Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Memphis, Tennessee, United States || Lorraine Motel

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

On 31 May Holiday was taken to hospital with liver and heart disease. She was arrested for drug possession as she lay dying and her hospital room was raided. Holiday stayed under police guard until she died.
(17 July 1959)

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Lorraine Motel

450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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Thursday 4th of April 1968 (-) — Activist and African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King is shot dead by James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King
King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony when the bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. After emergency chest surgery, King was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7.05 pm.