41st year - Nº 90 Tuesday, 31 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 90 Tuesday, 31 March 2026

31 March / Today's 33 Events:

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(+) 527 years ago Friday 31st of March 1499 224th Pope Pius IV, originally Giovanni Angelo Medici is born in Milano, Lombardia, Italy. Giovanni was the second of eleven children to Bernardino de' Medici and Clelia Serbelloni.

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(+) 430 years ago Sunday 31st of March 1596 Philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes is born in La Haye en Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France. Descartes' mother died on 13 May 1597, a few days after giving birth to another son, who also died soon after.

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(+) 351 years ago Sunday 31st of March 1675 247th Pope Benedictus XIV, originally Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 341 years ago Saturday 31st of March 1685 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Thüringen, Germany.

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(-) 299 years ago Monday 31st of March 1727 Mathematician, physicist, astronomer and theologian Isaac Newton dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 294 years ago Monday 31st of March 1732 Composer Franz Joseph Haydn aka The Father of the Symphony is born in Rohrau-an-der-Leitha, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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(+) 217 years ago Friday 31st of March 1809 Writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is born in Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.

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(-) 189 years ago Friday 31st of March 1837 Painter John Constable dies of heart failure at the age of 61 in 76 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 171 years ago Saturday 31st of March 1855 Poet and writer Charlotte Brontë aka Currer Bell known for Jane Eyre dies of dehydration and malnourishment due to vomiting caused by severe morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum at the age of 39 in Haworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 148 years ago Sunday 31st of March 1878 Boxer Jack John Arthur Johnson aka The Galveston Giant known for becoming the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion is born in Galveston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 117 years ago Wednesday 31st of March 1909 Writer and journalist Robert Brasillach is born in Perpignan, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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(-) 110 years ago Friday 31st of March 1916 Black Jeff Brown is lynched for bumping into a white woman in Cedar Bluff, Mississippi, United States.

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(+) 110 years ago Friday 31st of March 1916 Kidnapper and child murderer Franklin Pierce McCall is born in Jasper, Florida, United States.

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(+) 100 years ago He Was Collected Wednesday 31st of March 1926 Writer John Robert Fowles known for his novel The Collector is born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom.

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(x) 94 years ago Thursday 31st of March 1932 Nazi leader and Reichsjugendführer Baldur Benedikt von Schirach is born in Alter Peter, Petersplatz 1, München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 91 years ago Sunday 31st of March 1935 Actor Richard George Chamberlain is born in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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(+) 91 years ago Sunday 31st of March 1935 Musician Herb Herbert Alpert known from Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass is born in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 73 years ago Tuesday 31st of March 1953 54-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is arrested, posing as John Waddington in Putney Bridge, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. All he had in his possession were some coins and an old newspaper clipping about the remand of Timothy Evans.

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(-) 64 years ago Saturday 31st of March 1962 Klaus Jung is abducted and killed by serial killer Jürgen Bartsch aka Der Kirmesmörder in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(x) 57 years ago Monday 31st of March 1969 153 die in coal mine explosion and fire in Barroterán, Coahuila, Mexico.

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(x) 56 years ago Tuesday 31st of March 1970 63-year-old West German Ambassador to Guatemala Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti is kidnapped by Marxist–Leninist FAR guerillas in Guatemala City, Guatemala. von Spreti was killed six days later.

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(x) 56 years ago Tuesday 31st of March 1970 A Japan Airlines Boeing 727-89 Flight 351 is hijacked by nine members of the   Communist militant group the Japanese Red Army on the way from Tokyo   in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. The group then proceeded to Pyongyang's Mirim Airport where they surrendered to North Korean authorities, who offered the whole group asylum.

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(x) 55 years ago Wednesday 31st of March 1971 28-year-old American hero and mass murderer William Laws Calley known for the My Lay Massacre is sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor for the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. The next day President Richard Nixon ordered Calley transferred from Leavenworth Prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal. Calley served only three and a half years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning.

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(-) 46 years ago He Couldn't Win from Death Monday 31st of March 1980 Black Olympic legend Jesse James Cleveland Owens dies of lung cancer at the age of 67 in Tucson, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 42 years ago Saturday 31st of March 1984 Murderer Ronald Clark O'Bryan aka The Pixy Stix Killer aka The Man Who Killed Halloween is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. On 31 October 1974 O'Bryan poisoned his 8-year-old son Timothy with a cyanide-laced Giant-sized Pixy Stix in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles. O'Bryan also distributed poisoned candy to his 5-year-old daughter Elizabeth and four other children in an attempt to cover up his crime, however neither his daughter nor the other children ate the poisoned candy.

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(x) 40 years ago Monday 31st of March 1986 167 die in Mexicana Boeing 727–264 Flight 940 crash into a mountain in El Carbón, Michoacán, Sierra Madre, Mexico.

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(-) 31 years ago Friday 31st of March 1995 Singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez aka The Queen of Tejano music is shot dead by 35-year-old Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club at the age of 24 in Days Inn Motel, 901 Navigation Blvd, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. Saldívar was embezzling money from the Selena fan club and Selena decided to fire her. Shot once in her right shoulder, severing an artery, Selena ran towards the lobby for help. She collapsed on the floor as the clerk called 911, with Saldívar still chasing her and calling her a "bitch". Selena died in a hospital from loss of blood. Her funeral drew 60.000 mourners.

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(-) 28 years ago He Wanted Them to Pull the Switch Tuesday 31st of March 1998 Spree killer Daniel Eugene Remeta is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. Remeta once said he wanted to be extradited to Florida because it imposes capital punishment. "I want them to pull the switch," he said. "I'm not afraid. Death is only as ugly as you make it.''

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(x) 27 years ago Wednesday 31st of March 1999 31-year-old Serial killer Sipho Mandla Agmatir Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper aka The Canefield Killer is found guilty of 16 murders and 10 rapes and sentenced to 506 years in prison in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 31st of March 2004 Peaches on stage in Ancienne Belgique, Boulevard Anspach 110, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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11 years ago The Eyes had it Tuesday 31st of March 2015 The seats for the medics in the bullfighting arena in Plaza de Toros, 5 Av. Plaza de Toros, Calanda, Teruel, Spain.

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(-) 10 years ago Thursday 31st of March 2016 Architect Zaha Mohammad Hadid dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Mount Sinai Medical Center, 4300 Alton Rd, Miami, Florida, United States.

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(-) 9 years ago Friday 31st of March 2017 Pop artist James Rosenquist dies after a long illness at the age of 84 in New York City, New York, United States.

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41st year - Nº 89 Monday, 30 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 89 Monday, 30 March 2026

30 March / Today's 30 Events:

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(+) 280 years ago Wednesday 30th of March 1746 Painter and printmaker Francisco Goya, originally Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is born in Plaza Aragón, Fuentedetodos, Aragón, Spain.

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(-) 219 years ago Monday 30th of March 1807 Triple murderer George Allen is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Stafford Goal, Gaol Road, Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. On 12 January Allen slashed his three children, 9-year-old George, 6-year-old William and 4-year-old Hannah to death with a razor.

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(+) 215 years ago He Wanted to Burn Saturday 30th of March 1811 Chemist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen known for development of the Bunsen burner is born in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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(-) 186 years ago Monday 30th of March 1840 Men's fashion pioneer Beau George Bryan Brummell dies of insanity due to syphilis at the age of 62 in Le Bon Sauveur, 93 Rue Caponière, Caen, Normandie, France.

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(+) 182 years ago Saturday 30th of March 1844 Poet Paul Marie Verlaine is born in 2 Rue Haute-Pierre, Metz, Lorraine, France.

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(+) 173 years ago Wednesday 30th of March 1853 Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh is born in Markt 26, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Van Gogh was given the name of his grandfather and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth.

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(-) 143 years ago Friday 30th of March 1883 Murderess Emeline Lucy Meaker is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in State Prison, 546 State Farm Road, Windsor, Vermont, United States. Meaker was the first woman to be legally executed in Vermont. On the morning of her execution Meaker ate a large beefsteak, three potatoes, a slice of bread and butter, a piece of meat pie, and a cup of coffee. Then she went to view the gallows and remarked that it was not half as bad as she thought it would be. She ate a lunch consisting of two boiled eggs, two slices of toast, one potato, one doughnut, and a cup of coffee.

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(+) 132 years ago Friday 30th of March 1894 Engineer and aircraft designer Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin is born in Dilyalevo, Vologda Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 121 years ago Thursday 30th of March 1905 Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint is born in Clayton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 118 years ago Monday 30th of March 1908 Murderer Chester Ellsworth Gillette aka An American Tragedy is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Auburn Prison, State Street, Auburn, New York, United States. Gillette became the basis for the fictional character Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy.

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(-) 114 years ago He Carried Excessive Quantities of Heavy Metal Saturday 30th of March 1912 Writer Karl Friedrich May known for creating adventure novel protagonists Winnetou and Old Shatterhand dies of acute bronchitis at the age of 70 in Radebeul, Sachsen, Germany. Scientists examining the remains of May in 2014 found excessive quantities of lead and other heavy metals and concluded that his death was probably due to a long-time exposure to lead in water as well as tobacco.

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(+) 113 years ago Sunday 30th of March 1913 Singer and actor Frankie Laine, originally Francesco Paolo LoVecchio aka Old Leather Lungs is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 101 years ago Monday 30th of March 1925 Philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner aka The Father of Anthroposophy dies of unknown causes at the age of 64 in Goetheanum, Dornach, Solothurn, Switzerland.

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(x) 96 years ago Sunday 30th of March 1930 Sybilla Wil is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 95 years ago Monday 30th of March 1931 Physician and cosmonout Aleksei Vasiliyevich Sorokin is born in Dobroye, Kursk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 89 years ago Tuesday 30th of March 1937 Actor Warren Beatty, originally Henry Warren Beaty is born in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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(+) 89 years ago Tuesday 30th of March 1937 Child killer Lucien Léger aka L'étrangleur nº 1 is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 83 years ago Tuesday 30th of March 1943 Triple murderer William Lonas Hedden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Friday 30th of March 1945 Guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric Patrick Clapton aka Slowhand is born in Ripley, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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(+) 62 years ago Monday 30th of March 1964 Murderer John Kennedy Barefield is born in Houston, Texas, United States.

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(+) 59 years ago Thursday 30th of March 1967 Double murderer Stephen Dale Barbee is born in Tarrant, Texas, United States.

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(x) 51 years ago He Solved His Problem Sunday 30th of March 1975 41-year-old Mass murderer James Urban Ruppert shoots his entire family with a .357 Magnum pistol, two .22 caliber handguns and a rifle because his 65-year-old mother Charity was frustrated with her son's inability to hold a steady job and his constant drinking; she threatened to evict him in 635 Minor Avenue, Hamilton, Ohio, United States. The victims were his 65-year-old mother Charity, his 42-year-old brother Leonard II, his 38-year-old sister-in-law Alma and their children 17-year-old Leonard Jr., 16-year-old Michael, 15-year-old Thomas, 13-year-old Carol, 12-year-old Ann, 11-year-old David, 9-year-old Teresa and 4-year-old John.

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(x) 45 years ago He Did it for Jodie Monday 30th of March 1981 Ronald Wilson Reagan is shot by would-be assassin John Hinckley in Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Besides Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy and police officer Thomas Delahanty were also wounded. All three survived but Brady suffered brain damage and was permanently disabled. Hinckley was suffering from erotomania and his motivation for the attack was born of his obsession with actress Jodie Foster.

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(x) 43 years ago Wednesday 30th of March 1983 41-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is transferred to Cookham Wood in Borstal, Kent in Durham Gaol, Elvet, Durham, North East, United Kingdom.

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(-) 40 years ago Sunday 30th of March 1986 Actor James Francis Cagney dies of a heart attack at the age of 87 in Clinton Corners, Stanfordville, New York, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Monday 30th of March 1998 Presumed multiple murderess Judy Judias V. Buenoano, originally Judias Welty aka Florida's Black Widow is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 55 in Florida State Prison, 23916 NW 83rd Ave., Raiford, Florida, United States. Buenoano was the first woman to be executed in Florida since 1848.

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(-) 27 years ago He Was Sent to His Maker Tuesday 30th of March 1999 Multiple murderer Robert Excell White aka Excell the Executioner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 61 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. White's final words were "Send me to my maker, warden."

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(-) 22 years ago He Had Three Mountain Dews Tuesday 30th of March 2004 Double murderer William Dean Wickline aka The Butcher is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, United States. Wickline's last meal request was for an eight-ounce filet mignon, medium rare, potato salad, six rolls with butter, fresh strawberries over shortcake and butter pecan ice cream. He also received four packs of Pall Mall cigarettes and six cans of pop, including three of Mountain Dew.

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6 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 30th of March 2020 Two cuddling trash bags in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 4 years ago Wednesday 30th of March 2022 Drug trafficker Abdul Kahar Othman is executed by hanging at the age of 68 in Changi Prison, Singapore, Singapore.

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