Two passenger trains collided with a derailed freight train between Tsurumi Station and Shin-Koyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line. (9 November 1963)
There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Monday 21st of February 1910 (+) — Mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family Carmine Galante is born. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar, leading to the nickname 'The Cigar' and 'Lilo' (a Sicilian term for cigar).
Thursday 14th of May 1936 (+) — Singer-songwriter Bobby Darin is born. Darin was raised by his maternal grandmother Vivian Fern Walden aka Polly who he thought was his mother. Darin's birth mother Vanina Juliette 'Nina' Cassotto became pregnant with him in the summer of 1935 when she was 17. Presumably because of the scandalous nature of out-of-wedlock pregnancies in that era Nina and her mother hatched a plan to pass the baby off as her parents' child and for Nina to be passed off as his older sister. He allegedly chose the name Darin because he had seen a malfunctioning electrical sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN DUCK" rather than "MANDARIN DUCK".
Thursday 9th of March 1972 (-) — Victim of Charlie Chop-off Douglas Owens is stabbed and sexually mutilated by Charlie Chop-off aka . Owens' penis had been cut but not severed from his body.