Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 May 1827

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

Simmons walked into a law office and killed 24-year-old receptionist Kathy Kendrick; he had been infatuated with her, but she had rejected him. He next went to an oil company office where he shot dead 33-year-old J.D. Chaffin and wounded owner Rusty Taylor. Simmons then drove on to a convenience store where he had previously worked, shooting and wounding two more people. Afterwards he went to the office of the Woodline Motor Freight Company where he shot and wounded a woman. Simmons then simply sat in the office and chatted with one of the secretaries while waiting for the police. In the week before Simmons killed 14 members of his family in two events.
(28 December 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

Like BFD on Facebook
Follow BFD on Tumblr
Like DDV on Facebook
Follow DDV on Twitter

Get a daily BFD list in your mailbox.

BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 27th of May 1827 199 years, 10 months and 10 days ago
18-year-old writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry in Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Poe claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18 and first served at Fort Independence for five dollars a month.