60 Years Ago Today, ILN...

In Lugubrious News...

1950: In midst of divorce proceedings resulting in a nervous breakdown and subsequent commitment to a mental hospital, Frances Fonda, born Ford Seymour but losing her name when she became wife to actor Henry, kills herself in the most gruesome way - at the age of 42.

Jane, Peter, Bridget and every Fonda that remains remember.
My condolences and complete sympathy.

Frances Ford Seymour is not to be confused with Frances Farmer - who was also, although briefly, institutionalized, rumoured to have even been lobotomized into submission, but died of a slow-progressing, systematic killer known as the c-illness. She was only fourteen years older than the other Frances when she passed away.

Frances Ford Seymour Fonda's tragedy is recounted in the following video (subject to availability, as always):



And in other lugubrious news - historical facts, actually, on this very same date:

1839: A rain of fish falls on Calcutta.
RIP - fishies.

1865: President Lincoln -Honest Abe- is shot by the vile John Wilkes Booth - and he won't make it through tomorrow.
RIP Abraham.

1912: RMS Titanic strikes iceberg in the North Atlantic. A big one.
RIP - most of the passengers and crew.
April is mostly remembered for this, ever since then, really...

1959: Danish bicyclist chased by disc-shaped UFO near Svendborg.
He survived. (Until Men In Black made him disappear, that is?)

1966: Drugmaker Sandoz stops producing LSD.
Countless have died since - partially of deprivation, one can only assume...?

1992: United States Patent No. 5,104,608 is issued for a Programmable Christmas Tree. The Death of the Traditional Christmas may be traced much further back than this, though...

2010: Each and everyone of us still around got one day closer to our own earthly ends...

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