Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 6 November 1840

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

Before jumping to his death Vitkovic shot dead 19-year-old Judith Anne Morris, 20-year-old Julie Faye McBean,18-year-old Annunziata "Nancy" Avignone, 29-year-old Warren David Spencer, 38-year-old Michael Francis McGuire, 38-year-old Marianne Jacoba Van Ewyk, 28-year-old Catherine Mary Dowling and 32-year-old Rodney Gerard Brown with a sawn-off M1 carbine in about five minutes time on several floors of the building. In a note addressed to his parents and dated the day of the massacre he wrote "Today is going to be the day. The anger in my head has got too much for me. I've got to get rid of my violent impulses. The time has come to die. There is no other way out."
(8 December 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 6th of November 1840 184 years ago
Multiple murderer Robert McConaghy is executed by hanging at the age of 60 in State Correctional Institution, 1100 Pike Street, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States. The rope snapped and McConaghy fell on the floor. While a new rope was prepared McConaghy gave a chilling account of his methodical slaughter of his father-in-law’s wife and five children.