Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 15 August 1975

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

After Louis IX his death his body was subject to the process known as mos Teutonicus (a postmortem funerary custom used in medieval Europe whereby the flesh was boiled from the body, so that the bones of the deceased could be transported hygienically from distant lands back home) for its transportation back to France.
(25 August 1270)

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Friday 15th of August 1975
51 years, 4 months and 15 days ago

Olive Smelt is hit on the head and back with a hammer by serial killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper at the age of 46 in Woodside Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Smelt survived and required brain surgery.