During a concert by the band ‘Perfectone’, I was hanging upside-down and reading an instructive manual on Braun flash-devices. In the meanwhile several photographers made flashlight-pictures from the audience. (20 December 1979)
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Monday 7th of December 1987 (-) — Mass murderer David Burke shoots five people including the two pilots aboard British Aerospace 146-200A Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 before shooting himself. All 43 passengers and crew aboard the plane died. Burke's main target was his ex-manager Ray Thomson. After boarding the plane Burke wrote a message on an airsickness bag reading: "Hi Ray. I think it's sort of ironical that we end up like this. I asked for some leniency for my family. Remember? Well, I got none and you'll get none."