Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 10 May 1924

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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 (x) Saturday 10th of May 1924 102 years, 8 months and 19 days ago
29-year-old 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation John Edgar Hoover is appointed by President Calvin Coolidge as fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in FBI Headquarters, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.