Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Laaksonen, Touko

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Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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		Creator of gay pornographic images Touko Valio Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland 8 May 1920 (+) is born in Kaarina, Finland. 7 November 1991 (-) dies of an emphysema-induced stroke in Helsinki, Finland.
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