Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 3 September 1924

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

At 20.00hrs Goebbels arranged for SS dentist Helmut Kunz to inject his six children with morphine. When they were unconscious, Magda Goebbels and Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor who then crushed cyanide capsules in their mouths. Shortly afterwards Goebbels and his wife went up to the garden of the bunker where they killed themselves.
(1 May 1945)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 3rd of September 1924 100 years ago He Attempted to Jump Clear of the Trap
Murderer Patrick Herbert Mahon aka the Man of Prey is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 34 in Wandsworth Prison, Wandsworth, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Anecdotal accounts suggest that Mahon offered resistance on the scaffold by attempting to jump clear of the trap when the lever was pulled.