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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