Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 August 1967

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

That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."
(18 November 1978)

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There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 27th of August 1967 57 years ago
Music entrepreneur Brian Samuel Epstein aka The Beatle-Making Prince of Pop dies of an overdose of Carbitral and alcohol at the age of 33 in Chapel Street 24, Belgravia, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.