Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 March 1955

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

At the end of the show an announcement was made that children with certain numbered tickets would be presented with a prize upon exit. At the same time entertainers began distributing gifts from the stage to the children in the stalls. Worried about missing out on the treats, many of the estimated 1.100 children in the gallery stampeded toward the staircase leading downstairs. With the compressive asphyxia of 183 children between 3 and 14 years old the disaster is the worst of its kind in British history.
(16 June 1883)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 28th of March 1955 71 years, 11 months and 18 days ago
31-year-old serial killer Leslie Irvin aka The Mad Dog Killer in Trigg-Turner Road, Henderson, Kentucky, United States. Goebel's 49-year-old wife Mamie was shot but survived permanently blinded. Elizabeth had a two-year-old daughter Shirley Faye who was spared.