41st year - N° 66 Saturday, 7 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 66 Saturday, 7 March 2026

7 March / Today's 29 Events:

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(+) 333 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1693 248th Pope Clemens XIII, originally Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico is born in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

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(-) 302 years ago Tuesday 7th of March 1724 244th Pope Innocentius XIII, originally Michelangelo dei Conti dies of at the age of 69 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Innocentius XIII was tormented by a hernia of which he spoke to nobody but his valet. At one point, it had burst and caused inflammation and fever.

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(+) 154 years ago Thursday 7th of March 1872 Painter Piet Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan is born in Kortegracht 11, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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(+) 151 years ago Sunday 7th of March 1875 Composer, pianist and conductor Maurice Joseph Ravel known for his work ‘Boléro’ is born in Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.

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(+) 148 years ago Thursday 7th of March 1878 Criminologist August Vollmer aka Gus is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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(-) 131 years ago Thursday 7th of March 1895 Writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch dies of unknown causes at the age of 59 in Mollerschen Landhaus, Lindheim, Hessen, Germany.

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(+) 122 years ago Monday 7th of March 1904 Nazi leader and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich is born in Halle an der Saale, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

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(+) 117 years ago Sunday 7th of March 1909 Accountant and Home Army resistance member Ryszard Siwiec is born in Dębica, Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland.

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(-) 96 years ago Friday 7th of March 1930 Double murderer Refugio Macias is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 95 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1931 Artist and architect Theo van Doesburg, originally Christian Emil Marie Küpper dies of a heart attack at the age of 48 in Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland.

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(+) 86 years ago Thursday 7th of March 1940 Student leader Rudi Alfred Willi Dutschke aka Rote Rudi is born in Schönefeld, Brandenburg, Germany.

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(-) 67 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1959 Murderer Lonnie Craft is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 42 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

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(-) 67 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1959 Gertrude Robinson is raped and strangled by serial killer Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy in Southlands Beach, Bermuda, British Overseas Territories.

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(x) 62 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1964 35-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate escapes in Allen County Jail, Iola, Kansas, United States.

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(+) 62 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1964 Serial killer Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov aka The Angarsk Werewolf is born in Angarsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 60 years ago Monday 7th of March 1966 Mass murderer Robert Earl Carter is born in Somerville, Texas, United States.

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(+) 56 years ago Saturday 7th of March 1970 21-year-old Member of the 'Manson Family' Linda Kasabian, originally Linda Darlene Drouin gives birth to a son named Angel in Sybil Brand Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States. Angel's father is either Tex Watson, Charles Manson or Kasabian's husband Robert. He now lives under the name of Nathan.

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(-) 53 years ago Wednesday 7th of March 1973 Luis Ortiz is stabbed to death and his penis severed by unidentified serial killer Charlie Chop-off in New York City, New York, United States.

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(-) 38 years ago He Slept on His Back Monday 7th of March 1988 Actor, singer and drag queen Harris Glenn Milstead aka Divine aka The Dirtiest Man in the World dies of an enlarged heart at the age of 43 in Regency Plaza Suites #261, 7940 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States. Due to his obese frame Divine had an additional sleep apnea so that his physician told him to not sleep on his back, which he ignored and thus died in his sleep.

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(-) 36 years ago Wednesday 7th of March 1990 Yaroslav Makarov is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in SFU Botanical Garden, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Chikatilo also cut off the tip of Makarov's tongue.

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(-) 35 years ago Thursday 7th of March 1991 Elfriede Schrempf is strangled by serial killer Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper in Graz, Steiermark, Austria. Schempf's body was found on 5 October 1991.

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(-) 29 years ago Friday 7th of March 1997 Artist Martin Kippenberger dies of liver cancer at the age of 44 in Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 27 years ago Sunday 7th of March 1999 Film director Stanley Kubrick dies of a heart attack at the age of 71 in Childwickbury Manor, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

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(-) 25 years ago Wednesday 7th of March 2001 Rapist and murderer Dennis Thurl Dowthitt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 56 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(x) 24 years ago Thursday 7th of March 2002 41-year-old Serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga known for the Kitakyūshū Serial Murder Incident is arrested in Kitakyushu, Kyushu, Japan.

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(-) 24 years ago Thursday 7th of March 2002 Double murderer Gerald Tigner is executed by lethal injection at the age of 30 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 7th of March 2004 The Landrover User Handbook serving lyrics for our Club Moral 'User Handbook' CD on top of a London City speaker during the recording sessions in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 19 years ago It Was All He Had to Say Wednesday 7th of March 2007 Murderer Joseph Nichols is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. When the warden asked Nichols if he wanted to make a last statement he answered "Yes, yes I do." He then mentioned a supervisory corrections officer on death row by name and uttered a string of obscenities about her. Then he said "That's all I got to say."

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(-) 1 years ago He Wanted to Share Three Buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken Friday 7th of March 2025 Double murderer Brad Keith Sigmon is executed by the firing squad at the age of 68 in Broad River Correctional Institution, Columbia, South Carolina, United States. For his last meal, Sigmon requested fried chicken from Kentucky Fried Chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits, cheesecake and sweet tea. Sigmon originally asked for three buckets of the fried chicken and wanted to share them with the other inmates but his request was denied by the prison department. The firing squad fired at 6:05 pm, and Sigmon flexed his arms and heaved in the chair for a few seconds before he fell motionless, and he was pronounced dead at 6:08 pm.

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