Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 18 November 1978

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

After a long council, albeit with plenty of alcohol Alexander was desperate to return to his queen. Although everyone advised him not to make the 8-mile journey at nightfall with a storm approaching he rode off into the night. The next morning he was found with a broken neck having been thrown off his horse.
(19 March 1286)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 18th of November 1978 46 years ago
Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim James Warren Jones commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 47 in Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana. That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."