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

Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at The Henry Ford Museum near Detroit. Ford reportedly convinced Charles Edison to seal a test tube of air in the inventor's room shortly after his death as a memento.
(18 October 1931)

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

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2071 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Moyamensing Prison

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Sunday 1st of July 1849 (x) — Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe becomes drunk and hallucinatory, and makes a suicide attempt. He is detained for public drunkenness and incarcerated for one night
No records exist which support this story other than Poe's own account of it.
Thursday 7th of May 1896 (-) — Serial killer Henry Howard Holmes is executed by hanging
Holmes' neck did not snap; he instead was strangled to death slowly, twitching over 15 minutes before being pronounced dead 20 minutes after the trap had been sprung.