(+) 218th Pope Adrianus VI originally Adriaan Lorenszoon Boeyens, is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
258 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 March 1755
(+) Composer Antoine Frederic Gresnick is born in Liège, Liège, Belgium.
240 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 March 1773
(-) Mary Clues dies of spontaneous human combustion in Coventry, Gosford Street, United Kingdom.
203 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 March 1810
(+) 256th Pope Leo XIII is born in Carpineto Romano, Italy.
137 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1876
(+) 260th Pope Pius XII is born in Rome, Italy.
133 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 March 1880
(+) Swedish ‘Lucifer-king’ Ivan Kreuger is born in Kalmar, Sweden.
113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 March 1900
(+) Composer Kurt Julian Weill is born in Dessau, Germany.
108 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1905
(-) Georgette is strangled by Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, at the age of 1 in Paris, France.
98 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 March 1915
(x) 112 Die in coal-mine explosion in Layland, USA.
95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 March 1918
(-) Murderer Louis Voisin aka Blodie Belgium, is executed by hanging in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.
87 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 March 1926
(-) Laura Beale is strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 60 in San Jose, California, USA.
83 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 March 1930
(-) Writer David Herbert Richards Lawrence dies of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in Vence, Villa Robermond, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
82 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 March 1931
(+) Soviet-reformer Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is born in Privolnoye, USSR.
74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1939
(x) An unidentified young man and woman are whipped to death by the Ku Klux Klan for violating the Moral Kode in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1939
(-) Archaeologist Howard Carter dies of lymphoma at the age of 64 in London, United Kingdom.
71 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 March 1942
(+) Musician Lou Louis Alan Reed is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
(-) Actor Tyler Brooke commits suicide by coal-monoxide-poisoning at the age of 51 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1944
(x) 526 Die in train derailment in Salerno, Italy.
They suffocated in a tunnel due to exhaust gases from a stalled train.
63 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1950
(+) Musician Karen Anne Carpenter is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 March 1955
(+) Cult Leader of the Aum Shinrikyo aka Aleph religious group Shoko Asahara originally Chizuo Matsumoto, is born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan.
52 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1961
(x) 79-year-old Artist Pablo Nepumuceno Crispiniano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso marries 35-year-old Jacqueline Roques in Vallauris, France.
41 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1972
(-) Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Thomas Weissbecker is shot in the heart during a police shootout at the age of 23 in Augsburg, Hotel Thalia, Georgenstrasse 14, Germany.
SPK member Carmen Roll is arrested in the same event.
40 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 March 1973
(-) Susan McLaughlin is presumably stabbed to death by Zodiac at the age of 26 in California, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 March 1978
(x) The coffin of Actor and filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin is stolen from the cemetary in Corsier-sur-Vevey, France.
34 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 March 1979
(-) Ann Rooney is presumably attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Norsforth, United Kingdom.
She survived.
31 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 March 1982
(-) Sf-writer Philip K. Kindred Dick dies at the age of 53 in Santa Ana, California, USA.
He had suffered a stroke five days earlier, and was disconnected from life support after his EEG had been consistently isoelectric since losing consciousness.
30 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 March 1983
(-) John Bartlett is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 19 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
22 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 March 1991
(-) Musician, filmmaker and scandaliser Serge Lucien Gainsbourg dies of a heart attack at the age of 62 in Paris, Rue de Verneuil, France.
15 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 March 1998
(x) 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar, is abducted by Wolfgang Priklopil in Vienna, Donaustadt, Austria.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 March 2005
(-) Musician Martin Denny dies at the age of 93 in Hawai'i Kai, Hawaï, USA.
4 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 March 2009
(x) 67-year-old War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the third time in Iraq.
3 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 March 2010
(x) 100 Die in La Coubre freighter explosion in Havana, Cuba.
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