Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 August 1888

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

Due to his obese frame Divine had an additional sleep apnea so that his physician told him to not sleep on his back, which he ignored and thus died in his sleep.
(7 March 1988)

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Friday 31st of August 1888

136 years ago

Mary Ann Nichols, originally Walker aka Polly is throatcut by unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper at the age of 43 in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Nichols' throat had been slit twice from left to right and her abdomen mutilated with one deep jagged wound, several incisions across the abdomen and three or four similar cuts on the right side caused by the same knife at least 15–20 cm long used violently and downwards.