Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 July 1968

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Schönberg had spent the whole day in bed suffering from triskaidekaphobia. On his seventy-sixth birthday, his friend, mentor and fellow composer Oskar Adler wrote Schönberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13. This stunned and depressed the composer, for up to that point he had only been wary of multiples of 13 and never considered adding the digits of his age.
(13 July 1951)

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Wednesday 31st of July 1968
58 years, 4 months and 13 days ago

Brian Howe is strangled by child killer Mary Bell aka Child of Hell at the age of 3 in Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

After the murder Bell returned to Brian’s body to further mutilate it, carving an 'M' onto his stomach, puncturing his thighs with a pair of scissors and wounding his genital area.