Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 October 1966

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M'Naughton desired the executioner to be speedy and when the fellow pointed to the ladder he mounted with great spirit. The moment he was tied up he jumped from it with such vehemence that the rope snapped and he fell to the ground without dislocating his neck or doing himself much injury. When they had raised M'Naughton on his legs again he soon recovered his senses. The executioner then borrowed the rope from M'Naughton's accomplice Dunlap and fixed it round M'Naughton's neck. M'Naughton went up the ladder a second time and tying the rope himself to the gallows, jumped from it again with the same force and appeared dead in a minute.
(15 December 1761)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Friday 21st of October 1966 59 Years Ago
116 children and 28 adults Die in colliery spoil tip collapse in Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan, South Wales, United Kingdom. Over 40,000 cubic metres of debris covered the village in minutes and the classrooms at Pantglas Junior School were immediately inundated, with young children and teachers dying from impact or suffocation. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster