This event happened way before your time...and mine, but it was a horrible tragedy. Use the net to research this day. Who was Reverend Jim Jones? What happened?
Reverend Jim Jones was an American founder of the Peoples Temple. November 18, 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the deaths of nine other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown. He was born in Indiana and started the Temple in that state in the 1950s. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is one of the largest such mass suicides in history.
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