41st year - N° 68 Monday, 9 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 68 Monday, 9 March 2026

9 March / Today's 31 Events:

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(x) 230 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1796 War leader Napoléon Bonaparte, originally Napoleone di Buonaparte in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 136 years ago Sunday 9th of March 1890 Politician and diplomat Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, originally Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin is born in Kukarka, Kirov Oblast, Russia. Skryabin took the pseudonym 'Molotov', derived from the Russian molot (hammer) for his political work owing to the name's vaguely 'industrial' ring.

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(-) 108 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1918 Playwright Frank Benjamin Franklin Wedekind dies of complications from appendectomy surgery at the age of 54 in München, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 108 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1918 Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell is born in Bloomington, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 108 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1918 Writer Mickey Frank Morrison Spillane known for his signature detective character Mike Hammer is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 103 years ago Friday 9th of March 1923 Cop killer Husted Walters is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States.

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(+) 92 years ago Friday 9th of March 1934 Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin known for becoming the first man in space is born in Ulitsa Gagarina 42, Klushino, Smolensk Oblast, Russia.

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(+) 84 years ago Monday 9th of March 1942 Musician John Davies Cale known from the Velvet Underground is born in Garnant, Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 83 years ago Tuesday 9th of March 1943 Chess grandmaster Bobby Robert James Fischer is born in Michael Reese Hospital, 2929 S. Ellis Avenue, Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 81 years ago Friday 9th of March 1945 Serial killer Dennis Lynn Rader aka The BTK Killer is born in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States.

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(x) 80 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1946 33 die in Bolton Wanderers-Stoke City football game stampede in Burnden Park, Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Over 400 people were injured. The dead and injured were lain along the touchline and covered with coats. A little under half an hour later the game was restarted with a new sawdust lined touchline separating the players from the bodies.

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(-) 76 years ago Thursday 9th of March 1950 Miscarriage of justice victim Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. He was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and child, who were actually killed by John Christie.

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(x) 72 years ago They Were Under Each Other's Influence Tuesday 9th of March 1954 Actor and film director John Nicholas Cassavetes is executed by hanging in Cambria, Wisconsin, United States.

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(+) 72 years ago Tuesday 9th of March 1954 Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Robert Gerard Sands, originally Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh is born in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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(-) 63 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1963 Mary E. Brown is raped, stabbed, strangled and fatally bludgeoned with a pipe by serial killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler aka The Measuring Man aka The Green Man in 319 Park Avenue, Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 60 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1966 George Cornell, originally George Myers is shot dead by gangster Ronald Kray aka Ronnie Kray in The Blind Beggar, 337 Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. On seeing Ronnie Kray enter the pub, Cornell sneered with sarcasm "Look who's here". Ronnie Kray walked towards Cornell, took out a 9 mm Luger, and calmly shot him once in the forehead, just above his right eye.

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(+) 56 years ago Monday 9th of March 1970 Tylenol poisoning victim Mary Ann Kellerman is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 54 years ago Thursday 9th of March 1972 Douglas Owens is stabbed and sexually mutilated by unidentified serial killer Charlie Chop-off in East Harlem, New York, New York, United States. Owens' penis had been cut but not severed from his body.

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(x) 50 years ago Tuesday 9th of March 1976 Start of the trial against 22-year-old Child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge for the abduction and murder of 8-year-old Marie-Dolorès Rambla in Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France. The next day Ranucci was found guilty on all counts and was sentenced to death.

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(x) 46 years ago Sunday 9th of March 1980 34-year-old Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden performs 'Cinque Cinquecento' at the Per/for/mance festival in Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(-) 45 years ago Monday 9th of March 1981 Mass murderer Steven Timothy Judy is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 25 in Indiana State Prison, 1 Park Row, Michigan City, Indiana, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago Friday 9th of March 1984 25-year-old Serial killer Thomas Rath aka Der Moormörder is arrested in Bad Fallingbostel, Niedersachsen, Germany. The day before Rath abducted 18-year-old Gisela Brown who managed to push a cigarette into his left eye and memorised his license plate as he drove off.

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(-) 37 years ago Thursday 9th of March 1989 Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dies of AIDS at the age of 43 in New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 32 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1994 Musician Xavier Rathé dies in an accidental fall off a building at the age of 36 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(-) 32 years ago Wednesday 9th of March 1994 Poet and writer Charles Henry Bukowski, originally Heinrich Karl Bukowski aka Hank dies of leukemia at the age of 74 in San Pedro, California, United States.

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(-) 30 years ago Saturday 9th of March 1996 Comedian, actor and singer George Burns, originally Nathan Birnbaum dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 100 in Beverly Hills, California, United States.

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(-) 28 years ago Monday 9th of March 1998 Stela Truya is shot dead by serial killer Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria in Varazze, Liguria, Italy.

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(-) 25 years ago Friday 9th of March 2001 Murderer Willie Ervin Fisher is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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(-) 25 years ago He Used a Knife to Remove His Appendage Friday 9th of March 2001 Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes is killed, cut to pieces and eaten by murderer and cannibal Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister in Wüstefeld, Rotenburg, Hessen, Germany. Meiwes amputated Brandes' penis with his agreement and the two men attempted to eat it together. Before doing so Brandes swallowed twenty sleeping pills and a bottle of cough syrup, likely causing an effect of slowed breathing and extreme tiredness. Brandes initially insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off. This did not work and ultimately Meiwes used a knife to remove Brandes' appendage. Brandes ap parently tried to eat some of his own penis raw but could not because it was too tough and, as he put it, "chewy". Meiwes then fried the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, wine, and garlic; he then fried it with some of Brandes' fat, but by then it was too burnt to be consumed. He then chopped the penis up into chunks and fed it to his dog. In the next ten months Meiwes consumed up to 20kgs of human meat.

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(-) 23 years ago Sunday 9th of March 2003 Experimental filmmaker Stan Stanley James Brakhage, originally Robert Sanders dies of cancer at the age of 70 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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17 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 9th of March 2009 Installing Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven's exhibition 'Nothing More Natural' in Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Lorenzer Straße 32, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

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