Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Montecatini Terme, Toscana, Italy

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The lynch mob forced their way through steel doors into White’s prison cell, took him to a field near the scene of the crime, lit a pyre of straw and fence posts smashed into kindling, coiled ropes around the man and threw him into the fire. White twice freed himself only to be thrown back into the flames as thousands of all ages watched and some cheered.
(22 June 1903)

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Montecatini Terme, Toscana, Italy.

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Thursday 24th of October 1957 (-) — Fashion designer Christian Dior dies of a heart attack.
Some reports say that Dior died of a heart attack after choking on a fish bone. Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. However, the Paris socialite Baron de Redé wrote in his memoirs that contemporary rumor was that Dior's heart attack had been caused by a strenuous sexual encounter with two young men.