The group had stolen close to 150 guns which they intended on using while hijacking a 747 jumbo jet, in which they would kill one passenger every hour until Manson and company were released from prison. They were all arrested. (21 August 1971)
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Wednesday 7th of February 1979 (-) — Nazi doctor and anthropologist Josef Mengele suffers a stroke while swimming and drowns. Mengele was buried in Embu das Artes under the name Wolfgang Gerhard, whose identification card he had been using since 1971. The remains were exhumed on 6 June 1985 and extensive forensic examination confirmed with a high degree of probability that the body was Mengele's.