Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 July 1979

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49-year-old driver Pierre Levegh struck a protective dirt berm at 200 km/h, disintegrating and igniting his car, throwing him onto the track where he was instantly killed and sending large pieces of flaming debris including the engine block and hood cartwheeling over the berm and into the packed grandstand. The momentum of the heaviest components of the car – the engine, radiator and front suspension – hurtled straight on into the crowd for almost 100 metres, crushing all in their path. The bonnet lid scythed through the air, decapitating tightly jammed spectators like a guillotine.
(11 June 1955)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 12th of July 1979 45 years ago His Cigar Was Still Between His Teeth
Mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family Carmine Galante aka The Cigar aka Lilo is shot dead by three ski-masked men just as he finished eating lunch at the age of 69 in Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant, 205 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. Galante died with a cigar still held between his teeth.