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Burke was hanged in front of a crowd possibly as large as 25.000; views from windows in the tenements overlooking the scaffold were hired at prices ranging from 5 to 20 shillings. Burke's skeleton was given to the Anatomical Museum of the Edinburgh Medical School where it remains. His death mask and a book said to be bound with his tanned skin can be seen at Surgeons' Hall Museum.
(28 January 1829)
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Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys 12 May 1921 (+) is born in Krefeld, Germany. 20 July 1964 (x) is punched in the face by Uwe Schilling during his performance 'Kukei, akopee-Nein!' on the Festival Der Neuen Kunst in Aachen, Germany. 26 November 1965 (x) performs 'Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt' in Düsseldorf, Germany. 9 February 1968 (x) performs 'Eurasienstab - 82 min Fluxorium Organum' with Henning Christiansen in Antwerpen, Belgium. 14 December 1968 (x) performs 'Ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee' in Düsseldorf, Germany. 21 May 1974 (x) starts his performance 'I like America and America likes Me' in New York, United States. 23 January 1986 (-) dies of heart failure in Düsseldorf, Germany. |
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