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)
There are 3391 births, 3955 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5744 people in 6459 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Friday 29th of May 1914 112 years, 11 months and 12 days ago |
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 1012 Die in RMS Empress of Ireland ocean liner and Storstad collier collision in Saint Lawrence River, Mont-Joli, Quebec, Canada. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland |
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