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Rumours of poisoning were born after the apparent discovery during Catalina's embalming that there was a black growth on her heart that might have been caused by poisoning. Modern medical experts are in agreement that her heart's discolouration was due not to poisoning but to cancer, something which was not understood at the time.
(7 January 1536)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Prison de St. Gilles

Avenue Ducpétiaux 106, Saint-Gilles, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

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Friday 3rd of January 1975 (-) — SS-Rottenführer Richard De Bodt dies of diabetes.
Friday 16th of September 1988 (x) — Leader of Les Cellules Communistes Combattantes Pierre Carette starts hungerstriking in a campaign to acquire the status of political prisoner.
Carette's three comrads Didier Chevolet, Bertrand Sassoye and Pascal Vandegeerde joined him.