Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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

Lisenba killed his wife Mary Busch by sticking her leg in a box with two rattlesnakes. Busch didn't die from the poison so Lisenba drowned her. Lisenba was the last man to be executed by hanging in San Quentin. The rope was the wrong length and it took over ten minutes for Rattlesnake James to die.
(1 May 1942)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3395 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5749 people in 6462 places until today.

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Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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