Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 March 1957

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

On 3 October 1922 her lover Frederick Bywaters stabbed her husband Percy Thompson to death. When the gallows trapdoor opened and Thompson fell, the sudden impact of the noose caused her to suffer a massive haemorrhage. All women hanged in Britain after her were required to wear special knickers made of canvas which would prevent a recurrence of the massive bleeding suffered by Thompson.
(9 January 1923)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 26th of March 1957 69 years, 1 months and 21 days ago
Film director Max Ophüls born as Maximillian Oppenheimer dies of rheumatic heart disease at the age of 55 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.