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

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Whilst awaiting trial at Broadmoor Hospital Gonzalez tried to bite himself to death and was viewed as being so dangerous that officers would accompany him in riot gear.
(9 August 2007)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Friday 28th of February 1947 78 years 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