41st year - N° 61 Monday, 2 March 2026

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 41st year - N° 61 Monday, 2 March 2026

2 March / Today's 37 Events: (-) 1040 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 0986 Carolingian king of West Francia Lothaire IV dies of unknown causes at the age of 45 in Laon, Aisne, France. (+) 567 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of March 1459 218th Pope Hadrianus VI, originally Adriaan Florensz Boeyensis born in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands. (+) 271 years ago  Sunday 2nd of March 1755 Composer Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick is born in Liège, Liège, Belgium. (-) 253 years ago The Devil Returned Tuesday 2nd of March 1773 Mary Clues dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion at the age of 52 in Gosford Street, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Clues previously told her neighbour that the Devil had appeared in the room and that he would return to take her away. (+) 216 years ago  Friday 2nd of March 1810 256th Pope Leo XIII, originally Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci is born in Carpineto Romano, Lazio, Italy. (+) 202 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1824 Composer Bedřich Smetana is born in Litomyšl, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. (+) 150 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1876 260th Pope Pius XII, originally Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli is born in Rome, Lazio, Italy. (+) 146 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1880 Civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist Ivar Kreuger aka The Match King is born in Kalmar, Småland, Sweden. (+) 126 years ago  Friday 2nd of March 1900 Composer Kurt Julian Weill is born in Sandvorstadt, Dessau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. (-) 121 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1905 Georgette  is strangled by serial killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or in Paris, Île-de-France, France. (+) 118 years ago  Monday 2nd of March 1908 Murderer Roland Cochrane aka Charles E. Stevens is born in New York City, New York, United States. (x) 111 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1915 112 die in New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Nº 3 coal minedust explosion in New River & Pocahontas Consolidated, Layland, West Virginia, United States. (-) 108 years ago  Saturday 2nd of March 1918 Murderer Louis Voisin is executed by hanging in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (-) 100 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1926 Laura Ernestine Beale is strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in San Jose, California, United States. (-) 96 years ago  Sunday 2nd of March 1930 Writer and playwright D. H. David Herbert Richards Lawrencedies of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in Villa Robermond, Vence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. (+) 95 years ago  Monday 2nd of March 1931 8th and last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is born in Privolnoye, Stavropolsky Kray, Russia. (+) 89 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1937 Victim of Jack the Stripper Bridget 'Bridie' O’Hara aka Bridget Moore is born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. (-) 87 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1939 Archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter dies of Hodgkin's Disease at the age of 65 in 49 Albert Court, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. (+) 84 years ago It Was a Perfect Day Monday 2nd of March 1942 Musician Lou Lewis Allan Reed is born in Beth El Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. (-) 83 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1943 Actor Tyler Brooke, originally Victor Hugo de Bierre commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 57 in Los Angeles, California, United States. (x) 82 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1944 426 die in steam-hauled freight train stalling in Balvano, Basilicata, Italy. The freight train was grossly overloaded with illegal passengers. With all the cars in the tunnel, people died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient. (+) 76 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1950 Musician Karen Carpenter is born in Grace-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. (+) 71 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of March 1955 Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, originally Chizuo Matsumoto is born in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan. (x) 65 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1961 Artist Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso is born in Vallauris, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Picasso and Roque's marriage lasted 11 years until his death, during which time he created more than 400 portraits of her. (x) 61 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1965 40-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 17 / Bimmel Bammel' in Perinetkeller, Perinetgasse 1, Wien, Wien, Austria. (x) 58 years ago  Saturday 2nd of March 1968 30-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 25. Aktion in Filmmakers Cinematheque, 80 Wooster Street, SoHo, New York City, New York, United States. Nitsch' 25. Aktion lasted two hours. (-) 54 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1972 Member of Bewegung 2. Juni Thomas Weisbecker is shot in the heart during a police shootout at the age of 23 in Stadtwerkehaus, Hoher Weg 1, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany. SPK member Carmen Roll is arrested in the same event. (x) 48 years ago  Thursday 2nd of March 1978 The coffin of 89-year-old Actor and film director Charles Spencer Chaplin is stolen from the cemetary in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. In May 1978 24-year-old Roman Wardas from Poland and 38-year-old Gancho Ganev from Bulgaria demanded a ransom of $600.000 in return for the coffin. Oona Chaplin refused to deal with them saying "My husband is in heaven and in my heart". The thieves were arrested and the coffin was found buried in a nearby cornfield. (x) 47 years ago  Friday 2nd of March 1979 Ann Rooney is hit on the head and back with a hammer by serial killerPeter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper in Horsforth College, Horsforth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Rooney survived. (-) 44 years ago  Tuesday 2nd of March 1982 Science fiction writer Philip K. Kindred Dick dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 54 in Santa Ana, California, United States. Dick had suffered a stroke five days earlier and was disconnected from life support after his EEG had been consistently isoelectric since losing consciousness. (-) 43 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of March 1983 John Bartlett is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Niles, Illinois, United States. (-) 35 years ago  Saturday 2nd of March 1991 Singer-songwriter, actor and poet Serge Gainsbourg, originally Lucien Ginsburg dies of a heart attack at the age of 63 in 5 bis Rue de Verneuil, VIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (x) 28 years ago  Monday 2nd of March 1998 Natascha Maria Kampusch aka The Girl in the Cellar is abducted by kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil in Rennbahnweg 38, Donaustadt, Wien, Wien, Austria. Přiklopil kept her in his basement for eight years. (-) 21 years ago  Wednesday 2nd of March 2005 Composer Martin Denny aka The Father of Exotica dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 94 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. 19 years ago  Friday 2nd of March 2007 Knotted underwood in a hidden park corner in Vlemincktoren, Turnhoutsebaan 381, Wijnegem, Antwerpen, Belgium. (x) 17 years ago  Monday 2nd of March 2009 68-year-old Military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service Ali Hassan al-Majid, originally Alī Ḥasan ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī aka Chemical Ali is sentenced to death for the third time, for the assassination of Grand-Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr in 1999 in Baġdād, Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād, Iraq. (-) 6 years ago  Monday 2nd of March 2020 Performance artist Frank Uwe Laysiepen aka Ulay dies of lymphatic cancer at the age of 77 in Ljubljana, Carniola, Slovenia.

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