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

McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world".
(30 September 1902)

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.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Massachusetts General Hospital

55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Friday 16th of October 1846 (x) — After administration of ether by local dentist William Thomas Green Morton, MGH Chief of Surgery, John Collins Warren painlessly removed a tumor from the neck of local printer Edward Gilbert Abbott.
Since then the date is known as 'Ether Day'.