Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 7 May 1925

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Twenty thousand spectators turned out for the event chanting "Allahu Akbar" while Kordiyeh received a flogging of 214 lashes from relatives of his victims and then tied to a yellow building crane and lifted, legs kicking, high into the air with a rope around his neck. Relatives of the victims had called for Kordiyeh to be stoned to death. They had also called for his hands to be cut off before execution because he had also been accused of theft.
(12 August 1997)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 7th of May 1925 101 years, 8 months and 4 days ago
Writer and revolutionary Boris Viktorovich Savinkov commits suicide by jumping from a window at the age of 46 in Lubyanka Prison, Lubyanskaya Square, Meshchansky, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. According to modern publications by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others Savinkov was killed in prison by OGPU officers.