Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 16 May 1836

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Maudsley hacked at Roberts' skull with a makeshift dagger and then struck his head against the wall multiple times. Maudsley calmly walked into the prison officer's room, placed the dagger on the table and told him that the next roll call would be two short. Before Maudsley had already killed murderer Salney Darwood in his cell.
(29 july 1978)

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Monday 16th of May 1836

188 years ago

27-year-old Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe marries 14-year-old wife of Edgar Allan Poe Virginia Eliza Clemm in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

Clemm was Poe's cousin. They were married by a Presbyterian minister named Rev. Amasa Converse.