41st year - N° 65 Friday, 6 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 65 Friday, 6 March 2026

6 March / Today's 37 Events:

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(x) 1394 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 0632 62-year-old Prophet and founder of Islam Muhammad, originally Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim delivers his Farewell Sermon aka Khuṭbatu l-Wadāʿ in Jabal 'Arafāt, Makkah l-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.

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(+) 551 years ago Saturday 6th of March 1475 Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo, originally Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is born in Caprese, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 407 years ago Wednesday 6th of March 1619 Writer and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac, originally Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac is born in Rue des Deux-Portes, IIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. de Bergerac was baptised on this day, his birth date was not recorded.

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(+) 241 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1785 Serial poisoner Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, originally Margarethe Timm aka Der Engel von Bremen is born in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Gesche had a twin brother namen Johann.

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(x) 198 years ago Thursday 6th of March 1828 43-year-old Serial poisoner Gesche Margarethe Gottfried, originally Margarethe Timm aka Der Engel von Bremen is arrested and locked up in Detentionshaus am Ostertor, Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany.

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(-) 190 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1836 Folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician Davy David Crockett aka King of the Wild Frontier is killed on the battlefield at the age of 50 in Misión de Álamo, San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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(+) 156 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1870 Serial killer Adolf Gustav Seefeldt aka Onkel Tick Tack is born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(+) 132 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 1894 Multiple murderer Raymond Lisenba aka Rattlesnake James is born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

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(-) 126 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 1900 Baby farmer and murderess Ada Chard Williams is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Williams was the last woman to be hanged in the yard of Newgate Prison.

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(-) 126 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 1900 Engineer and automobile developer Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler dies of unknown causes at the age of 66 in Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 118 years ago Friday 6th of March 1908 Actor and comedian Lou Costello, originally Louis Francis Cristillo known from Abbott and Costello is born in Paterson, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 116 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1910 Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is born in Spokane, Washington, United States.

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(+) 100 years ago Saturday 6th of March 1926 Film and theatre director Andrzej Witold Wajda is born in Suwałki, Województwo Podlaskie, Poland.

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(+) 89 years ago Saturday 6th of March 1937 Cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova known for becoming the first woman in Space is born in Maslennikovo, Yaroslavi Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 85 years ago Was een Zonnige Dag Thursday 6th of March 1941 Serial killer Hans van Zon, originally Johannes Marinus van Zon is born in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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(-) 82 years ago Monday 6th of March 1944 Murderer Harvey Cunningham is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 38 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 73 years ago Friday 6th of March 1953 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Wolfgang Grams is born in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 66 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1960 Joy Mellish is tied up and raped by Satan worshipper and serial rapist Edward Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey in Portelet, Saint Brélade, Jersey, United Kingdom. Mellish survived.

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(+) 65 years ago Monday 6th of March 1961 Mass murderer Ramón Bojórquez Salcido is born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

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(x) 62 years ago He Was Renamed Friday 6th of March 1964 Elijah Muhammed announces in a radio message that 22-year-old Boxer Muhammad Ali, originally Cassius Marcellus Clay has joined the Nation of Islam Black Muslims and renamed Muhammad (one who is worthy of praise) Ali (fourth rightly guided caliph) in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 59 years ago Monday 6th of March 1967 Composer Zoltán Kodály dies of natural causes at the age of 85 in Budapest, Közép-Magyarország, Hungary.

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(x) 56 years ago Friday 6th of March 1970 Three members of Radical left organisation the Weather Underground are killed while constructing a nailbomb in a townhouse in 18 West 11th Street, New York City, New York, United States. The killed Weathermen were 22-year-old Theodore Gold, 28-year-old Diana Oughton and 22-year-old Terry Robbins.

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(x) 56 years ago People Said He was no Good Friday 6th of March 1970 During a press conference, the release of the one and only record album 'Lie, The Love and Terror Cult' of Criminal hippy gang the Manson Family is announced in Spahn Ranch, 12000 Santa Susana Pass Road, Chatsworth, California, United States.

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(-) 53 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 1973 Writer Pearl S. Buck, originally Pearl Sydenstricker aka Sai Zhenzhu dies of lung cancer at the age of 81 in Danby, Vermont, United States.

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(x) 52 years ago Wednesday 6th of March 1974 Bomb attack by the Women's Brigade of Radical left organisation the Weather Underground to protest the sterilisation of poor women in Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, California, United States. In the accompanying communiqué the Women's Brigade argues for "the need for women to take control of daycare, healthcare, birth control and other aspects of women's daily lives."

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(x) 45 years ago Friday 6th of March 1981 31-year-old Vigilante Marianne Bachmeier aka The Revenge Mother shoots the confessed killer of her 7-year-old daughter Anna, 35-year-old convicted sex offender Klaus Grabowski, seven times in the back in Landgericht Lübeck, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Bachmeier was convicted by the Circuit Court Chamber of the District Court Lübeck for manslaughter and sentenced for unlawful possession of a firearm to six years in prison on 2 March 1983 but was later released after serving three years.

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(x) 43 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1983 Noise music band Club Moral play their 23rd concert at the Nacht van de Industrie festival in Limelight, Persijnstraat 6, Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Also played: La Drolesse, Angst, AR/TE, Einstürzende Neubauten

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(x) 42 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 1984 An unidentified woman is raped by serial killer Bobby Joe Long aka The Adman Rapist in Port Richey, Florida, United States. The woman advertised her home for sale.

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(-) 40 years ago Thursday 6th of March 1986 Painter Georgia O'Keeffe aka The Mother of American Modernism dies of natural causes at the age of 99 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. O'Keefe's ashes were scattered on the land around her home and studio Ghost Ranch.

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(x) 39 years ago Friday 6th of March 1987 193 die in Herald of Free Enterprise ferry capsizing in Zeebrugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(-) 36 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 1990 Performance artist Gina Pane dies of cancer at the age of 51 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 32 years ago Sunday 6th of March 1994 Serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer dies of AIDS at the age of 42 in Pontiac Correctional Center, Pontiac, Illinois, United States.

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(x) 24 years ago Wednesday 6th of March 2002 75-year-old Serial killer András Pándy aka Father Bluebeard  is sentenced to life in prison for killing six family members and dissolving their bodies in chemical drain cleaner in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. His daughter Agnes Pándy is sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for being an accomplice in five of her father's murders.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 6th of March 2005 Horse number 4 in the 'Ganzenrijden' contest in Lillo, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago He Had His Boots on Like a Cowboy Tuesday 6th of March 2007 Double murderer Robert Anthony Martinez Perez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Perez was linked to at least 15 murders in San Antonio. Perez' final meal request was for five pieces of fried chicken, one double meat hamburger with cheese and onion, onion rings, three cheese and onion enchiladas, one onion, french fries, hot sauce, pico de gallo, jalapeno peppers and two cokes. His last words were "I am ready Warden. I got my boots on, like a cowboy."

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(-) 19 years ago Tuesday 6th of March 2007 Sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 7 years ago Wednesday 6th of March 2019 Performance artist Carolee Schneemann dies of breast cancer at the age of 80 in New Paltz, New York, United States.

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