Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 November 1974

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

Cuevas and two other inmates of Huntsville's Walls Unit sparked the nation's longest prison siege by taking 16 hostages on 24 July 24 1974. Accomplices Fred Gomez Carrasco and Rudolfo Dominguez along with hostages Julia Standley and Elizabeth Beseda were killed during a shootout 10 days later.
(23 May 1991)

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

There are 3366 births, 3930 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6431 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 9th of November 1974 51 years ago
Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Holger Klaus Meins dies after hungerstriking for 58 days at the age of 33 in Justizvollzugsanstalt Wittlich, Wittlich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. With Meins' 183 cm he only weighed 39 kgs at the time of his death.
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