Your Birthday / Crime

[duck99655]

Sobering indeed.

I know exactly how you feel!


MASS SUICIDE IN JONESTOWN:
November 18, 1978


People's Temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in remote northwestern Guyana. The few cult members who refused to take the cyanide-laced fruit-flavored concoction were either forced to do so at gunpoint or shot as they fled. The final death toll was 913, including 276 children.

[valerii]

This comes as no shock. As my great-grandfather's second cousin, "Howard Hughes" was a name I heard all too often growing up. Regardless, I always thought it was an interesting coincidence that he flew the Spruce Goose on my birthday.

SPRUCE GOOSE FLIES:
November 2, 1947

"The Hughes Flying Boat--the largest aircraft ever built--is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. Built with laminated birch and spruce, the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle..."