Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 December 1979

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

On 5 July a gale developed and Méduse showed signs of breaking up. 146 men and one woman boarded an unstable raft. The raft had few supplies and no means of steering or navigation. By the fourth day there were only 67 people left alive on the raft and some resorted to cannibalism to survive. On the eighth day the fittest decided to throw the weak and wounded overboard, leaving just 15 men remaining, all of whom survived another four days until their rescue on 17 July by the brig Argus which accidentally encountered them.
(2 July 1816)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Sunday 2nd of December 1979

45 years ago

Deedeh Goodarzi is strangled and cut to pieces by serial killer Richard Cottingham aka The Torso Killer at the age of 22 in Travel Inn Motor Hotel, 515 West 42nd Street, New York City, New York, United States.

Cottingham removed the heads and hands of Goodarzi and another unidentified woman and doused the bodies with lighter fluid and set them alight.