Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

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

Doctor Wells conducted a medical exam on Himmler and attempted to examine the inside of Himmler's mouth but the prisoner was reluctant to open it and jerked his head away. Himmler then bit into a hidden cyanide pill and collapsed onto the floor.
(23 May 1945)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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Aramil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.

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Sunday 1st of May 1960 (x) — A Lockheed U-2 spy aircraft with United States Air Force pilot Francis Gary Powers on board is shot down by the first of three SA-2 Guideline (S-75 Dvina) surface-to-air missiles fired by a battery commanded by Mikhail Voronov
Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to three years imprisonment and seven years hard labor but would be released two years later on 10 February 1962 during a prisoner exchange for Soviet officer Rudolf Abel.