Saturday, July 23, 2011

Deaths

  • Amy Winehouse, died on July 23rd, 2011 at age 27.
  • J.D. Salinger died on January 27, 2010. He wrote The Catcher in the Rye, which has 26 chapters and it is believed this missing chapter was number 27.
  • Joseph Merrick aka "The Elephant Man". He died strangely of suffocation at the age of 27. born: august 5, 1862 died: April 11, 1890
  • The First Blood Shed for the Revolution - The first casualty associated with the start of the American Revolutionary War was a man named Crispus Attucks, who died alongside several associates during the infamous "Boston Massacre." Attucks was 27 years old and a natural born leader, according to his friends. He was also an escaped slave.
  • Kurt Cobain - April 5, 1994 - 27 - heroin OD/shotgun to the head
  • Masaccio - June, 1428 - 27 - poisoned?
  • Jimi Hendrix - September 18, 1970 - 27 - vomit inhalation from drugs
  • Janice Joplin - October of 1970 - 27 - drug overdose
  • Jim Morrison - July 3, 1971 - 27 - heart failure
  • Brian Jones - 3rd of July, 1969 - 27 - drowning
  • Thuy Trang - September 3rd 2001 - 27 - car crash
  • Jeremy Ward - May 25, 2003 - 27 - Drug Overdose
  • Keiko - December 12, 2003 - 27 - pneumonia
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat - 08/12/1988 - 27 - drug overdose
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - 03/08/1973 - 27 - liver failure
  • Kristen Pfaff - 06/16/1994 - 27 - drug overdose
  • Freaky Tah/Raymon Rogers - 03/28/1999 - 27 - murder
  • Robert Johnson - August 16, 1938 - 27 - poisoned
  • Highest Death Toll From An Airplane Disaster - The worst ever air disaster took place on March 27, 1977, when two Boeing 747s, operated by Pan-Am and KLM, collided on the runway at Tenerife, Canary Islands, killing 583 people
  • 11/20/2003 - Istanbul explosions kill 27 and target British Consulate and HSBC Bank - These are the worst two attacks of their kind in the history of Turkey.
  • Teen idol Jonathan Brandis dies at 27 from an attempted suicide the day before.
  • Bob Hope died on July 27th at the age of 100
  • Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, known as the world's first computer programmer lived from December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852.
  • Al Wilson of Canned Heat died at 27 from Suicide
  • Wallace Yohn from Chase died in an Airplane Crash at the age of 27
Posted by Chris More
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  1. 02-22-2010: 27 killed in NATO Air Strike.
    02-05-2010: 27 killed in 2 Iraq bombings on the same day.
    01-27-2010: JD Salinger died on 01/27/2010
    12-23-2009: 27 missing in the Philippines in ferry tragedy.

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  2. 02-27-10: 5.1 Magnitude Earth Quake in Okinawa, Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFU9XHexUUE http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010tfab.php

    02-27-10: 8.8 Magnitude Earth Quake Hit Chile, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100227/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_earthquake

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  3. 02-27-10: Chile Earthquake - 127 photos: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Hawaii-Pacific-Rim-prepare-tsunami/ss/events/us/022710hawaiitsunami#photoViewer=/100227/photos_wl_afp/d3e3029c4e41170f250da1e629d9dd1c

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  4. im glad 27 has come and gone for me

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  5. On any date you choose:

    If the square root of 27 is the length opposite the 60 degree angle of a 30/60/90 right triangle, then the hypotenuse is 6.

    Possibly useful for SCCA GCR-driven FF designs :)

    Rick Kean
    Houston

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  6. Dale Hathaway died October 27, 2010 ~ my first personal death-related experience within family.

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