Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 16 April 1841

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Simultaneously a 1987 Nissan Atlas refrigeration truck with TNT attached to fifteen oxygen tanks and gas canisters, surrounded with four bags of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was detonated at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A group calling itself the 'Liberation Army for Holy Sites' took credit for the bombings.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 16th of April 1841 185 years, 8 months and 26 days ago
Murderer Peter Robinson is executed by hanging at the age of 32 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. 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'.