9th March, 2011 : Illinois became the sixteenth state in the United States to abolish the death penalty. A ten-year moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois was made permanent after governor Pat Quinn signed a bill ending all executions in the state. The moratorium was put in place in 2000 by former Illinois governor George Ryan after many death row inmates were released from death row when journalists had found proof they had been wrongly convicted.
Italy Cable Car 9th March, 1976: The steel line supporting a cable car snaps in the ski resort of Cavalese and 43 skiers aboard crashes into Mt. Cermis.
9th March, 1997: A rapper known as Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was shot to death in a drive by shooting while sitting at a stoplight in Los Angeles. This murder was thought to be brought upon by a rift between rival rappers from both the East and West Coast. Notorious B.I.G. was killed only a few weeks before his latest album entitled Life after Death was scheduled to be released. A similar incident occurred in Las Angeles only six months prior (rapper Tupac Shakur killed by drive-by shooter).
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