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

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."
(18 November 1978)

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

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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Wednesday 1st of June 1796 (x) — Tennessee is admitted as 16th of the United States.
Sunday 22nd of April 1923 (+) — Pin-up model Bettie Page is born.
Thursday 17th of January 1957 (+) — Suicide bomber Anthony Warner is born.
Wednesday 4th of October 1978 (x) — Singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette is supposedly kidnapped and terrorized by an unidentified masked man, physically assaulted and abandoned 80 miles away.
In her 2000 memoir Wynette's daughter Jackie Daly published that her mother had confessed to her that the kidnapping was a hoax to cover up domestic violence from her fifth husband George Richey. Richey denied the allegation.
Monday 6th of April 1998 (-) — Singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette dies of a blood clot in her lung.
Saturday 21st of August 2021 (-) — Singer-songwriter Don Everly dies of undisclosed causes.