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Regio-Tour
The Regio-Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held between France, Switzerland and Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Famous riders like Laurent Brochard, Jan Ullrich, Alexander Vinokourov, Andreas Klöden, Mario Cipollini and Viatcheslav Ekimov have won the race.

Since 2002 it has been called Rothaus Regio-Tour due to sponsorship.

There was no professional edition since 2008 and the tour was since then just held a junior race.

Laurent Brochard
Laurent Brochard (French pronunciation: [lɔʁɑ̃ bʁɔʃaʁ]; born 26 March 1968) is a retired professional road racing cyclist from France. In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became world road champion in San Sebastián, Spain.

Brochard was a runner and started cycling competitively at 19.  He started with Castorama and became part of Festina cycling team.  His role in Festina was super-domestique, supporting stars such as Richard Virenque but able to ride competitively when given the chance.  He was implicated in the Festina scandal in the 1998 Tour de France.

After serving his suspension, Brochard joined Ag2r Prévoyance as leader and had successes in races such as Critérium International and Étoile de Béssèges.  He then moved to Bouygues Télécom.

He is a fan of Belgian comic character Marsupilami, often wearing Marsupilami logo and clothing at races.
Émile Mauchamp
Émile Mauchamp or Pierre Benoit Émile Mauchamp (3 March 1870 – 19 March 1907) was a French physician and informant assassinated by a mob in Marrakesh, near the pharmacy where he practiced. He was characterized as a "martyr to civilization" in the French press; his death, an "unprovoked and indefensible attack from the barbarous natives of Morocco." His death was taken as a pretext by Hubert Lyautey and his forces in taking Oujda, marking the beginning of the French conquest of Morocco.

Chalon-sur-Saône
Chalon-sur-Saône (French pronunciation: [ʃalɔ̃ syʁ son] ⓘ, literally Chalon on Saône) is a city in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the largest city in the department; however, the department capital is the smaller city of Mâcon.
Lappajärvi
Lappajärvi is a municipality in Finland's South Ostrobothnia region. It is located 78 kilometres (48 mi) from Seinäjoki, 80 kilometres (50 mi) from Kokkola and 117 kilometres (73 mi) from Vaasa. The municipality has a population of 2,710 (30 June 2025) and covers an area of 522.98 square kilometres (201.92 sq mi) of which 102.89 km2 (39.73 sq mi), or nearly 20% is water. The population density is
6.44 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.7/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Lake Lappajärvi, which gives the name to the municipality, is a meteor crater, one of the few meteor crater lakes found in Finland.

Singer and performer, Timo Kotipelto from the worldwide known Finnish power metal band Stratovarius was born and raised in Lappajärvi.

Power metal
Power metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with speed metal, often within a symphonic context. Generally, power metal is characterized by a faster, lighter, and more uplifting sound, in contrast with the heaviness and dissonance prevalent in, for example, extreme metal. Power metal bands usually have anthemic songs with fantasy-based subject matter and strong choruses, thus creating a theatrical, dramatic and emotionally "powerful" sound.

The term was first used in the mid-1980s and refers to two different but related styles: the first largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal; and a later, more widespread and popular style based in Europe with a lighter, more melodic sound and frequent use of keyboards.
Salah Jama
Salah Ahmed Jama (Somali: Saalax Axmed Jaamac, Arabic: صالح احمد جامع; born 1980) is a Somali politician serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia since 2 August 2022. Salah previously served in the cabinet twice, first as the Minister of Labour, and later as the Minister of Constitutional Affairs.

Salah is also Senator of the Upper House of the Federal Parliament of Somalia representing the Sanaag region and a former MP who has represented Sanaag in the House of the People of the Federal Parliament from December 2016 until his election to the Upper House in September 2021.

Federal Government of Somalia
The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS; Somali: Dowladda Federaalka Soomaaliya, DFS; Arabic: الحكومة الفيدرالية الصومالية) is the internationally recognised government of Somalia, and the longest running attempt to create a central government in Somalia since the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991. It replaced the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia on 20 August 2012 with the adoption of the Constitution of Somalia.

It officially comprises the executive branch of government, with the parliament serving as the legislative branch. It is headed by the president of Somalia, to whom the Council of Ministers reports through the prime minister.

After the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991, there were no relations between the government of Somalia and the Somaliland government, which declared itself an independent country.
At War with Society
At War With Society is an internationally distributed compilation album mostly of artists that are on New Red Archives records.  It was originally released in 1998 as a 33-song CD, but was then subsequently also released on CD with one less track.  The album was compiled by New Red Archives. As of May 1999, it had reached sales of 77,000+ copies. The second version of the album (on New Red Archives/PHD Records) was issued with an alternate cover.
The second version was compiled and released in 1999.

Kraut (band)
Kraut was a New York City punk rock/hardcore punk band formed by Doug Holland in 1981. The original members were Davy Gunner (vocals), Doug Holland (guitar/vocals), Don Cowan (bass/vocals), and Johnny Feedback (drums/vocals).
Benito Viñes
Benito Viñes (named Benet Vinyes in Catalan, his mother tongue; 1837–1893) was a Jesuit cleric at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School during the 19th century in Havana, Cuba.  He became well known for his studies of hurricanes.  He was the Director of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College of Belen in Havana and the author of Practical Hints in Regard to the West Indian Hurricanes, a work which was translated into English by the US Navy and issued by the United States Hydrographic Office.

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School (Spanish: Colegio Preparatorio Jesuita Belén) is a private, Catholic,  all-male, preparatory school run by the Antilles Province of the Society of Jesus in Tamiami, unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, operated by the Society of Jesus. It was established in Havana, Cuba by the Jesuits in 1854 but moved to the United States after the communist government of Fidel Castro, himself an alumnus, took power and expelled the Jesuits. It has since made the Cardinal Newman Society's honor roll. The name Belen is Spanish for "Bethlehem."
Dee Cliffs
Dee Cliffs (SSSI) is an area of cliffs on the eastern side of the Dee Estuary and to the west of Thurstaston on the Wirral Peninsula, England.

The area contains the best known example of clay cliff and bank habitat in Merseyside. The area also has some marl pits, which have a rich flora and fauna and an area of herb-rich neutral grassland.

Wirral Peninsula
The Wirral Peninsula (/ˈwɪrəl/), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east and Liverpool Bay to the north.

Historically, the Wirral was wholly in Cheshire; in the Domesday Book, its border with the rest of the county was placed at "two arrow falls from Chester city walls".  However, since the Local Government Act 1972, only the southern third has been in Cheshire, with almost all the rest lying in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside. An area of saltmarsh and reclaimed land adjoining the south-west of the peninsula lies in the Welsh county of Flintshire.
1997 Direct Line International Championships – Doubles
Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Novotná with Mary Joe Fernández and Sánchez Vicario with Chanda Rubin.

Rubin and Sánchez Vicario lost in the first round to Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat.

Fernández and Novotná lost in the quarterfinals to Naoko Kijimuta and Miho Saeki.

There was no result for the tournament due to rain. The final would have seen Lori McNeil and Helena Suková take on Nicole Arendt and Manon Bollegraf.

Chanda Rubin
Chanda Rubin (born February 18, 1976) is an American former top-10 professional tennis player. During her career, she reached the semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open, the quarterfinals of the French Open three times, and had wins over world No. 1s Serena Williams and Martina Hingis. In doubles, she won the 1996 Australian Open with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and alongside Sandrine Testud, were runners-up at the 1999 US Open.

She is also known to have played at the very first official match of the Arthur Ashe Stadium, at the 1997 US Open, in which she faced Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand and lost in two sets.
Tore Breda Thoresen
Tore Breda Thoresen (29 January 1923 – 1 August 2008) was a Norwegian photographer, film director and theatre director.

Thoresen was born in Drammen to engineer Georg Thoresen and Edel Sofie Johnsen. In 1952 he married Ursula Jacobine Frost. Among his early films are Trost i taklampa from 1955 and Elias rekefisker from 1958, as photographer. He was appointed artistic director of Fjernsynsteatret from 1967 to 1980.

Elias rekefisker
Elias rekefisker (Elias the Shrimp Fisher) is a 1958 Norwegian family film directed by Jan Erik Düring, starring Kristian Løvlie and Eva Svendsen. A family on an island in Southern Norway rescues a carrier pigeon. When the father and son later are lost at sea, the bird comes in handy.
19th Game Developers Choice Awards
The 19th Game Developers Choice Awards was an award ceremony by Game Developers Choice Awards held at the Game Developers Conference, for outstanding game developers and video games. It was hosted by Tim Schafer.

American video game director, Amy Hennig (Naughty Dog) received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Rieko Kodama received the Pioneer Award for her contributions during her time with Sega and video games such as Alex Kidd, Phantasy Star and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Santa Monica Studio
Santa Monica Studio is an American video game developer of Sony Interactive Entertainment based in Los Angeles. It is best known for developing the God of War series. The studio was founded in 1999 by Allan Becker and was located in Santa Monica, California, until relocating to Playa Vista in 2014.
Hesperia (butterfly)
Hesperia, the branded skippers, is a Holarctic genus in the skippers (Hesperiidae) butterfly family. Most species are endemic to North America, Hesperia comma is widespread throughout the region. H. florinda is endemic to temperate eastern Asia. H. nabokovi is endemic to Hispaniola.

Presumably, Johan Christian Fabricius named the genus for Hesperia, one of the Hesperides.

Hesperides
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/ ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and the golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They were also called the Atlantides (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντίδες, romanized: Atlantídes) from their reputed father, Atlas.
USS Zebra
USS Zebra (AKN-5) was an Indus-class net cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. The ship was originally the Matthew Lyon, an EC2-S-C1 Liberty ship, operated for the War Shipping Administration (WSA) as a cargo vessel by an agent until severely damaged by torpedo in August 1943. While at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides awaiting likely scrapping the Navy acquired the vessel under bareboat charter to be used as a net cargo ship  transporting reclaimed anti-submarine netting.

After repairs the ship was placed in service under the name Zebra, designated IX-107, in October. After success in the role the ship underwent conversion and was commissioned USS Zebra designated AKN-5, one of six net cargo ships and one of four Liberty conversions to that role.

War Shipping Administration
The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Commission and ship allocation under the WSA to Army, Navy or civilian needs were closely coordinated though Vice Admiral Emory S. Land who continued as head of the Maritime Commission while also heading the WSA.  Among its programs was building the fleet of Liberty Ships and Victory Ships.
Anterior cerebral artery
The anterior cerebral artery (ACA) is one of a pair of cerebral arteries that supplies oxygenated blood to most midline portions of the frontal lobes and superior medial parietal lobes of the brain. The two anterior cerebral arteries arise from the internal carotid artery and are part of the circle of Willis. The left and right anterior cerebral arteries are connected by the anterior communicating artery.

Anterior cerebral artery syndrome refers to symptoms that follow a stroke occurring in the area normally supplied by one of the arteries. It is characterized by weakness and sensory loss in the lower leg and foot opposite to the lesion and behavioral changes.

Paresis
In medicine, paresis (/pəˈriːsɪs, ˈpærəsɪs/),  compound word from Greek Ancient Greek: πάρεσις, (πᾰρᾰ- “beside” + ἵημι “let go, release”), is a condition typified by a weakness of voluntary movement, or by partial loss of voluntary movement or by impaired movement. When used without qualifiers, it usually refers to the limbs, but it can also be used to describe the muscles of the eyes (ophthalmoparesis), the stomach (gastroparesis), and also the vocal cords (vocal cord paresis).

Neurologists use the term paresis to describe weakness, and plegia to describe paralysis in which all voluntary movement is lost. The term paresis comes from the Ancient Greek: πάρεσις 'letting go' from παρίημι 'to let go, to let fall'.
Ken Sikkema
Kenneth R. Sikkema (born February 10, 1951) is a Republican politician from Michigan who served in both houses of the Michigan Legislature between 1987 and 2006 representing areas in and around Grand Rapids.

Sikkema served as Republican Leader in the House in the 89th Legislature, and as the Majority Leader of the Senate in the 92nd and 93rd Legislatures.

Michigan Legislature
The Michigan Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is organized as a bicameral body composed of the Senate (the upper chamber) and the House of Representatives (the lower chamber). Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, adopted in 1963, defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted. The chief purposes of the Legislature are to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws. The Legislature meets in the Capitol building in Lansing.

The 103rd Michigan Legislature was sworn in on January 11, 2025.
Arie Parks Taylor
Arie Parks Taylor (March 27, 1927- September 27, 2003) was the first African American woman to become a Women's Air Force classroom instructor and officer and the first African-American woman elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives.

Women's Air Force
The Women's Air Force (WAF) was a program which served to bring women into limited roles in the United States Air Force. WAF was formed in 1948 when President Truman signed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, allowing women to serve directly in the military. The WAF program ended in 1976 when women were accepted into the USAF on an equal basis with men.

WAF was distinct from the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), a small group of female civilian transport pilots that was formed in 1942 with Nancy H. Love as commander. WAFS was folded into the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in 1943; WASP was disbanded in December 1944.
Deaths in March 1987
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1987.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

Ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics
The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was the fourth Olympic Championship, also serving as the sixth World Championships. Canada, represented by the Winnipeg Hockey Club, won its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal and sixth consecutive World Championship. The United States secured the silver medal and Germany claimed one of its three all-time hockey medals by taking the bronze (West Germany would win a bronze medal in 1976, and Germany's men's team would win silver in 2018). Overall, four teams participated, with only two European associations (Germany and Poland) making the trip due to the worldwide Great Depression. The other European teams instead played at the 1932 European Championship.
Cobbinshaw
Cobbinshaw is a small hamlet in West Lothian, Scotland.  It is at the end of a dead end road from nearby Woolfords.

Cobbinshaw is at 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level on the edge of the Pentland Hills. Nearby villages include Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax. It is next to Cobbinshaw Reservoir, built in 1818 to supply water for the Union Canal.

Union Canal (Scotland)
The Union Canal, full name the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, is a canal in Scotland, running from Falkirk to Edinburgh, constructed to bring minerals, especially coal, to the capital. It was opened in 1822 and was initially successful, but the construction of railways, particularly the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1842, diminished its value as a transport medium. It fell into slow commercial decline and was closed to commercial traffic in 1933. It was officially closed in 1965. The canal is listed as three individual scheduled monuments by Historic Scotland according to the three former counties, Midlothian, West Lothian and Stirlingshire, through which it flows.

It has benefited from a general revival of interest in canals and, as a result of the Millennium Link, was reopened in 2001 and reconnected to the Forth and Clyde Canal in 2002 by the Falkirk Wheel. It is now in popular use for leisure purposes.
Altınkürek, Keban
Altınkürek (Kurdish: Xozikan) is a village in the Keban District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Parçikan tribe and had a population of 192 in 2021.

The hamlet of Derince is attached to the village.

Parçikan (tribe)
Parçikan (Kurdish: Parçikan) is a Kurdish tribe residing mainly in Elazığ Province in Turkey. The tribe numbers around 20,000 members and are predominantly Sunni Muslims. The tribe is transhumant nomadic.
Frank J. Williams
Frank J. Williams (born August 24, 1940) is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, a notable Abraham Lincoln scholar and author, and a justice of the Military Commission Review Panel.

Mary Ann Esposito
Mary Ann Esposito (born August 3, 1942) is an American chef, cookbook writer (having published over a dozen cookbooks), and the television host of Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito, which started in 1989 and is the longest-running television cooking program in America.
Lawrence Martin (journalist)
Lawrence Martin is a Canadian journalist and the author of ten books on politics and sport. Raised in Hamilton, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science McMaster University in 1969 and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1982.

Martin first reported for The Hamilton Spectator. At The Globe and Mail, he began as a sports reporter in 1974, served as Washington Correspondent for The Globe and Mail from 1978 to 1981, and served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., Montreal, and Moscow, where he opened The Globe and Mail's first bureau in 1985 and reported on the Gorbachev years in power. He has been a columnist at The Globe and Mail since 2002. From 2017 to 2020, he was based in Washington, covering the Trump administration.

Martin was a national affairs columnist for Southam News from 1998 to 2001.

The Hamilton Spectator
The Hamilton Spectator, founded in 1846, is a newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. One of the largest Canadian newspapers by circulation, The Hamilton Spectator is owned by Torstar.
Don Plarski
Donald Joseph Plarski (November 9, 1929 – December 29, 1981) was an American professional baseball player. An outfielder, he appeared in eight games for the Kansas City Athletics of Major League Baseball during the 1955 season.  Plarski was born in Chicago.  He threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall and 160 pounds (73 kg).

His professional career, interrupted by military service during the Korean War, lasted from 1948–50 and 1953–56, most of it occurring in the lower and mid-minor leagues. His 1955 trial happened at mid-season. He started in three games in center field for the Athletics, including on July 21 at Municipal Stadium, when he collected his only MLB hit (off Frank Sullivan of the Boston Red Sox) and stolen base.

After his playing career, Plarski became a sportswriter and the longtime sports editor of the Alton Evening Telegraph in Alton, Illinois and was a fast-pitch softball umpire. He died at age 52 in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Telegraph (Alton, Illinois)
The Telegraph is an American daily newspaper published seven days a week in Alton, Illinois, serving the St. Louis Metro-East region. It was owned by Civitas Media, based in Davidson, North Carolina, a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management, which owned about 100 daily and weekly newspapers across 12 states but sold The Telegraph to Hearst Corp. in 2017.
Knight's Choice
Knight's Choice (foaled 20 September 2019) is a Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Norm and Di Bazeley at Elswick Park, a stud in Walcha, northern New South Wales, he was the winner of the 2024 Melbourne Cup, ridden by Robbie Dolan and trained by John Symons and Sheila Laxon.

Walcha, New South Wales
Walcha (/ˈwɒlkə/) is a town at the south-eastern edge of the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia.

The town, which is the seat of Walcha Shire, is 425 kilometres (264 mi) by road from Sydney, at the intersection of the Oxley Highway and Thunderbolts Way. The Apsley River passes through the town to tumble over the Apsley Falls before joining the Macleay River further on. The river used to cause flooding in the town, but a levee bank has been constructed to alleviate the problem. At the 2021 census, Walcha had a population of 1369 people.

The Main North railway line runs 20.7 kilometres (12.9 mi) to the west, where there is a settlement called Walcha Road. Walcha Road railway station is served by the daily NSW TrainLink Xplorer service between Sydney and Armidale. The railway line bypassed Walcha because of the steep grades over the Great Dividing Range.