Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 13 May 2019

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 13th of May 2019 7 years, 10 months and 24 days ago
Actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day born as Doris Von Kappelhoff dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in Carmel Valley Village, California, United States.