Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 July 1374

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Reich was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the 'orgone energy accumulator' in violation of the Food and Drug Act. Reich was buried in a vault at Orgonon that he had asked his caretaker to dig in 1955. He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony but that a record should be played of Schubert's 'Ave Maria' sung by Marian Anderson.
(3 November 1957)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 19th of July 1374 652 years, 10 months and 11 days ago
Poet Francesco Petrarca aka The Father of Humanism dies of unknown causes at the age of 70 in Arquà, Veneto, Italy.