Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 29 July 1967

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

A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.
(6 July 1840)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 29th of July 1967 57 Years Ago
134 Die in USS Forrestal aircraft carrier fire in Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. An electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on a F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited and triggered a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire