Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 2 November 1944

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

Washkansky lived for 18 days.
(3 December 1967)

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There are 3347 births, 3887 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2023 other events about 5697 people in 6344 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 2nd of November 1944 80 years ago
Engineer and chemist Thomas Midgley aka the One-Man Environmental Disaster dies of strangulation at the age of 55 in Worthington, Ohio, United States. Midgley accidently strangled himself with an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys he designed himself to lift him from his bed since he was struck by poliomyelitis in 1940.