Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 31 January 1954

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Ryan was the last person to be legally executed in Australia. He shot and killed warder George Hodson during an escape from Pentridge Prison in 1965.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 31st of January 1954 70 years ago He Didn't Dance to the Radio
Electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor of his apartment at the age of 64 in New York City, New York, United States. Armstrong was financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA over the FM patent dispute.