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Most of the 139 passengers on the charter flight were women-members of the Axbridge Ladies Guild on a shopping trip to Basel, Switzerland. There were 37 survivors.
(10 April 1973)

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Columbus Circle

New York City, New York, United States.

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Monday 28th of June 1971 (x) — Before thousands of stunned spectators and amid heavy police security, Mobster and crime boss Joseph Colombo is shot three times in the head and neck by black street hustler Jerome Johnson
Colombo remained paralyzed for the next seven years. In 1975 a court-ordered examination showed that Colombo could move his thumb and forefinger on his right hand. In 1976 there were reports that he could recognize people and utter several words. Colombo died of cardiac arrest on 22 May 1978.