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

According to claims disputed by Consolidated Edison, Metesky's accident led to pneumonia that in turn developed into tuberculosis. A claim for workers' compensation was denied because he waited too long to file it. Three appeals of the denial were also rejected, the last in 1936. Metesky developed a hatred for the company's attorneys and for the three co-workers whose testimony in his compensation case he believed was perjured in favor of the company. Between 1940 and 1956 Metesky planted at least 33 bombs, of which 22 exploded.
(5 September 1931)

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

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Parkhurst Prison

Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

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Monday 24th of January 1921 (-) — Presumed murderer Steinie Morrison dies after a series of hungerstrikes protesting his innocence.
Monday 3rd of June 1974 (-) — Irish republican hunger striker Michael Gaughan dies after a hunger strike that lasted 64 days.
The British Government stated that Gaughan died of pneumonia; his family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube.
Monday 10th of January 1983 (x) — Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is attacked with a broken coffee-jar by 35-year-old murderer Jimmy Costello in the F2 Hospital wing.
Sutcliffe needed 30 stitches. Costello was convicted of wounding with intent.
Wednesday 1st of August 1990 (-) — Serial poisoner Graham Young dies of myocardial infarction.