Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 October 1871

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

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 8th of October 1871 153 Years Ago
Over 300 Die in the Great Chicago fire in 137 DeKoven Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The conflagration burned until Tuesday 10 October and left more than 100.000 residents homeless. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire