Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 January 1954

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Reeves was disoriented by 'Pilot's Vertigo' and actually flying upside down when he tried to take the plane up to avoid a thunderstorm. Instead the plane plunged with its nose into a tree. Reeves' 30-year-old business partner and manager Dean Manuel also died in the crash.
(31 July 1964)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 31st of January 1954 70 years ago He Didn't Dance to the Radio
Electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of his apartment at the age of 64 in New York City, New York, United States. Armstrong was financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA over the FM patent dispute.