Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 June 1919

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

On 2 May a human thigh was discovered floating in the river to the east of the West 3rd Street bridge. A police search under the bridge found a burlap sack containing the victim's headless torso cut in to halves, another thigh and a left foot. The head and the rest of the body were never found.
(8 April 1938)

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There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 1st of June 1919 105 years ago
The body of 48-year-old revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg aka Rote Rosa is found floating in Landwehrkanal, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Luxemburg had been shot dead by the by the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision on 15 January 1915.