Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 February 2016

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 14th of February 2016 10 years, 11 months and 16 days ago
57-year-old performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Transmission' in Galerie Marion de Cannière, Leopoldplaats 12, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. 'For four hours I lay with my head in a metal smokestack. At the other end of the smokestack stood an electrical motor that swung around a wooden stick inside the stack.'