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May 31, 1889: The South Fork Dam of the Little Conemaugh River fails, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2,200 people are killed.
May 31, 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre begins the destruction of 35 blocks of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma by white supremacist terrorists. Officially, 29 Black residents of Tulsa and 13 white residents die as a result; historians believe the true death toll to be between 75 and 100 people.
The exact cause of the violence and destruction is unknown, although it may have started due to rumors that a 17-year-old white teenager working as a elevator operator was touched or harassed by a Black teenager. A precipitating incident appears to have been an attempt by a white man to disarm a Black man, leading to the weapon firing. A gunfight that killed 12 people ensued. After this, small groups of white people began randomly attacking Black people walking alone. Whites burned and looted Black businesses and homes.
As a result of this domestic terrorism, many Black survivors chose to leave Tulsa. The Red Cross counted 1,256 houses burned, 215 houses looted but not burned, and $1.5 million in damages in 1921 money, roughly equivalent to $34 million in 2021.
May 30, 1955: William John Vukovich Sr., who won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500s, dies in a car crash during the 1955 Indy 500. Vukovich’s car went over a wall, sailed through the air, flipped several times, and struck a low bridge. Vukovich is partially decapitated and dies instantly when his car struck the bridge. His grandson, William Vukovich III, will die during racing practice in 1990. Metal roll bars installed in vehicles and safety-certified driver helmets were mandated starting with the 1956 Indy 500.
May 30, 1958: Pat O’Connor is killed during the last lap of the Indy 500 amidst a 15-car pile-up. O’Connor’s car strikes Jimmy Reece’s car, sails through the air, lands upside-down, and catches fire. His death is due to head trauma from the car’s upside-down landing.
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May 29, 1985: A riot at the football (soccer) match in Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium leads to the deaths of 39 people, some of them crushed when a wall is partially knocked down.
May 29, 1997: 30-year-old musician Jeff Buckley drowns in the Wolf River in Tennessee.
May 29, 2021: Registered dietician and pastor Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Franklin, Tennessee, to marry her religious and weight loss beliefs, dies in the crash of a Cessna 501 Citation I/SP into Tennessee’s Percy Priest Lake. All seven people on board are killed, including Shamblin’s husband Joe Lara and the pilot. Shamblin’s congregation later learned that although the preacher was a multi-millionaire, she left none of her fortune to the church.
May 28, 1977: A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky kills 165 people and injures an additional 200 people out to dinner during the Memorial Day weekend. Fire code allowed for 1,500 patrons to be seated in the club at a time; on this night, more than 3,000 people were packed inside. The building had no fire walls, no sprinkler system, and numerous problems with the electrical wiring.
May 28, 2010: A Jnaneshwari Express train derails in West Bengal, India, killing 148 passengers. The cause of the derailment is thought to have been either a terrorist bombing or sabotage.
May 28, 2016: Harambe the gorilla is shot and killed at Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden after the animal grabbed a 3-year-old child through the bars of the gorilla enclosure.
Beatles Trivia May 27, 1967: Tit Elingtin is born in Pontiac, Michigan, one day after the Beatles had released their album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (in the U.K.; its U.S. release date was June 2nd).
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Cilla Black
Singer Cilla Black in Amsterdam, Feb. 16, 1970. Public domain via Dutch National Archives
Bummer May 27th
May 27, 1792: Two large earthquakes cause the Mayuyama dome of Mount Unzen to collapse. A landslide hit the city of Shimabara. When the mass of debris reached Ariake Bay, it triggered a tsunami that swept across the bay and hit Higo Province before rebounding and striking Shimabara again. The earthquakes, landslide, and tsunami are thought to have killed 15,000 people.
May 27, 1907: As San Francisco is still recovering from the great earthquake of the previous year, health officials identify patients suffering from bubonic plague. The outbreak, which also includes patients in nearby Oakland, will eventually kill 78 people.
May 26, 1822: The church of Grue, Norway, catches fire during a Pentecost service. Constructed entirely out of wood, the church had three doors, one of which was quickly blocked by the fire. Between 113 and 116 people are killed.
May 26, 1903: Marcel Renault, one of the three Renault brothers who founded the car company, dies of injuries he sustained two days before racing in the Paris-Madrid race sponsored by French and Spanish automobile clubs. He’s one of five drivers killed during the race, along with three spectators.
May 26, 1914: St. John’s College (Annapolis, Maryland) student William Bowlus dies of a gunshot wound fired at him by a first-year student. Bowlus, a third-year student, attempted to enter a dorm room occupied by five first-years to engage them in a class hazing ritual. The first-years refuse to reveal which of them fired the shot, so local law enforcement declines to prosecute.
May 26, 1991: Lauda Air Flight 004, flying from Bangkok to Vienna, breaks apart mid-flight and crashes into a national park in Thailand. All 223 people on board are killed. The bodies of victims who could be recovered were taken to a hospital in Bangkok, where they were stored without refrigeration; as a result of decomposition, 27 victims were never able to be identified.
Lauda Air belonged to Austrian Formula One driver Andreas “Niki” Lauda, who himself had suffered severe burn injuries and almost died in a racing accident on August 1, 1976, at the German Grand Prix.
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May 25, 1812: An explosion at Felling Colliery in England kills 92 men and boys.
May 25, 1895: Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and taken to Newgate Prison for processing. He is later transferred to Pentonville Prison, where he is sentenced to hard labor, is malnourished, and is only allowed to read either the Bible or The Pilgrim’s Progress.
May 25, 1979: American Airlines Flight 191, bound from Chicago to Los Angeles, loses an engine shortly after takeoff due to improper maintenance. It crashes less than a mile from the end of the runway. All 271 people on board are killed, as are two people on the ground.
My mother’s first cousin, James Zielinski, was one of the passengers killed in this accident.
May 25, 1985: Tropical Storm One, formed over the Bay of Bengal on May 22nd, reaches Bangladesh. The storm surge, torrential rains, and floods kill more than 11,000 people.
May 24, 1964: During a football (soccer) match between the Peruvian and Argentinian national teams in the Estadio Nacional in Lima, a Uruguayan referee makes a controversial call against Peru. Fans throw trash onto the field. One man who attempts to invade the pitch is brutally beaten by the Peruvian National Police. A riot and a crowd crush ensue, since the exit doors have been sealed with corrugated steel shutters. The 328 people who die mostly die of crush asphyxia or of internal injuries.
May 23, 1926: Playwright Henrik Ibsen dies after his third stroke.
May 23, 1934: Murderous bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are driving a 1934 Ford Deluxe V-8, with Barrow at the wheel, when they notice Henry Methvin, a member of their “gang,” parked at the side of the road. Unknown to them, Methvin is working with law enforcement, who are hiding in the nearby bushes. As Barrow slows down the Ford to talk to Methvin, police open fire, firing 160 rounds into the Ford. Barrow, struck in the head, dies almost instantly. Parker is also killed at the scene; witnesses describe hearing her scream as bullets strike her.
May 23, 1990: While Scottish psychedelic/electronic band The Shamen is in the Canary Islands filming a music video for its song “Move Any Mountain,” band member Will Sinnott, who performed under the name Will Sinn, drowns off the coast of La Gomera island. Unconfirmed reports implicate psychedelic drugs in his drowning accident.
May 23, 1999: Canadian wrestler Owen Hart dies during a match in Kansas City, Missouri. As Hart is being lowered into the ring, his harness fails. Hart falls 78 feet onto the top rope, severing his aorta. Hart’s lungs fill with blood; he dies from blunt force trauma and internal bleeding at the hospital.
A Bessie Love film based on an ACD novel. Nov. 11, 1925
Bummer May 22nd
May 22, 1960: An earthquake centered near Lumaco, Chile, is one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded and causes a tsunami that devastates Hilo, Hawaii. An unknown number of people are killed by the earthquake and tsunami; estimates range between 1,000 and 6,000 people lost their lives.
May 22, 1981: Film director Boris Sagal, best known for directing the Charlton Heston movie The Omega Man, dies after walking into the rotors of a helicopter on the set of the miniseries World War III. Partially decapitated, he is rushed to the hospital, where he dies a few hours later. Sagal is the father of five children, including actress Katey Sagal.
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May 21, 1703: Under the reign of Queen Anne, novelist and political pamphleteer Daniel Defoe is sent to prison for seditious libel on the basis of his satirical writings. He’ll spend six months in prison before the Earl of Oxford helps get him released in exchange for Defoe supplying the Earl with intelligence about his political rivals.
May 21, 1976: Yuba City (California) High School sends its choir students to a nearby high school for a Friendship Day event aboard a chartered bus. The bus’s air brakes fail. With no ability to brake, the bus strikes a rail, leaves the highway, and falls 21.6 feet. It lands on its roof. One adult faculty advisor and 29 students are killed. All 24 survivors, including the bus driver, are seriously injured.
May 20, 1943: Australian bacteriologist Dora Lush dies of scrub typhus. She’d accidentally pricked herself with an infected needle while trying to develop a vaccine for this disease. Lush is 32 years old.
May 20, 1989: Saturday Night Live actress Gilda Radner dies of ovarian cancer. She’s 42 years old.
May 20, 2013: Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies of bile duct cancer.
May 19, 2016: EgyptAir Flight 804, flying from Paris to Cairo, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 66 people on board. The suspected cause of the crash is a cockpit fire, perhaps caused by a crew member smoking a cigarette (an action which was not prohibited), worsened by an oxygen leak coming from a mask inside the cockpit, that rapidly spread out of control.
May 19, 2018: A 32-year-old bicyclist is killed by a mountain lion while cycling in North Bend, Oregon.
May 18, 1927: Local school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe rigs explosives inside the Bath Township, Michigan elementary school to explode. He murders his wife and sets his house and barn on fire. Kehoe also fills his automobile with nails and explosives, detonating it and killing himself and sending shrapnel flying. The local mail carrier loses a leg when the vehicle explodes and later dies from his injuries.
As a result of the school explosion and detonation of the vehicle, 38 children and a total of five adult victims are killed. The exact reason for Kehoe’s rampage is unknown, but he may have been upset about losing a local election and his wife’s increasingly poor health.
May 18, 1980: Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington State, erupts. An estimated 57 people die as a direct result of the volcano, and over one billion dollars’ worth of property is destroyed.
May 18, 1996: 29-year-old musician Kevin Gilbert is found dead of apparent autoerotic asphyxiation at his home in California.
May 18, 2017: Musician Chris Cornell, age 52, dies of suicide by hanging.
Now let's move onto something significantly more life-affirming: My all-time (2017-2026) most-played songs on Spotify, Part II.
"Love Is Blindness" by Jack White is the only cover of a U2 song that I actually like better than a U2 song.
"Gettin' It" features into the plot of the tv series Blindspotting, an amazing musical love story starring the uber-talented Jasmine Cephas Jones of Hamilton (the musical) fame. Her character's beloved is played by Rafael Casal and he is also great in this. He's basically playing the most ride-or-die husband in modern musical history.
"Soul Kitchen" by the Doors is playing in the Umbrella Academy episode where Klaus meets Dave, the closest thing he has to a love of his life. It's beautiful and tragic and I was more than a little obsessed.
I should watch the Bruce Springsteen movie starring the gorgeous Jeremy Allen White of The Bear fame. (The Bear also had Jon Bernthal, who is about to return to playing The Punisher on Disney+. Right after the latest season of Daredevil: Born Again showed us Jessica Jones and Luke Cage as a couple, with their daughter, future Captain America Danielle Cage. I hyperventilated. JonesCage was all I ever wanted out of Marvel's The Defenders. Well, that and for [spoilers] Electra to still be alive, but we can't have everything, can we?)
(P.S. Jon Bernthal is also starring on Broadway in the theatre version of the classic Al Pacino movie Dog Day Afternoon. And while I have mixed feelings about Jews and Italians being used interchangeably in media - don't get me started again - that's pretty fuckin' awesome. I love that guy. I just love him, period.)
I'm done listening to Nicki Minaj now that she's joined Team Maga (a.k.a. the American fascists who want to reinstate white supremacy) and how we just all know instinctively that if she was in that juke joint in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, she would have let those vampires in and fixed them a Myx Moscato to boot.
"The Future" from Batman (1989) isn't actually my 121st most-listened song, it's in fact the first song I ever listened to on Spotify on March 31, 2017. I wonder what I was thinking that day. It's true that as a 12-year-old in 1989, I was hella excited about Batman, and I saw it in the theater twice, once regular movie theater and once drive-in. Maybe I was leaning into 1980s nostalgia, as I sometimes do, with or without Murry Head. Maybe I was fantasizing about Christian Bale's Batman, as I sometimes do, with or without Cillian Murphy.
May 17, 1946: William Jefferson Blythe Jr., the father of future 42nd U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton, is driving from Chicago toward his home in Hope, Arkansas when his Buick’s tire blows out. Blythe loses control of car, which crashes, throwing him into a ditch. Blythe survives being thrown from the vehicle but is unable to pull himself out of the water in the ditch before he drowns. The future president is born three months after his father’s death.
May 17, 1995: A 35-year-old man in San Diego steals a 56-ton M60A3 tank from the National Guard. The Army veteran, who’s dealing with substance abuse issues and their consequences, destroys an estimated $149,000 worth of property as the tank crushes vehicles and infrastructure including utility poles, fire hydrants, and traffic lights. No one else is hurt, but when the tank becomes disabled, San Diego police force the hatch open and shoot the tank thief, killing him.
"Hymn to Virgil" was a 2025 obsession. I feel like Lady Gaga's "Disease" came in between the "Joyride" days and the winter of "Hymn to Virgil." My tag for Hozier on Tumblr is "our lord and savior Andrew Hozier Byrne," and I'm only a little bit being ironic.
I need to read If Not For My Baby, the romance novel based on a Hozier rpf.
That Rihanna song? Reminiscent of JohnLock, to me. This is a meme I made in 2017.
"Here With Me" by Dido is from Love, Actually, a film which has both BBC Sherlock's Martin Freeman and Andrew Lincoln of Walking Dead and Wuthering Heights fame.
"Cruel Summer" was my #24 most-listened song of 2025, when I wrote, "24. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift: My #4 song last year and probably the Taylor Swift song that brings me the purest joy. But I can only listen to it in the summer. I abandon it when autumn comes. I forgot that I started listened to it because of Good Omens.
"I have to admit, the revelation that Neil Gaiman is a garbage heap of a human being really dulled my enthusiasm for Ineffable Spouses. David Tennant and Michael Sheen, it's not your fault."
But now, in May 2026, Good Omens 3 is out and I will be watching it soon.
That '80s bop by Tiffany, of course, besides having been part of my 1980s childhood, was also on the Umbrella Academy soundtrack.
I've been listening to Nirvana since the '90s, but what rekindled my love for "Come As You Are" specifically was its appearance in the Captain Marvel movie.
"I Drove All Night?" Destial playlist. "Boom Clap?" I'll always associate that with the film version of The Fault In Our Stars. And then there's this, with Danila Kozlovsky from the Vampire Academy movie.
May 16, 1940: During World War II, the library of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, rebuilt after German troops burned it down in the First World War, is shelled by the Nazis. The rebuilt library catches fire again, and approximately one million books and other materials are lost.
May 16, 1953: Roma jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt dies of a brain hemorrhage. He is 43 years old.
May 16, 1955: Writer/activist James Agee has a heart attack and dies in the back of a taxi cab in New York City. He’s 45 years old.
May 16, 1984: “Anti-comedian” Andy Kaufman dies of lung cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is 35 years old.
May 16, 1990: Sammy Davis Jr. dies of complications of throat cancer.
May 16, 2005: Three-year-old Eliza Jane Scovill dies of AIDS-related pneumonia. Her HIV-positive mother Christine Maggiore questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, did not take anti-HIV medication during her pregnancy with Eliza Jane, and refused to have Eliza Jane treated for HIV. Maggiore was investigated by local child protective services, who declined to take action on the grounds that Maggiore had taken Eliza Jane to see several physicians. The Medical Board of California did place the medical license of one of these physicians on probation.
May 15, 1886: Poet Emily Dickinson dies of kidney disease at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She’s 55 years old. Dickinson has not left the home since 1865.
May 15, 1953: Chester “Chet” Miller dies in a car crash during practice for the 1953 Indianapolis 500. He is 50 years old.
May 15, 2016: Jane Little (born Jane Findley) plays with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as the double bass player has done since 1945, when she made her debut at age 16. Little is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the musician with the longest tenure with a single orchestra. Little, who is being treated for multiple myeloma, collapses on stage as the orchestra plays “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” She dies later in the day.
Beatles Trivia May 14, 1968: John Lennon and Paul McCartney appear on The Tonight Show to talk about the newly-formed Apple business venture. While Johnny Carson is on vacation, the show is co-hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and pro baseball catcher-turned-tv personality Joe Garagiola. (Neat guy, Joe Garagiola. He was an honorary member of the Akimel O’otham tribal community because he helped bring badly-needed resources to the deeply impoverished Gila River Indian Community.)
Bummer May 14
May 14, 1988: In what becomes known as the Carrollton Bus Collision, a bus full of teenagers coming home from a church trip to King’s Island amusement park is struck by a drunk driver and catches fire. The intoxicated driver, Larry Mahoney, is killed along with the bus driver and 25 passengers.
May 14, 2015: Guitarist B.B. King dies peacefully in his sleep of vascular problems related to his Type 2 diabetes. He is 89 years old.
May 14, 2018: Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633, flying between Chongqing and Lhasa, experiences explosive decompression when a damaged windowpane separates from the aircraft. First Officer Xu Ruichen is partially sucked out of the aircraft. He suffers a sprained wrist, an eye injury, and cuts. A flight attendant also suffers minor injuries. Remarkably, the flight is able to make an emergency landing without fatalities. Captain Liu Chuanjian is widely considered a hero.
May 13, 1985: The Philadelphia Police Department destroys 61 homes via two explosive devices dropped from a police helicopter in an attempt to end a standoff with the MOVE compound. The members of MOVE were followers of a man who called himself John Africa and emphasized so-called natural living, resistance to police brutality, and animal rights.
The MOVE house was considered a nuisance to its neighbors. The Philadelphia PD obtained warrants for four MOVE members for various violations. Police evacuated the neighborhood around the MOVE house, then showed up in force to enforce the arrest warrants and evacuate the other residents of the house. A firefight ensued.
Of the seven adults and six children in the house, only one adult woman and one 13-year-old boy survived. The fire department allowed the unoccupied houses around the MOVE house to burn after the bombing.
May 13, 1988: American jazz musician Chet Baker dies of an apparently accidental fall from a window in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 12, 1976: Original Yardbirds lead singer Keith Relf dies at his London home at the age of 33. Relf is apparently playing an electric guitar in his basement when the shock occurs. Although taken to West Middlesex Hospital, the father of two boys is pronounced dead. His chronic asthma and emphysema, along with medications he took for these conditions, may have been a contributing factor that weakened his ability to withstand the shock.
May 12, 1982: Norwegian-Spanish priest Juan MarÃa Fernández y Krohn attacks Pope John Paul II with a bayonet, apparently believing the Pope was in league with Soviet communists. The attack occurs in Fátima, Portugal, the site of an alleged apparition of Mary the mother of Jesus, where the Pope has gone on a pilgrimage.
The Pope is slightly wounded, but recovers. Fernández y Krohn is sentenced to seven years in prison for attempted murder and contempt of court, but released after three years.
May 12, 2010: Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 leaves Johannesburg, South Africa, bound for Libya. A series of errors by the flight crew causes the aircraft to crash into low terrain, killing 103 of the aircraft’s 104 occupants. Among the dead is novelist Bree O’Mara, an Irish and South African dual citizen.
The sole survivor was a 9-year-old boy from the Netherlands. Both of his legs were broken, but he sustained no life-threatening injuries. His parents were killed in the crash, so he was subsequently adopted by his aunt and uncle.
May 11, 1910: Lewis Emerson Rader, Sr., a politician who served in the Washington state legislature until 1899, dies of starvation while attempting a “fasting cure” under the supervision of quack medical practitioner Linda Laura Hazzard. Hazzard, who practiced medicine while falsely claiming to be a doctor, will also die from her own quack practices in 1938.
May 11, 1984: A fire breaks out in the Haunted Castle attraction inside Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in New Jersey. The fire is put out within 90 minutes and at first all staff and guests are thought to be accounted for. Later, the badly burned bodies of eight teenage guests are found inside the attraction. The teenagers died after becoming trapped inside the castle.
May 11, 1981: Bob Marley dies of acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of skin cancer not related to exposure to UV rays, which has spread to his lungs and brain. Marley is only 36 years old. His last words are reportedly, “Money can’t buy life.”
May 11, 1985: The Bradford City football (soccer) stadium in West Yorkshire, England catches fire when a fan drops a lit cigarette into the litter under the bleachers. High winds, wooden bleachers, and flammable roofing material quickly spread the fire, and locked exits prevented some fans from escaping quickly. More than 200 people are injured and 56 spectators die.
May 10, 1692: Sarah Osborne of the Massachusetts Bay Colony dies in prison where she’s been awaiting trial, having been accused of witchcraft.
May 10, 1933: Led by Joseph Goebbels, a crowd of 40,000 Germans gathers at the State Opera building in Berlin to watch the German Student Union burn approximately 25,000 books that they’ve decided are “un-German.”
May 10, 1943: Fire destroys the grounds of the National Library of Peru in Lima, taking it with numerous irreplaceable historical artifacts.
May 10, 1992: Singer and actress Sylvia Blagman Syms suffers a heart attack and dies during the standing ovation while performing in the Oak Room cabaret of the Algonquin Hotel.
Beatles Trivia May 9, 1964: Louis Armstrong’s “Hello, Dolly” becomes the #1 song on the U.S. popular music charts, ending the Beatles’ 14-week streak of having the #1 single. Three Beatles songs (“Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and “She Loves You”) contributed to the streak.
Bummer May 9th
May 9, 1914: Cereal manufacturer Charles William (C.W.) Post, recovering from emergency surgery for what was believed to be appendicitis, dies by self-inflicted gunshot wound when he can longer stand his severe abdominal pain.
His death leaves the Post cereal fortune to his only child, Marjorie Merriweather Post, who uses some of it to build her mansion, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida.
May 9, 1977: American novelist James Jones dies at age 55 from congestive heart failure.
May 9, 1987: All 183 people on board die when LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes into a wooded area outside Warsaw, Poland. Faulty roller bearings inside one of its engines caused an explosion that, in turn, caused the aircraft to lose flight control and electricity. Unable to dump fuel, the aircraft hit the ground at 295 miles per hour and exploded.
On the flight recorder, the crew can be heard saying, “Do widzenia! Cześć, giniemy!" (“Goodbye! Bye, we’re dying!”)
May 9, 2001: 126 people die at Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, when police fire a tear gas canister into the stands and a stampede results. During a football (soccer) game between Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko, Ghana’s two most popular teams, Kotoko supporters threw bottles onto the field. When police fired the tear gas, some of the stadium’s gates were locked and fleeing fans found themselves unable to escape. Ten people died from trauma and the other 116 from crush asphyxia.
May 8, 1794: French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who works as a tax collector, is tried and convicted of treason during the French Revolution. He is executed by guillotine the same day.
May 8, 1974: 36-year-old blues-rock musician Graham Bond dies, crushed under the wheels of a Tube train at Finsbury Park Station in London. Most authorities agree that the manner of his death was suicide. Bond had financial and creative problems prior to his death and was known to experience severe depression.
May 8, 2012: Children’s book illustrator and author Maurice Sendak dies in the hospital of complications from a stroke.
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