Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1811

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

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office came to a different conclusion: “Miss Dandridge died of a rare embolism—blockage of the blood passages at the lungs and brain by tiny pieces of fat flaking off from bone marrow in a fractured right foot she sustained in a Hollywood gymnasium five days before she died.”
(8 September 1965)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 8th of May 1811 214 years ago
Plantation farmer and slave owner Arthur William Hodge is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom. Hodge was the first West Indian slave owner to be executed for the murder of a slave considered his property.