Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 5 January 2007

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After the barn had filled with an audience from Burwell and surrounding villages, the doors were nailed shut to prevent further people getting in. The Ipswich Journal of 26 February 1774 reported that "It is reported that an old man who died recently near Newmarket who just before his death confessed that he set fire to a barn at Burwell, Cambridgeshire on the 8th of September 1727 when no less than 80 persons lost their lives and that having an antipathy to the puppet showman was the cause of him committing the action."
(8 September 1727)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 5th of January 2007 19 years, 2 months and 13 days ago
Inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō born as Wu Pai-fu dies of heart failure at the age of 97 in Ikeda, Osaka, Kinki, Japan. Andō claimed that the secret of his long life was playing golf and eating Chikin Ramen almost every day. He was said to have eaten instant ramen until the day before he died.