Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom || Gartree Prison

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

He was the first person sentenced to death by hanging under a congressional act that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. At the time of his execution he was still crippled from his wounds and had to be carried to the gallows on a stretcher and supported by deputy marshals.
(24 March 1936)

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

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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Gartree Prison

Gallow Field Road, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

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Sunday 23rd of June 1985 (x) — Serial killer Ian Brady confesses to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett in a newspaper article by Fred Harrison.