Saturday, March 19, 2022

37th year - N° 78 Saturday, 19 March 2022

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37th year - N° 78 Saturday, 19 March 2022

19 March / Today's 25 Events:
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736 years ago

Tuesday 19th of March 1286

King of Scots Alexander III aka Alaxandair mac Alaxandair dies of a broken neck at the age of 45 in Kinghorn Castle, Kinghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom.

After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol Alexander was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone advised him not to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck having been thrown off his horse.


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301 years ago

Wednesday 19th of March 1721

243rd Pope Clemens XI, originally Giovanni Francesco Albani dies of unknown causes at the age of 72 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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284 years ago

Wednesday 19th of March 1738

Revolutionary leader Túpac Amaru II, originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera is born in Surimana-Canas, Cusco, Peru.


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209 years ago

Friday 19th of March 1813

Explorer and pioneer medical missionary David Livingstone is born in 165 Station Road, Blantyre, Scotland, United States.


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191 years ago

Saturday 19th of March 1831

Edward Smith aka Edward Jones aka James Honeyman and James Murray commit what is regarded as one of the first bank thefts in the United States in City Bank of New York, Wall Street, New York City, New York, United States.

The thieves made off with $245.000 using a set of copied keys.


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151 years ago

Sunday 19th of March 1871

Baroness and mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria Mary Vetsera, originally Marie Alexandrine von Vetsera is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.


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149 years ago

Wednesday 19th of March 1873

Pianist and composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger is born in Brand, Bayern, Germany.


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134 years ago

Monday 19th of March 1888

Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.


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117 years ago

Sunday 19th of March 1905

Nazi architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer is born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.


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116 years ago

Monday 19th of March 1906

SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is born in Solingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.


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108 years ago

Thursday 19th of March 1914

Actress and wife of Mao Zedong Jiang Qing, originally Lǐ Shūméng aka Lan Ping aka Madame Mao is born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China.


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101 years ago

Saturday 19th of March 1921

Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper is born in 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Trecenydd, Caerphilly, South Wales, United Kingdom.


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89 years ago

Sunday 19th of March 1933

Writer Philip Milton Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.


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86 years ago

Thursday 19th of March 1936

Actress Ursula Andress is born in Ostermundigen, Mittelland, Switzerland.


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83 years ago

Sunday 19th of March 1939

Mass murderer Dale Merle Nelson is born in Creston, British Columbia, Canada.


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78 years ago

Sunday 19th of March 1944

Assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, originally Sirḥān Bishārah Sirḥān known for the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Israel.


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77 years ago

Monday 19th of March 1945

Murderer John Henry George Lee aka Babbacombe Lee aka The Man They Couldn't Hang dies of natural causes at the age of 81 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.


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77 years ago

Monday 19th of March 1945

Serial killer Randy Steven Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer is born in Long Beach, California, United States.


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72 years ago

Sunday 19th of March 1950

Writer Edgar Rice Burroughs known for Tarzan dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Encino, California, United States.


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51 years ago

Friday 19th of March 1971

Lutgarde Van Der Wilt is raped, strangled and mutilated by serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Wielewaalreservaat Zellaar, Bonheiden, Antwerpen, Belgium.


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25 years ago

Wednesday 19th of March 1997

Barbara Bourgeois is stabbed to death by serial killer Daniel Blank aka The Parish River Killer in Paulina, Louisiana, United States.


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25 years ago

Wednesday 19th of March 1997

Abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93 in East Hampton, New York, United States.


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21 years ago

Monday 19th of March 2001

Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial killer Guy Georges, originally Guy Rampillon aka Le Tueur de la Bastille in Paris, Île-de-France, France.


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15 years ago the Proceedings Were Televised

Monday 19th of March 2007

Start of the trial against 67-year-old Record producer and songwriter Phil Harvey Phillip Spector known for the ‘Wall of Sound’ production method for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles Superior Court, Alhambra, California, United States.

Presiding Judge Larry Paul Fidler allowed the proceedings in court to be televised.


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14 years ago

Wednesday 19th of March 2008

Science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television series host Arthur C. Charles Clarke known for 2001: A Space Odyssey dies of respiratory failure at the age of 91 in Colombo, Basnahira Palata, Sri Lanka.


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