41st year - N° 76 Tuesday, 17 March 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 76 Tuesday, 17 March 2026

17 March / Today's 27 Events: (+) 1263 years ago  Sunday 17th of March 0763 Fifth Arab Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid aka Aaron the Upright, Aaron the Just or Aaron the Rightly Guided is born in Rey, Tehran Province, Iran. (+) 192 years ago  Monday 17th of March 1834 Engineer and automobile developer Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler is born in Schorndorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (-) 173 years ago  Thursday 17th of March 1853 Mathematician and physicist Christian Andreas Doppler dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 50 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy. (-) 120 years ago  Saturday 17th of March 1906 Black meat thief William Carr lynched by hanging from a railroad bridge for stealing and killing a white man's calf in Placquemine, Louisiana, United States. (+) 119 years ago  Sunday 17th of March 1907 Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Erich de Vriesis born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (+) 107 years ago  Monday 17th of March 1919 Musician Nat King Cole, originally Nathaniel Adams Coles is born in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. (+) 105 years ago  Thursday 17th of March 1921 Mother and victim of Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Clarnell Elizabeth Stage Strandberg-Kemper is born in Winnett, Montana, United States. Clarnell was labeled as a violent alcoholic who would constantly belittle and humiliate Edmund.         (-) 104 years ago  Friday 17th of March 1922 Keimes is killed and his meat sold by serial killer Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf in Neue Straße 8, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (-) 93 years ago  Friday 17th of March 1933 Murderer Charles Burke commits suicide by slashing his wrists in Covington, Kentucky, United States. Burke was carrying the body of his wife, cut to pieces and packed in jars, in his car during a routine police-check. (+) 88 years ago  Thursday 17th of March 1938 Ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev is born in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train while his mother was travelling to Vladivostok where his father was stationed in the Red Army. (+) 84 years ago  Tuesday 17th of March 1942 Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is born in Edgewater Hospital, 5700 North Ashland Avenue, Lincolnwood, Chicago, Illinois, United States. (+) 67 years ago  Tuesday 17th of March 1959 Rapist and murderer John William Rook is born in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. (x) 66 years ago  Thursday 17th of March 1960 The remains of six tons of books, journals and papers of deceased 63-year-old Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reichare burned by FDA officials in Gansevoort Street Destructor Plant, Bloomfield Street, New York, New York, United States. (x) 66 years ago He Didn't Measure no More Thursday 17th of March 1960 29-year-old Serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man is arrested as 'The Measuring Man' in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. (-) 61 years ago  Wednesday 17th of March 1965 Lidia Nowacka is strangled by serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire in Będzin, Województwo Sląskie, Poland. (-) 50 years ago  Wednesday 17th of March 1976 Count of Lonate Pozzolo and film director Luchino Visconti, originally Luchino Visconti di Modrone dies of a stroke at the age of 70 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (x) 44 years ago  Wednesday 17th of March 1982 41-year-old Serial killer Marcel Henri Barbeault aka Le Tueur de L'Ombre has his life-sentence quashed, but remains in prison awaiting a new trial in Cour d’Assises d’Oise, 20 Boulevard Saint-Jean, Beauvais, Oise, France. (-) 41 years ago  Sunday 17th of March 1985 Dayle Yoshia Okazaki is shot dead by serial killer Richard Ramirez aka The Night Stalker in Rosemead, California, United States. Just before Ramirez attacked 22-year-old Maria Hernandez outside the house, shooting her in the face with a .22 caliber handgun after she pulled into the garage. She survived when the bullet ricocheted off the keys she held in her hands as she lifted them to protect herself. (x) 38 years ago There Was a Non-crew Pilot in the Cockpit Thursday 17th of March 1988 143 die in Columbian Airlines Avianca Flight 410 Boeing 727-21crash in El Espartillo mountain, Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia. The investigation pointed to a number of probable causes, including a non-crew pilot in the cockpit whose presence diverted the attention of the pilot and who interfered with the operation of the aircraft. (-) 31 years ago He Didn't Profess Violence no More Friday 17th of March 1995 Gangster Ronald Kray aka Ronnie Kray dies of a heart attack at the age of 62 in Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom. (-) 27 years ago  Wednesday 17th of March 1999 Serial killer and member of the Ripper Crew or Chicago RippersAndrew Kokoraleis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Tamms Correctional Center, Tamms, Illinois, United States. Kokoraleis was the only inmate executed in Tamms death chamber. (x) 26 years ago  Friday 17th of March 2000 924 die in Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God group suicide and mass murder in Kanungu, Western Region, Uganda. 530 cult members died in a church explosion and fire. The five principal cult leaders Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, Dominic Kataribabo and Credonia Mwerinde were assumed to have died in the fire. Four days after the church fire, police investigated Movement properties and discovered hundreds of bodies at sites across southern Uganda. Six bodies were discovered sealed in the latrine of the Kanungu compound, as well as 153 bodies at a compound in Buhunage, 155 bodies at Dominic Kataribabo's estate at Rugazi, where they had been poisoned and stabbed, and another 81 bodies lay at leader Joseph Nymurinda's farm. Police now believe that Joseph Kibweteere and Credonia Mwerinde may still be alive and have issued an international warrant for their arrest. 21 years ago  Thursday 17th of March 2005 Mauro Pawlowski and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven in the restaurant coach of the Lausanne-Bern Express on the way for a Club Moral concert in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. (x) 19 years ago  Saturday 17th of March 2007 Noise music band Club Moral play their 125th concert as Bum Collarin Galerie Barbara Thumm, Markgrafenstrasse 68, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (-) 14 years ago  Saturday 17th of March 2012 Guard at Sobibór KZ John Demjanjuk, originally Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk dies of natural causes at the age of 92 in Altenheim St. Lukas, Am Heilholz 3, Bad Feilnbach, Bayern, Germany. (x) 9 years ago  Friday 17th of March 2017 58-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs'Doppler in Schwarz Weiß' in Kunstverein Hannover, Sophienstraße 2, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. 'On 17 March 1853 Christian Andreas Doppler died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 50 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy. He was known for the Doppler Effect, the effect that produces a change in frequency or wavelength of a wave or other periodic event for an observer moving relative to its source or vice versa. 164 years later on this day I lay on the floor while a shortwave radio was tied to a rotating device, circling it to and from my head whereby there was a change in frequency and wavelength of the static noise on the radio. On the occasion of the exhibition ‘What Would I Do in Orbit?’ by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven.' 2 years ago  Sunday 17th of March 2024 AMVK waiting for her order of Home Style Southern Cuisine in Amy Ruth's, 113 W 116th St, Harlem, New York, New York, United States.

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41st year - N° 75 Monday, 16 March 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 75 Monday, 16 March 2026

16 March / Today's 33 Events: (+) 275 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. (+) 255 years ago  Saturday 16th of March 1771 Painter Antoine-Jean Gros is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 237 years ago  Monday 16th of March 1789 Physicist and mathematician Georg Simon Ohm is born in Erlangen, Bayern, Germany. (-) 128 years ago  Wednesday 16th of March 1898 Artist Aubrey Vincent Beardsley dies of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France. (+) 115 years ago  Thursday 16th of March 1911 Nazi doctor and anthropologist Josef Mengele aka Der Todesengelis born in Günzburg, Bayern, Germany. (+) 106 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. (+) 106 years ago  Tuesday 16th of March 1920 Aufseherin in Ravensbrück KZ Dorothea Binz is born in Groß Dölln, Brandenburg, Germany. (+) 100 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. (+) 99 years ago  Wednesday 16th of March 1927 Test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. (x) 96 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. (+) 85 years ago  Sunday 16th of March 1941 Film director Bernardo Bertolucci is born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. (+) 77 years ago  Wednesday 16th of March 1949 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Christine Dümlein is born in Bamberg, Bayern, Germany. (+) 72 years ago  Tuesday 16th of March 1954 Serial killer Colin Ireland aka The Gay Slayer is born in Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom. (-) 71 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. (+) 71 years ago  Wednesday 16th of March 1955 Actress Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 69 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. (+) 67 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. (x) 64 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. (+) 63 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. (x) 63 years ago  Saturday 16th of March 1963 25-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 2. Aktionin Galerie Josef Dvorak, Lagergasse 2, Wien, Wien, Austria. (x) 61 years ago  Tuesday 16th of March 1965 83-year-old Anti-war protester Alice Herz, originally Alice Straußimmolates 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. (x) 58 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 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. (x) 58 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. (x) 57 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. (-) 49 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. (x) 48 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. (-) 42 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. (x) 39 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. (+) 36 years ago  Friday 16th of March 1990 Victim of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables James Patrick Bulgeris born in Kirkby, Merseyside, United Kingdom. (x) 34 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. (-) 31 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. 20 years ago  Thursday 16th of March 2006 Some shots from DDV's '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town'performance in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. (x) 20 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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