Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 March 1922

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

Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.
(25 October 1920)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Sunday 12th of March 1922 104 years, 9 months and 30 days ago
Writer, poet and pioneer of the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac is born as Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac in 9 Lupine Road, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States.