Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 22 October 1978

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

On the same day he killed his 16-year-old girlfriend Joan Marie Gatewood and 25-year-old Paulette Couch, he also wounded 27-year-old James Bailey, 38-year-old Charles Baltozer, 38-year-old Carole Baltozer, 17-year-old Charles Baltozer Jr., 6-year-old Heather Baltozer, 28-year-old George Christopherson, 27-year-old Ocie Curry, 29-year-old Joseph Pickett and 19-year-old Ann Wenclewicz.
(24 May 1975)

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

There are 3361 births, 3912 deaths, 1121 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5714 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 22nd of October 1978 46 years ago
21-year-old musician Sid Vicious, originally John Simon Ritchie attempts to commit suicide by slitting his wrist with a smashed light bulb in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States. Vicious was subsequently hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital where he also tried killing himself by jumping from a window as well as shouting "I want to be with my Nancy" or other similar words, but got pulled back by hospital staff.