Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 6 May 1862

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

When the time came for prison officers to transport Rudd from death row to the execution chamber he resisted. Officers used pepper gas to control Rudd and he gave no further trouble. Rudd kept his promise to refuse his last meal.
(15 November 2001)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 6th of May 1862 164 years, 1 months and 3 days ago
Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at the age of 45 in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. Thoreau's last words were "Now comes good sailing" followed by two lone words, "moose" and "Indian".