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The train was carrying about 1000 passengers. Grief-stricken relatives came to the scene and nearly lynched the surviving locomotive engineer who took refuge in a police station. The train conductors also fled.
(20 March 1946)

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Peoples Temple Agricultural Project

Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana.

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Saturday 18th of November 1978 (-) — Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple Jim Jones commits suicide by a shot in the head.
That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."