Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 January 1960

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

Ball is known to have killed two and said to have killed as many as 20 women whose remains were fed to his five pet alligators. When two Bexar County sheriff's deputies went to question him, Ball pulled a handgun from his cash register and killed himself with a bullet through the heart.
(24 September 1938)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 21st of January 1960 65 Years Ago
435 Die in Coalbrook coal mine of Clydesdale Colliery cave in in Coalbrook, Sasolburg, Free State, South Africa. The miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall caused by cascading pillar failure. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalbrook_mining_disaster