Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 21 October 1917

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Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.
(25 October 1920)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Sunday 21st of October 1917 109 years, 3 months and 14 days ago
Musician and bandleader Dizzy John Birks Gillespie is born in Cheraw, South Carolina, United States.