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I don't know why (maybe it's on a lesson plan for schools around the country) but this little question with a quick answer (and one that is quickly found in any ready reference) has been asked of me so often that I finally decided to list the answer here. The answer is John Adams (second President) and Thomas Jefferson (third President). These two men died on the same day. But that's not all; read on.... The question with an even more interesting answer is, "On which day did they die?" Both Adams and Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. The...

The entertainment took a double blow on Thursday, with the deaths of cultural icons Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. This is not the first time two celebrities died on the same day. Here are 10 other instances.

Johnny Carson, shakes hands with the show's announcer Ed McMahon during Carson's final taping of The Tonight Show on May 22, 1992. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)NYTimes: June 24, 2009 Ed McMahon, America’s Top Second Banana, Dies By RICHARD SEVERO Ed McMahon, who for nearly 30 years was Johnny Carson’s affable second banana on “The Tonight Show,” introducing it with his ringing trademark call, “Heeeere’s Johnny!,” died early Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 86. His publicist, Howard Bragman, told NBC that Mr. McMahon died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his family. Mr. Bragman did not give a...

<p>I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the last eight years.</p> <p>Thus, I have chosen as my lead, the proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic Party theme of 2003-08: "Bush lied, people died." There are, of course, two differences between the two slogans.</p>

Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim, died in Cairo in 1992, Germany's ZDF television and The New York Times reported Wednesday. Araibrt Heim, a Nazi criminal known by the nickname 'Dr. Death'. The report said Heim was living under a pseudonym and had converted to Islam by the time of his death from intestinal cancer. ZDF said that in a joint effort with the New York Times, it located a passport, application for a residence permit, bank slips, personal letters and medical papers, in all more than 100 documents,...

Truck-driving dad dies in accident en route to reunion with son home from Iraq MIDDLEVILLE -- Richard Crawford was sleeping when his son Keith, serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, called early Monday. Keith told his father he "was on American soil." Richard Crawford, a trucker and retired Army sergeant, told his son he would see him this week. He had a delivery down South, and would swing by Fort Campbell, Ky., where Keith, the older of his two sons, was stationed. He couldn't wait to see his son. "But he didn't make it," his wife,...

China earthquake: 50,000 may have died By David Blair Last Updated: 1:28AM BST 16/05/2008 China's government has given warning that 50,000 people may have died in the earthquake that has devastated large areas of Sichuan province.Residents of Sichuan hold a candlelight vigil for earthquake victims Thirty-three foreign nationals from Britain, France and the United States are rescued from one of the hardest-hit earthquake disaster areas, Wolong So far, 19,509 people are known to have been killed – an increase of more than 4,000 on Wednesday's estimate of the disaster's human toll - and has directly affected 10 million people. Survivors...

HAVANA - Robert Vesco, the American fugitive who cooked up moneymaking schemes that allegedly involved everyone from Colombian drug lords to the families of U.S. presidents, died in Cuba and was buried almost six months ago, according to an official document. A burial record at Havana's Colon Cemetery shows that a man with the same name and birthdate — Dec. 4, 1935 — died on Nov. 23 from lung cancer and was buried the next day in a private plot. He was 71, less than two weeks shy of his 72nd birthday. In his lifetime, Vesco was accused of looting...

Chris Matthews might as well have chanted "No Blood For Oil" throughout the Monday edition of MSNBC's "Hardball" as he sounded like an anti-war protestor as he charged that U.S. servicemen and women were spilling blood for Big Oil, as he questioned: "Are we fighting for the American oil companies for Mobil and Exxon? And they are making these enormous profits because of access to oil over there...Should we put Exxon signs up over Arlington Cemetery and Mobil signs up there, like they have at baseball stadiums?" Pivoting off a David Shuster report that claimed Alan Greenspan "provided evidence"...

(KSL News) President James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died earlier today. President Faust passed away at 12:20 this morning surrounded by family at his house. The cause is age-related. He was 87 years old. "I have always had a deep respect for President Faust and his tremendous example of selfless service and caring for his community and the world," Gov. Jon Huntsman said. "He left a legacy of public service and thoughtfulness to which we can all aspire." President Faust was set apart as second counselor to...

NEW YORK — A young mother's car left out of gear accidentally rolled over her only son and killed him, a year after her soldier husband was killed in Iraq, relatives and police said. "It's a tragedy for all my family," said Evelyn Mercedes, 65, the soldier's grandmother. "My grandson dies. Now, this happens to the baby." Christopher Mercedes, who turned 1 last month, slipped from his mom's arms as she got out of the sport utility vehicle that began rolling because it was in neutral gear rather than park, police said. "She was hysterical, crying out, 'Somebody help me...

FORT HUACHUCA — A deployed soldier from the 11th Signal Brigade was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq on Saturday, according to the Department of Defense on Wednesday. Cpl. Victor M. Langarica, 29, of Decatur, Ga., was Identified as one of 12 soldiers killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down in Iraq. The incident is still under investigation. He was assigned to the 86th Signal Battalion, where he was a wheeled vehicle mechanic. Members of the 86th deployed last August to provide communications support in Iraq. Langarica is the first brigade soldier to die in any of...

A Norwich electrician who was brought back from the dead a staggering 31 times in less than an hour has thanked the paramedics who refused to let him die. Derek Jones, who celebrated his 55th birthday yesterday, astonished medics by surviving a series of potentially fatal heart attacks after being taken ill at work . The grandfather-of-two, who lives in Hellesdon, was on his way to an electrical job in Sheringham when he began to feel unwell. “I had a pain down the front of my chest and felt really hot. By the time I got to Sheringham, I felt...

Johannesburg - The South African government's continued failure to bring crime under control is leading a growing number of citizens to start taking the law into their own hands, often with deadly results. "It is sometimes justifiable," says Frits Kreil, who runs a self-styled "community policing forum" in Johannesburg's northern Randburg suburb. "People are fed up with crime and resort to killing to protect their lives and those of their loved ones." In one of the latest such incidents, three members of an armed gang were killed when a local at a pub in the suburb of Emmarentia opened fire...

WASHINGTON, July 4, 2006 – President Bush today promised the nation's men and women in uniform he would not allow "the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done." Speaking at Fort Bragg, N.C., the president said the U.S. strategy in Iraq is clear: to help the Iraqi people build a country that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself as a free nation, "Our troops will help the Iraqi people succeed because it's in our national interests," he said. "A free Iraq in the heart...

A 5-month-old baby died in a minivan Wednesday after the mother apparently forgot to drop the child off at day care. The tragedy was discovered about 5:30 p.m. outside the Wonder Years 2 day care. The baby's mother stopped at the day care after work to pick up the child and was told by staff that the baby had not been dropped off. She realized then that the baby had been in her minivan all day. "The mother had forgotten to drop off the child at day care in the morning," said Curt Kreun, owner of Wonder Years 2. "She...

The familiar cowboy astride the blue bucking bronco has returned to the G Street entrance of the old U.S.Patent Office Building. "Vaquero" was hoisted back into place on Thursday in anticipation of the July 1 reopening of the Smithsonian's American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery within the neoclassical structure, which has been under renovation since January 2000. The public sculpture is one of a dozen works in the museum's collection by artist Luis Jimenez, who died on Tuesday as the result of injuries suffered during an accident in his Hondo, N.M., studio. Mr. Jimenez, 65, was working on a...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2006 – Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the June 7 air strike but died from his wounds while laying on a stretcher shortly thereafter, a senior U.S. military officer in Baghdad said today. Iraqi police were the first people on the scene following the air strike. After finding Zarqawi alive, the police placed him on a stretcher, Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell told Pentagon reporters via a satellite connection today. U.S. forces arrived shortly after and began identification procedures by examining distinguishing marks on his body and by using visual facial-recognition techniques. Zarqawi mumbled a...

SIERRA VISTA — Candles were lit Monday night as nearly 300 people brought light into the growing darkness at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery, which holds the remains of more than 1,200 members of America’s armed forces and some of their loved ones. Speaking for the second time at Monday Memorial Day ceremonies was Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, commander of the Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca. She spoke about one particular soldier whose cremains are at the cemetery. His name is Robert Oliver Unruh, who was an Army specialist who died in Iraq while serving as a combat engineer....

FORT HUACHUCA — In January, Sgt. 1st Class Tim Kurczewski saw Tristian J. Slade off, as the 19-year-old headed for basic training. Monday, the former Army recruiter was at Chaffee Parade Field as he and other soldiers and civilians bade farewell to Slade, a private first class. Slade, of Charlotte, N.C., died Friday morning of unknown causes. Not feeling well, he went to a post medical clinic, where he collapsed, was treated by medical personnel and rushed to the Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The cause of his death is under investigation. Kurczewski...

My dad died yesterday. He just quit breathing. We have been working with him in home hospice for quite some time and making him comfortable in the process. He didn't suffer excessively. My dad was a wonderful man and we ALL are happy and overjoyed for him at the same time we sorrow. He worked his whole life to teach the Gospel to the unbelieving and did so with complete diligence and faith. We have absolutely no doubt he is in Paradise awaiting the day of Judgement. He taught me so many things much of which has been expressed here...

KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Polish author Stanislaw Lem, one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, died on Monday in his home city of Krakow at the age of 84 after a battle with heart disease. Lem, whose books have sold more than 27 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages, won widespread acclaim for "The Cyberiad," stories from a mechanical world ruled by robots, first published in English in 1974. "Solaris," published in 1961 and set on an isolated space station, was made into a film epic 10 years later by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. A...

CINCINNATI (AP) - A dead woman dressed in white was positioned in a chair in front of a television set for 2 1/2 years because she told her caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned to return, the coroner said. "Don't show my body when I'm dead," Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O'dell Owens said Monday in describing Johannas Pope's wishes. "Don't bury me. I'm coming back." Pope, 61, died Aug. 29, 2003. Her caretaker and friend, whose name has not been released, left the woman upstairs in the home with the television and air conditioning on while...

Beethoven died from lead poisoning Agençe France-Presse Wednesday, 7 December 2005 Lead poisoning may even have caused Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness (portrait in oil by JK Stieler) (Image: US DOE) Tests on the hair and skull fragments of Ludwig van Beethoven show the legendary 19th century German composer died from lead poisoning, scientists say. Bone fragments from Beethoven's skull had high concentrations of lead, matching an earlier finding of lead in his hair, say researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. "The finding of elevated lead in Beethoven's skull, along with DNA results indicating authenticity...

53 birds died at bird flu centre Mark Oliver and agencies Tuesday November 15, 2005 More than 50 birds imported from Taiwan were the most likely source of a bird flu outbreak at a UK quarantine centre last month, an official report said today. The study, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), said a consignment of 101 Taiwanese mesia birds had been the most likely source of the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain at Pegasus Birds, in Essex. It said it was impossible to say how many of the 53 birds killed in the...

China fears girl died of bird flu China has been hit by four bird flu outbreaks in three weeks China has asked the World Health Organization to examine the cause of death of a little girl who lived near the site of a bird flu outbreak. He Yin, 12, died with flu symptoms in Hunan while her brother and a teacher were also infected but survived. A mass cull of poultry has been under way in Liaoning Province where bird flu killed nearly 9,000 chickens. It is China's fourth outbreak of bird flu in three weeks but the country has...

MOUNT PLEASANT, IA - A 1-year-old baby found dead in a car Thursday afternoon appears to have died of heat stroke, authorities said. The infant was found in a car seat in a parked car around 2:30 p.m., Police Chief Terry Sammons said. Authorities said Saturday that the baby's name and other details had not been released. Henry County medical examiner Dr. Kent Metcalf said it appeared the child had been in the car all day and died of apparent heat stroke.

SAN DIEGO - A military jury acquitted a Navy SEAL lieutenant Friday of beating an Iraqi prisoner who later died and of lying about what happened. Jurors deliberated about three hours before finding Lt. Andrew K. Ledford not guilty of all charges. The 32-year-old SEAL had faced up to 11 years in military prison if he had been convicted of assault, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming an officer and making false statements. Ledford, who had stood at attention for the verdict's reading, burst into a huge smile and embraced his attorney upon hearing he was acquitted. He later brushed away...

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Science Fiction Author F. M. Busby died Feb 17, 2005.

ERIE, Ill. (AP) - The Whiteside County sheriff saya a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a ditch died of exposure after being attacked by dogs. A sheriff's deputy found the body of Lydia Elaine Chaplin of rural Erie Thursday morning in a ditch about a half mile from her home. Her parents reported her missing after they discovered she wasn't in her bed. Sheriff Roger Schipper said that dogs were impounded Friday but the names of the owners were not released.

Zhao Ziyang, former Secretary-General of mainland China’s Communist Party, died at a Beijing hospital last Monday. Good riddance to another communist? In this case, no. Not all tigers are incapable of changing their stripes. During his tenure in China’s one and only political party, Zhao took steps that truly can be called “reforms.” Zhao's greatest moment occurred during the pro-democracy rebellion of 1989, which was centered in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. He opposed the use of China’s vast military might against the peaceful protestors gathered in the square. On May 19, 1989, Zhao personally pleaded with the protestors, mostly...

The political scenario of Italy is today very churned. The motive is a phrase that yestarday our Prime Minister (On. Silvio Belusconi) said. "If Left won next election, Terror and death would reign in our Country". You have to know that in Italy we will have election in 2006, and this is just time of campaign.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) -- A woman angry with her 12-year-old daughter for having sex forced the girl to drink bleach and sat on her until the child died, a police detective said. The girl's 9-year-old brother was forced to watch the attack, Detective Warren Cotton testified Thursday in a preliminary hearing for Tunisia Archie, 31.

Dear saints of our Lord Praise be to the Lord Jesus Hope you watch on TV news about the big earthquake and the Tsunami. Really I'm unable to describe about it. Horrible scenes I've ever seen. I'm so much tired in mind and body. We're nearby the stricken areas. By God's grace I and my family are OK. But some of our believers are missing and many lost everything. One of our mission fields called "Anchugramam" near Kanyakumari is wiped off. It's a seashore village of around 85 families. People are under terrible fear. Thousands of thousands people leaving their...

Woman died during gov't-backed AIDS study Joyce Ann Hafford died without ever holding the son she had tried to save from contracting AIDS (news - web sites) by taking an experimental drug regimen administered by government-funded researchers during her pregnancy. But even before her stunned family could grieve, the 33-year-old's death was reverberating among the government's top scientists in Washington. They quickly realized the drugs the HIV (news - web sites)-positive woman from Memphis, Tenn., was taking likely caused the liver failure that killed her. Reports of her declining health were being monitored in late July 2003 at the...

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Aug. 27, 2004Man lay dead in bed for two yearsCondo fees and bills were still being paidBody finally found in mummified state WINNIPEG—His telephone number was still listed in the telephone directory and his condominium fees and bills were automatically being withdrawn from his bank account. No one knew Jim Sulkers had died in his bed almost two years ago. Neighbour Sam Shuster said residents in the complex often wondered where the man they knew only as Jim had gone, but were told his condominium fees were still being paid. "How can that happen, for God's sake. Two years!" Shuster said...

LONDON: The BBC reporter shot nine times in an al-Qa'ida ambush in Saudi Arabia that claimed the life of his camerman remained in a coma last night. Frank Gardner, the BBC's security correspondent, underwent further surgery yesterday after having two bullets removed from his abdomen, one from his leg and another from his hand. A senior BBC executive said: "It was a touch and go for a while but doctors are confident he will pull through." Saudi police are investigating suggestions the gunmen were tipped off about the presence of the BBC team in a stronghold of al-Qa'ida supporters in...

RE: Dear Uncle Ted When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloviating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become Sen. John Kerry's leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry's chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud. As is often...

10,000 'died of hunger' in Zimbabwe Catholic archbishop warns of famine as journalists are held over report that Mugabe was taking a winter break Andrew Meldrum in Pretoria Sunday January 11, 2004 The Observer (UK) Amid claims that up to 10,000 Zimbabweans have died from malnutrition in the past year, President Robert Mugabe has been accused of raiding his country's dwindling coffers to fund an extended holiday in Asia. The charges against Mugabe came as police yesterday arrested three senior journalists from the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper for reporting his winter break. Editor Iden Wetherell, news editor Vincent Kahiya and senior...

Sheb Wooley -- of “Purple People Eater” Fame -- Dead at 82 09/16/2003 Singer, songwriter and actor Sheb Wooley -- who also recorded a series of parody hits as Ben Colder -- died Tuesday (Sept. 16) at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. He was 82. Wooley had suffered from leukemia for the past five years, his widow, Linda Dotson, told CMT.com. However, she said he had been strong enough to go with her to Johnny Cash’s wake on Sunday (Sept. 14). While there, she continued, he seemed to falter: “It was like God laid His hand on his shoulder and...

Saudi dissident: 184 died in prison fire September 16 2003 at 01:00AM Dubai - A Saudi opposition group said as many as 144 inmates and 40 security men died in a fire on Monday at Saudi Arabia's largest prison, more than double the official toll given by authorities. "According to an unimpeachable security source, 144 inmates have died in the fire at Al-Hair prison, in addition to 32 policemen and eight police officers," said London-based Saad al-Fagih of the Movement for Islamic Reform, which was first to break news of the blaze. Saudi Arabia's prison chief, quoted by the official...

TIKRIT, Iraq - An American civilian contractor was killed Tuesday when a remote-control bomb exploded under the truck he was driving north of Tikrit, the U.S. military said. The contractor was employed by Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, a Houston-based oilfield-services and construction company. Halliburton, the former company of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), has major contracts for reconstruction in both Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites). Maj. Brian Luke, of the 4th Infantry Division, said the five- vehicle convoy was traveling from Baghdad when it was attacked. Insurgents...

<p>The porch that collapsed early Sunday killing 13 and injuring more than 50 in Lincoln Park was built illegally without a city permit, Buildings Commissioner Norma Reyes said Monday.</p> <p>Kelly Pagel, of Minnetonka, Minn., the 13th fatality, died Monday at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.</p> <p>After making no public statements about the tragedy earlier Monday, Reyes appeared at a late afternoon news conference and said the owner of 713 W. Wrightwood Ave., Philip J. Pappas, applied for permits for heating, cooling and plumbing improvements in 1998 but then renovated the entire building without permission.</p>

Death in Iraq: Army rules out raid on town where six military policeman died By David Blair in Basra and Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 27/06/2003) The riots that led to the deaths of six British soldiers in the Iraqi town of Majar al-Kabir were the result of "a misunderstanding", the British military commander in Iraq said yesterday. A soldier from 1 Para on patrol for the first time since the incident at Majar al-Kabir Local people were angry because they believed that British troops were about to resume controversial weapons searches, Maj-Gen Peter Wall said. "That was not our...

"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg...

Bin Laden died from wounds suffered in Tora Bora air raid, says Arab expert By John Lichfield in Paris 10 May 2003 Osama bin Laden died after being maimed in an American air raid on the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001, a French expert on the Arab world believes. Ghislaine Alleaume, a historian and Arabist at the French national research centre, the CNRS, reached her conclusion after studying television and internet messages circulated by Bin Laden's supporters. She bases her theory mostly on a video of the al- Qa'ida leader broadcast by al-Jazeera television on 27 December...

America admits suspects died in interrogations By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 07 March 2003 American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul – reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives. A spokesman for the air base confirmed that the official cause of death of the two men was "homicide", contradicting earlier accounts that one had died of a heart attack and the other from a pulmonary embolism. The men's...

'45 Moscow hostages died from bullet wounds' October 29 2002 at 11:21AM Moscow - Forty-five of the 117 hostages killed during the Moscow hostage drama died from gunshot wounds, Interfax reported on Tuesday, quoting the Moscow prosecutor. The statement contradicted earlier statements that 115 people had succumbed to a powerful gas used by special forces in their operation to rescue more than 800 hostages held by Chechen rebels in a Moscow theater. Prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov said that 43 hostages were shot dead during the rescue operation while two others were killed before the raid by special forces early on Saturday....