Almanac for March 19th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 19th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-19-Lithograph-E1E7JJJ9I

Artist Birthday: William Allingham

The March 19, 1926 Milwaukee Leader

Bummer March 19th

March 19, 1958: A fire at the Monarch Underwear Company in Manhattan, New York City, kills 24 people and injures 15. The garment factory did not have fire sprinklers or fireproof partitions, and workers did not practice fire drills.

March 19, 1965: Chicago Cubs radio play-by-play sportscaster Jack Quinlan, age 38, is killed in a car accident on his way home from a golf game.

March 19, 1982: In a stunning act of bad judgment, Ozzy Osbourne’s tour bus driver Andrew Aycock borrows a private plane without permission. He takes guitarist Randy Rhoads and makeup artist Rachel Youngblood aboard; Rhoads wants to take some aerial photos for his mother. 

Unwisely, Aycock attempts to “buzz” the tour bus with the small plane. The plane’s wing clips the top of the bus and snaps in two, causing Aycock to lose control of the plane. The heads of Rhoads and Youngblood are forced through the plane’s windshield. The plane crashes into a pine tree and then into the garage of a nearby home, killing all three people aboard.

March 19, 1990: 24-year-old Andrew Wood, an independent rock musician whose sound was formative to the Seattle grunge scene, is taken off life support and dies in the hospital. He’s been found unresponsive on March 16th after an apparently accidental heroin overdose.

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