Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 11 June 1920

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

All four trains had departed the Alcalá de Henares station between 07:01 and 07:14. The explosions took place between 07:37 and 07:40. Atocha Station (train number 21431) - Three bombs exploded. El Pozo del Tío Raimundo Station (train number 21435) - Two bombs exploded. Santa Eugenia Station (train number 21713) - One bomb exploded. Calle Téllez (train number 17305) - Four bombs exploded. Over 2000 people were injured. On 3 April 2004 the presumed perpetrators committed suicide by setting off explosives, killing themselves and one of the police officers in Leganés, south of Madrid.
(11 March 2004)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 11th of June 1920 106 years, 10 months and 24 days ago
Bridge player, tutor and womanizer Joseph Bowne Elwell is murdered with a gunshot to the head from a .45 automatic by persons unknown in his locked room at the age of 47 in 244 West 70th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.