While pilgrims were traveling to perform the Stoning of the Devil ritual at 10am that morning, the disaster started when a pedestrian bridge railing was bent, causing seven people to fall off a bridge and onto people exiting the tunnel. The tunnel's capacity of 1000 soon filled with up to 5000 people. (2 July 1990)
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Wednesday 19th of April 1882 (-) — Naturalist, geologist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin dies of coronary thrombosis. Darwin's last words were "I am not the least afraid of death".