Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

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

After being pinioned for execution, Christie complained that his nose itched. Executioner Albert Pierrepoint assured him that "It won't bother you for long".
(15 July 1953)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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

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Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

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Swanenburg was locked up in a correctional facility since 1885. It was established with certainty she poisoned at least 102 people with arsenic of whom 27 died.