Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Salem, Massachusetts, United States

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

After drinking the poison Chatterton tore into fragments whatever literary remains were at hand.
(24 August 1770)

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

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 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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Salem, Massachusetts, United States.

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Thursday 21st of December 1673 (+) — Double murderer Jeremiah Meacham is born
Tuesday 10th of June 1692 (-) — Bridget Bishop is executed by hanging
Bishop was accused of bewitching five young women; Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, and Elizabeth Hubbard, on the date of her examination by the authorities. It was the first execution in the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
Tuesday 19th of August 1692 (x) — John Willard, George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs and Martha Carrier are accused of witchcraft and hanged on Gallow's hill
Saturday 19th of July 1692 (x) — Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes along with Rebecca Nurse are executed by hanging, found guilty of witchcraft
Tuesday 18th of July 1922 (-) — Victim of Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder Henry McMahon is beaten to death with a rock by Carl Panzram aka A Journal of Murder