Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 6 August 2009

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

Horn was one of the few people to have been hanged by a water-powered gallows known as the 'Julian Gallows', designed by Cheyenne architect James P. Julian. On the scaffold Horn shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve are you, Joe?”.
(20 November 1903)

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There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 6th of August 2009 15 years ago
80-year-old Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs is released from prison on compassionate grounds in Norwich Prison, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom. On 28 July 2009 Biggs was admitted to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with pneumonia. He had been admitted to the same hospital a month earlier with a chest infection and a fractured hip but returned to prison on 17 July 2009.