March 1981 - March 15, 1981 (Sunday)

March 15, 1981 (Sunday)

  • Philip C. Testa, crime boss of the Philadelphia mob and nicknamed "The Chicken Man", was murdered by a car bomb as he attempted to walk into his home at 2117 Porter Street.
  • Francis Hughes became the second inmate at Maze Prison to begin a hunger strike, joining fellow Provisional IRA member Bobby Sands in refusing food. Hughes would also become the second of the strikers to die, succumbing on May 12, one week after the death of Sands.
  • Born: Young Buck, American rapper, as David D. Brown in Nashville
  • Died: RenĂ© Clair, 82, French film director

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