Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 July 1784

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

Lake had been arrested for theft four days earlier and swallowed a cyanide capsule from a secret niche in his belt buckle. When the police searched his house in Wilseyville they found pictures and videotapes depicting a career of violence, pornography and murder. His accomplice Charles Chitat Ng escaped to Canada.
(6 June 1985)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 31st of July 1784 242 years, 8 months and 15 days ago
Writer and philosopher Denis Diderot dies of emphysema at the age of 71 in 39 rue de Richelieu, Ier, Paris, Île-de-France, France.