Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 16 December 1904

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

Officials said the riverboat Sobral Santos II was overloaded with up to 500 passengers and hundreds of tons of cargo. The accident occurred more than 700 miles up the Amazon which contains flesh-eating piranha fish, gigantic catfish and electric eels.
(19 September 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 16th of December 1904 120 years ago
Widow Gladys Cochcrane dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion in Falkirk, Rosehall, Scotland, United Kingdom. Cochrane was found burned beyond recognition in her bedroom sitting in a chair surrounded by pillows and cushions which were not burned. Cochrane had not cried out and there was no fire in her grate.