39th year - N° 85 Monday, 25 March 2024

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39th year - N° 85 Monday, 25 March 2024

25 March / Today's 39 Events:

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(-) 223 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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(+) 157 years ago Monday 25th of March 1867 Conductor Arturo Toscanini is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 149 years ago Thursday 25th of March 1875 Actor Spencer Charters is born in Duncannon, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 143 years ago Friday 25th of March 1881 Composer Béla Viktor János Bartók is born in Nagyszentmiklós, Timiș, Austria-Hungary.

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(+) 133 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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(-) 114 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) 113 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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(+) 113 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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(+) 106 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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(-) 106 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 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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(+) 103 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) 89 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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(+) 84 years ago Monday 25th of March 1940 Multiple murderer Douglas Franklin Wright is born in Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 84 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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(+) 82 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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(-) 82 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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(+) 78 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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(+) 77 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) 77 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) 67 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) 55 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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(-) 49 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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(-) 48 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) 44 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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(-) 41 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) 40 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) 37 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) 37 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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(-) 35 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) 34 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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(-) 31 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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(-) 27 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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(-) 25 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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18 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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(-) 18 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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(-) 18 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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(x) 17 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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14 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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