Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Ives was escorted to the gallows with the noose tightened around his neck. A guard pulled a lever that sent a weight hurtling down a chute. The weight was supposed to pull the rope taut and the prisoner would break his neck as he fell through the trap. But Ives was too light. As the weight fell he went hurtling toward the ceiling. The rope jumped off the pulley and Ives fell to the floor gasping for breath. "You can't hang a man twice," he said. But they did. According to one witness it took three attempts. Ives was strangled for 23 minutes before he was pronounced dead.
(10 January 1930)
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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 6th of December 1917 107 Years Ago |
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 2000 Die in SS Mont-Blanc explosion in The Narrow, Richmond, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives that collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the SS Mont-Blanc ignited her explosive cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion |
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