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702 Years Ago Today
Sunday 18th of March 1314
23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 71 in Paris, IVe, Île-de-France, France.
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227 Years Ago Today She Was Dead Before the Fire Was Lit
Wednesday 18th of March 1789
Counterfeiter Catherine Murphy is executed by burning at the stake in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Murphy was the last woman to be officially burned at the stake. Murphy and her husband Hugh Murphy were executed along with seven other men who had been convicted of various offences. The eight men were executed by hanging. But as a woman the law provided that Murphy should be burnt at the stake. She was made to stand on a foot high 10-inch-square platform in front of the stake and secured to the stake with ropes and an iron ring. Murphy was reportedly tied with one rope around her neck after which the platform was removed from under her feet and 30 minutes passed before the fire was lit. -
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179 Years Ago Today
Saturday 18th of March 1837
22nd and 24th President of the United States Grover Stephen Cleveland is born in Caldwell Presbyterian Church Manse, 207 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, New Jersey, United States. -
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174 Years Ago Today
Friday 18th of March 1842
Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé is born as Étienne Mallarmé in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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172 Years Ago Today
Monday 18th of March 1844
Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov is born in Tikhvin, Leningradskaya Oblast, Russia. -
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158 Years Ago Today
Thursday 18th of March 1858
Inventor and mechanical engineer Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France. -
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151 Years Ago Today
Saturday 18th of March 1865
38-year-old Mary Pritchard is poisoned by doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. -
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148 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 18th of March 1868
Physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel is born in Boiany, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. -
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110 Years Ago Today
Sunday 18th of March 1906
Victim of Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf Robert Witzel is born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. -
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106 Years Ago Today
Friday 18th of March 1910
Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States. -
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88 Years Ago Today
Sunday 18th of March 1928
Poet and writer Paul Leopold Andreas Van Ostaijen aka Mister 1830 dies of tuberculosis at the age of 32 in Le Vallon, Miavoye-Anthée, Namur, Belgium. -
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84 Years Ago Today
Friday 18th of March 1932
Writer John Hoyer Updike is born in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. -
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84 Years Ago Today Was the Last Morning for the Hunter
Friday 18th of March 1932
Serial killer Harry Powers aka Cornelius O. Pierson aka A. R. Weaver is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States. -
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75 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 18th of March 1941
Singer-songwriter Wilson Pickett aka The Wicked Pickett is born in Prattville, Alabama, United States. -
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70 Years Ago Today
Monday 18th of March 1946
Start of the trial against 49-year-old Doctor and serial killer Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer in Cour d'Assises, 34 Quai des Orfèvres, Paris, Ier, Île-de-France, France. -
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69 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 18th of March 1947
Murderer Harold Hagger aka Sidney Sinclair is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint at the age of 46 in Wandsworth Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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67 Years Ago Today
Friday 18th of March 1949
Alex Alexander Gordon Higgins aka Hurricane is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. -
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65 Years Ago Today
Sunday 18th of March 1951
22-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate escapes from the State Penitentiary in Missouri State Penitentiary aka The Walls, 115 Lafayette Street, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. -
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59 Years Ago Today
Monday 18th of March 1957
Start of the trial against 58-year-old General practitioner and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. -
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50 Years Ago Today
Friday 18th of March 1966
39-year-old Cop killer Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen is sentenced to life imprisonment in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. -
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36 Years Ago Today
Tuesday 18th of March 1980
Social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and humanistic philosopher Erich Seligmann Fromm dies of natural causes at the age of 80 in Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland. -
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34 Years Ago Today
Thursday 18th of March 1982
53-year-old Serial killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate is committed to the Iowa Lunatic Asylum in Mental Health Institute, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States.
Posing as Richard Clark, Hatcher attempted to abduct Todd Peers. -
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33 Years Ago Today
Friday 18th of March 1983
47-year-old Serial killer Arnfinn Nesset is sentenced to 21 years in prison for poisoning at east 22 elderly people with the muscle relaxing suxamethonium chloride drug Curacit in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.
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32 Years Ago Today
Sunday 18th of March 1984
22-year-old Terry Theresa Anne Wait Ferguson is abducted and killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Merritt Square Mall, 777 E Merritt Island Causeway, Merritt Island, Florida, United States. -
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29 Years Ago Today
Wednesday 18th of March 1987
23-year-old Deborah Dudley is electrocuted by serial killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer in 3520 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Heidnik disposed of Dudley's body in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
Friday, 18 March 2016
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