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

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

Three thousand men, women and children watched Shirley's hanging on the open ground south of the guardhouse.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 22nd of October 1978 48 years, 6 months and 14 days 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.