Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 9 May 1987

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

Ross was executed in a particularly gruesome manner. Authorities had decided to experiment with a four-stranded rope rather than the usual three-stranded European hemp. The four-stranded rope did not run freely through the noose and Ross did not die immediately because his spinal cord was fractured, not severed. Although his windpipe was torn and obstructed by his destroyed larynx the condemned man continued with rasping breaths and convulsed on the rope. Three times Ross bent his knees and flexed his arms before succumbing, slowly strangled to death by asphyxiation.
(24 April 1922)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 9th of May 1987 39 years, 10 months and 29 days ago
183 Die in LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 Ilyushin Il-62M 'Tadeusz Kościuszko' crash in Rezerwat przyrody Las Kabacki im. Stefana Starzyńskiego, Warszawa, Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland. The last words inside the cockpit recorded by the CVR at 11:12:13 were: "Dobranoc! Do widzenia! Cześć, giniemy!" (Good night! Goodbye! Bye, we're dying!).