29th year - N° 90 Monday, 31 March 2014

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29th year - N° 90 Monday, 31 March 2014

31 March / Today's 9 Events:

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(-) 98 years ago Friday 31st of March 1916 Black Jeff Brown is lynched for bumping into a white woman in Cedar Bluff, Mississippi, United States.

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(+) 88 years ago Wednesday 31st of March 1926 Writer John Robert Fowles known for The Collector is born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom.

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(+) 79 years ago Sunday 31st of March 1935 Actor Richard George Chamberlain is born in Beverly Hills, California, .

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(x) 61 years ago Tuesday 31st of March 1953 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is arrested, posing as John Waddington in Putney Bridge, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. All he had in his possession were some coins and an old newspaper clipping about the remand of Timothy Evans.

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(-) 52 years ago Saturday 31st of March 1962 Klaus Jung is abducted and killed by serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 44 years ago Tuesday 31st of March 1970 A Japan Airlines Boeing 727-89 Flight 351 is hijacked by nine members of the Communist militant group the Japanese Red Army on the way from Tokyo in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. The group then proceeded to Pyongyang's Mirim Airport, where they surrendered to North Korean authorities, who offered the whole group asylum.

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(x) 28 years ago Monday 31st of March 1986 167 die in Mexicana Boeing 727–264 Flight 940 crash into a mountain in El Carbón, Michoacán, Sierra Madre, Mexico.

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(-) 19 years ago Friday 31st of March 1995 Singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka The Queen of Tejano music is shot dead by 35-year-old Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club at the age of 24 in Days Inn Motel, 901 Navigation Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. Saldívar was embezzling money from the Selena fan club and Selena decided to fire her. Shot once in her right shoulder, severing an artery, Selena ran towards the lobby for help. She collapsed on the floor as the clerk called 911, with Saldívar still chasing her and calling her a "bitch". Selena died in a hospital from loss of blood. Her funeral drew 60.000 mourners.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 31st of March 2004 Peaches on stage in Ancienne Belgique, Boulevard Anspach 110, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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