Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 26th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-26-Stone-Feast-W7W11CMF64
Bummer March 26th
March 26, 1664: Samuel Pepys celebrates his Stone Feast, commemorating the day he had a kidney stone removed by the horrific, pre-anesthesia 17th century surgical method. He writes in his famous diary:
“This being my solemn feast for my cutting of the stone, it being now, blessed be God! this day six years since the time; and I bless God I do in all respects find myself free from that disease or any signs of it, more than that upon the least cold I continue to have pain in making water, by gathering of wind and growing costive, till which be removed I am at no ease, but without that I am very well.”
March 26, 1923: French actor Sarah Bernhardt dies of uremia, from which she has been suffering since 1916.
March 26, 1931: Five children and their bus driver die near Towner, Colorado when their bus is caught in a sudden spring blizzard. The unheated bus had two missing windows that were only covered by cardboard, so the bus offered no real protection from the elements. The driver left the bus to try to get help and apparently became lost in the snow and died, apparently of exposure. Three children died on the bus and an additional two children died that night.
March 26, 1995: Rapper Eric “Eazy-E” Wright dies of complications of HIV/AIDS at the age of 30.
March 26, 2018: California residents Jennifer Hart and her wife Sarah Hart drug their six adopted children (ages ranging from 12 to 19) with antihistamine, load them into a minivan with the mothers, and drive the van off a cliff in Mendocino County, California. All eight members of the family are presumed to have been killed when the van landed on its roof on a beach below the cliff, although as of 2022, only seven of the bodies had been found.
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