Of the five death events described below, four are factual truth while the fourth is made up.
Can you identify which one is made up?
1. In 1902, a 20-year old man watching a baseball game died when a foul ball struck his hand holding a knife and drove the knife into his chest. He told his friends he was okay and died shortly thereafter.
2. In 1884, one of Queen Victoria's pet dogs died when her lady-in-waiting mistakenly thought it was a rodent and struck it with a fire iron from the fireplace in the Queen's bed chamber. It was dark and the lady-in-waiting was just leaving the room after helping the Queen into bed.
3. In 564 BC, in an Olympic fighting competition, a man got his opponent to succumb, but held him so tightly that the man, after announcing he succumbed to the referee, angrily broke his opponent's neck, resulting in the dead man being posthumously declared the winner.
4. In 1871, a lawyer defending a man accused of murder accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the murder victim might have done so. His client was acquitted.
5. In 1888, a shower of meteorites fell on a village in Iraq, killing a man, in the only credible case of "death-by-meteorite".
Check out this Wikipedia article for more unusual deaths.
Number 2 (the Queen's dog's death) is made up. All the others are true, and can be found in the linked Wikipedia article, along with many other unusual death stories.
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