Dying is just like taxes in the respect that it is going to happen to you and me. Over history, we realize it doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to face death. Famous people have no secret weapon against death. They are just like you and I. They will die. We will die. Death is a part of life. However, many of us look forward to eternal life in Heaven. After we all pass from this world, I hope to meet each one of you in a better place called Heaven.
We Live And We Die
Nobody Lives Forever
See You In Heaven
What Happened Today in History?
1692 Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft
1812 War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname “Old Ironsides”.
1848 California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California
1895 American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas
1960 Cold War: in Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage
Deaths
1632-1692 John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper, accused of witchcraft, convicted and brought to prison
1853-1895 John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter
1901-1959 Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1937-1975 Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer
1890-1977 Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor
1889-1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1901-1994 Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace
1933-2001 Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
1961-2008 LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1922-2009 Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes
This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today’s famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click hereto check out Faye’s writing
Sources
Historyorb.com
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