Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 October 1895

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A group of 26 survivors were found by the Grimsby trawler Sylvia. 32 more were picked up by the British steamer Cervonax and 70, including Captain Gundal, by the German steamer Energie. Some of the 160 survivors spent up to eight days in open lifeboats before rescue.
(28 June 1904)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3347 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 28th of October 1895 129 years ago
Start of the trial against 34-year-old serial killer Henry Howard Holmes, originally Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor for the murder of the Pitezel children in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Holmes gave various contradictory accounts of his life, claiming initially innocence and later that he was possessed by Satan.