Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 May 1916

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

Kennedy extricated himself from the vehicle and survived but Kopechne did not. Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning. A week after the incident Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury and received a two-month suspended sentence.
(18 July 1969)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Sunday 21st of May 1916 108 years ago
Writer Harold Robbins is born as Harold Rubin in New York City, New York, United States. Robbins later claimed to be a Jewish orphan who had been raised in a Catholic boys' home whereas in reality he was the son of well-educated Russian- and Polish-Jewish immigrants.