Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 August 1956

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

Baniszewski encouraged neighborhood children to torment Likens, including extinguishing cigarettes on her skin and forcing her to remove her clothes and insert a glass Coca-Cola bottle into her vagina on at least two occasions. Shortly before Likens died Baniszewski began to carve the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it!" into Likens' stomach with a heated needle.
(26 October 1965)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 14th of August 1956 70 years, 8 months and 27 days ago
Poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. In his will Brecht provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.