Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019. Show all posts

Friday, September 8, 2023

Killed by a Power Window on This Day in History

This day in history: A 21-year-old mother was killed by a power window on this day in 2019. 

"According to Daily Mail, Yulia Sharko was out celebrating her 21st birthday with friends and family when she decided it was time to leave.
So, she and her daughter left the party and started their journey home, but something strange happened along the way. 
The report claims Sharko was attempting to pull her child out of a ‘half-open window’ in the front seat of her car when her daughter pressed the automatic window button. The window then closed on her neck—cutting off air supply and asphyxiating the mother.
Sharko’s ‘lifeless body’ was later found by her husband, Artur, who says he went out looking for his family after they failed to return home." Source

Power windows do kill, but they usually kill children. Power windows have killed at least 65 children since 1990. The victims are mostly age 3 and younger. The deaths have included: 
A 3-year-old girl in Dallas
A 4-year-old boy in Wisconsin
A 2-year-old girl in Arizona
A 3-year-old boy whose mother found him trapped in a power window.

 

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

73-Year-Old Gives Birth to Twins on This Day in History

This Day in History: Erramatti Mangamma gave birth to twins on this day in 2019 at the age of 73, making her the world's oldest mother and the oldest mother to give birth to twins. The record for being the oldest mother in the world was previously held by Daljinder Kaur Gill, who gave birth to a baby boy at the age of 72.

Erramatti Mangamma married Sitarama Rajarao in 1962 in Andhra Pradesh, but the couple was reportedly unable to have children until Erramatti was impregnated using in-vitro fertilisation.

On the flip side, Lina Medina, a girl from Peru, gave birth to a boy by caesarean section in 1939 at the age of five.