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

Hess took an extension cord from one of the lamps, strung it over a window latch and hanged himself. A short note to his family thanking them for all they had done was found in his pocket.
(17 August 1987)

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

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6221 Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, .

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Monday 13th of May 1985 (-) — Founder of MOVE black liberation group John Africa is fatally shot during an armed standoff with the Philadelphia Police Department.
Africa was killed along with five other adults and five children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb disposal dropped a satchel containing a gel-based explosive from a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter on a fortified bunker occupied by members of MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction of 65 homes in the neighborhood.