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Today in History - March 17 | 'Next Einstein' found dead in lab wall on her wedding day

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On March 17, 2011, lab technician Raymond Clark III pleaded guilty to the murder of Yale student Annie Le (pictured).

Clark killed Le in a research building on Yale's New Haven campus on September 8, 2009, and stuffed her body inside the wall of a basement laboratory.

Le's body was discovered on September 13, 2009, the day she was to be married.

Clark is serving a 44-year sentence in prison. 

Le was the valedictorian of her high school and voted "most likely to be the next Einstein".

Attribution: Yale University
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Six thousand sheep were killed in a possible chemical weapons test gone awry in Utah on March 17, 1968.

Although never conclusively proven, it's been hypothesized that the mass death was due to a jet spraying a nerve agent in a test conducted by the Dugway Proving Ground army base (pictured).

Author Stephen King has cited the incident as one of the inspirations for his novel The Stand, in which a virus developed by the US military wipes out much of the human population in North America.

Attribution: Swilsonmc
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