31st year - N° 87 Sunday, 27 March 2016

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31st year - N° 87 Sunday, 27 March 2016

27 March / Today's 13 Events:

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(-) 638 years ago Friday 27th of March 1378 201st Pope Gregorius XI, originally Pierre Roger de Beaufort dies of unknown causes at the age of 49 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 171 years ago He Was Beginning to See the Light Thursday 27th of March 1845 Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen is born in Schwelmer Straße 41, Lennep, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 121 years ago Wednesday 27th of March 1895 Murderess Ruth Brown Snyder aka The Granite Woman is born in Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Monday 27th of March 1899 Actress Gloria May Josephine Swanson is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Wednesday 27th of March 1901 Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sidney Sinclair is born in 1 Moreland Street, Holloway, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 106 years ago Sunday 27th of March 1910 312 die in barn dance fire in Ököritófülpös, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary.

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(x) 101 years ago Saturday 27th of March 1915 46-year-old Asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary is sent to quarantine in Riverside Hospital, North Brother Island, New York, New York, United States. Mallon remained confined for the remainder of her life until 11 November 1938. She became a minor celebrity, and was occasionally interviewed by the media. They were told not to accept even water from her.

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(x) 56 years ago Sunday 27th of March 1960 35-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey abducts and rapes an unidentified 14-year-old girl in Saint Martin, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 53 years ago Wednesday 27th of March 1963 Film director Quentin Jerome Tarantino is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Wednesday 27th of March 1963 Writer Jean Bruce, originally Jean Brochet aka Jean Alexandre, Jean Alexandre Brochet, Jean-Martin Rouan, or Joyce Lindsay known for the adventures of secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath aka OSS117 dies in a head-on collision of his Jaguar with a truck at 200kms per hour on the RN16 at the age of 42 in Luzarches, Val d'Oise, France.

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(x) 39 years ago Sunday 27th of March 1977 583 die in KLM Boeing 747-206B Flight 4805 and Pan Am Boeing 747–121 Flight 1736 collision in Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain. Neither airline was originally due to be at the airport but both were diverted from the much bigger Las Palmas airport on nearby Gran Canaria island after a terrorist bomb blast near the departure lounge. 61 people survived. The crash is the deadliest accident in aviation history.

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(x) 36 years ago Thursday 27th of March 1980 123 die in Alexander L. Kielland oil platform capsizing in Ekofisk, North Sea, Norway.

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(-) 10 years ago Monday 27th of March 2006 Science fiction writer Stanisław Lem known for Solaris dies of heart failure at the age of 85 in Kraków, Województwo Małopolskie, Poland.

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