Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 July 1849

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Curry killed her 43-year-old ex-husband Jimmy Lee Curry, her daughters 17-year-old Sabrina Marie and 11-year-old Jessie Lee, her 14-year-old son Richard Allen and 31-year-old Jo Ann Brophy. 46-year-old James Robert Dotson was shot and critically wounded.
(20 July 1974)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 1st of July 1849 177 years, 6 months and 28 days ago
40-year-old writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe becomes drunk and hallucinatory, and makes a suicide attempt. He is detained for public drunkenness and incarcerated for one night in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. No records exist which support this story other than Poe's own account of it.