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39th year  -  N° 111                 Saturday, 20 April 2024         Antwerpen		
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28 events for 10 March:

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    1541 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 10th of March 0483

    47th Pope Simplicius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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    148 Years Ago Today 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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    132 Years Ago Today

    Thursday 10th of March 1892

    Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger is born in Le Havre, Haute-Normendie, France.


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    118 Years Ago Today

    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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    105 Years Ago Today

    Monday 10th of March 1919

    2-year-old 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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    104 Years Ago Today

    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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    96 Years Ago Today

    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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    96 Years Ago Today

    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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    93 Years Ago Today

    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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    80 Years Ago Today 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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    67 Years Ago Today

    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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    66 Years Ago Today

    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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    57 Years Ago Today

    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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    55 Years Ago Today

    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, Hamburg, St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany.


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    52 Years Ago Today

    Friday 10th of March 1972

    Murder plotter Dustin John Higgs is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.


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    49 Years Ago Today

    Monday 10th of March 1975

    89-year-old Adele Price is strangled by serial killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First in 13 Lowndes Square, London, Knightsbridge, Greater London, United Kingdom.


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    44 Years Ago Today 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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    43 Years Ago Today

    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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    40 Years Ago Today

    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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    39 Years Ago Today

    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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    35 Years Ago Today

    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, Paris, XVIIIe, Île-de-France, France.


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    32 Years Ago Today

    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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    32 Years Ago Today

    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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    27 Years Ago Today

    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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    25 Years Ago Today

    Wednesday 10th of March 1999

    50-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs is sentenced to life imprisonment in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.



  • 20 Years Ago Today 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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    16 Years Ago Today

    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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    8 Years Ago Today

    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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