Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 August 1921

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

The blast and fireball which was estimated at over 1000 °C and left an 19,8 x 1,5 meters crater destroyed everything – cars, trailers and buildings – within a 300-metre radius, gutting over 90% of the main camping area.
(11 July 1978)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 14th of August 1921 103 years ago
Black Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging and his body riddled with bullets at the age of 25 in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. Whitfield criminally assaulted the 19-year-old wife of Pompie Irving.