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March 1
1932: 20-month-old infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the
family home near Hopewell, N.J. Remains identified as those of the baby were
found May12, 1932. 1981: Bobby Sands, Irish Republican Army member,
began a hunger strike at
the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. He died 65 days later on May5,
1981.
1991: Edwin H. Land, inventor of polarizing filters and
Polaroid instant photography, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, at age 81.
1997: Severe storms hit Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi,
and spawned tornadoes in Arkansas blamed for two dozen deaths.
1997: 3,000 people died when an earthquake devastated region in northwest
Iran.
2000: A gunman in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, fatally shot three men and wounded
two others.
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Politicians who died March 1
March 2
1992: Actress Sandy Dennis died in Westport, Connecticut, USA, at age 54.
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Politicians who died March 2
March 3
1974: 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly
after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris. 1987: Danny Kaye, comedian,
died in Los Angeles at age 74. 1991: Motorist Rodney King was
severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur
video.
1991: 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737 crashed
while approaching the Colorado Springs airport.
1992: 270 miners died in an underground coal mine explosion in
Kozlu, Turkey. 1996: A bus
bomb in Jerusalem killed 19 people, including the bomber.
2001: 21 people were killed when a plane carrying members of a National Guard engineering crew
crashed in heavy rain near Macon, Georgia, USA.
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Politicians who died March 3
March 4
1996: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Tel Aviv shopping center,
killing 13 people.
1996: Minnie
Pearl, comedian, died in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, at age 83
2001: Harold E. Stassen, US presidential candidate, died in
Bloomington, Minnesota, at age 93.
2001: Glenn Hughes, singer in the
disco band "the Village People", died in New York at age 50.
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March 5
1770: The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been
taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people. 1953:
Josef Stalin, Soviet leader, died at age 73 after 29 years in power. 1963:
Patsy
Cline, "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins, country music performers,
died in a plane crash near
Camden, Tennessee, USA. 1982: US comedian John Belushi was found dead of a
drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33. 1986:
Islamic Jihad in Lebanon executed French hostage Michel Seurat, who had been
kidnapped almost a year
earlier.
2001: Charles Andy Williams shot two students to death
at Santana High School in Santee, and wounded 13 other people.
2001: 35 Muslims were killed in a stampede during the
annual hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Saudi Arabia.
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March 6
1935: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., retired Supreme Court Justice,
died in
Washington. 1944: U.S. heavy bombers staged the first American raid on Berlin during
World War II. 1987: 189 people died when the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise
capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
2001: 42 people, mostly
students, were killed in a schoolhouse explosion in southern China. Parents said the students had been forced to
make fireworks by school officials.
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March 7
1999: Stanley Kubrick, world famous British movie director,
died in Hertfordshire, England, at
age 70.
2000: Frank "Pee Wee" King, country singer, died in Louisville, Kentucky,
USA, at
age 86.
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March 8
1874: Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States,
died in
Buffalo, N.Y. 1930: William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States, died
in Washington D.C. 1999: Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees baseball
star, died in Hollywood, Florida, USA, at age 84.
1992: 90 people were killed when a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Buddhist shrine collided
with an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand.
2000: A letter carrier, two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were shot to
death in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, by the letter carrier's husband, who was also
a firefighter. 2001: Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, died in London at
age 102.
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March 9
1661: Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the chief minister of France,
died. 1916: Pancho Villa and other Mexican raiders attacked Columbus,
New Mexico, killing
more than a dozen people. 1977: 12 armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in
Washington, D.C., killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The
siege ended two days later.
1992: Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister, died in Tel Aviv
at age 78.
1996: American Comedian George Burns at age ??
1997: Notorious B.I.G., gangsta rapper whose real name was
Christopher Wallace, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at age 24.
2001: James St. Clair, who represented President Nixon at the height
of the Watergate scandal, died in Westwood, Massachusetts, USA, at age 80.
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Politicians who died March 9
March 10
1948: Jan Masaryk, the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia,
was found dead in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague. 1980:
Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of "Scarsdale Diet", was shot to death in
Purchase, N.Y. 1985: Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at
age 73.
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March 11
1888: "Blizzard of 1888" struck the northeastern United
States, killing nearly 400. 1930: William Howard Taft, US President and
former Chief Justice, was
buried in Arlington National Cemetery. 1965: James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, died after
being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Alaabama, USA. 2004:
Few backpacks with explosives blew Madrid subway trains in morning rush
hours, killing more than 200 people. Al-Qaeda was responsible for
the attack.
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March 12
1925: Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died.
2000: In an unprecedented moment in the history of the church, Pope John Paul
II asked God's forgiveness for the sins of Roman Catholics through
the ages, including wrongs inflicted on Jews, women and
minorities. 2001: Five Americans and one New Zealander
were killed when a U.S. Navy jet mistakenly dropped a bomb on a group of military personnel at a
bombing range in Kuwait.
2001: Morton Downey Jr., chain-smoking TV talk show host died at age 68.
2001: Robert Ludlum, American spy adventure
novelist, died in Naples, Florida, USA, at age 73.
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Politicians who died March 12
March 13
1901: Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, died in
Indianapolis. 1906: Susan B. Anthony, American feminist activtist, died in Rochester, N.Y. 1964:
Kitty Genovese, 28, was being stabbed to death while 38 residents of a New York neighborhood failed
to respond to her crying.
1996: 16 children and one teacher were killed when a gunman burst into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and
opened fire on a class of kindergartners. He then killed himself.
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March 14
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March 15
44 B.C.: Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of
nobles including Brutus and Cassius. 1975: Aristotle Onassis, Greek
millionaire, died near Paris at age 69.
2000: Durward Kirby, TV comedian, died in Fort Myers, Florida,
USA, at age
88.
2001: Actress Ann Sothern died in Ketchum, Idaho, USA, at age 92.
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March 16
1968: Under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr. the My Lai massacre
in Vietnam was carried out by U.S.
troops. 1978: Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban
guerrillas, who later murdered him.
1991: 7 members of country singer Reba McEntire's band were killed
in a plane crash near San Diego, California.
2000: Thomas Wilson Ferebee, the Enola Gay bombardier who dropped the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima, died in Windermere, Florida, at age 81. 2001:
Saudi
commandos freed surviving hostages and ended the hijacking of a Russian plane by
armed Chechen rebels that resulted in the deaths of a flight attendant, a hijacker and
a passenger. The Russian plane was hijacked carrying 174 people after it left Turkey and forced to land in
Medina, Saudi Arabia.
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March 17
461: According to tradition, St. Patrick - the patron saint
of Ireland - died in Saul.
1996: In Dunblane, Scotland, Queen Elizabeth II came with flowers and
sympathy as residents paused in silence to mourn 16 murdered children and their
teacher on March 13, 1996.
2000: More than 300 members of a religious sect burned to death in a
makeshift church in southwestern Uganda.
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Politicians who died March 17
March 18
1937: More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas
explosion at a school in New London, Texas. 2001: John
Phillips, who co-founded the "Mamas and the Papas" and wrote
"California Dreamin" and "Monday", died in Los Angeles at age 65.
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March 19
1945: More than 800 people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the
U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan.
1945: Adolf Hitler issued his so-called "Nero Decree,"
ordering the destruction of German facilities that could fall into
Allied hands.
1997: Willem de Kooning, one of the 20th century's greatest painters, died in East
Hampton, N.Y., USA, at age 92.
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Politicians who died March 19
March 20
1413: England's King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V.
1727: Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician and astronomer,
died in London.
1995: 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others
sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five
separate subway trains in Tokyo.
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March 21
1960: About 70 people were killed in Sharpeville, South Africa,
when police fired on demonstrators.
1997: A suicide bomber blew himself up in Tel Aviv, killing three
Israeli women.
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March 22
1687: Jean-Baptiste-Lully, French composer, died. His real
name was Giovanni Battista Lulli before he became a French citizen.
1820: Stephen Decatur, a U.S. naval hero, was killed in a duel with
Commodore James Barron near Washington D.C.
1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and author of
"Faust", died. 1896: Thomas Hughes, English reformer, jurist and author of
"Tom Brown's
School Days", died. 1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old
high-wire acrobat, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between
two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1979: Sir Richard Sykes, Britain's ambassador to the Netherlands, was shot
to death by Irish terrorists in the Hague.
1992: 27 people were killed when a US-Air jetliner
crashed on takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport; 24 people
survived.
1996: Gunmen massacred 11 people in a political attack in South Africa's
Zulu heartland, hours after President Nelson Mandela visited the province.
2001: An 18-year-old student opened fire at Granite Hills
High School in El Cajon, Calif., wounding three classmates and two
teachers before he was shot by a police officer.
2001: William Hanna, animation pioneer of Hanna-Barbara
studio, died in Los Angeles at age 90.
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Politicians who died March 22
March 23
1801: Paul I, Tsar of Russia, was assassinated and succeeded by Alexander I.
1944: Italian partisans killed 32 German soldiers in
occupied Rome.
1983: Dr. Barney Clark died at the University of Utah Medical Center.
He died 112 days after being the first person to receive
an artificial heart.
2001: Rowland
Evans, newspaper columnist, died in Washington D.C. at age 79.
2001: David McTaggart, Greenpeace International
co-founder, died in Umbria, Italy, at age 68.
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March 24
1603: Queen Elizabeth I of England died. James VI of Scotland acceded to the
throne as James I, uniting the thrones of Scotland and England. 1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and author of
"Song of Hiawatha", died.
1905: Jules Verne, French novelist who wrote "Around the World in Eighty
Days", died. 1909: John M. Synge, Irish playwright, died. 1944:
The Nazis executed more than 300 Rome citizens in reprisal for Italian partisans attack
to German soldiers on March 23, 1944.
1976: British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery died. He defeated the Germans
at El Alamein and helped change the course of World War Two in North Africa.
1980: Archbishop
Oscar Arnulfo Romero, El Salvador's respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass
in San Salvador.
1998: Two boys in camouflage dress opened fire on dozens of schoolmates at
an Arkansas school, killing four girls and one teacher. 1999: 40 people were killed when fire
trapped 30 vehicles in a tunnel under Mont Blanc, western Europe's highest mountain, in
France and burned for two days.
2000: Sig Mickelson, the first president of CBS News, died in San Diego
at age 86.
2001: Three car bombs exploded almost simultaneously in
southern Russia, killing 23 people.
2001: A Twin Otter plane crashed into a mountainside
house on the Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy, killing all 19 people
on board and one person in the house.
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March 25
1918: Claude Debussy, French composer, died.
1947: 111 lost their lives in a coal mine explosion in
Centralia, Illinois, USA.
1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew Prince
Faisal with a history of mental illness.
He was succeeded by his brother, Khaled ibn Abdul-aziz. The nephew was beheaded the following
June.
1990: 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants,
were killed in a fire accident in a packed nightclub club in New York
City.
1996: Abel Goodman died in Britain. He was the first patient to receive a permanent
electric heart.
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March 26
1827: Ludwig van Beethoven, Music composer, died in Vienna.
1892: Walt Whitman, American poet and essayist, died in Camden,
NJ, USA. He became a revolutionary
figure in American literature after the publication of his "Leaves of
Grass."
1902: Cecil Rhodes, British statesman and financier, died. He became
enormously wealthy from his commercial exploitation of the British African
empire.
1923: Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, died.
1945: David Lloyd George, British statesman and Liberal prime minister,
died. He negotiated Irish independence in 1921.
1959: Raymond Chandler, American crime-detective writer, died.
He Created the character " Philip Marlowe" in his novels including
"The Big Sleep" and "Farewell My Lovely."
1973: Noel Coward, British playwright died. 1982: Vietnam Veterans
Memorial ceremonies took
place in Washington, D.C..1997: 39 members of the Heaven's Gate
techno-religious cult, dressed alike and lying on mattresses or cots, committed
a mass suicide inside a
mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
1996: Edmund Muskie, Former US Secretary of State, died in Washington, D.C., two
days before of his 82nd birthday.
2000: Alex Comfort, British author of "Joy
of Sex", died in Oxfordshire, England, at age
80.
2001: A fire in a Kenyan secondary school dormitory killed 67 students.
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March 27
752: Pope Stephen II died two days after his
election to succeed Pope Zacharias.
1625: Charles I ascended the English throne upon the death of
James I.
1945: Nazi Germany launched its last V2 rocket at Britain from The Hague in the Netherlands. During the war 8,958 people died in V2 rocket
attacks.
1964: 114 people were killed when a powerful earthquake
rocked Alaska.
1968: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first man to orbit the
earth in 1961, died in a plane crash near Moscow.
1977: In the world's worst aircraft disaster, 583 people were killed when
a KLM Boeing 747 took off and crashed into a Pan Am 747 on Tenerife in the Canary Islands..
Total of 644 people were on board.
1980: 147 workers died when Alexander I. Keilland, a floating oil field
platform for off-duty oil workers, capsized during a storm in the Norwegian sector of the North
Sea.
1995: Maurizio Gucci, former chairman of the Gucci luxury leather goods and
fashion dynasty, was shot dead outside his office in Milan.
1998: Ferdinand Porsche, founder of German sportscar maker Porsche and one
of the designers of the Volkswagen Beetle under Adolf Hitler's rule, died.
2001: An empty train riding on the
wrong side of the tracks crashed into a crowded commuter train in
central Belgium, killing eight people.
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March 28
1881: Mussorgsky, Russian composer of "Pictures from an
Exhibition" and the opera "Boris Godunov", died from alcoholism. 1941:
Virgina Woolf, British author and critic, committed suicide in Lewes,
England.
1943: Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer and virtuoso pianist, died in Beverly
Hills, California.
1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Army commander-in-cheif during
World War Two, Republican statesman and the 34th president of the United States 1953-1961,
died in Washington at age 78..
1979: America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit
Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA.
1985: Marc Chagall, Russian-born French surrealist artist, died at
97.
1994: Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright, a giant of the
``theatre of the absurd'' and one of the world's most performed authors, died in
Paris at 81.
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March 29
1788: Charles Wesley, British writer of over 5,500 hymns, died. 1792:
King Gustav III of Sweden died a few days after being shot by
conspirators at the Stockholm opera house. Giuseppe Verdi based his opera
"Un
Ballo in Maschera" on the incident.
1804: Thousands of white people were massacred in Haiti following a
declaration by Governor General Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
1891: Georges Seurat, French impressionist painter and
Pointillist, died.
1912: Robert Falcon Scott, English Antarctic explorer, died as his expedition
attempted to return after reaching the South Pole.
1972: J. Arthur Rank, a leading architect of Britain's film industry, died. 1980:
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, Anglo-Italian conductor and arranger, died. 1982:
Carl Orff, German composer of "Carmina Burana", died.
1992: Paul Henreid, Austrian-born actor of stage and screen who played
alongside Bogart and Bergman in "Casablanca", died.
1999: Joe Williams, American jazz and blues singer, died
at age 80.
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March 30
1986: James Cagney, famous Hollywood screen
actor for such film "Public Enemy" and "Angels with Dirty
Faces", died. He
won an Oscar for "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
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March 31
1837: John Constable, English landscape painter, died.
1855: Charlotte Bronte, British author of :"Jane
Eyre," died in pregnancy.
1980: Jesse Owens, American athlete, died. He won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics but Hitler
refused to shake his hand because he was black. 1983: 500 people
were killed in an earthquake devastated the Colombian city of Popayan.
1986: A Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in a
remote mountainous region of Mexico en route to Los Angeles. All 167 people on board were killed. 1995:
Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Mexican-American singer, was shot to
death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club. She was 23.
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