Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 February 1854

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

Brudos decided to not cut her breasts off because they were "too pink" and instead drove an electrical current through the body in an attempt to make it "jump", which failed.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 27th of February 1854 171 years ago
44-year-old romantic composer Robert Schumann tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Schumann was rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken to an asylum for the insane.