41st year - N° 69 Tuesday, 10 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 69 Tuesday, 10 March 2026

10 March / Today's 29 Events:

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(-) 1543 years ago Wednesday 10th of March 0483 47th Pope Simplicius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 150 years ago He Wanted to See Mr. Watson Friday 10th of March 1876 29-year-old Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson at the receiving end in an adjoining room using a liquid transmitter in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Bell said "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

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(+) 134 years ago Thursday 10th of March 1892 Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger is born in Le Havre, Haute-Normendie, France.

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(x) 120 years ago Saturday 10th of March 1906 1099 die in coal mine dust explosion in Compagnie des Mines de Courrières, Courrières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

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(-) 107 years ago Monday 10th of March 1919 Mary Cortimiglia is beaten to death by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in Corner of Jefferson Avenue and Second Street, Gretna, Louisiana, United States. Mary's parents Charles and Rosie were also attacked and suffered skull fractures but survived.

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(+) 106 years ago Wednesday 10th of March 1920 Writer, poet, musician, actor and engineer Boris Vian aka Vernon Sullivan aka Bison Ravi aka Baron Visi aka Brisavion is born in Ville-d'Avray, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 98 years ago Saturday 10th of March 1928 Assassin James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King is born in Alton, Illinois, United States.

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(-) 98 years ago Saturday 10th of March 1928 Cop killer John Leonard Whitfield is shot dead after escaping from the State Penitentiary with the help of a prison guard at the age of 50 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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(-) 95 years ago Tuesday 10th of March 1931 Murderer Alfred Arthur Rouse aka the Blazing Car Murderer is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 37 in Bedford Gaol, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Rouse burned to death an unknown hitchhiker whom he had rendered unconscious inside his car, seeking to fabricate his own death on 6 November 1930.

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(+) 90 years ago Tuesday 10th of March 1936 Boxer and presumed mass murderer Iwao Hakamada is born in Yūtō, Shizuoka, Japan.

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(-) 82 years ago He Asked for Peaches and Cream Friday 10th of March 1944 Murderer Ernest L. Hoefgen is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States. Hoefgen called for two chicken dinners and got both. He asked for peaches and cream with the noon meal and changed this dessert to ice cream for the evening meal.

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(+) 69 years ago Sunday 10th of March 1957 Founder of al-Qaeda Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden is born in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia.

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(+) 68 years ago Monday 10th of March 1958 Actress Sharon Vonne Stone known from the erotic thriller Basic Instinct is born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 59 years ago Friday 10th of March 1967 21-year-old Maria Teresa López de Sepulveda gives birth to 4 boys and 4 girls, who all die within 14 hours in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first confirmed birth of octuplets worldwide.

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(x) 57 years ago Monday 10th of March 1969 44-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 52 / Pissaktion / Apollo 10 – Danke Schön' at the Hamburger Filmschau in Star-Club, Große Freiheit 39, St. Pauli, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(+) 54 years ago Friday 10th of March 1972 Murder plotter Dustin John Higgs is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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(-) 51 years ago Monday 10th of March 1975 Adele Price is strangled by serial killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First in 13 Lowndes Square, Knightsbridge, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 46 years ago She Found Lingerie in the Bedroom Monday 10th of March 1980 Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist is shot four times at close range by his 57-year-old lover Jean Struven Harris at the age of 70 in Purchase, New York, United States. Harris supposedly got mad at Tarnower when she found lingerie of 38-year-old secretary-receptionist at the Scarsdale Medical Center and love rival Lynne Tryforos in the bedroom.

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(x) 45 years ago Tuesday 10th of March 1981 34-year-old Serial rapist Kevin Frederick Harlan Coe aka the South Hill Rapist is arrested on six charges of first degree rape in Spokane, Washington, United States. Authorities believd Coe was actually responsible for numerous incidents of peepings, flashings, indecent assaults and at least 43 rapes.

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(x) 42 years ago Saturday 10th of March 1984 Noise music band Club Moral play their 33rd concert in JC Den Uil, Dorp Oost 37, Zwijndrecht, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 41 years ago Sunday 10th of March 1985 Soviet leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko dies of a combination of chronic emphysema, an enlarged and damaged heart, congestive heart failure and liver cirrhosis at the age of 74 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(x) 37 years ago Friday 10th of March 1989 26-year-old Serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune falls in a coma due to AIDS and is put in an oxygen-tent in Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard, 46, Rue Henri-Huchard, XVIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 34 years ago Tuesday 10th of March 1992 Murderer Robyn Leroy Parks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. A mere two minutes after the drugs had entered Parks' bloodstream he began reacting violently to the drugs. The muscles in his jaw, neck and abdomen went into spasm. Parks began gasping and even looked like his was choking. He was eventually pronounced painfully dead 11 minutes later.

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(-) 34 years ago Tuesday 10th of March 1992 Artist Francis Bacon dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 83 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

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(x) 29 years ago Monday 10th of March 1997 51-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is stabbed in both eyes with a Parker Rollerball pen by Ian Kay aka The Woolworth Killer in Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Sutcliffe lost the vision in his left eye and his right eye was severely damaged.

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(x) 27 years ago Wednesday 10th of March 1999 50-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs is sentenced to life imprisonment in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 10th of March 2004 Mastering our 'Livingstone' CD in a professional studio in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 18 years ago Monday 10th of March 2008 Serial killer Richard Fran Biegenwald aka The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer dies of respiratory and kidney failure at the age of 68 in St Francis Medical Center, 601 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

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(-) 10 years ago Thursday 10th of March 2016 Musician Keith Noel Emerson known from Emerson, Lake and Palmer commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 72 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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