Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 17 January 1989

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

On 2 May a human thigh was discovered floating in the river to the east of the West 3rd Street bridge. A police search under the bridge found a burlap sack containing the victim's headless torso cut in to halves, another thigh and a left foot. The head and the rest of the body were never found.
(8 April 1938)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 17th of January 1989 35 years ago
School shooter Patrick Edward Purdy aka The Stockton Schoolyard Shooter commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 25 in Cleveland Elementary School, 20 East Fulton Street, Stockton, California, United States. Purdy fired 106 rounds with a Norinco Type 56 AK-47 semi-automatic rifle in three minutes killing five predominantly Southeast Asian refugee schoolchildren and wounding 32 others before turning a Taurus PT92 pistol on himself. The victims were 9-year-old Rathanar Or, 8-year-old Ram Chun, 6-year-old Sokhim An, 8-year-old Oeun Lim and 6-year-old Thuy Tran.