41st year - N° 64 Thursday, 5 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 64 Thursday, 5 March 2026

5 March / Today's 33 Events:

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(-) 211 years ago Sunday 5th of March 1815 Physician and inventor of animal magnetism Franz Anton Mesmer known for Mesmerism dies of unknown causes at the age of 81 in Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 199 years ago Monday 5th of March 1827 Physicist, chemist and pioneer of electricity and power Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta known for SI unit of electric potential dies of unknown causes at the age of 82 in Camnago, Como, Lombardia, Italy.

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(+) 155 years ago Sunday 5th of March 1871 Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg aka Rote Rosa is born in Zamość, Województwo Lubelskie, Poland.

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(+) 150 years ago Sunday 5th of March 1876 Would-be assassin John Flammang Schrank known for attempting to assassinate former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is born in Erding, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 148 years ago Tuesday 5th of March 1878 Mathematician and esotericist Peter Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 124 years ago Wednesday 5th of March 1902 Victim of William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More Josephine Alice 'Josie' Lunde Ross is born in Hayfield, Minnesota, United States.

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(+) 118 years ago Thursday 5th of March 1908 Film and stage actor Rex Reginald Carey Harrison is born in Derry House, Tarbock Road, Huyton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 116 years ago He Instantly Saw the Light Saturday 5th of March 1910 Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō, originally Wu Pai-fu is born in Kagi, Jiāyì Xiàn, Taiwan.

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(x) 110 years ago She Sank in Five Minutes Sunday 5th of March 1916 445 die in Príncipe de Asturias ocean liner shipwreck in Ponta do Boi, Sao Sebastiao, São Paulo, Brazil.

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(+) 108 years ago Tuesday 5th of March 1918 Economist James Tobin known for the Tobin Tax is born in Champaign, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 104 years ago Sunday 5th of March 1922 Writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is born in Via Borgonuovo 4, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 102 years ago Wednesday 5th of March 1924 Lawyer, writer and political activist Jacques Vergès known from several legal cases for high-profile defendants charged with terrorism or war crimes is born in Ubon Ratchathani, Isan, Thailand.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 5th of March 1936 Actor Dean Robert Stockwell is born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 5th of March 1939 Actress Samantha Victoria Louise Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar is born in Hampstead, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 81 years ago Monday 5th of March 1945 Murderess Lena Baker is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 45 in Georgia State Prison, Georgia Highway 147, Reidsville, Georgia, United States. Baker was held as a 'slave woman' by her employer Ernest Knight and she shot him in self-defense during a struggle. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.

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(+) 79 years ago Wednesday 5th of March 1947 Serial killer and companion to Henry Lee Lucas Ottis Elwood Toole is born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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(-) 73 years ago Thursday 5th of March 1953 General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, originally Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74 in Volynskoe Dacha, Kuntsevo, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

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(-) 73 years ago Thursday 5th of March 1953 Composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 62 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 72 years ago Friday 5th of March 1954 Kidnapper, rapist and murderer Barry Lee Fairchild is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago He Was Totally Wired Tuesday 5th of March 1957 Musician Mark E. Edward Smith known from The Fall is born in Broughton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 66 years ago Saturday 5th of March 1960 Double murderer Windell Broussard is born in Port Arthur, Texas, United States.

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(x) 60 years ago Saturday 5th of March 1966 124 die in British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 707-436 Flight 911 aka Speedbird 911 crash in Mount Fuji, Honshu Island, Japan. Several booked passengers decided to cancel their tickets at the last moment in order to see a ninja demonstration. They were in Japan scouting locations for the fifth James Bond film, 'You Only Live Twice'.

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(+) 58 years ago Tuesday 5th of March 1968 Human sacrifice Mark James Kilroy is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Monday 5th of March 1973 30-year-old Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army Donald David DeFreeze aka Field Marshal Cinque Mtume escapes from prison in Soledad State Prison, Soledad, California, United States.

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(-) 46 years ago Wednesday 5th of March 1980 Organiser of the Bayreuther Festspiele Winifred Wagner, originally Winifred Marjorie Williams dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 44 years ago Friday 5th of March 1982 Comedian and actor John Adam Belushi dies of a drug overdose of cocaine and heroin at the age of 33 in Chateau-Marmont Hotel, Bungalow #3, 8221 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 43 years ago Saturday 5th of March 1983 Elizabeth Ann Kenyon is presumably abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Pompano Beach, Florida, United States.

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(x) 40 years ago He Was Possessed by Ezurate Wednesday 5th of March 1986 17-year-old Triple murderer Sean Richard Sellers aka The Schoolboy Night Stalker aka The Night Roomer shoots his 32-year-old mother Vonda and his 43-year-old stepfather Lee Bellofatto while they are sleeping in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. Sellers claimed he was a practicing Satanist at the time of the murders and that demonic possession by the demon 'Ezurate' caused him to murder his victims.

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(-) 31 years ago Sunday 5th of March 1995 Singer-songwriter, musician and poet Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall known from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band dies in a fire caused by faulty wiring near his bed at the age of 52 in 21 Hillfield Park, Muswell Hill, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 26 years ago She Was Mechanically Suffocated Sunday 5th of March 2000 Dancer, pornographic actress, actress and singer Lolo Ferrari, originally Eve Valois known for her ‘largest breasts in the world’ is presumably suffocated by her 59-year-old husband Eric Vigne at the age of 37 in Sainte-Anne, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France. The original autopsy determined that Ferrari had died of an overdose of antidepressants and tranquilizers. A second autopsy two years later found that mechanically-induced suffocation could not be ruled out. Vigne was suspected of causing her death, was arrested and spent 13 months in prison.

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19 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 5th of March 2007 A pile of DVD's waiting to be processed into a multiple edition by AMVK in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 14 years ago Monday 5th of March 2012 Serial killer William George Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More dies of unknown causes at the age of 84 in University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 6 years ago Thursday 5th of March 2020 Alleged cop killer Nathaniel Woods is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Holman Correctional Facility, Ross Road, Atmore, Alabama, United States. On 17 June 2004 Woods had surrendered to police inside a crack house when 24-year-old Kerry Spencer came downstairs and opened fire, killing three officers. Spencer and Woods were both charged with the murders despite Woods never firing a weapon. Spencer was also sentenced to death and remains on death row at Holman Correctional Facility awaiting execution.

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