Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| San Francisco, California, United States || St. Francis Hotel

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

Rahn's 20-year-old neighbour Peter Schay is arrested on 8 June 1970 and charged with her murder. He spent 18 months in prison before he was acquitted on 12 November 1971 due to lack of evidence.
(21 May 1970)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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St. Francis Hotel

335 Powell Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

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Friday 9th of September 1921 (-) — Model and actress Virginia Rappe dies of peritonitis due to a ruptured bladder after being violently raped, 4 days earlier, by filmmaker ‘Fatty’ Roscoe Conklin Arbuckle
Monday 23rd of October 1950 (-) — Singer, actor and comedian Al Jolson dies of a heart attack
Jolson was playing cards in his suite at the hotel. His last words were said to be "Boys, I'm going."
Monday 22nd of September 1975 (x) — Attempted assassin of President Gerald Ford Sara Jane Moore fires two shots aimed at President Gerald Ford with a .38 Special revolver from a distance of 40 feet away
Moore's first shot narrowly missed Ford’s head by five inches, going through the wall above the doorway. Upon hearing the gunfire bystander Oliver Sipple dove towards Moore and grabbed her shooting arm. That action redirected her second shot away from Ford and instead struck 42-year-old taxi driver John Ludwig standing inside the hotel in the groin.