Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 May 1972

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Anderson shot and killed his 60-year-old father Robin, 52-year-old Andrea Joy Brander, 38-year-old Stephen Mark Hanson, 28-year-old John Frederick Matthews, 63-year-old Anthony Gordon McCarty and 51-year-old Henk Van de Wetering with a sawn-off shotgun at the breakfast table, five more people were wounded. Anderson was arrested naked and unarmed by police who tracked him through the rugged forest with the help of planes and helicopters.
(8 February 1997)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 21st of May 1972 54 years, 4 months and 8 days ago
34-year-old geologist and art vandal László Tóth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà with a geologist's hammer in Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Lazio, Italy. With fifteen blows Tóth removed Mary's arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids while shouting "I am Jesus Christ - risen from the dead". Toth was subdued by bystanders, including American sculptor Bob Cassilly, who was the first person to pull him away from the Pietà.