41st year - Nº 78 Thursday, 19 March 2026

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41st year - Nº 78 Thursday, 19 March 2026

19 March / Today's 27 Events:

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(-) 740 years ago He Was Desperate to Return to His Queen Tuesday 19th of March 1286 King of Scots Alexander III aka Alaxandair mac Alaxandair dies of a broken neck at the age of 45 in Kinghorn Castle, Kinghorn, Scotland, United Kingdom. After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol Alexander was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone advised him not to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck having been thrown off his horse.

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(-) 305 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 1721 243rd Pope Clemens XI, originally Giovanni Francesco Albani dies of unknown causes at the age of 72 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 288 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 1738 Revolutionary leader Túpac Amaru II, originally José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera is born in Surimana-Canas, Cusco, Peru.

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(+) 213 years ago Friday 19th of March 1813 Explorer and pioneer medical missionary David Livingstone is born in 165 Station Road, Blantyre, Scotland, United States.

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(x) 195 years ago Saturday 19th of March 1831 Edward Smith aka Edward Jones aka James Honeyman and James Murray commit what is regarded as one of the first bank thefts in the United States in City Bank of New York, Wall Street, New York City, New York, United States. The thieves made off with $245.000 using a set of copied keys.

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(+) 155 years ago Sunday 19th of March 1871 Baroness and mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria Mary Vetsera, originally Marie Alexandrine von Vetsera is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(+) 153 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 1873 Pianist and composer Max Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger is born in Brand, Bayern, Germany.

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(+) 138 years ago Monday 19th of March 1888 Artist Josef Albers is born in Bottrop, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 121 years ago Sunday 19th of March 1905 Nazi architect Albert Berthold Konrad Hermann Speer is born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 120 years ago Monday 19th of March 1906 SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Otto Eichmann known for organising the Holocaust is born in Solingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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(+) 112 years ago Thursday 19th of March 1914 Actress and wife of Mao Zedong Jiang Qing, originally Lǐ Shūméng aka Lan Ping aka Madame Mao is born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China.

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(+) 105 years ago Saturday 19th of March 1921 Actor and comedian Tommy Thomas Frederick Cooper is born in 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Trecenydd, Caerphilly, South Wales, United Kingdom.

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(+) 93 years ago Sunday 19th of March 1933 Writer Philip Milton Roth is born in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 90 years ago Thursday 19th of March 1936 Actress Ursula Andress is born in Ostermundigen, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(+) 87 years ago Sunday 19th of March 1939 Mass murderer Dale Merle Nelson is born in Creston, British Columbia, Canada.

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(+) 82 years ago Sunday 19th of March 1944 Assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, originally Sirḥān Bishārah Sirḥān known for the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Israel.

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(+) 81 years ago Monday 19th of March 1945 Serial killer Randy Steven Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer is born in Long Beach, California, United States.

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(-) 81 years ago Monday 19th of March 1945 Murderer John Henry George Lee aka Babbacombe Lee aka The Man They Couldn't Hang dies of natural causes at the age of 81 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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(-) 76 years ago Sunday 19th of March 1950 Writer Edgar Rice Burroughs known for Tarzan dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Encino, California, United States.

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(-) 55 years ago Friday 19th of March 1971 Lutgarde Van Der Wilt is raped, strangled and mutilated by serial killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen in Wielewaalreservaat Zellaar, Bonheiden, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 1997 Barbara Bourgeois is stabbed to death by serial killer Daniel Blank aka The Parish River Killer in Paulina, Louisiana, United States.

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(-) 29 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 1997 Abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning dies of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93 in East Hampton, New York, United States.

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(x) 25 years ago Monday 19th of March 2001 Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial killer Guy Georges, originally Guy Rampillon aka Le Tueur de la Bastille in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 22 years ago Friday 19th of March 2004 Drug trafficker Yen May Woen aka Joelle Yen is executed by hanging at the age of 38 in Changi Prison, Singapore, Singapore. Woen was arrested in May 2002 carrying 120 sachets, each containing 30.16g of heroin.

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(x) 19 years ago the Proceedings Were Televised Monday 19th of March 2007 Start of the trial against 67-year-old Record producer and songwriter Phil Harvey Phillip Spector known for the ‘Wall of Sound’ production method for the murder of 40-year-old nightclub hostess and actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles Superior Court, Alhambra, California, United States. Presiding Judge Larry Paul Fidler allowed the proceedings in court to be televised.

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(-) 18 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 2008 Science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television series host Arthur C. Charles Clarke known for 2001: A Space Odyssey dies of respiratory failure at the age of 91 in Colombo, Basnahira Palata, Sri Lanka.

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(-) 1 years ago Wednesday 19th of March 2025 Murderer Aaron Brian Gunches is executed by lethal injection at the age of 54 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Gunches last meal request was for a double western burger, spicy gyros, onion rings and baklava.

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