Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden

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

Five crewmen successfully ejected or bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely, another ejected but did not survive the landing and two died in the crash. The dead were 35-year-old Sergeant Francis Roger Barnish, 42-year-old Major Eugene Holcombe Richards and 41-year-old Major Eugene Shelton. Bomb disposal expert responsible for disarming the device Jack Revelle claimed "we came damn close" to a nuclear detonation that would have completely changed much of eastern North Carolina.
(23 January 1961)

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Sala, Västmanlands Län, Sweden.

Related events:

Saturday 14th of November 1908 (+) — Serial killer and leader of the so called 'Salaligan' Sigvard Thurneman is born.
Apart from Thurneman, the Sala gang consisted of Bror Hedström, Åke Rangvald Lindberg, Roland Abrahamsson and Karl Herbert Jansson.
Friday 19th of June 1936 (-) — Victim of Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor Elon Pettersson is robbed and shot dead by Sigvard Thurneman aka The Doctor.