Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 11 November 2004

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Six Irishmen were arrested within hours of the blasts and in 1975 sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombings. The men—who became known as the Birmingham Six—maintained their innocence and insisted police had coerced them into signing false confessions through severe physical and psychological abuse. After 16 years in prison and a lengthy campaign their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.
(21 November 1974)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 11th of November 2004 20 years ago
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat born as Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa dies of a massive hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident at the age of 75 in Hôpital d'instruction des Armées Percy, Clamart, Île-de-France, France. Numerous theories have appeared regarding Arafat's death, with the most prominent being poisoning by polonium and AIDS-related illnesses, as well as liver disease or a platelet disorder.