Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 March 1971

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

On 30 March al-Nazari shot and killed four students and two teachers with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. After his execution, the initial sentence for al-Nazari's corpse to be crucified in a public area for three days was repealed, instead the corpse was kicked to a pulp by angry citizens and burned in the streets of Sanaʽa.
(5 April 1997)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3346 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Wednesday 31st of March 1971 53 years ago
28-year-old American hero and mass murderer William Calley is sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor for the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. The next day President Richard Nixon ordered Calley transferred from Leavenworth Prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal. Calley served only three and a half years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning.