Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940. (2 November 1944)
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Monday 27th of October 1975 (-) — School shooter Robert Poulin commits suicide by a shot in the head. Poulin opened fire on his classmates with a shotgun, killing 17-year-old classmate Mark Hough and wounding six others before killing himself. Earlier that day Poulin had raped and sodomized 17-year-old Sri Lankan Kim Rabot in his own bedroom before stabbing her to death.