Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 April 1991

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 1st of April 1991 35 years, 0 months and 15 days ago
Präsident der Treuhandanstalt Detlev Karsten Rohwedder is shot and killed through a window on the first floor of his house by the Rote Armee Fraktion Kommando Ulrich Wessel at the age of 59 in Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 71, Niederkassel, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. In 2001 a DNA analysis found that hair strands from the crime scene belonged to RAF member Wolfgang Grams.