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Anissa Jones was a child actress known for the sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966-1971. On August 28, 1976, she was found dead of a Seconal overdose in an upstairs bedroom of a house that belonged to a friend’s father. People she was partying with ranged from 12 to 22 years in age.
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Anissa Jones was a child actress known for the sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966-1971. On August 28, 1976, she was found dead of a Seconal overdose in an upstairs bedroom of a house that belonged to a friend’s father. People she was partying with ranged from 12 to 22 years in age.

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In the afternoon of March 18, 1925, the deadliest tornado in United States history, also known as the Tri-State Tornado, traveled through Eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Southern Indiana. The tornado killed 695 people and injured 2,207 as part of a large tornado outbreak on the same day.

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 22 hours ago
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Mercy Brown of Exeter, Rhode Island, was believed to be a vampire after quickly dying of tuberculosis almost a decade after her sister and mother, and while her brother Edwin remained suffering. George Brown, the father, was convinced to exhume Mercy’s grave and burn her heart and liver.

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 2 days ago
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The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, or The Great Storm of 1900, was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. It caused between 6,000-12,000 deaths mostly within the Galveston, Texas area alone.

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 3 days ago
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In the middle, next to Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters and roadie Alan Styles, is roadie/engineer Peter Watts, father of actress Naomi Watts. He would remarry and die of a heroin overdose, and Naomi would move to Wales, star in a few commercials, and eventually befriend Nicole Kidman

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 6 days ago
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One of the last known photos of British folk legend Nick Drake at his parents’ home in Warwickshire. Drake suffered from lifelong depression, and on November 25, 1974, he was found dead of an acute amitriptyline overdose. Low profile at his death, Drake didn’t become iconic until the late 1980s.

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 7 days ago
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On February 20, 2005, author Hunter S. Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 67 - he was at his compound in Woody Creek, CO with his wife on the phone and relatives in the house

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 8 days ago
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In 2008, while Christopher and Jonathan Nolan celebrated the victory of The Dark Knight, their oldest brother, Matthew, was on the run from the FBI under suspicion of being a hitman under the name Matthew Oppenheimer.

u/Any-Pineapple-521 — 27 days ago