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The French king died as a result of striking his head on the lintel of a door while on his way to watch a game of real tennis. [16]: 105 [79] [80] Victims of the 1518 dancing plague: July 1518: Several people died of either heart attacks, strokes or exhaustion during a dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (Holy Roman Empire). [23 ...
Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a jet-assisted take-off unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour (400 to 480 km/h).
Big Brother Awards (United Kingdom) Carbuncle Cup, for bad architecture; Darwin Awards, for removing oneself from the gene pool (i.e. killing oneself) in an unusual fashion; Fake News Awards, created by Donald Trump to highlight news outlets he claimed were responsible for misrepresenting him or producing false reports [verification needed]
The six-year-old died during an MRI scan at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, after an oxygen tank was magnetically pulled into the machine and fractured his skull. [6] [7] Brittanie Cecil: 18 March 2002: The 13-year-old died from her injuries at an NHL game after a deflected puck struck her in the left temple. She was the ...
The English philosopher and statesman died of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken carcass with snow to learn whether it could preserve meat. [1] [2] [unreliable source?] Jörg Jenatsch: 24 January 1639: The Swiss political leader was assassinated by a person dressed in a bear costume wielding an axe.
Around 20 people died and 200 people suffered from the effects of the poison. [12] [13] Jim Creighton: 18 October 1862: The 21-year-old American baseball player from Manhattan died from abdominal pain, possibly caused by pitching or swinging at the ball, which likely gave him a ruptured bladder or a ruptured hernia. [14] [15] Julius Peter Garesché
Humans have been lucky when it comes to avoiding sizeable meteors and mass die-offs. However, if one measuring 50-meters-wide and speeding towards Earth at roughly 9 miles per second exploded in ...
A 175-kilogram (386 lb) American black bear died in Georgia in 1985 after overdosing on cocaine. The cocaine had been dumped from an airplane piloted by Andrew C. Thornton II, a former narcotics officer turned convicted drug smuggler. [13] It inspired the 2023 film Cocaine Bear. [14] Deer 14 August 1987