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

Turner died in the house of his mistress Sophia Caroline Booth. His last words were "The sun is God."
(19 December 1851)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3359 births, 3910 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Shiinamachi, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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Monday 26th of January 1948 (x) — 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery by Tempera painter and presumed mass poisoner Sadamichi Hirasawa
A man calling himself an epidemiologist arrived at the Imperial Bank, explaining that he was a public health official who had orders to inoculate the staff against a sudden outbreak of dysentery. He gave all sixteen people present a pill and a few drops of liquid. Those present drank the cyanide solution and died while he robbed the bank of 160.000 yen. Hirasawa is believed to have been falsely charged.