Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 11 April 1915

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Sands decided that other prisoners should join the strike at staggered intervals to maximise publicity with prisoners steadily deteriorating successively over several months. The hunger strike centred on five demands: the right not to wear a prison uniform; the right not to do prison work; the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits; the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week; full restoration of remission lost through the protest. Sands died on 5 May 1981 in Maze Prison Hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking.
(1 March 1981)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 11th of April 1915 111 years, 11 months and 5 days ago
Serial poisoner Maria Catherina Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Swanenburg was locked up in a correctional facility since 1885. It was established with certainty she poisoned at least 102 people with arsenic of whom 27 died.