Sunday, March 17, 2013

160 Years Ago das Farbige Licht der Doppelsterne Ging Aus

1250 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 March 763
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Caliph of the Abbasid empire Harun Al-Rashid is born in Rayy, Teheran, Iran.

179 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 March 1834
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Scientist and mechanic Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler is born in Schorndorf, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.

160 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 March 1853
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Physicist Christian Andreas Doppler dies of pulmonary embolism at the age of 49 in Venice, Italy.

107 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 March 1906
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Black thief William Carr lynched by hanging in Placquemine, Louisiana, USA.

106 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 March 1907
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Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, Erich Devries is born in Hannover, Germany.

94 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 March 1919
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Musician Nat ‘King’ Cole is born in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.

91 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 March 1922
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Keimes is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.

80 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 March 1933
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Wife-murderer Charles Burke commits suicide by slashing his wrists in Covington, Kentucky, USA.
He was carrying the body of his wife, cut to pieces and packed in jars, in his car during a routine police-check.

75 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 March 1938
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Choreographer Rudolf Hametowitsch Nureyev is born in Irkutsk, Russia.

71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 March 1942
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Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is born in Chicago, Edgewater Hospital, Illinois, USA.

54 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 March 1959
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Murderer John William Rook is born in North Carolina, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 March 1960
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28-year-old Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is arrested as ‘The Measuring Man’ in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

53 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 March 1960
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The remains of six tons of books, journals and papers of deceased Psychoanalist and pioneer of sexual freedom Wilhelm Reich are burned by FDA officials in the 25th Street Gansevoort public incinerator in New York, New York, USA.

48 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 March 1965
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Lidia N. is strangled by Zdzislaw Marchwicki aka The Wampir, at the age of 34 in Bedzin, Poland.

37 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 March 1976
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Filmmaker Luchino Visconti di Modrone dies of a stroke at the age of 69 in Rome, Italy.

36 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 March 1977
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Lebanese Statesman Kamal Jumblatt is assassinated by persons unknown at the age of 59 in Lebanon.
Prime suspects include the pro-Syrian faction of the Lebanese Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), in collaboration with the Ba'ath Party.

31 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 March 1982
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40-year-old Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, has his life-sentence quashed, but remains in prison awaiting a new trial in Beauvais, France.

28 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 March 1985
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Dayle Okazaki is shot dead by Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, at the age of 34 in Los Angeles, Rosemead and Monterey Park, California, USA.

25 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 March 1988
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143 Die in Columbian Airlines Avianca Flight 410 Boeing 727 crash in Cúcuta, Colombia.

18 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 March 1995
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Murderer Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Kray aka The Profession of Violence, dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Slough, Wexham Park hospital, United Kingdom.

14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 March 1999
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Serial Killer and member of the Ripper Crew or Chicago Rippers Andrew Kokoraleis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Tamms, Illinois, USA.

13 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 March 2000
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Over 800 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in an orchestrated suicide with sulfuric acid in an explosion and subsequent fire in Kanangu, Uganda.
More people were found poisoned and stabbed to death in the aftermath of their 'apocalypse'.

1 YEAR AGO - on Saturday 17 March 2012
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John Demjanjuk aka Iwan The Terrible, dies at the age of 92 in Bad Feilnbach, Bavaria, Germany.

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