Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 December 1945

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

When the gas chamber was cleared of gas Rascon's wife Ramona threw herself upon his body and kissed his lips. She became seriously ill from the cyanide contamination on her mouth.
(10 July 1936)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 21st of December 1945 79 years ago It Was a Hell of a Way to Die
War leader George Smith Patton aka Old Blood and Guts dies of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure at the age of 60 in US Army Meddac Hospital, Freiburger Str. 2, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Patton had been thrown forward and smashed his head into a metal part when the Cadillac Model 75 he was sitting in crashed into a 2 1/2 ton military truck on a pheasant hunting trip on 8 December.