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Mason was the last man to die in San Quentin's Gas Chamber. Mason refused any last meal, requesting only ice water while in the death watch cell. Mason told the warden that he had no final words to impart.
(24 August 1993)

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		Musician and bandleader Dizzy John Birks Gillespie 21 October 1917 (+) is born in Cheraw, United States. 6 January 1993 (-) dies of pancreatic cancer in Englewood, United States.
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