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

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Rault's final meal request was for a T-bone steak, 12 shrimps, French fries, Pepsi and strawberry shortcake.
(24 August 1987)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 1st of July 1849 175 years 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.