Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 27 May 1840

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

Nitsch' 34. Aktion lasted two hours. The 'exhibition,' as it was also dubbed, was observed at first by about 300 students, but after the actual work on the carcass began, the number dwindled to barely half that figure. During the show, several students became ill. Some of the girls in the crowd were sobbing.
(16 October 1970)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 27th of May 1840 186 years, 9 months and 21 days ago
Composer Niccolò Paganini dies of internal hemorrhaging due to pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 58 in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Because a priest arrived too late to perform the last rites on Paganini, and his widely rumored association with the devil, the Church denied his body a Catholic burial.