Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 April 1986

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

Chubbuck was doing a live newscast during her Suncoast Digest show and said "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide" and shot herself behind the left ear. Chubbuck was taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead fourteen hours later.
(15 July 1974)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 14th of April 1986 38 years ago
Philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist Simone de Beauvoir born as Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir dies of pneumonia at the age of 78 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.