Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 January 1829

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SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche entered the study and found the two lifeless bodies on the sofa. Eva Braun was with her legs drawn up to Hitler's left and slumped away from him. Hitler had shot himself with his own Walther PPK 7.65. The gun lay at his feet and Hitler's head was lying on the table in front of him. Blood dripping from Hitler's right temple and chin had made a large stain on the right arm of the sofa and was pooling on the carpet. Braun's body had no visible physical wounds and her face showed how she had died—by cyanide poisoning
(30 April 1945)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 28th of January 1829 195 years ago His Tanned Skin Was Turned into Artefacts
Serial killer William Burke aka The Body Snatchers (with William Hare) is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Burke was hanged in front of a crowd possibly as large as 25.000; views from windows in the tenements overlooking the scaffold were hired at prices ranging from 5 to 20 shillings. Burke's skeleton was given to the Anatomical Museum of the Edinburgh Medical School where it remains. His death mask and a book said to be bound with his tanned skin can be seen at Surgeons' Hall Museum.