Almanac for March 16th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 16th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-16-Men-Without-Hats-U7U5JJ95F

Bummer March 16th

March 16, 1926: 66-year-old Henry Kraft of Milwaukee dies of his injuries after being crushed by the elevator he had been oiling. 

March 16, 1970: Mary Ann Ganser, one of the original members of the girl group The Shangri-Las, dies of a drug overdose at the age of 22.

March 16, 2009: Nicholas Hughes, the 46-year-old son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, dies by suicide. According to his sister Frieda, Hughes struggled with depression. Frieda was two years old and Nicholas one year old when their mother died by suicide. 

March 16, 1926 Washington (D.C.) Evening Star

Almanac for March 15th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 15th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-15-Beware-the-Ides-of-March-A0A2JIAMG

Today's Observance: The Ides of March

Bummer March 15th

March 15, 1937: H.P. Lovecraft dies of cancer of the small intestine at age 46.

March 15, 1982: A man from Scotland becomes obsessed with American actress Theresa Saldana after seeing her in Raging Bull. He calls the actress’s mother to obtain Saldana’s personal address, posing as a casting agent. After doing so he arrives at the actress’s home in West Hollywood and attacks her with a hunting knife, stabbing her in the chest and puncturing her lung. Saldana survives the attack and becomes an advocate for other crime victims.

March 15, 1999: 25-year-old Charemon Jonovich, who is dating actor Robert Pastorelli (the two have a daughter together), dies of a gunshot wound to the head at the actor’s home in Hollywood. Pastorelli is questioned and testifies that while he and Jonovich were arguing, she pulled a gun from her handbag and shot herself. 

At the time of Pastorelli’s death of a morphine overdose in 2004, Jonovich’s death was classified as a homicide and investigators were planning to re-interview him about the circumstances of her shooting. It remains unclear whether she died by suicide, manslaughter, or accident.

On the same day, Ferris State University (Michigan) student Stephen Petz dies of alcohol intoxication after a Knights of College Leadership fraternity event in which Petz consumes 27 shots of alcoholic drinks.

Almanac for March 14th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 14th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-14-Pi-Day-3-14-M4M5JHOIZ

Today's Observance: Pi Day (3.14)

Bummer March 14th

March 14, 1977: Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, age 59, dies of breast cancer complicated by hypertension. Earlier in her life, Hamer had been forcibly sterilized without her knowledge or consent as part of a racist eugenics movement.

March 14, 1989: University of Texas at Austin student Mark James Kilroy, age 21, is kidnapped from Tamaulipas, Mexico, where he had gone for spring break. His abductors, led by Adolfo Constanzo and Sara Aldrete, belonged to an occult group that believed human sacrifice would grant them protection against law enforcement pursuing them for their drug trafficking activities. Kilroy is tortured for hours before being killed with a machete. 

His body is recovered along with the remains of 14 other young men who were similarly victims of human sacrifice. Although widely reported in the U.S. media as a “Satanic” murder, the group was not self-identified with the Christian conception of Satan, but rather a combination of a criminal gang with loose associations to folk religions of the Americas, including Palo Mayombe, an Afro-Caribbean religion familiar to Constanzo through his Cuban heritage.

March 14, 1991: Composer Howard Ashman, age 40, dies of complication of AIDS. He had been working on the music for the Disney animated movie The Little Mermaid and did not live to see the completed version of the film.

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Almanac for March 13th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 13th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-13-N4N1JGF6H

Beatles Trivia
March 13, 1965: “Eight Days A Week” by The Beatles hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Bummer March 13th

March 13, 2020: 26-year-old emergency room technician Breonna Taylor is killed by police in her home in Louisville, Kentucky. Seven police officers in plain clothes with what’s known as a “no-knock warrant” for a man wanted in connection with a drug case burst into Taylor’s home. Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker, apparently mistaking the officers for home invaders, fired a warning shot at them. The shot slightly wounded one of the officers, who returned 32 rounds of bullets in return, striking Taylor five times. 

What was Diane Meyer grateful for on March 13, 2024?

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I trust the universe
but most importantly I trust myself
trying something new
taking photos
painting
small actions
coloring pages
bonfire and s'mores
things will work out

Almanac for March 12th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 12th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-12-Hey-Jack-Kerouac-X8X4JF8B4

Bummer March 12th

March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam (approximately 10 miles from modern Santa Clarita, California) catastrophically fails at 11:57 p.m., flooding Los Angeles County’s San Francisquito Canyon. The arch-gravity dam, a new type of design at the time, failed so completely that very little of it was left standing after the flood wave emptied it of its water content. The 120-foot-high flood wave travels 18 miles an hour until it merges with the Santa Clara riverbed, flooding it. The flooded Santa Clara River Valley washes away the town of Castaic Junction. Ultimately it flows into the Pacific Ocean.

More than 450 people are estimated to have been killed in this disaster. Many bodies were never recovered, as they were washed out to sea.

March 12, 1993: 257 people die and about 1,400 people are injured by a series of coordinated bombings in Mumbai, India. 

March 12, 2003: State University of New York at Plattsburgh student Walter Dean Jennings dies of water intoxication after being encouraged to drink pitcher after pitcher of water as part of a Psi Epsilon Chi fraternity hazing. 

March 12, 2015: Author Terry Pratchett dies of Alzheimer’s disease.

Almanac for March 11th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 11th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-11-F1F4JEDC0

March 10, 1926 Milwaukee Leader

Beatles Trivia
March 11, 1997: Paul McCartney becomes Sir Paul McCartney when he is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Bummer March 11th

March 11, 1888: The Great White Hurricane, or Great Blizzard of 1888, begins on the East Coast of the United States. The storm kills an estimated 400 people.

March 11, 1918: Private Albert Gitchell, stationed in the U.S. Army at Fort Riley, Kansas, is discovered to have the first-recorded case of influenza in what becomes the influenza pandemic of 1918. An estimated 50 million to 100 million people die of influenza during the pandemic worldwide.

March 11, 1931: Film director F.W. Murnau, who directed Nosferatu (1922), dies from injuries he sustained the previous day when he is thrown from a car in which he is a passenger.

March 11, 1978: French singer/songwriter/dancer Claude François succumbs to electrocution injuries in the hospital a short time after he receives a severe shock while trying to change a lightbulb in his bathroom. He’s 39 years old.

March 11, 2004: A series of coordinated bombings of commuter train cars kills 191 people in Madrid, Spain. The terrorism was planned in retaliation for Spain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 

March 11, 2020: The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic. 

Almanac for March 10th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 10th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-10-Harriet-Tubman-Sojourner-Truth-P5P6JD9H1

Bummer March 10th

March 10, 1693: Lydia Dustin dies in prison while awaiting trial, having been accused of witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

March 10, 1906: 1,099 miners die in the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France when coal dust in the mine ignites, causing an explosion. Only 14 people survive. 

March 10, 1928: Walter Collins Jr., age nine, goes to the movies and never comes home. His mother, Christine, reports him missing. Los Angeles police try to convince Christine that a boy named Arthur Hutchens, Jr. is Walter, but Christine refuses to accept this, and Hutchens admits he ran away from his home in Chicago and claimed to be Walter because he thought the idea of living near Hollywood seemed exciting. 

Walter is never positively identified, but it’s believed he may have fallen victim to serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott, the “Wineville Chicken Coop” murderer who kept his young male victims in chicken cages.

March 10, 1948: Zelda Fitzgerald, by then the widow of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, has checked herself into Highland Hospital in what is now Montford Area Historic District in Asheville, North Carolina for treatment of her severe depression. She is awaiting an electroconvulsive therapy treatment in a locked room when a fire breaks out in the hospital kitchen. With no way to escape the locked room, she is killed by the fire.

March 10, 1973: Irene Ryan, the Old Hollywood actress best remembered as “Granny” on The Beverly Hillbillies, performs in the Stephen Schwartz musical Pippin. A heavy smoker, Ryan suffers an apparent stroke on the Broadway stage. She is quickly diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and will die on the 26th of April of that year.

March 10, 2010: Canadian actor Corey Haim, age 38, dies of pulmonary edema and heart disease after suffering from flu-like symptoms for two days. Authorities first suspect he’s died of an overdose of prescription medications. However, his cause of death is ruled to be natural, if perhaps indirectly related to his chronic issues with alcohol and drug abuse.