Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 25 May 1895

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"After confronting her and asking more questions it came out that she had sex feelings about the hose on the vacuum cleaner and bananas in a bowl in the room. We all slapped her and she was punched in the stomach. She fell when she was pushed and hit her head on the floor."
(24 February 1973)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 25th of May 1895 129 years ago
41-year-old poet and writer Oscar Wilde is convicted of 'committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons' and sentenced to two years hard labour in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Judge Justice Wills described the sentence, the maximum allowed, as "totally inadequate for a case such as this" and that the case was "the worst case I have ever tried". Wilde's response was "And I? May I say nothing, my Lord?"