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18-year old Darryl Beamish provided four confessions, two through a sign language interpreter, one a written statement and another in notes scrawled on the exercise yard at the Perth lock-up. Beamish said the confessions were obtained through intimidation and threats, and were untrue. Nevertheless Beamish was convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he served 15 years. After six appeals his conviction was finally overturned in 2005.
(19 December 1959)

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

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Guernica, Euskadi, Spain.

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Monday 26th of April 1937 (x) — The entire village is bombed the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria under the code name Operation Rügen .
Estimates between 150 and 1650 people were killed. The number of civilian fatalities is now set at between 170 and 300 people.