This day in history has brought forth more than enough of the bad and the ugly, reflecting the very worst that late Scorpio has to offer, but there was one very good event. It happened just 100 years ago today:
THE GOOD
1909 –
Johnny Mercer, American lyricist was born 100 years ago today. A brilliant songwriter whose work will live on until there's nobody left to sing it. He had Sun and Mercury in Scorpio with a Grand Trine linking Sun, Neptune and Mars in Water signs. A list of many of his songs here .
- How could one man write so many wonderfully poetic lyrics ? Truly - they don't make 'em like him anymore. He died in 1976.
THE BAD
1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1929- Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1947 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire, Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 (New Zealand's worst ever fire)
1987 – King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses
THE UGLY
1978 - The worst case of murder-suicide in history took place in Jonestown, Guyana. Religious-cult leader Jim Jones (Peoples Temple) directed the ingestion of Kool-Aid (laced with cyanide) by at least 900 of his followers. He and his mistress then followed suit. Earlier in the day, Jones had directed the murder of California Congressman Leo J. Ryan, three newspeople and several ‘defectors’. Ryan, on a fact-finding tour of Jonestown, was boarding a privated airplan with the small group when they were shot down.
(Information @ Wikipedia)
THE GOOD
1909 –
Johnny Mercer, American lyricist was born 100 years ago today. A brilliant songwriter whose work will live on until there's nobody left to sing it. He had Sun and Mercury in Scorpio with a Grand Trine linking Sun, Neptune and Mars in Water signs. A list of many of his songs here .- How could one man write so many wonderfully poetic lyrics ? Truly - they don't make 'em like him anymore. He died in 1976.
THE BAD
1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1929- Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1947 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire, Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 (New Zealand's worst ever fire)
1987 – King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses
THE UGLY
1978 - The worst case of murder-suicide in history took place in Jonestown, Guyana. Religious-cult leader Jim Jones (Peoples Temple) directed the ingestion of Kool-Aid (laced with cyanide) by at least 900 of his followers. He and his mistress then followed suit. Earlier in the day, Jones had directed the murder of California Congressman Leo J. Ryan, three newspeople and several ‘defectors’. Ryan, on a fact-finding tour of Jonestown, was boarding a privated airplan with the small group when they were shot down.
(Information @ Wikipedia)
