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

People who died on April 24 (various years)

• 2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer
• 2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi
• 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner
• 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist
• 2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel
• 2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur
• 2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor
• 2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer
• 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer
• 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician
• 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician
• 1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor
• 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete
• 1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer
• 1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger
• 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian
• 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
• 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress
• 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined)
• 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 – Hans Biebow, German war criminal
• 1947 – Willa Cather, American writer
• 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician
• 1944 – William Stephens, U.S. political figure
• 1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author
• 1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author
• 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist
• 1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor
• 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist
• 1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal
• 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet
• 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College
• 1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general
• 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer
• 1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist
• 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint
• 1342 – Pope Benedict XII
• 1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat
• 709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
• 624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury

Approximately 141,850 people died worldwide on April 24, 1984

http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/death?dob=1984-04-24

I found this just by accident, but i thought that this was insane. Seriously how the hell does something like this happen. I’m just amazed that the car didn’t fall over.
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 This is just to sweet to pass up so I had to post this. Operantly the University of Mich. created the most powerful laser EVER!

Rest assured, we’ve seen some wicked frickin’ lasers in our day, but apparently, even the two-kilowatt rendition that heats coffee in mere seconds can’t hold a candle ray of light to HERCULES. Intentionally named in all caps by University of Michigan gurus in order to highlight its awesomeness, said laser contains 300 terawatts of power (or 300 times the capacity of the entire US electricity grid) and could “help scientists develop better proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer.” Still, we can’t help but conclude with UMich’s own description of this masterpiece: “If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of [HERCULES].” Damn.

 http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/16/university-of-michigan-creates-most-intense-laser-in-the-univers/

“It will be the last lunar eclipse until December 2010, and it should be spectacular. Shades of turquoise and red will pour over the moon’s surface as it moves into the Earth’s shadow around 8:43pm EST. As NASA reports: ‘Transiting the shadow’s core takes about an hour. The first hints of red appear around 10 pm EST (7 pm PST), heralding a profusion of coppery hues that roll across the Moon’s surface enveloping every crater, mountain and moon rock, only to fade away again after 11 pm EST (8 pm PST). No special filter or telescope is required to see this spectacular event. It is a bright and leisurely display visible from cities and countryside alike. While you’re watching, be alert for another color: turquoise. Observers of several recent lunar eclipses have reported a flash of turquoise bracketing the red of totality … The source of the turquoise is ozone.’ So, all of you amateur astronomers need to get out there and take pictures. It might be worthwhile sharing them on sites like SpaceWeather or Flickr so that our Asian, European, African, and Australian brethren can witness the sight as well.

http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?id=525922&op=view