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Văn Trỗi tried to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964. Văn Trỗi's last words were "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned."
(19 October 1964)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

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Prison de la Bastille

IVe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Saturday 22nd of October 1785 (x) — Revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade begins to write his ‘120 Days of Sodom’ on a paper roll of 11cm wide and 12m long, finishing it in just 37 days
Tuesday 14th of July 1789 (x) — The storming of the Bastille to release 7 prisoners marks the beginning of the French Revolution
Ten days earlier the Marquis de Sade had been transferred from the Bastille to an asylum in Charenton.