Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 August 1840

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The driver stopped the train near the summit of the hill to inspect and adjust the braking system and climbed back into the cab. When he started the train the brakes totally failed, causing the train to roll with great velocity straight back down the hill, crashing after passing two stations into a slow moving goods train.
(24 June 2002)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Friday 14th of August 1840 186 years, 5 months and 21 days ago
Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing is born as Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.