Thursday, March 21, 2013

70 Years Ago the Urban Spaceman Landed

328 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1685
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Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.

174 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1839
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Composer Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky is born in Karewo, Pskow, Russia.

114 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 March 1899
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Parsi Doctor and murderer Buck Ruxton is born in Bombay, India.

112 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1901
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Wife-murderer John Herbert Bennet is executed by hanging at the age of 20 in Norwich Gaol, United Kingdom.

104 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1909
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Gangster Clyde Chestnut Barker is born in Teleco, Texas, USA.

91 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 March 1922
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Filmmaker Russel Albion Meyer aka King of the Nudies, is born in Oakland, California, USA.

87 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1926
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Filmmaker André Delvaux is born in Heverlee, Brabant, Belgium.

75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 March 1938
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Kidnapper and murderer Arnett Booth is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 March 1938
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Kidnapper and murderer Orville Adkins is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.

75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 March 1938
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Kidnapper and murderer John Travis is executed by hanging in Moundsville, West Virginia, USA.

70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1943
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Founder of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Vivian Victor Anthony Stanshall is born in Shillingford, Radcliffe Maternity Home, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

69 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 March 1944
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41-year-old Actress and filmmaker Leni Helène Bertha Amalia Riefenstahl marries Peter Jacob in Germany.

67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1946
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Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff aka The Broomstick Murderer, is born in Rosebud, Texas, USA.

44 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 March 1969
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Jane Mixer is shot dead by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, in Ann Arbor, Denton Cemetary, Michigan, USA.

40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1973
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Janine Ligotino is beaten and stabbed by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 19 in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1973
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21-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, picks up two teenage girls, both of whom he stabbed and strangled in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

38 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 March 1975
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Anthony Crean is stabbed to death and mutilated by Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, in London, Chelsea, United Kingdom.

37 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1976
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Vladimir Sabich aka Spider, is shot dead by Claudine Longet at the age of 30 in Aspen, Colorado, USA.

34 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 March 1979
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33-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs 'Send Me Your Money' on KPFK Radio in Los Angeles, California, USA.

31 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 March 1982
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Son of Tex Watson of the Manson Family, Joshua Denton Watson is born in Texas, USA.

27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 March 1986
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‘Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by 33-year-old frustrated artist G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands.

22 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 1991
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Guitar manufacterer Leo Clarence Leonidas Fender dies at the age of 81 in Fullerton, California, USA.

11 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 March 2002
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51-year-old Fraudster John Darwin aka The Canoe Man, goes on a trip on the North Sea and disappears in Hartlepool, Seaton Carew, United Kingdom.
On 1 dec 2007 he walked into a London police station and claimed loss of memory.

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