Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 September 1959

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

Stoops' torture endured prior to his death included electric shocks via a spatula placed across his eyelid in an unsuccessful attempt to blind him. Stoops died of a combination of blood loss and infection on 1 July.
(17 June 1986)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 20th of September 1959 65 years ago
20-year-old assassin Lee Harvey Oswald starts a journey to Russia when boarding the SS Marion Lykes in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He first arrived in Le Havre, from there to London, then Helsinki where he got a 6-day-visa for the Soviet Union.