Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa || Strijdom Square

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

The dead included Mamah Borthwick Cheney, her two children, John and Martha; gardener David Lindblom; draftsman Emil Brodelle; workman Thomas Brunker; and another workman's son Ernest Weston. Carlton swallowed hydrochloric acid following the attack in an attempt to kill himself. He was nearly lynched on the spot, but was taken to the Dodgeville jail. Carlton died from starvation seven weeks after the attack.
(15 August 1914)

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

There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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Strijdom Square, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Tuesday 15th of November 1988 (x) — Eight people are killed and 16 injured in a racially motivated shooting spree by Spree killer Barend Strydom .
Strydom was sentenced to death but the South African government declared a moratorium on capital punishment in 1990. He was released in 1992. The square has since been renamed Lilian Ngoyi Square.