Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 June 1919

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

The monkey gland would be cut in pieces of about two centimeters long by a half centimeter wide and a few millimeters deep. The surgeon would then introduce two grafts in the scrotum, which he fixed with stitches taken off after eight days. Among forty men operated on during the 1920's-30's at the Villa Molière in Auteil, at a nursing home, Ambroise Paré in Neuilly, and the Rue Montaigne nursing home were nine employees, seven doctors, four engineers, four men of letters, three architects, three manufacturers, two attorneys, two university professors, one man of private means, one agronomist, one painter, and one worker. Nine were between the ages of 20 and 40, eighteen were between 41 and 60 and seventeen were between 61 and 80.
(12 June 1920)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 1st of June 1919 105 years ago
The body of 48-year-old revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Rosa Luxemburg aka Rote Rosa is found floating in Landwehrkanal, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Luxemburg had been shot dead by the by the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision on 15 January 1915.