Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 22 August 1965

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

The church was crowded with approximately 3.000 people to hear Booker T. Washington address the National Convention of Negro Baptists. Someone in the choir yelled "A fight!" Mistaking the word 'fight' for 'fire' the congregation rose en masse and started for the door. Through mere fright many persons fainted and as they fell to the floor were crushed to death.
(19 September 1902)

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Sunday 22nd of August 1965
61 years, 5 months and 14 days ago

Hermann Schmitz is stabbed to death by serial killer Joachim Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale at the age of 25 in Großenbaum, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Schmitz' girlfriend Marion Veen escaped unharmed.