Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
Both Léonie and Geneviève had their eyes gouged out, were turtured, stabbed and finally beaten to death. The two maids were found naked in bed together in their room upstairs.
(2 February 1933)
There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.
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There are 4 250 Years Celebrations in 2024:
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(-) 250 Years Ago Today Friday 21st of January 1774 Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of a carriage accident at the age of 45 in Wien, Wien, Austria. |
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(+) 250 Years Ago Today Monday 5th of September 1774 Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich is born in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. |
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(-) 250 Years Ago Today Thursday 22nd of September 1774 249th Pope Clemens XIV dies of scorbutic and hemorrhoidal dispositions at the age of 69 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. |
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(-) 250 Years Ago Today He Danced a JigWednesday 30th of November 1774 Highwayman John Rann aka Sixteen String Jack is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Tyburn Tree, London, Tyburn, Greater London, United Kingdom. Shortly before Rann was to be hanged, appearing in a specially made pea-green suit adorned by a large nosegay, he enjoyed cheerful banter with both the hangman and the crowd, then danced a jig, before being publicly executed. |