Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 17 December 2011

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18-year old Darryl Beamish provided four confessions, two through a sign language interpreter, one a written statement and another in notes scrawled on the exercise yard at the Perth lock-up. Beamish said the confessions were obtained through intimidation and threats, and were untrue. Nevertheless Beamish was convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he served 15 years. After six appeals his conviction was finally overturned in 2005.
(19 December 1959)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 17th of December 2011 15 years, 5 months and 23 days ago
Second Supreme Leader of North Korea Jong-il Kim dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Pyongyang, P'yŏngan, North Korea. It was reported in December 2012 by South Korean media that Jong-il had died in a fit of rage over construction faults in a crucial power plant project at Huichon in Jagang Province.