Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 September 1994

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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There are 3395 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5749 people in 6462 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 20th of September 1994 32 years, 2 months and 21 days ago
Double murderer George Douglas Lott aka The Fort Worth Courthouse Gunman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Lott shot 41-year-old District Attorney Chris Marshall and 33-year-old defense attorney John Edwards with a semi-automatic Glock handgun at Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth for no apparant reason.