Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 15 January 1972

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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.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 15th of January 1972 52 years ago
32-year-old performance artist Vito Acconci starts his performance series 'Seedbed' in Sonnabend Gallery, 420 W. Broadway, Soho, New York, New York, United States. In the gallery there was a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extended across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery. The performance lasted until 29 January.