40th year - N° 60 Saturday, 1 March 2025

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40th year - N° 60 Saturday, 1 March 2025

1 March / Today's 36 Events:

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(+) 580 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1445 Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, originally Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi is born in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 215 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1810 Composer Frédéric François Chopin, originally Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin is born in Żelazowa Wola, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland.

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(-) 162 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1863 French aristocrat and possible murderess Meriora Gillibrand aka Mr. Arthur Hawarden dies of a lung disease at the age of 58 in Ligneuville, Liège, Belgium.

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(+) 146 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1879 Prime Minister of Bulgaria Aleksandar Stamboliyski is born in Slavovitsa, Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.

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(+) 139 years ago Monday 1st of March 1886 Artist Oskar Kokoschka is born in Regensburgerstraße 29, Pöchlarn, Niederösterreich, Austria-Hungary.

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(+) 132 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1893 Poet and Lesbian Rights pioneer Mercedes de Acosta is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 121 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1904 Trombonist, arranger, composer and bandleader Glenn Alton Miller is born in Clarinda, Iowa, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1910 Actor David James Graham Niven is born in Belgrave Mansions, 23–47 Grosvenor Gardens, Belgravia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 103 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1922 5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin is born in Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Israel.

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(+) 98 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1927 Singer, songwriter, musician and activist Harry Belafonte, originally Harold George Bellanfanti is born in Society for the Lying-In Hospital, 305 Second Avenue, Harlem, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 96 years ago Friday 1st of March 1929 Dissident writer Georgi Ivanov Markov known for the Umbrella Murder is born in Knyazhevo, Sofia, Sofiya-grad Oblast, Bulgaria.

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(x) 93 years ago the German Got the Baby Tuesday 1st of March 1932 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. is snatched from his crib by kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann in Lindbergh Family Home, East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. The body of Lindbergh Jr. was found two months later in a township nearby.

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(-) 87 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1938 Writer, poet, journalist and soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio aka Principe di Montenevoso aka The High Priest of Erotica dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Vittoriale Degli Italiani, Via Vittoriale, Gardone Riviera, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 81 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1944 Musician Roger Harry Daltrey is born in Hammersmith, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 74 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1951 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Susanne Albrecht is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(-) 72 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1953 Waymon Wood dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Bypass Route 291, Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Wood was sitting in the front seat of his closed car, the windscreen had bubbled from the heat, but the tank of petrol, still half full, was not burned.

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(-) 70 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1955 Murderer James L. Riggins is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. The drop didn't break Riggins' neck, he slowly suffocated for eighteen minutes and forty seconds.

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(-) 70 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1955 Murderer Chastine Beverly is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(-) 70 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1955 Murderer Louis M. Suttles is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 67 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1958 272 die in SS Üsküdar ferry sinking in İzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey. 37 passengers and two crew members survived.

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(x) 67 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1958 33-year-old Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey assaults a 20-year-old unidentified woman in Trinity, Jersey, United Kingdom.

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(-) 67 years ago Saturday 1st of March 1958 Artist Giacomo Balla dies of unknown causes at the age of 87 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 64 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 1961 24-year-old Horst Otto is sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the murder of Manuela Knodt in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Knodt was actually killed by Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale. Otto was released from prison on 3 April 1965.

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(x) 63 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1962 95 die in American Airlines Flight 1 Boeing 707-123B Astrojet crash in Jamaica Bay, Queens, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 55 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1970 Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal Alexander Nikolayevich Spesivtsev aka The Siberian Tiger is born in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

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(x) 54 years ago Monday 1st of March 1971 Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in United States Capitol, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The Weathermen were protesting against the invasion of Laos.

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(+) 52 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1973 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal James Edward 'Jamie' Doxtator is born in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 49 years ago Monday 1st of March 1976 30-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is found guilty of the abduction of Carol DaRonch in Metropolitan Hall of Justice, 400 South 300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Sunday 1st of March 1981 27-year-old Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Robert Gerard Sands, originally Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh starts hungerstriking in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals to maximise publicity with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. The hunger strike centred on five demands: the right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits; the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week; full restoration of remission lost through the protest. Sands died on 5 May 1981 in Maze Prison Hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking.

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(-) 43 years ago Monday 1st of March 1982 Paula C. 'Little Lamb' Perrera is raped, sodomized and strangled by serial killer Michael Ross aka The Roadside Strangler in Wallkill, New York, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1983 Journalist and writer Arthur Koestler, originally Kösztler Artúr commits suicide by an overdose of Tuinal barbiturates taken with alcohol at the age of 78 in 8 Montpelier Square, Kensington, London, Greater London, United States. Koestler's 55-year-old wife Cynthia Jefferies joined him in death.

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(x) 41 years ago Thursday 1st of March 1984 Noise music band Club Moral play their 32nd concert in NL-Centrum, Rozengracht 168, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 31 years ago Tuesday 1st of March 1994 Mass murderer William Glenn Gravlin dies of unknown causes at the age of 60 in Oakland, Michigan, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 1st of March 2000 Murderer Odell Odell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 1st of March 2004 Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven receiving the Cultural Prize 2004 of the Flemish Government in Bourla, Komedieplaats, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 11 years ago Saturday 1st of March 2014 Film director Alain Resnais dies of unknown causes at the age of 92 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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