Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1978

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

In the fatal cases an acute circulatory insufficiency set in, with rapid and poor pulse, face pale - more rarely cyanotic - and an extension of the cardiac dulness. Other symptoms were changes in the tone of the voice, increasing to hoarseness, nausea, occasional vomiting, and lachrymation.
(5 December 1930)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 8th of May 1978 46 years ago
42-year-old gangster Jacques Mesrine aka Public Enemy No. 1 escapes from prison with François Besse and Carman Rives in Prison de la Santé, 42 Rue de la Santé, XIVe, Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Mesrine and Besse were the first men to escape from La Santé. Rives was shot dead on the prison wall by police.