Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 January 1963

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

Passengers began boarding Eastland at about 6:30 am and by 7:10 am the ship had reached its capacity of 2.572 passengers. The ship was packed with many passengers standing on the open upper decks and began to list slightly to the port side. The crew attempted to stabilize the ship by admitting water to its ballast tanks to little avail. Sometime during the next 15 minutes a number of passengers rushed to the port side and at 7:28 am Eastland lurched sharply to port and then rolled completely onto its port side, coming to rest on the river bottom.
(24 July 1915)

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Sunday 27th of January 1963
63 years, 11 months and 1 days ago

John Lindsay Sturkey is shot dead by serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster at the age of 18 in Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia.

Nicholas August, his 40-year-old lover Roweena Reeves and 29-year-old Brian Weir were also shot and woonded in separate events on the same night.