(+) Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is born in Venice, Italy.
311 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 March 1702
(+) Robber and burglar Jack Sheppard aka Gentleman Jack, is born in London, Spitalfields, United Kingdom.
222 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1791
(x) Vermont becomes the 14th of the United States in Vermont, USA.
161 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 March 1852
(-) Writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol dies of anaemia due to self-starvation at the age of 42 in Moscow, Russia.
136 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 March 1877
(x) The ballet "Swan Lake" by 36-year-old Composer Peter Ilyitsch Tchaikowsky is performed for the first time in Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, USSR.
135 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 March 1878
(+) Occult Teacher Peter Demianovitsch Ouspensky is born in Moscow, Russia.
105 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 March 1908
(x) 174 Die in Lake View School fire in Collinwood, Ohio, USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 March 1918
(x) 280 Die in USS Cyclops shipwreck in Barbados.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1932
(+) Musician Myriam Zenzile Makeba aka Mama Afrika, is born in Johannesburg, Prospect Township, South Africa.
75 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1938
(+) Ex-Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 March 1944
(-) Head of Murder Incorporated Louis Buchalter aka Lepke, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 47 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.
On the same occasion, his lieutenants Louis Capone and Mindy Weiss are also executed.
68 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 March 1945
(x) Finland declares war on Nazi Germany in Tornio, Finland.
(-) Theatre theorist Antonin Marie Joseph Artaud aka The Theatre of Cruelty, dies of cancer at the age of 51 in Paris, Ivry, France.
61 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 March 1952
(x) 119 Die in 2-train collision in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They crashed head-on into each other.
58 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1955
(-) Murderer Carl J. Folk is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 56 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
52 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 March 1961
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 11-year-old boy in St. Saviour, Jersey.
51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 March 1962
(x) 111 Die in DC-7 crash in the Jungle of Cameroun.
51 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 March 1962
(+) Murderer Willie Elvin Fisher is born in North Carolina, USA.
45 YEARS AGO - on Monday 4 March 1968
(+) Spree Killer Julian Knight is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
43 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 March 1970
(-) Jadwiga K. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 45 in Siemanowice, Poland.
41 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 4 March 1972
(-) An unidentified girl is presumably strangled by Zodiac at the age of 19 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 4 March 1980
(x) 34-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Show the Hole" at the Per/for/mance festival in Florence, Italy.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 4 March 1982
(-) Herta Schmits is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
Stumbling naked out of the woods, she was picked up by a passing motorist and raped.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1983
(-) Edgar Underkofler is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 27 in Danville, Illinois, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 4 March 1984
(-) Dima Ptaschinow is stabbed to death by Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, at the age of 10 in Nowoschachtinsk, Russia.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 4 March 1987
(-) Murderer Elisio Moreno is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1994
(x) 27-year-old Musician Kurt Donald Cobain aka The Pope of Grunge, is found in a coma due to a suicidal cocktail of Rohypnol and champagne in his hotel room in Rome, Italy.
19 YEARS AGO - on Friday 4 March 1994
(-) Actor John Franklin Candy dies of a heart attack at the age of 43 in Durango, Mexico.
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