(-) King Lotharius IV dies at the age of 64 in France.
568 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 March 1445
(+) Artist Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi Botticelli is born in Florence, Italy.
281 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 March 1732
(+) Composer Franz Josef Haydn is born in Rohrau-an-der-Leitha, Austria.
203 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 March 1810
(+) Composer Frédéric François Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland.
150 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 March 1863
(-) Meriora Gillibrand aka Mr. Hawarden, dies at the age of 58 in Malmédy, Ligneuville, Belgium.
134 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 March 1879
(+) Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is born in Slavovitsa, Bulgaria.
127 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 March 1886
(+) Artist Oskar Kokoschka is born in Pochlarn, Austria.
120 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 March 1893
(+) Poet, Playwright and Lesbian Rights Pioneer Mercedes de Acosta is born in New York City, New York, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1904
(+) Musician Glenn Alton Miller is born in Tyron, Nebraska, USA.
103 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1910
(+) Actor David James Graham Niven is born in London, United Kingdom.
91 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 March 1922
(+) 5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzak Rabin is born in Jerusalem, Israël.
86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1927
(+) Musician Harry Belafonte is born in New York, New York, USA.
86 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1927
(+) Serial Killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is born in New York, New York, USA.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 1 March 1929
(+) Dissident writer Georgi Ivanov Markov is born in Knyazhevo, Bulgaria.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1932
(x) 1-year-old Kidnap-victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr is presumably snatched from his crib by Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
(-) Eccentric and writer Gabriele D’Annunzio aka Principe di Montenevoso aka The High Priest of Erotica, dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Gardone Riviera, Italy.
69 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 March 1944
(+) Musician Roger Daltrey is born in London, Hammersmith, United Kingdom.
63 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 March 1950
(+) Multiple murderer Daniel Joe Hittle is born in Texas, USA.
62 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 March 1951
(+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Susanne Albrecht is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
60 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 March 1953
(-) Waymon Wood dies of spontaneous human combustion in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
He was sitting in the front seat of his closed car, the windscreen had bubbled from the heat, but the tank of petrol, still half full, was not burned.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 March 1954
(x) First US Hydrogen-bomb testing in Eniwetok, the Pacific Ocean.
59 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 March 1954
(x) 4 Gunmen enter the Visitor’s Gallery of the House of Representatives and open fire, 5 congressmen are wounded in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1955
(-) Murderer Chastine Beverly is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1955
(-) Murderer James L. Riggins is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1955
(-) Murderer Louis M. Suttles is executed by hanging in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA.
57 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 March 1956
(-) Cop Killer Danny Metcalf is shot dead in a police fusillade in the Gladwyne Woods, Pennsylvania, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 March 1958
(-) Artist Giacomo Balla dies at the age of 86 in Rome, Italy.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 March 1958
(x) 238 Die in Uskudar ferry shipwreck in Izmit Bay, Kocaeli, Turkey.
55 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 1 March 1958
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults and rapes a 20-year-old woman in Trinity, Jersey.
53 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1960
(+) Musician William Bennett is born in United Kingdom.
51 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 March 1962
(x) 95 Die in Boeing 707 crash in Jamaica Bay, New York, USA.
42 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 March 1971
(x) Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the United States Capitol to protest the invasion of Laos in Washington, District Columbia, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 1 March 1973
(+) Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, James Doxtator is born in Wisconsin, USA.
37 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 March 1976
(x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is found guilty of the abduction of Carol DaRonch in Salt Lake City Metropolitan Justice Hall, Utah, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 1 March 1981
(x) 26-year-old IRA member Bobby Robert Gerard Sands starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 1 March 1982
(-) Paula Perrera is raped and strangled by Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler, at the age of 16 in Walkill, New York, USA.
30 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 1 March 1983
(-) Writer Arthur Koestler commits suicide by an overdose of Tuinal barbiturates taken with alcohol at the age of 77 in London, United Kingdom.
He committed suicide together with his wife Cynthia Jefferies. Their bodies were discovered on the morning of 3 March 1983.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 1 March 2000
(-) Murderer Odell Jr. Barnes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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