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe Murnau dies in an automobile accident at the age of 42 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 March 1935
(x) Start of the trial against 64-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, in West Plains, Westchester Supreme Court, New York, USA.
71 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 March 1942
(-) Murderer Harold Trevor is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 March 1944
(x) Discovery of human remains from at least 20 bodies in the basement of 47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, when the fire-brigade is called in because of the huge rise of black smoke coming from the chimney in Paris, 21 Rue Le Sueur, France.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 March 1946
(x) 45-year-old Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Ferdinand Höss is arrested in Germany.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 March 1947
(-) Swindler who tried to sell the Eiffel Tower twice, Victor Lustig aka The Count, dies of pneumonia at the age of 57 in Springfield, Medical Centre for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 March 1955
(-) Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in London, United Kingdom.
53 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 March 1960
(-) Murderer Robert Dwight Fenton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 25 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
50 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 March 1963
(-) Plotter of the assassination of president De Gaulle, Jean-Marie Bastien Thiry is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 35 in Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
47 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 March 1966
(x) 45-year-old Spiritual theorist Timothy Francis Leary is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for the possession and transportation of marihuana in California, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 March 1969
(x) Last official execution by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 March 1970
(-) Writer Erle Stanley Gardner dies at the age of 80 in Temecula, California, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Friday 11 March 1977
(x) 43-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, is arrested and charged with furnishing Quaaludes to a minor, child-molesting, unlawful sexual intercourse, rape by the use of drugs, oral copulation and sodomy of 13-year-old Samantha Geirner in Los Angeles, California, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 11 March 1978
(-) Musician Claude François aka Clo-Clo, dies of electrocution at the age of 39 in Paris, #46 Boulevard Exelmans, France.
Claude was at his Paris apartment at #46 Boulevard Exelmans, with an American girlfriend named Kathleen, and a French secretary. In the afternoon he took a shower in preparation for a trip to the recording studio. After finishing his shower, he noticed that the light bulb in the socket hanging over the shower was burned out. With his feet in the water, he reached up to change it, and was instantly electrocuted. Efforts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at 3:30pm.
15 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 March 1998
(-) Murderer Jerry Lee Hogue is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Monday 11 March 2002
(-) Economist James Tobin known for the Tobin Tax, dies at the age of 84 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
10 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 11 March 2003
(-) Murderer Bobby Glen Cook is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
9 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 11 March 2004
(x) 191 Die in commuter train nº 17305 bomb explosion in Madrid, Atocha Station, Spain.
Another 1800 people are injured. The attack was carried out by an al-Qaeda inspired terrorist cell.
4 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 11 March 2009
(-) Mass Murderer Tim Kretschmer commits suicide by a shot in the head during a shootout with the police at the age of 17 in Winnenden, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.
Before he killed 16 people in a shooting spree at the the Albertville-Realschule.
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