Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 August 1924

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

Sadat and ten others were killed outright or suffered fatal wounds, including Major General Hassan Allam, general from the Omani delegation Khalfan Nasser Mohammed, Eng. Samir Helmy Ibrahim, Al Anba' Samuel, presidential photographer Mohammed Yousuf Rashwan, Saeed Abdel Raouf Bakr, Chinese engineer Zhang Baoyu, as well as the Cuban ambassador to Egypt and a Coptic Orthodox bishop. Twenty-eight were wounded, including Vice President Hosni Mubarak, Irish Defence Minister James Tully and four US military liaison officers.
(6 October 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 12th of August 1924 101 years ago
52-year-old boxer Norman Selby aka Kid McCoy kills his 39-year-old lover Theresa Mors by a single gunshot to the head in Unit 212, 2819 Leeward Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States. The next morning Selby robbed and held captive some 12 people at Mors' antique shop and shot one man who was trying to escape in the leg. He also had forced at least six other men to remove their trousers after divesting them of their money.