Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 November 1975

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

Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals to maximise publicity with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. The hunger strike centred on five demands: the right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits; the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week; full restoration of remission lost through the protest. Sands died on 5 May 1981 in Maze Prison Hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking.
(1 March 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Friday 14th of November 1975 51 years, 9 months and 15 days ago
42-year-old serial killer Donald Henry Gaskins, originally Donald Henry Parrott aka Pee Wee Gaskins aka the Meanest Man in America is arrested when criminal associate Walter Neeley confessed to police that he had witnessed Gaskins killing 28-year-old Dennis Bellamy and 15-year-old Johnny Knight in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. On 4 December Gaskins led police to land he owned in Prospect where police discovered the bodies of eight of his victims.