Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 February 1947

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On 31 May Holiday was taken to hospital with liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying and her hospital room was raided. Holiday stayed under police guard until she died.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Friday 28th of February 1947 79 years, 10 months and 10 days ago
Start of the 228 Incident, an anti-government uprising after the confiscation of contraband cigarettes and subsequent killing a 40-year-old widow named Lin Jiang-mai by agents of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau enforcement team in Tianma teahouse, Taiheichō, Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to thirty thousand or more. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/228_Incident