40th year - N° 73 Friday, 14 March 2025

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40th year - N° 73 Friday, 14 March 2025

14 March / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 172 years ago Monday 14th of March 1853 Artist Ferdinand Hodler is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(+) 146 years ago Friday 14th of March 1879 Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 142 years ago Wednesday 14th of March 1883 Economist and revolutionary communist Karl Heinrich Marx dies of pleurisy at the age of 65 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 121 years ago Monday 14th of March 1904 32-year-old Serial killer Ludwig Tessnow aka The Mad Carpenter his death sentence is confirmed at an appeal hearing in Reichsgericht, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany. Tessnow was sentenced to death in 1902 despite the opinion of six psychiatrists that he was insane.

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(-) 121 years ago Monday 14th of March 1904 Murderer Thomas Tobin is executed by Old Sparky in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Saturday 14th of March 1908 Phenomenological philosopher Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty is born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Aquitaine, France.

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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 14th of March 1923 Photographer Diane Arbus, originally Diane Nemerov is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 93 years ago He Didn't Wait No More Monday 14th of March 1932 Innovator and entrepreneur George Eastman commits suicide a shot through the heart at the age of 78 in Rochester, New York, United States. Eastman left a suicide note that read, "My work is done. Why wait?"

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(+) 87 years ago Monday 14th of March 1938 Multiple murderer Robert Excell White aka Excell the Executioner is born in Shelby, Mississippi, United States.

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(-) 74 years ago Wednesday 14th of March 1951 Murderer Jim Q. A. Patterson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Friday 14th of March 1952 Double murderer Jimmy C. Wingo is born in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago Thursday 14th of March 1963 Murderer Manuel Estrella Silvas is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 43 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Tuesday 14th of March 1972 112 die in Sterling Airways Flight 296 Caravelle crash into a mountain in Kalba, Al-Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

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(-) 53 years ago Tuesday 14th of March 1972 Anarchist publisher and millionaire Giangiacomo Feltrinelli dies in in the bombing of an electricity-line at the age of 46 in Segrate, Lombardia, Italy.

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(-) 51 years ago Thursday 14th of March 1974 John Farrell is garotted by serial killer Robert Maudsley aka The Brain Eater in Wood Green, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Farrell picked up Maudsley for sex and showed him pictures of children he had sexually abused.

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 14th of March 1979 32 die in CAAC Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E crash in Beijing, Hebei, China. The crash was caused by an unqualified pilot who stole and flew the airliner. Total fatalities were all 12 crew, 32 ground, and no passengers. Over 200 people working in a factory on the crash site were injured.

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(x) 45 years ago There Were 22 Knockouts Friday 14th of March 1980 87 die in LOT Polish Airlines Flight 7 Ilyushin Il-62 crash in Okęcie Airport, Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland. Among the fatalities were a contingent of the U.S. amateur boxing team including 29 boxers, trainers and doctors.

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(-) 45 years ago Friday 14th of March 1980 Ronald Craig Gatlin is sodomised, beaten and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in North Hollywood, California, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Saturday 14th of March 1981 22-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'BesanKon' at Pap'cirkus-Festival in Besançon, Franche-Comté, France. In an old schoolbuilding I made an installation with loud noise music and slide-projections from midnight till eight in the morning.

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(x) 43 years ago Sunday 14th of March 1982 Noise music band Club Moral play their twelfth concert in De Moriaan, Markt, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

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(-) 41 years ago Wednesday 14th of March 1984 Double murderer James David Autry aka Cowboy is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Autry's last meal request was for a hamburger, french fries and a Dr. Pepper. During the execution he remained conscious and in great pain for about 10 minutes.

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(-) 36 years ago Tuesday 14th of March 1989 Boxer David Thio dies in the ring after being punched in a coma by Terence Alli during the light-weight championship at the age of 23 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(x) 29 years ago Thursday 14th of March 1996 40-year-old Serial killer groupie Veronica Ver Lyn Compton is released on parole in Washington Corrections Center for Women, 9601 Bujacich Rd., Gig Harbor, Washington, United States. Two weeks later Compton was sent back to prison for parole violations.

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(-) 28 years ago Friday 14th of March 1997 Film director Fred Alfred Zinneman dies of a heart attack at the age of 90 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 25 years ago His Last Meal Was a Handcuff Key Tuesday 14th of March 2000 Murderer Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. On the day of his execution Wilkerson refused to leave his cell at the Terrell Unit prison near Livingston. Guards were forced to use Mace-like gas and carry him to and from the death van that took him to the Hunstville Unit. After the drugs were administered Wilkerson spit out an inch-and-a-half universal handcuff and leg restraint key.

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18 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 14th of March 2007 Cycling as far as I could in a one day journey on the longest street in Landsberger Allee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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10 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 14th of March 2015 The playlist for James Chance and Les Contortions in Het Bos, Ankerrui 5-7, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 7 years ago He Radiated into a Black Hole Wednesday 14th of March 2018 Theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen William Hawking dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 5 years ago S/he Dropped He/r Body Saturday 14th of March 2020 Musician, performance artist and occultist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, originally Neil Andrew Megson known from the industrial band Throbbing Gristle dies of leukemia at the age of 70 in New York City, New York, United States.

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