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

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

Before Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. From his 32nd-floor suites Paddock fired more than 1.000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. The motive for the mass shooting remains officially undetermined.
(1 October 2017)

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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.