Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 January 1958

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

Some reports say that Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite Baron de Redé wrote in his memoirs that contemporary rumor was that Dior's heart attack had been caused by a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men.
(24 October 1957)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 9th of January 1958 68 years, 11 months and 28 days ago
Hit man Elmer Burke aka Trigger is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 40 in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, United States. Burke spent his last evening eating a final meal of steak, smoking six cigars and reading newspaper clippings about himself.