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Joe Biden - Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed

Time: Monday Dec 18, 1972

Place: Hockessin, Delaware, U.S.

Details: On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware.

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