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The Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide
Rancho Santa Fe, California, United StatesMarch 26, 1997
In March 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult died in a mass suicide at a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The group believed they needed to shed their "human containers" to board a spaceship following the Hale-Bopp comet. Led by Marshall Applewhite, it was the largest mass suicide on US soil.