Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1891

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

Gooch was the first and only person hanged for a non-murdering kidnapping under the Lindbergh Law. Oklahoma’s executioner Richard Earnest Owen was an old hand with his state’s electric chair, but the federal execution method was hanging, which Owen had never before performed (and never would again). Gooch took 15 minutes to strangle at the end of the rope for an audience of about 300.
(19 June 1936)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 8th of May 1891 135 years, 11 months and 7 days ago
Theosophist, occultist and spirit medium Helena Petrovna Blavatsky born as Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya aka Madame Blavatsky dies of complications from influenza at the age of 60 in 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The date would come to be commemorated by Theosophists ever since as 'White Lotus Day'.