Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 7 August 1947

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

The British Government stated that Gaughan died of pneumonia; his family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube.
(3 June 1974)

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

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 7th of August 1947 77 years ago
33-year-old adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl smashes into a reef with his raft Kon-Tiki after sailing across the Pacific Ocean in 101 days in Raroia, Tuamotus, French Polynesia.