Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana || Peoples Temple Agricultural Project

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After the barn had filled with an audience from Burwell and surrounding villages, the doors were nailed shut to prevent further people getting in. The Ipswich Journal of 26 February 1774 reported that "It is reported that an old man who died recently near Newmarket who just before his death confessed that he set fire to a barn at Burwell, Cambridgeshire on the 8th of September 1727 when no less than 80 persons lost their lives and that having an antipathy to the puppet showman was the cause of him committing the action."
(8 September 1727)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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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."