(-) 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay is executed by burning at the stake in Paris, in front of the Notre Dame, France.
224 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 March 1789
(-) Christian Bowman is the last man to be burned on the stake in the USA.
176 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 March 1837
(+) 22nd and 24th president of the USA Grover Stephen Cleveland is born in Caldwell, New Jersey, USA.
171 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1842
(+) Poet Stéphane Mallarmé is born in Paris, France.
169 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 March 1844
(+) Composer Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimsky-Korsakov is born in Tichwin, Russia.
155 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 March 1858
(+) Scientist and engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel is born in Paris, France.
148 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 March 1865
(-) Mary Pritchard is poisoned by Dr. Edward Pritchard in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
145 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 March 1868
(+) Psychologist Wilhelm Stekel is born in Bujon, Bukovina, Romania.
107 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 March 1906
(+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Robert Witzel is born in Hannover, Germany.
103 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1910
(+) Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
98 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 March 1915
(-) Murderer Arthur Rottman aka The Ruahine Axe Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Wellington, Terrace Gaol, New Zealand.
92 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1921
(x) Over 1000 Die in Hong Kong steamer shipwreck in Swatow, China.
(-) Poet Paul Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 32 in Miavoye-Anthée, Belgium.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1932
(+) Writer John Updike is born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, USA.
81 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1932
(-) Mass-murderer Herman Drenth is executed by hanging in Clarksburg, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 March 1937
(x) 296 Die in New London School explosion in New London, Texas, USA.
In 1961, 41-year-old William Estel Benson is arrested for theft and confesses he unscrewed some gaspipes at the time.
72 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 March 1941
(+) Musician Wilson Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama, USA.
67 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 March 1946
(x) Start of the trial against 49-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, in Paris, France.
66 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 March 1947
(-) Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sydney Sinclair, is executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
64 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1949
(+) Snooker Legend Alex Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane, is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
62 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 March 1951
(x) 21-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, escapes from the State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA.
56 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 March 1957
(x) Start of the trial against 58-year-old General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.
54 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 March 1959
(x) Hawaï is called out as 50th of the United States in the USA.
48 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 March 1965
(x) Astronaut Alexei Leonov is the first man to walk from his Voschod Spacecraft in Space.
33 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 March 1980
(-) Psychoanalist Erich Fromm dies at the age of 80 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.
31 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 March 1982
(x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is committed to the Mental Health Institute in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, USA.
Posing as Richard Clark, he attempted to abduct Todd Peers.
30 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 March 1983
(x) 46-year-old Serial Poisoner Arnfinn Nesset is sentenced to 21 years in prison for poisoning at east 22 elderly people with the muscle relaxing drug Curacit in Trondheim, Norway.
29 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 March 1984
(-) Terry Ferguson is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 21 in Indian Harbour, Merrit Square Shopping Mall, Florida, USA.
26 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 March 1987
(-) Deborah Dudley is electrocuted by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
17 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 March 1996
(x) 162 Die in nightclub fire in Quezon City, the Philippines.
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