Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 September 2009

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Pett's body was on the floor, her head against the grate of the fireplace, her torso stretched across the hearth, and her legs on the wood floor, and it was described as "appearing like a Block of Wood burning with a glowing Fire without Flame." Her daughter poured two bowls of water on the body to quench the smolder, which produced a thick and noxious smoke as her neighbours arrived to help. Pett's death is one of the earliest published accounts of a strange fire death being attributed to an internal source of ignition.
(9 April 1744)

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76-year-old film director Roman Polanski, originally Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański is arrested with a 2005 international arrest warrant for his 1977 sexual assault case involving then 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in Zürich Airport, Kloten, Zürich, Switzerland. Polanski was jailed near Zürich for two months, then put under house arrest at his home in Gstaad while awaiting decision of appeals.