Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand || Whangaehu River Bridge

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

Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is."
(29 January 1958)

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

There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.

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Whangaehu River Bridge

Tangiwai, North Island, New Zealand.

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Thursday 24th of December 1953 (x) — .
One of the bridge piers was destroyed by a mudflow minutes before the train approched.