Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Los Angeles, California, United States || 3rd Street and Lorraine

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

The first train ran into a pile of rock and concrete. Minutes later a second train came into the tunnel from the opposite direction, colliding with the rubble and the first train.
(16 June 1972)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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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3rd Street and Lorraine, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Saturday 11th of July 1936 (x) — Business magnate, aviator, aerospace engineer, film director and eccentric Howard Hughes hits and kills pedestrian Gabriel S. Meyer with his car
A witness to the accident told police that Hughes was driving erratically and too fast and that Meyer had been standing in the safety zone of a streetcar stop. Hughes was booked on suspicion of negligent homicide and held overnight in jail. On 16 July 1936 Hughes was held blameless by a coroner's jury at the inquest into Meyer's death.