Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 August 1955

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

At the end of the show an announcement was made that children with certain numbered tickets would be presented with a prize upon exit. At the same time entertainers began distributing gifts from the stage to the children in the stalls. Worried about missing out on the treats, many of the estimated 1.100 children in the gallery stampeded toward the staircase leading downstairs. With the compressive asphyxia of 183 children between 3 and 14 years old the disaster is the worst of its kind in British history.
(16 June 1883)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 31st of August 1955 71 years, 8 months and 9 days ago
Mass murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 38 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Bartholomew shot and killed his wife Marie, his 3-year-old son Rickie and his 2-year-old daughter Pamela in a motel court in Phoenix, Arizona.