Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

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

The church was crowded with approximately 3.000 people to hear Booker T. Washington address the National Convention of Negro Baptists. Someone in the choir yelled "A fight!" Mistaking the word 'fight' for 'fire' the congregation rose en masse and started for the door. Through mere fright many persons fainted and as they fell to the floor were crushed to death.
(19 September 1902)

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

There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.

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Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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Tuesday 23rd of April 1907 (+) — Photographer Lee Miller is born.
Friday 10th of October 1924 (+) — Cult film director Ed Wood is born.
Wood's mother Lillian would dress him in girl's clothing when he was a child because she had always wanted a daughter. For the rest of his life Wood became a heterosexual crossdresser infatuated with the feel of angora on his skin.
Friday 10th of March 1972 (+) — Murder plotter Dustin Higgs is born.
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