Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 13 April 1982

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Kemmler was sentenced to death and became the first man to be executed by use of the electric chair, a device invented in 1881 by Buffalo dentist Alfred Southwick which, after nine years of development and legislation, was ready for use.
(29 March 1889)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 13th of April 1982 44 years, 9 months and 30 days ago
'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV' by 77-year-old artist Barnett Newman is attacked by 29-year-old student Josef Nikolaus Kleer in Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Kleer claimed that the painting was a "perversion of the German flag".