This was the day that police found the bodies of 39 members of a religious cult based in San Diego County.
All in Death
Jean-Baptiste Lully, the Italian composer whose fast-tempoed music livened up the court of France's Louis XIV, died on this day after a 3-month battle with an infection that started with a smashed toe.
It was on this day that an Austrian tailor/inventor fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower.
At about 2 in the morning the bow of the sub plowed into a wall of rock and mud.