Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 10 February 1923

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

On the night of 18 November 18 Knight's screams woke her husband and sister in their home. They discovered Knight writhing in pain in her bed with her skin peeling off her back under her bedclothes. A doctor that was called identified the wounds as some form of burn and gave Knight morphine. She died from toxaemia.
(6 December 1943)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Saturday 10th of February 1923 100 years ago
Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen dies of carcinoma of the intestine at the age of 78 in München, Bayern, Germany. It is not believed Röntgen's carcinoma was a result of his work with ionizing radiation because of the brief time he spent on those investigations and because he was one of the few pioneers in the field who used protective lead shields routinely.