Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

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

Kürten's last words were: "Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures." Kürten's mummified head is part of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum collection in Wisconsin Dells.
(2 July 1931)

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

There are 3364 births, 3919 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.

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

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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Monday 23rd of May 1910 (+) — Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline is born
Friday 26th of July 1940 (+) — Political campaign specialist for Robert F. Kennedy Mary Jo Kopechne is born
Monday 22nd of June 1942 (+) — Spree killer George Banks is born
Saturday 25th of September 1982 (x) — Spree killer George Banks shoots 13 people including three of his girlfriends and five of his children to death with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle
Banks said he killed his children because he felt they would be tormented by the cruelty of racial views against mixed-race children. Since his conviction Banks has tried to kill himself four times and has gone on hunger strikes that required him to be force-fed.