Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 25 April 1978

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)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 25th of April 1978 48 years, 3 months and 12 days ago
40-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 61. Aktion im Rahmen des Internationalen Performance Festival in Österreichischen Kunstverein, Köllnerhofgasse 6, Wien, Wien, Austria.