40th year - N° 75 Sunday, 16 March 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
40th year - N° 75 Sunday, 16 March 2025

16 March / Today's 33 Events:

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(+) 274 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1751 4th President of the United States James Madison is born in Belle Grove Plantation, Port Conway, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 254 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1771 Painter Antoine-Jean Gros is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 236 years ago Monday 16th of March 1789 Physicist and mathematician Georg Simon Ohm is born in Erlangen, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 127 years ago Wednesday 16th of March 1898 Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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(+) 114 years ago Thursday 16th of March 1911 Nazi doctor and anthropologist Josef Mengele aka Der Todesengel is born in Günzburg, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 105 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1920 Adolf Hitler's last private secretary Traudl Gertraud Junge, originally Gertraud Humps is born in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 105 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1920 Aufseherin in Ravensbrück KZ Dorothea Binz is born in Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(+) 99 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1926 Actor, comedian, singer and film director Jerry Lewis, originally Joseph or Jerome Levitch is born in Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 98 years ago Wednesday 16th of March 1927 Test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov known for becoming the first human to die in a space flight is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 95 years ago Sunday 16th of March 1930 Marianne dal Santo is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Kürten griff dal Santo von hinten an und würgte sie. Die Frau versuchte auf ihn einzureden und als das nicht funktionierte, trat sie ihn, als er gespreizt über ihr stand. Sie floh und versteckte sich von 22 - 6 Uhr in einem Gebüsch, wo sie 'stundenlang' jemanden vorbeigehen hörte.

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(+) 84 years ago Sunday 16th of March 1941 Film director Bernardo Bertolucci is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 76 years ago Wednesday 16th of March 1949 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Christine Dümlein is born in Bamberg, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 71 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1954 Serial killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Slayer is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom.

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(-) 70 years ago Il s'est Débarrassé de sa Carcasse d'Homme Wednesday 16th of March 1955 Artist Nicolas de Staël, originally Nicolaï Vladimirovitch Staël von Holstein commits suicide by jumping from a building at the age of 41 in Rue du Revely, Antibes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Suffering from exhaustion, insomnia and depression, de Staël jumped from his studio terrace on the eleventh floor.

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(+) 70 years ago Wednesday 16th of March 1955 Actress Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 68 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1957 Sculptor Constantin Brâncuși dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 66 years ago Monday 16th of March 1959 Multiple murderer and cannibal Vladimir Nikolayevich Nikolayev aka The Novocheboksarsk Cannibal aka The Ogre is born in Novocheboksarsk, Chuvashia, Russia.

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(x) 63 years ago Friday 16th of March 1962 107 army men die in Flying Tiger Line Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Flight 739 disappearance in the Western Pacific Ocean. A civilian tanker observed what appeared to be an in-flight explosion believed to be the missing Super Constellation, though no trace of wreckage or debris was ever recovered.

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(+) 62 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1963 Victim of John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown Robert Jerome Piest is born in Des Plaines, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1963 25-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 2. Aktion in Galerie Josef Dvorak, Lagergasse 2, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 60 years ago Tuesday 16th of March 1965 83-year-old Anti-war protester Alice Herz, originally Alice Strauß immolates herself in protest of the escalating Vietnam War in front of Federal Department Store, corner of Oakman and Grand River, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Herz was rescued by a motorist and his two sons who were driving by and saw her burning and put out the flames. She died of her injuries ten days later.

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(x) 57 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1968 Between 347 and 504 unarmed people are killed by the U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division led by 25-year-old American hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley known for the My Lay Massacre in Mỹ Lai, Sơn Mỹ, Sơn Tịnh District, Vietnam. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Calley was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence but served only three and a half years under house arrest.

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(x) 57 years ago Saturday 16th of March 1968 30-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 26. Aktion in Filmmakers Cinematheque, 80 Wooster Street, SoHo, New York City, New York, United States. Nitsch' 25. Aktion lasted two hours.

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(x) 56 years ago Sunday 16th of March 1969 155 die in Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Flight 742 crash in La Trinidad, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela. 71 people were killed on the ground.

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(-) 48 years ago Wednesday 16th of March 1977 Kamal Fouad Jumblatt is gunned down in his car by unidentified gunmen at the age of 60 in Baakleen, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. Prime suspects include the pro-Syrian faction of the Lebanese Syrian Social Nationalist Party in collaboration with the Ba'ath Party.

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(x) 47 years ago Thursday 16th of March 1978 62-year-old Italian Christian Democratic politician Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro is kidnapped by the Brigate Rosse in Via Mario Fani, Rome, Lazio, Italy. They also killed Moro's bodyguards, two Carabinieri in Moro's car and three policemen in the following car. On 9 May 1978 Moro's body was found in the trunk of a Renault 4 in Via Caetani after 55 days of imprisonment, during which he was submitted to a political trial by the so-called 'people's court' set up by the Brigate Rosse.

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(-) 41 years ago Friday 16th of March 1984 Triple cop killer James William Hutchins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Hutchins was the first man to die by lethal injection in North Carolina.

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(x) 38 years ago Monday 16th of March 1987 28-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'I Challenge You' with Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in College of Advanced Education, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.

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(+) 35 years ago Friday 16th of March 1990 Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulger is born in Kirkby, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(x) 33 years ago Monday 16th of March 1992 33-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'De Guely' in Belgisch Centrum Beeldverhaal, Zandstraat 20, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. During the opening of an exhibition I hung naked from a self-made metal structure in the top-ridge of the building, lighted by a stroboscope.

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(-) 30 years ago Thursday 16th of March 1995 Julie Ann Winningham is strangled by serial killer Keith Jesperson aka The Happy Face Killer in Washougal, Washington, United States.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 16th of March 2006 Some shots from DDV's '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 19 years ago Thursday 16th of March 2006 47-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. During the opening of exhibitions in the Antwerp art galleries I left behind unnoticed plastic ALDI bags filled with earth from my hole between the works of other artists in the galleries.

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