Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 May 1916

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Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is."
(29 January 1958)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Sunday 21st of May 1916 108 years ago
Writer Harold Robbins is born as Harold Rubin in New York City, New York, United States. Robbins later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys' home whereas in reality he was the son of well-educated Russian- and Polish-Jewish immigrants.