Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Mayerling, Niederösterreich, Austria || Jagdschloss Mayerling

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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

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Jagdschloss Mayerling

Mayerling, Niederösterreich, Austria.

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Wednesday 30th of January 1889 (-) — Crown Prince of Austria Rudolf von Österreich-Ungarn commits suicide by a shot through the head.
Rudolf first shot his 17-year-old lover baroness Mary Vetsera and then took his own life. There is no question that the depression-prone Rudolf and Mary had a suicide-pact because his father wanted them to end their affair.