Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia

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

Horn was one of the few people to have been hanged by a water-powered gallows known as the 'Julian Gallows', designed by Cheyenne architect James P. Julian. On the scaffold Horn shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve are you, Joe?”.
(20 November 1903)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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

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Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

Related events:

Saturday 4th of December 1875 (+) — Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke is born.
Wednesday 10th of September 1890 (+) — Poet and writer Franz Werfel is born.
Sunday 1st of May 1904 (-) — Composer Antonín Dvořák dies of attack of influenza.
Monday 5th of October 1936 (+) — 1st President of the Czech Republic Václav Havel is born.
Wednesday 11th of August 1948 (+) — Revolutionary student Jan Palach is born.
Thursday 20th of September 1979 (-) — 8th President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Ludvík Svoboda dies of unknown causes.
Saturday 15th of September 1990 (-) — Victim of Jack Unterweger aka Der Häfenpoet Blanka Bočková is stabbed and strangled by Jack Unterweger aka Jack the Writer aka Der Häfenpoet aka The Pug Dumper.