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Mary Ward – (1827–1869) Anglo-Irish scientist, the first person known to have been killed by a car, Ireland, 1869. Also the first person killed by a car in the United Kingdom and in the entire Western Hemisphere. Bridget Driscoll – (1851/1852–1896) the first pedestrian to be killed in a collision with a car in Great Britain.
Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash.He was also the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in a crash while on duty.
Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado musical satirized the illegality of suicide, with Ko-Ko deciding not to kill himself, as it would be a capital offence.. Attitudes towards suicide slowly began to shift during the Renaissance; Thomas More the English humanist, wrote in Utopia (1516) that a person afflicted with disease can "free himself from this bitter life…since by death he will put an end ...
Ward is the first known automobile fatality. William Parsons' sons had built a steam-powered car, [ note 2 ] and on 31 August 1869 she and her husband, Henry , were travelling in it with the Parsons boys (the Hons Richard Clere Parsons and the future steam turbine pioneer Charles Algernon Parsons ) and their tutor, Richard Biggs.
William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier. [1] Although electrocution had previously been successfully used to kill a horse, Kemmler's execution did not go ...
Albert Otto Walter Mayer (24 April 1892 – 2 August 1914) was the first soldier of Imperial German Army and first soldier of the world to die in World War I.He died one day before the German Empire formally declared war on France, in the same skirmish in which Jules-André Peugeot became the first French soldier to die.
The first, Christine, was directed by Antonio Campos, and starred Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck and Michael C. Hall as George Peter Ryan. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] The second was the documentary Kate Plays Christine , [ 36 ] which depicts actress Kate Lyn Sheil 's preparation for the role of Chubbuck in a hypothetical film.
Alleged first known AIDS death in the United States Robert Lee Rayford [ 1 ] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [ 2 ] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.