Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Holmes was Nilsen's first victim. Holmes' dead body remained beneath the floorboards for almost eight months before Nilsen built a bonfire in the garden behind his flat and burned it on 11 August 1979.
(30 December 1978)
There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Like BFD on Facebook
Follow BFD on Tumblr
Like DDV on Facebook
Follow DDV on Twitter
Get a daily BFD list in your mailbox.
|
BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 1st of May 1945 79 years ago |
|
 Nazi leader and Reichspropagandaleiter Joseph Paul Goebbels commits suicide by cyanide poisoning and a shot through the head at the age of 48 in Führerbunker, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. At 20.00hrs Goebbels arranged for SS dentist Helmut Kunz to inject his six children with morphine. When they were unconscious, Magda Goebbels and Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor who then crushed cyanide capsules in their mouths. Shortly afterwards Goebbels and his wife went up to the garden of the bunker where they killed themselves. |
|
|
| |