40th year - N° 80 Friday, 21 March 2025

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40th year - N° 80 Friday, 21 March 2025

21 March / Today's 30 Events:

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(-) 200 years ago Monday 21st of March 1825 Anna Lucia Meyerholz is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

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(+) 186 years ago Thursday 21st of March 1839 Composer Modest Pyotrovich Mussorgsky is born in Karevo, Pskov Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 126 years ago Tuesday 21st of March 1899 Physician and murderer Buck Ruxton, originally Bukhtyar Chompa Rustomji Ratanji Hakim is born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, India.

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(-) 124 years ago Thursday 21st of March 1901 Murderer John Herbert Bennett known for The Yarmouth Beach Murder is executed by hanging by James Billington at the age of 21 in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

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(+) 103 years ago He was Breast Fed Tuesday 21st of March 1922 Film director Russ Russell Albion Meyer aka The King of the Nudies known for his big breast fixation is born in San Leandro, California, United States.

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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 21st of March 1923 Mystery writer Muriel Davidson, originally Muriel Friedland aka The Thursday Woman is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.

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(+) 99 years ago Sunday 21st of March 1926 Film director André Delvaux is born in Heverlee, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 87 years ago The Trap Was Tested and Retested Monday 21st of March 1938 Kidnapper and murderer Orville Adkins is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States. As Adklns stepped up to the gallows trap he collapsed and fell into the concrete pit 12ft below. The guards dashed down the steps and carried him on a stretcher to the platform where Adklns smilingly waited for the damage to be repaired. The trap was then tested and retested.

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(-) 87 years ago Monday 21st of March 1938 Kidnapper and murderer John Travis is executed by hanging in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.

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(-) 87 years ago Monday 21st of March 1938 Kidnapper and murderer Arnett Booth is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 21st of March 1943 Singer-songwriter, musician and poet Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall known from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band is born in Radcliffe Maternity Home, Shillingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 81 years ago Tuesday 21st of March 1944 42-year-old Dancer, actress, film director and photographer Leni Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl marries Peter Jacob in Kitzbühel, Tirol, Austria. Riefenstahl and Jacob divorced in 1947.

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(+) 79 years ago Thursday 21st of March 1946 Serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff aka The Broomstick Murderer is born in Rosebud, Texas, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Sunday 21st of March 1948 Serial killer Jerry Walter McFadden aka Animal is born in Haskell County, Texas, United States.

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(-) 70 years ago Monday 21st of March 1955 Wilhelmina Susanna Uhde Sailer is shot in the head by serial killer Leslie Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer in Mount Vernon, Indiana, United States.

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(-) 62 years ago They Were about to Witness the Damaging Effect of Electricity on Wood Thursday 21st of March 1963 Triple murderer Frederick Charles Wood is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 51 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. As he stood in the death chamber waiting to be strapped into the electric chair Wood grinned at the witnesses and said, "Gents, this is an educational project. You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood. Enjoy yourselves."

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(-) 52 years ago Wednesday 21st of March 1973 Janine M. Ligotino is abducted and stabbed to death by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

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(-) 52 years ago Wednesday 21st of March 1973 Ann C. Arceneaux is abducted and stabbed to death by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Gainesville, Florida, United States.

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(-) 52 years ago Wednesday 21st of March 1973 Vaudeville performer Gummo Milton Marx known from the Marx Brothers dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 80 in Palm Springs, California, United States.

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(-) 50 years ago He Observed the Color Change Friday 21st of March 1975 Anthony Joseph Crean is hacked to death by serial killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First in Shorne, Kent, United Kingdom. Mackay on and off returned to the bathroom and the bloody tub with Crean's body, filling it with water and observing its color change and the bloods affect on the water.

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(-) 49 years ago Love was Blue Sunday 21st of March 1976 Vladimir Peter Sabich aka Spider is shot dead by singer, actress and murderess Claudine Longet in Starwood, Aspen, Colorado, United States. Longet claimed the gun discharged accidentally when Sabich was showing her how it worked. Sabich was hit by a single gunshot in the abdomen and lost a significant amount of blood before an ambulance arrived. He died on the way to Aspen Valley Hospital with Longet at his side.

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(x) 46 years ago Wednesday 21st of March 1979 33-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Send Me Your Money' in KPFK Radio, 3729 Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States. Send Me Your Money.

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(x) 39 years ago He Was not Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue Friday 21st of March 1986 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III' by 81-year-old Artist Barnett Newman known for Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? is attacked with a knife by 33-year-old artist Gerard Jan van Bladeren in Stedelijk Museum, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. The restoration by Daniel Goldreyer initially cost some $400.000, but was heavily attacked by critics who claimed that subtle nuances in the three monochrome sections had been lost and that Goldreyer had used house paints and a roller. According to critics, the painting had been destroyed twice: first during the attack, and again during the restoration. Although the painting is stil l in the Stedelijk Museum's collection, it is no longer on display. Van Bladeren was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and sentenced to eight months in prison.

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(x) 38 years ago Saturday 21st of March 1987 Noise music band Club Moral play their 63rd concert in The Organ Factory, 6-10 Page Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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(x) 36 years ago Tuesday 21st of March 1989 33-year-old Rampage killer Marciano Contaoe is sentenced to 30 years in prison for nine murder counts and another 30 years for three injuries in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines. Contaoe was a member of President Corazon C. Aquino's elite guards who went on a drunken shooting spree on 21 May 1988.

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(-) 34 years ago Thursday 21st of March 1991 Guitar amplification pioneer Leo Clarence Leonidas Fender dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82 in Fullerton, California, United States.

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(x) 23 years ago Thursday 21st of March 2002 52-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man known for organising his own disappearance and presumed death goes paddling out to sea in his canoe in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, North East, United Kingdom. On 1 December 2007 Darwin walked into the West End Central police station in London claiming to have no memory of the past five years.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 21st of March 2005 Obvious signology during a hefty mountain walk in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland.

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(-) 17 years ago Friday 21st of March 2008 Mass murderer John Emil List aka The Bogeyman of Westfield dies of pneumonia at the age of 83 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(x) 3 years ago Monday 21st of March 2022 132 die in China Eastern Yunnan Airlines Flight 5735 Boeing 737-89P crash in Molang Village, Wuzhou, Guangxi, China. On 17 May The Wall Street Journal reported a source from the U.S. government, from officials who were involved in the investigation, as saying that the plane had been intentionally crashed, based on an analysis of data from the aircraft recorders.

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