Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| de Gouges, Olympe

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Byck shot and killed Maryland Aviation Administration Police officer George Neal Ramsburg before storming aboard Delta Air Lines DC-9 Flight 523 to Atlanta, which he wanted to crash on the White House to kill President Nixon. When pilots Reese Doug Loftin and Fred Jones told him they could not take off until wheel blocks were removed he shot them both. After a standoff with police Byck committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
(22 February 1974)

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		Feminist, activist, playwright and abolitionist Olympe de Gouges born as Marie Gouze 7 May 1748 (+) is born in Montauban, France. 3 November 1793 (-) is executed by the Guillotine in Paris, France.
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