Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 May 1960

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

O'Neil's last words were "I shall meet death like a man and I hope those who see me hanged will live to see the day when it is proved I am innocent - and it will be, some time". A few months later a dying Shellburne Falls soldier fighting the Spaniards in Cuba confessed to the murder. O'Neil became the last man to be executed in Massachussetts.
(7 January 1898)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 31st of May 1960 65 years ago
Writer Willem Elsschot born as Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder dies of skin cancer at the age of 78 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.