38th year - N° 84 Saturday, 25 March 2023

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38th year - N° 84 Saturday, 25 March 2023

25 March / Today's 39 Events:

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(-) 222 years ago Wednesday 25th of March 1801 Romantic poet and writer Novalis, originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg dies of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in Weißenfels, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 156 years ago Monday 25th of March 1867 Conductor Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 148 years ago Thursday 25th of March 1875 Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 142 years ago Friday 25th of March 1881 Composer Béla Viktor János Bartók is born in Nagyszentmiklós, Timiș, Austria-Hungary.

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(+) 132 years ago Wednesday 25th of March 1891 Writer Filip De Pillecyn aka De Prins der Nederlandse Letteren known for his novel ‘Monsieur Hawarden’ is born in Plezantstraat, Hamme aan de Durme, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 113 years ago Friday 25th of March 1910 Black Judge Jones is lynched by hanging from a water tank at the age of 27 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States.

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(x) 112 years ago Saturday 25th of March 1911 146 die in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Greene Street and Washington Place, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. A large crowd of bystanders gathered on the street, witnessing 62 people jumping or falling to their deaths from the burning building.

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(+) 112 years ago Saturday 25th of March 1911 Nightclub operator Jack Ruby, originally Jacob Leon Rubenstein is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 105 years ago Monday 25th of March 1918 Composer Claude Achille Debussy dies of rectal cancer at the age of 56 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. In December 1915 Debussy underwent one of the earliest colostomy operations ever performed.

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(+) 105 years ago Monday 25th of March 1918 Presumed illegitimate son of Adolf Hitler Jean-Marie Loret, originally Jean-Marie Lobjoie is born in Seboncourt, Aisne, France.

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(-) 104 years ago Tuesday 25th of March 1919 Sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck commits suicide due to distress in his ongoing state of depression at the age of 38 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(+) 102 years ago Friday 25th of March 1921 Actress Simone Signoret, originally Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 88 years ago Monday 25th of March 1935 65-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac is sentenced to die in the Electric Chair in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Monday 25th of March 1940 Multiple murderer Douglas Franklin Wright is born in Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 83 years ago Monday 25th of March 1940 Singer and anti-gay rights activist Anita Jane Bryant is born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Wednesday 25th of March 1942 Singer and musician Aretha Louise Franklin aka The Queen of Soul is born in 406 Lucy Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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(-) 81 years ago Wednesday 25th of March 1942 Marthe Khait is presumably murdered by doctor and serial killer Marcel Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in 21 Rue Le Sueur, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 77 years ago Monday 25th of March 1946 Serial killer Gerard John Schaefer is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Schaefer's actual birth place is unknown.

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(+) 76 years ago Tuesday 25th of March 1947 Singer-songwriter and composer Elton Hercules John, originally Reginald Kenneth Dwight is born in Pinner, Middlesex, United Kingdom.

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(x) 76 years ago Tuesday 25th of March 1947 111 die in No. 5 coal mine dust explosion in Centralia, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 66 years ago He Didn't Howl Monday 25th of March 1957 The poem 'Howl' by 31-year-old Beat poet Allen Irwin Ginsberg being imported from the printer in London is seized by customs as obscene in San Francisco, California, United States. On 3 October 1957 Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.

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(x) 54 years ago They Gave Peace a Bed Tuesday 25th of March 1969 29-year-old Musician John Winston Lennon known from The Beatles and artist Yoko Ono start their first 'Bed-in for Peace' in Hilton Hotel, Apollolaan 138, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 48 years ago Tuesday 25th of March 1975 King of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is shot point-blank and killed by his half-brother's 28-year-old son Faisal bin Musaid at the age of 69 in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia.

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(-) 47 years ago Thursday 25th of March 1976 Artist Josef Albers dies of natural causes at the age of 88 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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(x) 43 years ago Tuesday 25th of March 1980 Donna Marie Hensley is beaten and stabbed by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Tower Motel, 1116 Mason Avenue, Daytona, Florida, United States. Hensley escaped, reported her assault and ID'd Gerald Stano as her assailant. Stano was brought in on 1 April to be questioned about the assault on Hensley to which his confesses along with the murder of Mary Carol Maher.

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(-) 40 years ago He Wanted to Make the World a Better Place Friday 25th of March 1983 17-year-old Mass murderer Daniel Scholeer aka Het Monster van Elverdinge shoots and kills his 79-year-old grandmother Jeannette Lacante, his 62-year-old uncle Albert Druelle, his 53-year-old mother Antoinette Barbez, his 53-year-old aunt Gabriëlle Barbez and his 56-year-old father Gerard Scholeer in Steenstraat 4/6, Elverdinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Afterwards Scholeer said "They were good people, but so old-fashioned. I wasn't even allowed to be a rally pilot or a rock singer like Elvis Presley. And actually, I wanted to make the world a better place." In his room a list was found with 80 names of people he planne d to kill.

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(x) 39 years ago Sunday 25th of March 1984 35-year-old Murderer Peter Carlier attempts to escape from prison by keeping the director as a hostage in Leuven Centraal, Geldenaaksevest 64, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium. Carlier surrenders when his accomplice Andreino Fabris is shot dead by police snipers.

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(x) 36 years ago Wednesday 25th of March 1987 Noise music band Club Moral play their 65th concert in The Globe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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(x) 36 years ago Wednesday 25th of March 1987 44-year-old Serial killer Gary Michael Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer is arrested in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 34 years ago Saturday 25th of March 1989 Anthony Sears is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in 2357 South 57th Street, West Allis, Wisconsin, United States. Dahmer cleaned the Sears' skull and kept the scalp because he liked his ponytail and wanted to keep it. Sears' skull and scalp were found three years later in Dahmer's apartment.

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(x) 33 years ago Sunday 25th of March 1990 87 die in Happy Land unlicensed social club fire in Happy Land, 1959 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York, New York, United States. The evening of the fire, unemployed Cuban refugee Julio González had argued with his former girlfriend Lydia Feliciano, a coat check girl at the Happy Land, urging her to quit. She claimed that she had had enough of him and did not want anything to do with him anymore. González tried to fight back into the club but was ejected by the bouncer. González returned to the establishment with a plastic container of gasoline. He spread the fuel on a staircase, the only access into the club, and then ignited the gasoline. González was charged with 174 counts of murder - two for each victim - and was found guilty on 87 counts of arson and 87 counts of murder on 19 August 1991. For each count he received the sentence maximum of 25 years to life (a total of 4,350 years).

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(-) 30 years ago Thursday 25th of March 1993 Cop killer Ramon Montoya Facundo is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Tuesday 25th of March 1997 Murderer Pedro Luis Medina is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. With the first jolt of electricity, blue and orange flames sparked from the mask covering Medina's face. Flames up to a foot long shot out from the right side of Medina's head for 6 - 10 seconds. The execution chamber clouded with smoke and the smell of burnt flesh filled the witness room.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 25th of March 1999 Double murderer Charles Henry Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 17 years ago Saturday 25th of March 2006 Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke commits suicide by jumping in front of a train at the age of 56 in Barnes, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Clarke checked himself out of the Priory Hospital just minutes before.

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(-) 17 years ago Saturday 25th of March 2006 Film director Richard O. Fleischer dies of natural causes at the age of 90 in Woodland Hills, California, United States.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 25th of March 2006 A bright lit corridor in a U-Bahn station in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 16 years ago Sunday 25th of March 2007 58-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison after 24 years in Zuchthaus, Aichach, Bayern, Germany. Mohnhaupt was the longest ever imprisoned member of the Rote Armee Fraktion.

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13 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 25th of March 2010 Spring time on our back terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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38th year - N° 83 Friday, 24 March 2023

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38th year - N° 83 Friday, 24 March 2023

24 March / Today's 34 Events:

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(-) 1214 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 0809 Fifth Arab Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid aka Aaron the Upright, Aaron the Just or Aaron the Rightly Guided dies of unknown causes at the age of 46 in Tus, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.

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(-) 568 years ago Saturday 24th of March 1455 208th Pope Nicholaus V, originally Tommaso Parentucelli dies of unknown causes at the age of 58 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 191 years ago Saturday 24th of March 1832 27-year-old Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement aka Mormonism Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon are beaten up and tarred and feathered by a group of citizens who were incensed over the United Order in Hiram, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 150 years ago She Was Dead and She Was Rotten Monday 24th of March 1873 Serial poisoner Mary Ann Cotton, originally Mary Ann Robson is executed by hanging by William Calcraft at the age of 41 in Durham Gaol, Elvet, Durham, North East, United Kingdom. Cotton may have murdered as many as 21 people including 11 of her 13 children. "Mary Ann Cotton, she's dead and she's rotten. Lying in bed with her eyes wide open. Sing, sing, oh what should I sing? Mary Ann Cotton, she's tied up with string. Where, where? Up in the air. Selling black puddings, a penny a pair. Mary Ann Cotton, she's dead and forgotten, Lying in bed with her bones all rotten. Sing, sing, what can I sing? Mary Ann Cotton, tied up with string."

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(+) 149 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1874 Illusionist, magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, originally Erik Weisz aka The Handcuff King is born in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(x) 145 years ago Sunday 24th of March 1878 317 die in HMS Eurydice Royal Navy training corvette sinking in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Only two of the ship's crew and trainees survived.

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(+) 136 years ago He Was a Heavy-Weight Baby Thursday 24th of March 1887 Actor Roscoe Conkling 'Fatty' Arbuckle aka The Heavy-Weight Rapist is born in Smith Center, Kansas, United States. Arbuckle weighed in excess of 5.9 kg at birth and as both parents had slim builds his father believed the child was not his.

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(+) 130 years ago Friday 24th of March 1893 Second wife of Hermann Göring Emma Johanna Henny Sonnemann aka Die Hohe Frau des Deutschen Reiches is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(+) 126 years ago Wednesday 24th of March 1897 Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich is born in Dobrianychi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

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(-) 118 years ago Friday 24th of March 1905 Writer Jules Gabriel Verne known for his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 77 in 44 Boulevard Longueville, Amiens, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(-) 118 years ago Friday 24th of March 1905 Murderer Lewis W. Lyons is executed by hanging at the age of 56 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(+) 114 years ago Wednesday 24th of March 1909 Gangster Clyde Chestnut Barrow is born in Telico, Texas, United States.

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(-) 109 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1914 Murderer William A. Dorr is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 30 in Charlestown State Prison, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 104 years ago Monday 24th of March 1919 22-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer is discharged from the army and released from a hospital in Rennes, Bretagne, France. Petiot was diagnosed with psychasthenia, fugue and amnesia, suffering from paranoia and suicidal thoughts.

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(-) 101 years ago Friday 24th of March 1922 Murderer Edward Ernest Black is executed by hanging by John Ellis at the age of 37 in Exeter Prison, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.

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(+) 93 years ago Monday 24th of March 1930 Actor Steve Terrence Stephen McQueen aka The King of Cool is born in St. Francis Hospital, Beech Grove, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 88 years ago Sunday 24th of March 1935 65-year-old Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Albert Hamilton Howard Fish aka The Cannibal aka The Werewolf of Wysteria aka The Moon Maniac confesses to the 8-year-old murder of Bill Gaffney, whose ears, nose and pieces of his face and belly he made into a stew in Westchester County Courthouse, White Plains, New York, United States. Fish also roasted the boy's behind with strips of bacon.

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(-) 87 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1936 Cop killer George W. Barret aka Diamond King is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Marion County, Indiana, United States. He was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. At the time of his execution he was still crippled from his wounds and had to be carried to the gallows on a stretcher and supported by deputy marshals.

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(+) 78 years ago Saturday 24th of March 1945 Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Camilla Christine Hall aka Gabi is born in Saint Peter, Minnesota, United States.

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(x) 75 years ago Wednesday 24th of March 1948 24-year-old Miscarriage of justice victim Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place moves with his wife Beryl from 11 St Mark's Road to a two room top flat in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On 10 October of that year their baby Geraldine was born.

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(-) 70 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1953 Queen Mary of Teck, originally Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes dies of lung cancer at the age of 86 in Marlborough House, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 70 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1953 Seven female bodies are discovered behind a plastered door in the house of 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place by the new tenant, Beresford Brown in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 64 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1959 Erika is attacked by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale in Moerser Straße, Rheinhausen, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 54 years ago Monday 24th of March 1969 Maralynn Skelton is battered to death by serial killer John Norman Collins aka The Ypsilanti Killer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Skelton was so brutally battered that the undertaker had to turn her on her side in the coffin, one side of her head was destroyed.

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(-) 51 years ago Friday 24th of March 1972 Frank Anthony Aguirre is raped and strangled by serial killer Dean Corll aka The Candyman in 925 Schuler Street, Houston, Texas, United States. Wayne Henley and Owen Brooks called Aguirre over to Corll's van on Yale Street and invited him to drink beer and smoke marijuana with them at Corll's apartment. Aguirre was buried at High Island Beach.

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(-) 47 years ago Wednesday 24th of March 1976 War leader Bernard 'Monty' Montgomery aka 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 89 in Isington Mill, Isington, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 43 years ago Monday 24th of March 1980 Prelate of the Catholic Church Óscar Romero, originally Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is shot in the heart by members of a death squad led by Major Roberto D'Aubuisson at the age of 63 in Hospital de la Divina Providencia, San Salvador, San Salvador, . During Romero's funeral ceremony smoke bombs exploded on the streets near the cathedral and subsequently there were rifle shots that came from surrounding buildings. Many people were killed by gunfire and in the stampede of people running away from the explosions and gunfire; official sources reported 31 overall casualties while journalists recorded that between 30 and 50 died.

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(-) 39 years ago Saturday 24th of March 1984 Dmitry Ptashnikov is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Chikatilo bit off Ptashnikov's tongue and penis.

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(-) 35 years ago Thursday 24th of March 1988 Richard Guerrero is drugged, strangled and dismembered by serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal in Oxford Apartments #213, 924 25th North Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 26 years ago Monday 24th of March 1997 Three trash bags with a female torso and belongings are found, all victims of Unidentified serial killer Le Dépeceur de Mons aka The Trash Bag Killer in Chemin de L'Inquiétude, Cuesmes, Hainaut, Belgium.

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(x) 25 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1998 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden shoot 4 pupils and a teacher to death and injure 10 more in Westside Middle School, 1800 AR-91, Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. On the night before the shooting Golden assisted Johnson in loading his mother's Dodge Caravan with camping supplies, snack foods, a Remington 742 .30-06 rifle, Universal .30 M1 carbine replica, Ruger .44 Magnum rifle, Smith & Wesson .38 revolver, Double Deuce Buddie .22 two-shot derringer, FIE .380 pistol, Star .380 pistol, Ruger Security Six .357 revolver, Davis Industries .38 two-shot derringer a nd a Charter Arms .38 revolver.

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(-) 25 years ago Tuesday 24th of March 1998 Ljudmyla Zubskova is shot in the head by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Pietra Ligure, Liguria, Italy.

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(-) 24 years ago Wednesday 24th of March 1999 Reichsfrauenführerin Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, originally Gertrud Emma Treusch aka Maria Stuckebrock dies of natural causes at the age of 97 in Bebenshausen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 24th of March 2006 Unarranged mixed media in the basement in Ballhaus Ost, Pappelallee 15, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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