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Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated and tortured in a coma for 22 hours by police officers Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt in Police Room 619 in Port Elizabeth Walmer Police Station on 18 August 1977. On 11 September police loaded Biko in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities. Biko was nearly dead owing to the previous injuries and died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison.
(12 September 1977)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2069 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Berkeley, California, United States.

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Sunday 7th of May 1972 (-) — Victim of Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer Mary Ann Pesce is abducted and strangled by Edmund Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer
Pesce was abducted with her 18-year-old roommate Anita Luchessa. Kemper beheaded Luchessa's and Pesce’s body and kept the heads for a while, eventually disposing them in a ravine. Pesce was found and identified, nothing of Luchessa was ever found.