Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa || Strijdom Square

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

Just before the execution was to be carried out Poland requested for the prison guards bring him lunch after the execution as he made a large last meal request consisting of three fried eggs, sunny side up; four slices of bacon; order of hash browns; two slices of whole wheat toast, with two pats of real butter; two individual serving size boxes of Raisin Bran cereal; two cartons of milk and two cups of Tasters Choice coffee as he said that he was hungry.
(16 June 1999)

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

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Strijdom Square, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

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Tuesday 15th of November 1988 (x) — Eight people are killed and 16 injured in a racially motivated shooting spree by Spree killer Barend Strydom .
Strydom was sentenced to death but the South African government declared a moratorium on capital punishment in 1990. He was released in 1992. The square has since been renamed Lilian Ngoyi Square.