41st year - Nº 62 Tuesday, 3 March 2026

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41st year - N° 62 Tuesday, 3 March 2026

3 March / Today's 29 Events:

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(-) 421 years ago Thursday 3rd of March 1605 231st Pope Clemens VIII, originally Ippolito Aldobrandini dies of gout at the age of 69 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 195 years ago Thursday 3rd of March 1831 Engineer and industrialist George Mortimer Pullman known for the Pullman sleeping car is born in Brocton, New York, United States.

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(+) 179 years ago Wednesday 3rd of March 1847 Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 123 years ago He Was Looking Forward to this Lot Tuesday 3rd of March 1903 Triple murderer Edgar Edwards is executed by hanging by William Billington in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Edwards was recorded as saying "I've been looking forward to this lot!"

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(+) 116 years ago Thursday 3rd of March 1910 Labor leader of the United Mine Workers Joseph Albert Yablonski aka Jock is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(+) 115 years ago Friday 3rd of March 1911 Actress and sex symbol Jean Harlow, originally Harlean Harlow Carpenter aka The Blonde Bombshell is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 109 years ago Saturday 3rd of March 1917 27-year-old Revolutionary Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan, originally Feiga Haimovna Roytblat aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin is released from prison after serving 11 years in prison in Nerchinsk, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Kaplan was arrested in Kiev because of an accidental explosion of terrorist bombs in her possession.

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(x) 105 years ago Thursday 3rd of March 1921 Over 900 die in SS Hong Moh shipwreck in White Rocks, Lamock Island, Swatow, Guandong, China.

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(x) 83 years ago Wednesday 3rd of March 1943 173 die in air shelter stampede in Bethnal Green tube station, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. A middle-aged woman and a child fell over, three steps up from the base and others fell around her, tangled in an immovable mass.

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(-) 73 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1953 Hectorina MacLennan is strangled and raped by serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place in 10 Rillington Place, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 67 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1959 Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper Elena Rytka is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 67 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1959 Actor and comedian Lou Costello, originally Louis Francis Cristillo known from Abbott and Costello dies of a heart attack at the age of 53 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1964 26-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 5. Aktion in the house of Otto Muehl in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(x) 62 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 4 / Kreuzigung Eines Männlichen Körpers' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 54 years ago Friday 3rd of March 1972 Victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal Errol Lindsey is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago Sunday 3rd of March 1974 346 die in Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Flight 981 crash in Forêt d'Ermenonville, Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France. Six passengers were ejected over Saint-Pathus.

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(x) 51 years ago He Was Caught by the Decoy Monday 3rd of March 1975 25-year-old Serial killer Randall Brent 'Randy' Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer is arrested after being caught with marked money from undercover police officers in Duniway Park, Portland, Oregon, United States. Woodfield was sentenced to ten years in prison but was freed on parole in July 1979.

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(-) 50 years ago La Clef Était avec le Concierge Wednesday 3rd of March 1976 Artist Pierre Molinier commits suicide by a shot in his mouth at the age of 76 in 7 rue des Faussets, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Molinier was suffering from prostate cancer and feared an anal operation. On his door he wrote in chalk the following words: "Je prends ma vie. La clef est avec le concierge".

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(x) 43 years ago Thursday 3rd of March 1983 24-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Cet Obscur Objet du Désir' in an installation by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK in Montevideo, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 43 years ago His Death Was Hastened Thursday 3rd of March 1983 Cartoonist Georges Prosper Remi aka Hergé known for his creation of Tintin dies of myelofibrosis at the age of 76 in Universitair Ziekenhuis Saint-Luc, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. Hergé's death was ultimately hastened by the HIV he had acquired during his weekly blood transfusions.

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(-) 39 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1987 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician Danny Kaye, originally David Daniel Kaminsky dies of internal bleeding and complications of hepatitis C at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago Sunday 3rd of March 1991 Mathematician William George Penney aka The Father of the British Atomic Bomb dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in East Hendred, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 34 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1992 263 die in Incirharmani coal mine explosion in Kozlu, Zonguldak, Turkey.

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(-) 34 years ago Tuesday 3rd of March 1992 Murderer Edward Anthony Ellis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 33 years ago Wednesday 3rd of March 1993 Murderer and necrophiliac John George Brewer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Brewer strangled his 22 month pregnant girlfriend Rita Brier on 11 November 1987, then took a shower and had sex with the corpse. Brewer's last meal request was for 3 grilled pork chops with gravy, 1/4 lb. bacon, 6 fried breaded shrimp, beef Rice-a-Roni, 2-3 slices french bread with butter, applesauce, 2 cans Canada Dry Ginger Ale with ice, 1 slice coconut cream pie, 1 pint orange juice, 1 can chicken noodle soup with crackers,1 can pear halves with syrup, Maxwell House coffee with cream and sugar.

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(-) 30 years ago Sunday 3rd of March 1996 Writer and experimental filmmaker Marguerite Duras, originally Marguerite Donnadieu dies of throat cancer at the age of 82 in 5 Rue Saint-Benoît, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 27 years ago Wednesday 3rd of March 1999 Murderer Walter Bernhard LaGrand is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 37 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. LaGrand's last meal request was for six fried eggs, cooked over-easy, 16 strips of bacon, one large portion of hash-browns, one pint of pineapple sherbet ice cream, one 'breakfast steak' well done. One 16 ounce cup filled with ice, one 7UP, 1 Dr. Pepper, 1 Coke, one portion of hot sauce, one cup of coffee, two packets of sugar and four Rolaids tablets.

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(-) 22 years ago Wednesday 3rd of March 2004 Murderer Marcus Bridger Cotton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Cotton's last meal request was for chicken fried steak with cream gravy, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, one slice of cheesecake with whipped cream and sprinkled pecans, one slice of pecan pie and apple juice.

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20 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 3rd of March 2006 Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven's presentation of 24 lightboxes for the Twodo Collection in Objectif Exhibitions, Coquilhatstraat 14, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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