Thursday, September 24, 2009

18.06.1984


141,970 People


People who died on June 18, 1984 (the exact day I was born)

* Alan Berg, American radio talk show host

Unusual Deaths in 1984

* Tommy Cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act, on the popular itv variety show, live from her majesty's. at first the audience assumed he was joking.
* Jon-Erik Hexum, an american television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.

Natural disasters in 1984

* Carolinas Tornado Outbreak
* Late November 1984 Nor'easter

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