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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

More than 600 spectators, including young children, were left shocked and distressed when they saw the body of Wheeler dangling from a prop rope at the open-air performance of the Greek production of Jesus Christ Superstar in the scene where Judas takes his own life.
(17 August 1997)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Monday 23rd of May 1910 (+) — Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline is born.
Friday 26th of July 1940 (+) — Political campaign specialist for Robert F. Kennedy Mary Jo Kopechne is born.
Monday 22nd of June 1942 (+) — Spree killer George Banks is born.
Saturday 25th of September 1982 (x) — Spree killer George Banks shoots 13 people including three of his girlfriends and five of his children to death with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
Banks said he killed his children because he felt they would be tormented by the cruelty of racial views against mixed-race children. Since his conviction Banks has tried to kill himself four times and has gone on hunger strikes that required him to be force-fed.