(x) 96 Native Americans are tied, hit on the head and fatally scalped by Pennsylvania militiamen in the Moravian Missuinary Massacre in Gnadenhütten, Ohio, USA.
144 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 March 1869
(-) Composer Hector Berlioz dies at the age of 65 in Paris, France.
139 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 8 March 1874
(-) 13th president of the USA Millard Fillmore dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in Buffalo, New York, USA.
108 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 March 1905
(+) Murderess Christine Papin is born in Le Mans, France.
96 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 1917
(-) Aircraft designer Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin dies at the age of 78 in Konstanz, Germany.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 March 1924
(x) 171 Die in coal-mine explosion in Castle Gate, Utah, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 March 1930
(-) 27th president of the USA William Howard Taft dies at the age of 72 in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 March 1935
(-) Actress Lingyu Fenggeng Ruan commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates at the age of 24 in Shanghai, China.
Her funeral procession was reportedly three miles long, with three women committing suicide during it.
68 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 1945
(-) Gustave Karl Hulten aka The Murderous GI, is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.
(+) Pop singer Peggy March originally Margaret Annemarie Battavio aka Little Peggy March, is born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 8 March 1950
(+) Double murderer Patrick Gene Poland is born in Arizona, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 1951
(-) Murderers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in New York, Sing-Sing Prison, New York, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 1951
(-) Serial Killer Martha Beck aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with her husband Raymond Fernandez), is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 1951
(-) Serial Killer Raymond Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with his wife Martha Beck), is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 36 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 March 1958
(-) Shirley Bridgeford is abducted and strangled by Harvey Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, at the age of 24 in Anza-Borrega Desert State Park, California, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 March 1958
(+) Musician Gary Numan originally Gary Anthony James Webb, is born in London, Hammersmith, United Kingdom.
50 YEARS AGO - on Friday 8 March 1963
(-) Murderer Patrick M. McGhee is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 55 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
44 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 8 March 1969
(x) 35-year-old Gangsters and murderous twins Reginald & Ronald Kray aka The Profession of Violence, are sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 March 1971
(-) Actor and filmmaker Harold Clayton Lloyd dies of prostate cancer at the age of 77 in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, California, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 March 1971
(-) Unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, at the age of 20 in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.
She survived.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 March 1977
(-) Virginia Voskerichian is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.
23 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 1990
(-) Mario Orosco is shot dead by N.Y. Zodiac Murderer at the age of 49 in New York, New York, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 March 1993
(-) Peter Walker is tortured to death by Colin Ireland aka The Gay Killer, at the age of 45 in London, United Kingdom.
14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 March 1999
(x) Over 100 Die in ferry capsizing in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
14 YEARS AGO - on Monday 8 March 1999
(-) Baseball player Joe Joseph Paul Di Maggio originally Giuseppe Paolo, dies of lung cancer at the age of 84 in Hollywood, Florida, USA.
He was Marilyn Monroe's husband for 9 months.
12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 2001
(-) Simpletone Rudy Cabie dies at the age of 52 in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.
8 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 8 March 2005
(-) Murderer George Anderson Hopper is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 8 March 2007
(-) Actor John Inman aka Mr. Humphries from “Are You Being Served?”, dies of hepatitis A at the age of 71 in London, United Kingdom.
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