31st year - N° 78 Friday, 18 March 2016

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31st year - N° 78 Friday, 18 March 2016

18 March / Today's 27 Events:

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(-) 702 years ago Sunday 18th of March 1314 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 71 in IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 227 years ago She Was Dead Before the Fire Was Lit Wednesday 18th of March 1789 Counterfeiter Catherine Murphy, originally Christian Bowman is executed by burning at the stake in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Murphy was the last woman to be officially burned at the stake. Murphy and her husband Hugh Murphy were executed along with seven other men who had been convicted of various offences. The eight men were executed by hanging. But as a woman the law provided that Murphy should be burnt at the stake. She was made to stand on a foot high 10-inch-square platform in front of the stake and secured to the stake with ropes and an iron ring. Murphy was reportedly tied with one rope aroun d her neck after which the platform was removed from under her feet and 30 minutes passed before the fire was lit.

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(+) 179 years ago Saturday 18th of March 1837 22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Stephen Cleveland is born in Caldwell Presbyterian Church Manse, 207 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 174 years ago Friday 18th of March 1842 Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, originally Étienne Mallarmé is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 172 years ago Monday 18th of March 1844 Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov is born in Tikhvin, Leningradskaya Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 158 years ago Thursday 18th of March 1858 Inventor and mechanical engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 151 years ago Saturday 18th of March 1865 Mary Pritchard, originally Mary Jane Taylor is poisoned by doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 148 years ago Wednesday 18th of March 1868 Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel is born in Boiany, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.

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(+) 110 years ago Sunday 18th of March 1906 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Robert Witzel is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(+) 106 years ago Friday 18th of March 1910 Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 88 years ago Sunday 18th of March 1928 Poet and writer Paul Leopold Andreas Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830 dies of tuberculosis at the age of 32 in Le Vallon, Miavoye-Anthée, Namur, Belgium.

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(+) 84 years ago Friday 18th of March 1932 Writer John Hoyer Updike is born in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 84 years ago Was the Last Morning for the Hunter Friday 18th of March 1932 Serial killer Harry Powers, originally Herman Drenth aka Cornelius O. Pierson aka A. R. Weaver is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.

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(x) 79 years ago Thursday 18th of March 1937 295 die in New London Junior-Senior High School explosion in New London Junior-Senior High School, New London, Texas, United States. In 1961, 41-year-old William Estel Benson is arrested for theft and confesses he unscrewed some gaspipes at the time.

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(+) 75 years ago Tuesday 18th of March 1941 Singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett aka The Wicked Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama, United States.

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(x) 70 years ago Monday 18th of March 1946 Start of the trial against 49-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 69 years ago Tuesday 18th of March 1947 Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sidney Sinclair is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 46 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 67 years ago Friday 18th of March 1949 Snooker player Alex Alexander Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(x) 65 years ago Sunday 18th of March 1951 22-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate escapes from the State Penitentiary in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 59 years ago Monday 18th of March 1957 Start of the trial against 58-year-old General practitioner and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 50 years ago Friday 18th of March 1966 39-year-old Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen is sentenced to life imprisonment in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.

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(-) 36 years ago Tuesday 18th of March 1980 Social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and humanistic philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm dies of natural causes at the age of 80 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland.

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(x) 34 years ago Thursday 18th of March 1982 53-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is committed to the Iowa Lunatic Asylum in Mental Health Institute, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. Posing as Richard Clark, Hatcher attempted to abduct Todd Peers.

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(x) 33 years ago Friday 18th of March 1983 47-year-old Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset is sentenced to 21 years in prison for poisoning at east 22 elderly people with the muscle relaxing suxamethonium chloride drug Curacit in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Nesset was released after serving 12 years of this sentence for good behaviour.

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(-) 32 years ago Sunday 18th of March 1984 Terry Theresa Anne Wait Ferguson is abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Merritt Square Mall, 777 E Merritt Island Causeway, Merritt Island, Florida, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 18th of March 1987 Deborah Dudley is electrocuted by serial killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Heidnik disposed of Dudley's body in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

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(x) 20 years ago Monday 18th of March 1996 162 die in Ozone Disco Club fire in Ozone Disco Club, Timog Avenue corner Tomas Morato Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. At the time of the fire, it was estimated that there were around 350 patrons and 40 club employees inside Ozone Disco, though it had been approved for occupancy for only 35 persons.

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