Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 30 December 1978

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A group of 26 survivors were found by the Grimsby trawler Sylvia. 32 more were picked up by the British steamer Cervonax and 70, including Captain Gundal, by the German steamer Energie. Some of the 160 survivors spent up to eight days in open lifeboats before rescue.
(28 June 1904)

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Saturday 30th of December 1978

46 years ago

Stephen Dean Holmes is strangled and drowned by serial killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company at the age of 14 in 195 Melrose Avenue, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Holmes was Nilsen's first victim. Holmes' dead body remained beneath the floorboards for almost eight months before Nilsen built a bonfire in the garden behind his flat and burned it on 11 August 1979.