31st year - N° 69 Wednesday, 9 March 2016

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31st year - N° 69 Wednesday, 9 March 2016

9 March / Today's 9 Events:

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(x) 220 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1796 War leader Napoléon Bonaparte, originally Napoleone di Buonaparte in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 126 years ago Sunday 9th of March 1890 Politician and diplomat Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, originally Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin is born in Kukarka, Kirov Oblast, Russia. Skryabin took the pseudonym 'Molotov', derived from the Russian molot (hammer) for his political work owing to the name's vaguely 'industrial' ring.

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(x) 70 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1946 33 die in Bolton Wanderers-Stoke City football game stampede in Burnden Park, Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Over 400 people were injured. The dead and injured were lain along the touchline and covered with coats. A little under half an hour later the game was restarted with a new sawdust lined touchline separating the players from the bodies.

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(-) 66 years ago Thursday 9th of March 1950 Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. He was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and child, who were actually killed by John Christie.

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(-) 53 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1963 Mary E. Brown is raped, stabbed, strangled and fatally bludgeoned with a pipe by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 319 Park Avenue, Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 50 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1966 George Cornell, originally George Myers is shot dead by gangster Ronald Kray aka Ronnie Kray in The Blind Beggar, 337 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On seeing Ronnie Kray enter the pub, Cornell sneered with sarcasm "Look who's here". Ronnie Kray walked towards Cornell, took out a 9 mm Luger, and calmly shot him once in the forehead, just above his right eye.

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(x) 36 years ago Sunday 9th of March 1980 34-year-old Artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Cinque Cinquecento' at the Per/for/mance festival in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(-) 22 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1994 Poet and writer Charles Henry Bukowski, originally Heinrich Karl Bukowski aka Hank dies of leukemia at the age of 74 in San Pedro, California, United States.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 9th of March 2009 Installing Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven's exhibition 'Nothing More Natural' in Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Lorenzer Straße 32, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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