Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 October 1833

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

In Booth's pockets were found a compass, a candle, pictures of five women (actresses Alice Grey, Helen Western, Effie Germon, Fannie Brown and Booth's fiancée Lucy Hale), and his diary, where he had written of Lincoln's death, "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment".
(26 April 1865)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (+) Monday 21st of October 1833 192 years ago
Chemist, engineer, innovator and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.