Almanac for March 21st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 21st: https://ko-fi.com/Post/March-21-Dinosaur-Eggs-N4N21CDCZL

Bummer March 21st

March 21, 1947: A patrol officer is called to the Harlem, upper Manhattan, New York City home of Homer and Langley Collyer, brothers in their 60s who were well-known in their neighborhood for being extremely reclusive, rarely leaving the home, which had no electricity or other utility services. The officer has difficulty entering the residence, which is crammed with newspapers, cardboard, and other cast-off belongings and has iron bars on many of its windows. The officer is finally able to enter through a second-story window. Inside, he finds the dead body of the elder brother, Homer, in the entryway. 

The medical examiner determines that Homer has died of heart disease and starvation within the past ten hours. Authorities suspect that the phone call alerting them to Homer’s body was made by Langley and that Langley has since fled the home. The police search for Langley to inform him that his brother has died. In the meantime, they remove more than 100 tons of hoarded belongings from the home, much of it retained from the medical practice of the brothers’ father Herman, a gynecologist who passed away in 1923.

On April 8, 1947, while the trash removal process is still ongoing, police discover Langley’s decomposing body. He had apparently been crushed by falling trash as he attempted to pass through a narrow passageway while bringing food to Homer. The medical examiner determined that Langley had died of asphyxiation around the 9th of March.

March 21, 1974: Stage and film actor Candy Darling dies of lymphoma. She’s 29 years old.

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March 21, 1991: Conor Clapton, the 4-year-old son of English guitarist Eric Clapton and Italian fashion model Lory Del Santo, dies after falling from the window of a 53rd story apartment in Manhattan.

March 21, 2015: 35-year-old Pedro Aguayo Ramírez, who wrestled under the name El Hijo del Perro Aguayo (since he was the son of wrestler Perro Aguayo) dies of injuries he sustained in the wrestling ring the previous day. Ramírez was drop-kicked by an opponent, causing a whiplash effect that broke three vertebrae in Ramírez’s cervical spine, resulting in cervical stroke and cardiac arrest. This was a freak accident that resulted from a common, typically safe wrestling move, and Ramírez’s family does not blame the opponent.

March 21, 2022: China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes over Wuzhou, killing all nine crew members and 123 passengers. Since the plane was in good flying order and didn’t give any signs of being in distress, it is unknown why the flight deviated from its altitude plan, took a steep dive, and crashed into hilly terrain used by a Wuzhou mining company. 

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