Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 August 1950

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One year before his execution while on death row, Babbitt was awarded a Purple Heart medal for the wounds he had received at the Battle of Khe Sanh, Vietnam in 1968. Babbitt refused his last meal and asked that the $50 allotted be given to homeless Vietnam veterans.
(4 May 1999)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 8th of August 1950 74 years ago
SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Johann Adolf Schmitt is executed by the firing squad at the age of 48 in Hoboken, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. Schmitt was the only German Nazi to be executed in Belgium.