Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 June 2022

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

Five crewmen successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely, another ejected but did not survive the landing and two died in the crash. The dead were 35-year-old Sergeant Francis Roger Barnish, 42-year-old Major Eugene Holcombe Richards and 41-year-old Major Eugene Shelton. Bomb disposal expert responsible for disarming the device Jack Revelle claimed "we came damn close" to a nuclear detonation that would have completely changed much of eastern North Carolina.
(23 January 1961)

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There are 3347 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 8th of June 2022 2 years ago
Child killer Frank Jarvis Atwood is executed by lethal injection at the age of 66 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. Atwood suffered from a degenerative spinal condition and needed to be pushed in a wheelchair to the execution chamber and propped on a medical pillow during the execution. Atwood helped prison officials find a suitable vein for the IV line that would administer the lethal-injection drugs to end his life.