Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 May 1978

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

Passengers, including many gold miners were killed by being dashed against the rocks by the waves rather than drowned. Others drowned weighed down by the belts of gold they were wearing around their bodies. The survivors, 21 passengers and 18 crew members were all men, with no women or children saved.
(26 October 1859)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 9th of May 1978 46 years ago
Italian Christian Democratic politician Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro is murdered by the Red Brigades at the age of 62 in Via Michelangelo Caetani, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Moro's body was left in the trunk of a red Renault 4.