Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
A crowd of around 40.000 including Charles Dickens witnessed Courvoisier's execution. In January 2017 his plaster death mask was sold for £20.000 by Thomson Roddick auction house. The name of the buyer is unknown.
(6 July 1840)
There are 3364 births, 3919 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 2nd of January 1904 121 years ago |
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49-year-old bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Mrs Anna Hendrickson as John Jacob Adolf Schmidt in Hammond, Indiana, United States. Hoch disappeared with $500 of Hendrickson's money on 20 January. |
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