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41st year  -  N° 55                 Tuesday, 24 February 2026         Antwerpen		
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Wednesday 3rd of October 1849
177 years, 4 months and 21 days ago




40-year-old writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe is found on the streets of Baltimore by Joseph W. Walker, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance" in East Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Poe was taken to the Washington Medical College where he died on 7 October 1849.