Seress actually survived jumping out of his window, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire. His song 'Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)' sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933. (11 January 1968)
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Thursday 20th of July 1944 (x) — Under the codename ‘Operation Walkure’, Would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler Claus von Stauffenberg places a bomb in the Fuhrer’s headquarters in an attempt to assassinate him. Hitler survived the bomb attack with minor injuries. His trousers were singed and tattered and he suffered from a perforated eardrum.