Almanac for July 29th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for July 29th: https://ko-fi.com/post/July-29th-D1D7104UUT

Bummer July 29th

July 29, 1903: Polish Jewish immigrant Abraham Surasky is murdered with a gun and ax by two men near Aiken, rural South Carolina, in what is suspected to be an anti-Semitic hate crime. One of the murderers, Lee Green, is tried and acquitted, although he is convicted years later for another murder.

July 29, 1974: Musician Cass Elliot dies of a heart attack. Years of heroin abuse and cycles of rapidly gaining and losing weight have weakened her body. Cruelly, urban legend will afterwards contend that she died by choking to death on a ham sandwich. 

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