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

Cuevas and two other inmates of Huntsville's Walls Unit sparked the nation's longest prison siege by taking 16 hostages on 24 July 24 1974. Accomplices Fred Gomez Carrasco and Rudolfo Dominguez along with hostages Julia Standley and Elizabeth Beseda were killed during a shootout 10 days later.
(23 May 1991)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Provo, Utah, United States.

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Wednesday 21st of July 1976 (x) — Double murderer Gary Gilmore is arrested.
Gilmore's cousin Brenda turned him in to police shortly after he phoned her asking for bandages and painkillers for the injury to his hand. The day before, while disposing of the .22 caliber pistol he used in his murders, Gilmore accidentally shot himself in his right hand.
Tuesday 20th of July 1976 (-) — Victim of Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner's Song Bennie Bushnell is shot dead by Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song.
Tuesday 16th of September 2025 (-) — Actor and film director Robert Redford dies of natural causes.