Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Meudon, Île-de-France, France

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

Only hours before he was escorted to the electric chair Gaskins tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrists with a razor blade he had swallowed the previous week, then coughed up.
(6 September 1991)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Meudon, Île-de-France, France.

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