Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Retroscope: 17 March

17 March 1981: Dolly Parton"s "9 to 5" reached #1 in US.Roxy Music scored #1 hit in the UK with "Jealous Guy"
17 March 1982: Dutch Television crew from IKON, consisting of Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper and Joop Willemse were killed by a guerilla group while covering the coming elections of the Constituent Assembly of 28 March. The Inquiry of the Dutch government (May 28,1982) concluded that neither intent or coincidence could be proven.
17 March 1985: Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka "Night Stalker" commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.

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