Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States || Moyamensing Prison

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

Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself on 28 March 1941.
(18 April 1941)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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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.
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