Wednesday, March 6, 2013

40 Years Ago a Good Earth Stood Still

538 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 March 1475
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Artist Buonarotti Michelangelo is born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.

394 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 March 1619
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Poet and duellist Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac is born in Paris, France.

177 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 March 1836
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Folk Hero David “Davy” Crockett dies on the battlefield at the age of 49 in Alamo, Texas, USA.

113 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 March 1900
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Scientist and mechanic Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler dies at the age of 66 in Bad Cannstadt, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.

105 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1908
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Actor and comedian Lou Costello known from Abbott and Costello, is born in Paterson, New Jersey, USA.

86 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 March 1927
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Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda is born in Suwalki, Poland.

76 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 6 March 1937
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Astronaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is born in Yaroslavi Oblast, Russia.
She became the first woman in Space.

72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 March 1941
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Serial Killer Hans Johannes Marinus Van Zon is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 March 1944
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Murderer H. Cunningham is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 37 in Oregon, USA.

60 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1953
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Rote Armee Fraktion 3rd Generation member Wolfgang Werner Grams aka Gaks is born in Wiesbaden, Germany.

53 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 March 1960
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Joy Mellish is attacked and raped by Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, at the age of 25 in St. Brelade, Jersey.

52 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 March 1961
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Mass-Murderer Ramon Bojorquez Salcido is born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

49 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1964
(x) Elijah Muhammed
announces in a radio message that 22-year-old World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammed Ali has joined the Nation of Islam Black Muslims and renamed Muhammad (one who is worthy of praise) Ali (fourth rightly guided caliph) in New York, New York, USA.

46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 6 March 1967
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Composer Zoltan Kodaly dies at the age of 84 in Budapest, Hungary.

45 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 March 1968
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Bomb attack by the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, on a court of Justice in Berlin, Germany.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1970
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During a press conference the release of the one and only record album of 35-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson “Lie, The Love and Terror Cult” is announced in the Spahn Ranch, California, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1970
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Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen members 22-year-old Theodore Gold, 28-year-old Diana Oughton and 22-year-old Terry Robbins are killed while constructing a nailbomb in a townhouse in New York City, 18 West 11th Street, New York, USA.

40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 March 1973
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Writer Pearl S. (Sydenstricker) Comfort Buck dies of lung cancer at the age of 80 in Danby, Vermont, USA.

39 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 March 1974
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Bomb attack by the Women's Brigade of the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Department of Health, Education and Welfare offices to protest the sterilisation of poor women in Washington, District Columbia, USA.

32 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1981
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Child-murderer Klaus Grabowski is shot dead in the court by Marianne Bachmeier, the mother of his 7-year-old victim Anna in Lubeck, Germany.

29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 March 1984
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An unidentified woman who advertised her home for sale is raped by 30-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long aka Bound to Die, in Port Richey, Florida, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 6 March 1986
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Artist Georgia Totto O’Keeffe dies at the age of 98 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

26 YEARS AGO - on Friday 6 March 1987
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183 Die in Herald of Free Enterprise ferry shipwreck in Zeebrugge, West-Flanders, Belgium.

19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 March 1994
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Serial Killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, dies of aids at the age of 41 in Prison, Illinois, USA.

19 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 6 March 1994
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Musician and politician Melina Mercouri dies of lung cancer at the age of 73 in New York City, New York, Greece.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 March 2002
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Serial Killer Andras Pandy is sentenced to life in prison for killing six family members and dissolving their bodies in chemical drain cleaner in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
He killed two wives and four children and also raped two other daughters.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 March 2002
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Serial Killer Agnes Pandy is sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for being an accomplice in five of her father's murders of family members in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.

11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 6 March 2002
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40-year-old Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga is arrested in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.

6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 March 2007
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Sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies at the age of 77 in Paris, France.

6 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 6 March 2007
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Double murderer Robert Perez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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