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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Almanac for February 13th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for February 13th: https://ko-fi.com/post/February-13-To-morrow-is-Saint-Valentines-day-S6S01AOJBZ

Friday the 13th at Aurora's Gin Joint blog: https://aurorasginjoint.com/2017/01/13/friday-foto-follies-superstitions/

Bummer February 13th

February 13, 1925: On or around this date, cave explorer Floyd Collins dies of exposure after becoming trapped in a narrow cave passage with a 26-pound rock crushing one of his legs. He has entered the cave system in Kentucky, now part of Mammoth Cave National Park, on January 30th. Collins’ brother discovers him trapped in the narrow passage on January 31st. Despite rescue attempts, when rescuers reach Collins on February 16th, he appears to have been dead for one or more days. Collins is 37 years old.

San Antonio (Texas) Light, November 13, 1925
Vernon Dalhart

February 13, 1931: German-American circus acrobat Lillian Leitzel falls to the ground while performing at Valencia Music Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark. The metal brace holding the rigging attached to her harness has snapped and broken away. Leitzel will die of her injuries two days later. 

February 13, 1945: U.S. and U.K. forces drop incendiary bombs on Dresden, Germany, causing fires with the intention of destroying munitions factories in that city. A second round of bombs is dropped in the early hours of February 14th, calculated to hamper the efforts of rescuers on the scene of the first round of bombings and fires. It’s estimated that between 22,000 and 25,000 Germans are killed, almost all of them civilians.

February 13, 1964: 22-year-old Ken Hubbs, who plays second base for the Chicago Cubs in the ‘63 season, is afraid of flying. To help himself get over his fear, he takes flying lessons and earns his pilot’s license in January 1964. The following month, the private plane he’s piloting near Provo, Utah, crashes, killing Hubbs.

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