Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 January 1939

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.
(26 February 2000)

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There are 3392 births, 3956 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5745 people in 6459 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 20th of January 1939 87 years, 3 months and 29 days ago
Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 29 in Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, United States. McCarthy was the first man to be executed in the Oregon State Gas Chamber.