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March 5, 2007 mon
March 5th, 2007

Birthdays: Henry III of England, Gionanni Batista Tiepolo, Explorer Le Sieur de Cadillac founder of Detroit, Hector Villa-Lobos, Howard Pyle, William Oughtred 1574- inventor of the Slide Rule,"Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Rex Harrison, Dean Stockwell, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andy Gibb, Samantha Eggar, Andrej Wajda, Fred Williamson, Penn Gillette, Eva Mendes

1534- Famed Renaissance painter Correggio died when after an argument in the cathedral of Parma with his patrons, they paid him with sacks of pennies. He grew overheated carrying them all home and died of a fever at age 45. Another artist gets screwed.

1717- Giovanni Tiepolo joined the Guild of Saint Lawrence, the artists union in Rome.

1759- Francois Voltaire’s most famous satire on religion and hypocrisy- Candide- was published. It was immediately ordered publicly burned by the regional parliaments of Geneva and Paris. This only increased its popularity. To stay out of trouble Voltaire first refused to admit he was the author:" People must have lost their senses to attribute to me that pack of nonsense! I have, Thanks God, better occupations."

1868- Englishman C.H. Gould patented the first stapler.

1922- F.W. Murnau’s eerie film Nosferatu premiered in Berlin.Bram Stoker's widow brought a copyright suit against it, saying it was Dracula by another name. She won and an English judge ordered the film negatives destroyed. The only reason we still enjoy this landmark film, is from all the bootleg copies made of it.

1963- Country singer Patsy Cline died in plane crash near Camden Tenn.(not Allegheny) Also killed were Country stars Cowboy Copas and Hacksaw Hawkins.

1982-31 year old Comedian John Belushi dies of drug overdose at Chateau Marmont hotel on Sunset Strip. He had done twenty heroin-cocaine speedballs in just 24 hours. A woman named Cathy Smith was charged with administering to him the fatal dose. Robin Williams was with him that night partying also but left early. Someone scrawled on Belushi’s tombstone :"You could have given us more laughs.....But NNNNOOOOOOOOOO !!"

1995- Vivian Stanstall, lead singer for the Bonzo Dog Band died in a fire in his London flat. He had been smoking in bed.


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